Margaret Bazley

Dame Margaret Clara Bazley ONZ DNZM (born 1938) is a New Zealand public servant.

Career

Starting as a charge nurse at Tokanui Hospital, Te Awamutu in 1961, rose up the ranks to Director, Department of Health in 1978 and subsequently held a number of senior roles in various parts of the New Zealand civil service.

Management Roles

• Registrar of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests of Members of Parliament (current) ^[1]
• Chairperson, New Zealand Fire Service Commission—2011^[2]
• Commissioner, Environment Canterbury (current) ^[3]
• Member, Waitangi Tribunal 2001-2011^[4][5]
• Chairperson, Foundation for Research, Science and Technology from 2001 until 2007.^[6][7]
• Director-General of the Department of Social Welfare ^[5]
• President of the Nurses’ Association (now part of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation).^[8]
• Deputy Chairperson of the State Services Commission
• Secretary for Transport from 1988 to 1993^[5]
• Member of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance^[5][9]

Significant reports

• Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct. Announced 4 February 2004, reported 30 March 2007, released 3 April 2007.^[10]
• Transforming the Legal Aid System. November 2009.^[11]

Other service

• Patron of the New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses^[12]
• Member Working Party on the Reorganisation of the Income Tax Act 1976
• Chair, Alternative Disputes Resolution Panel

Awards

Bazley was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 1999^[13] and was later made an additional member of the Order of New Zealand in 2012.^[14]

She is also:

• Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management and
• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport in New Zealand.
• Sir Peter Blake award 2011^[15]

References