DAME THERESE WALSH DNZM

Dame Therese is currently the Chair of Air New Zealand and ASB Bank, and serves a Director of On Being Bold Ltd and Chair of the nominations committee for the Climate Change Commission. Previously she was the Head of New Zealand for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, and the Chief Operating Officer for Rugby New Zealand 2011 Limited. 

She has also been Chair of TVNZ Ltd, and Chair of the Chapter Zero NZ, Pro Chancellor of Victoria University Wellington, a Director of NZX Ltd, Antarctica New Zealand, Contact Energy Ltd, NZ Cricket and Save the Children NZ, Trustee of the Wellington Regional Stadium, CFO at the New Zealand Rugby Union and part of the team that worked on the winning bid to host Rugby World Cup 2011. Prior to this she was an auditor at KPMG.

Dame Therese is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a commerce graduate from Victoria University. In 2013, she was named the inaugural supreme winner of the Women of Influence Awards and was awarded a Sir Peter Blake Trust Leadership Award in 2014. She became a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2015.