Edwina Pio Email & Phone Number

Recipient of an ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit), Te Rangi Hiroa Royal Society medal, and Duke of Edinburgh Fellowship, Fulbright alumna, Edwina is New Zealand’s first Professor of Diversity. She was University Director of Diversity, and an elected Councillor on the governing body of the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, where she worked for more than two decades. Her appointment as Professor Emeritus of Diversity is testament to her distinguished commitment and engagement in diversity.Her research, publications, training modules and doctoral supervisions encompass the intersections of work, ethnicity, Indigenous studies, religion-spirituality, and pedagogy. Edwina is world class (A ranked) in her research field based on New Zealand’s Performance Based Research Fund quality assessment exercise. Appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Group pertaining to the Royal society recommendations on the Christchurch Mosque shootings, she also chairs the Academic Advisory Board of Te Kupenga Catholic Theological College of New Zealand. She is a judge for the New Zealand Diversity Awards and on the selection panel for the Rutherford Discovery Fellowships. A woman of peace and prayer, a scholar of colour, and a passionately engaged educator, she brings grace, gratitude, courage and thoughtfulness to governance, teaching, mentoring, research, professional development programmes, policy crafting and auditing, and stakeholder engagement.Edwina is available for strategic advising, crafting policy, implementing programs, teaching, research, editing, supervision and speaking engagements in the diversity, inclusion, religion-spirituality and management domains.