 Tana koutou katoa. Vice-Chancellor, very Chancellor, council members, members of the university, special guests, graduands, families and friends. I extend a very warm welcome to this, the third autumn graduation ceremony for 2012 of the University of Auckland. This week the university is bestowing a total of 7,048 qualifications on some 6,862 students. At this ceremony degrees will be conferred and diplomas awarded in the Faculty of Business and Economics. A total of 567 in person plus a further 165 in absentia. As Chancellor, I am privileged to preside at graduation once more. The twice yearly cycle of graduation ceremonies makes them no less significant for the university and me personally than for those of you being capped here today, many for the first and only time. Graduation is always a festive event. Rich in history, pomp and colour, but with some endearing contemporary touches. Here in Auckland, our enviable mix of cultures and ethnicities is evident in the variety of dress and adornments worn by some graduands. Today is one of celebration, hard earned and well deserved by you, the graduands and diplomats on your academic feats and by your family and friends who have encouraged and supported you in good times and in bad and who are here to rejoice in your success. The university represented by the council and academic staff members seated behind me and those many professional staff who direct proceedings with unerring precision takes equal satisfaction in your hugely significant day. The University of Auckland is deservedly ranked as one of the best universities in the world. The qualifications bestowed on you today will always serve you well in this country and abroad, whether in qualifying you for a fulfilling career or in leading to further challenging study, or simply for your own personal and intellectual enrichment. In today's world of constant and often bewildering change, you can never afford to stop learning and honing your skills and capabilities. So do keep in mind our ever expanding range of postgraduate opportunities. The critically important role of major research-led universities such as the University of Auckland in modern life is not always understood. Our cutting-edge research is vital for long-term sustainable economic growth and social development, never more so than in these globally uncertain economic times. Universities such as ours equip graduates like you, not simply for the jobs of today, but for careers not yet imagined. The University of Auckland's aspirations for the period ahead and our responses to an increasingly constrained funding environment are comprehensive and demanding. They are taking shape in our draft strategic plan for 2013-2020. I encourage you to peruse this wide-ranging document on our website and let us have your feedback. I urge you as alumni of New Zealand's leading university always to remember your alma mater. We depend increasingly on our graduates for support, moral and political as well as financial. This is a time when our country's universities receive the lowest income per student in the developed world. Your advocacy and influence are vital in encouraging government and the community at large to fund universities so they can generate the knowledge needed to drive a productive and competitive economy and to create full and satisfying lives for all New Zealanders. That's enough for me on the challenges facing universities. For today is unquestionably your day. I warmly congratulate each and every one of you and trust that you will long cherish memories of your graduation in May 2012. Our speaker this afternoon is Jonathan Mason, who is Fonterra's Chief Financial Officer. He joined Fonterra in 2009 from the US-based company Cabo Corporation, where he had been Executive Vice President and CFO. Between 1990 and 2006 Mr Mason worked in various roles at US-based international paper, the world's largest forest products company, rising eventually to Vice President and Treasurer. The FFO at Carterhold Harvey from 2000 to 2005, when international paper owned 50.1% of the New Zealand-based company. Earlier in his career he worked in Treasury roles at Exxon Corporation. An American by birth Mr Mason is married with two children, one of whom was born in New Zealand. He and his family hold dual New Zealand and American citizenship. He holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Arts International Relations, both from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts Economics and International Relations from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Mr Mason. Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, graduates, families and friends. There are formal and informal milestones in one's life and graduation is one of them. For most of you, today marks the end of your academic training and the start of your career where you put your academic training to use in our economy and go from spending money to making money, a switch that must make many of the parents in the audience hopeful. As I think back to all the graduation addresses that I've listened to, I regret to admit that I remember very little about them. So I thought, how do I fix that for your talk? And so I'm going to summarize my message into three points. Number one. Today is a key milestone, marking a move for most of you as the end of a 15 to 20 years of academic study and the start of 40 years of a business career. Number two. By virtue of being here today, you've learned how to play the academic game well. The business game, however, to talk about life and career as a game, the business game has different rules and skills needed to succeed. So a new part of your education is about to begin. Three. Analyze how businesses and the world operate. Develop ideas to make the world a better place. We will need those ideas to face important challenges of the 21st century. So over the next three minutes, I'm going to go into more detail on those points, but for those of you who want to let your mind wander now, those are the three key points to the address. As I think back to my transition from student to a business career 32 years ago, sort of when I was out there with you in the audience, I remember that I had two big adjustments. First, on the mundane side, I hated having to get up every weekday morning at 7am after I got accustomed to my more flexible university calendar. Second, I thought I was overeducated for the work that I was asked to do. It took me a full 12 to 15 years from the time of graduation until I reached a job where I felt I was fully using what I had learned at university. But the most profound realization that I had was that the ingredients that made me a successful student are markedly different to those traits of a successful business person. In school, the ability to solve problems, read and digest information, write clearly, and have the discipline to successfully prepare for tests and write papers were the key variables, drivers to academic success. These skills are also important to attributes in business, but there are other skills that I found are even more important. First, to succeed in business, you have to have a passion and zest for action. To get up every day and to have short and long-term goals that you make progress on. In school, these goals are mostly within a school term and are well-defined and quantified by grades. In business, the goals may be longer term and there may be more question marks on how to reach them. This is paired closely, this action orientation is paired closely with the second key skills, which I call drive for results, which is an ability to reach difficult improvement goals while overcoming frequent obstacles. Third, it is extremely desirable to have what I would call interpersonal savvy, an ability to work with people at all levels of an organization and accomplish goals by working with others on teams. And for those of you who are in the fortunate position of being academically gifted where school came easy, I want to give you a warning. If you show everyone always that you're smart and you don't show a dose of humility, you'll actually be less effective in this key business attribute. And interpersonal savvy is also important because I would consider it the foundation of important leadership skills. So you'll reach a point in your career where you start to also be responsible for other people, be a leader of the company. And including the ability to pick the right people, build effective teams, make people want to come to work. So you have to experience the work world in getting to that point. So in the pre-leader phase, look at what works well. Look at what doesn't work well. Look at what a good boss does. Look at what a boss that you don't like as well does. And make little notes because you will eventually be a leader one day, managing people, and you can do better than that. Learn from those successes and failures that you see. Another attribute is patience and perseverance. Your business career will echo life in many ways. There will be some great days and bad days, and you have to find a way to get through both. And as I mentioned earlier, to learn from your successes and failures is just as others' successes and failures to become a better, wiser person. I can remember in my own career two examples of one great one bad day. First, on the bad day ledger, I was at a company for going on 15 years when there was a key position that opened. And I went to talk with my boss, this boss, about it, and he didn't rate me enough to even interview me for the position. Think of 15 years of work and he wouldn't even talk to me about considering me for the position. That was a very difficult day. And on the other side, I can remember about seven years into my work career. I was asked up to the boardroom, there's all the senior management of the company there, and they all opposed. They thought I had done a finance valuation wrong. And 90% of the executives at the table just said, this is wrong, and I spent an hour, and at the end of the hour they said, you were right and we were wrong. By the way, in the hour, to come back to humility, I used, especially senior executives, a mix of gentle and humble persuasion skills. But I remember at the end of that day, wow, I was happy. And that's how life is, and that's how your work life I predict will be. But my final piece of advice for you is to use your life to be curious about everything in both your business and non-business world. Why do certain businesses succeed and others fail? What makes getting outside of business though? What makes movies and art great? What do you like in movies and art? Who are the great leaders in world history, either business history or political history or social history? What made them great? How did they have weaknesses which they were able to surmount and still be great leaders? And most importantly, how can we make the world a better place for the nine billion people that we'll have in this world by 2040, 2050 when, coincidentally or importantly, many of you will reach the peak of your influence in the world of business or whatever you choose to do. This intellectual curiosity and problem-solving skills that hopefully you've learned at university will be needed to curb what I believe will be the greatest challenge of the 21st century, namely how we live more sustainably. As the Western world has transferred the magic of capitalism to the emerging markets and world economic growth has increased, we are also expanding our consumption of finite world resources. The next three generations will have to find solutions to the success of capitalism realized over the last 70 years. So, to summarize again the three key points, today is a key milestone marking the move for most of you as the end of 15 to 20 years of academic study in the start of 40 years of a business career. Number two, you've learned the academic game well, but the business game has different rules and skills needed to succeed so a new part of your education is about to begin. Getting good at skills like driving for results and working on your interpersonal savvy are two examples of new skills required to succeed in business. Three, analyze how business and the world operates. Develop ideas to make the world a better place. We will need those ideas to face the important challenges of the 21st century. Thank you Chancellor for giving me the opportunity to address the distinguished graduates for the business school today. Thank you Mr Mason and I hope our graduates took on board not just the three important messages but also some of the very valuable practical advice you had for them from personal experience. This is a meeting of council and convocation of the university for a ceremony of conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. At this ceremony the Pro-Chancellor, Dr Ian Parton and I will be conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. I invite the Pro-Chancellor to award the diplomas and confer the degrees in the first half of this ceremony. Thank you Chancellor. By the authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council I Ian Parton, Pro-Chancellor confer the degrees and award the diplomas stated upon those who, within their faculty have satisfied the requirements of this university. I call upon the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics Mrs Lawrenceon to present graduands in that faculty. Pro-Chancellor, as Associate Dean I have the honour of presenting to you the students qualified for the award of a diploma or confirmant of a degree in the Faculty of Business and Economics. To the degree of Bachelor of Business in Information Management. Alexandria Kamacho Anakan, Zane Osman Ansari, Shane Ross James Appleton, Timothy John Bird, Marie Claire Tameo Sendanya, Shemita Shivani Chandra, Eileen Chao, Hong Weche, Judith Mathea Collier Westerhoff, Dapika Devi, Rena Jessica D'Souza, Michael Andrew Evans, Fung Mindi, Brittany Jane Enya Gardner, Rishitania Chelsea George, Jalengu, Tracy Juliana Hawkins, James Hindle, Adrian Young, Meia Joy Adrian Jones, Apurva Sunil Joshi, Vincent Ju, Monica Hene Kamal, Selman Khan, Rene Mekolewicz, Pauline Pae Yingwok, Jacqueline Mary Nakita-Lang, Jing Li, Alexander Adrian Wallace-McKenzie, Michael Ross-McLeish, Abbasak Mahante, Gatana Marie-Andrea Alale Padilla, Shan Rose-Paul Palmer, Suresh Gulab Pabu, Bhavishabhan Maheshbhai Patel, Wayne Trevor Potto, Jay Wansyu, Pauline Pae Yingwok, Jay Wansyu, Lloyd Marin-Chanka, Kujit Kaur Singh, Alexander Eric Smaila, Gregory James Smith, Huiji Sun, Foto O Samoa Faithfully Graceful Gloria Takazawa, Myrhe Tarapo, Cecilia Bella Tavita, Yi Chun Sai, Li Wang, Matthew Kenneth Woodburn, Daniel Marie Yire Iwan, To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, Arjun Singh Kade, and a graduate diploma in Commerce, Jiwen Kong, Mirakong, Mirikang, Naewankang, Nakita Akalanka Kariawasa, Harjinda Kaur, Sukwinda Kaur, Shreena Kaya, Alana Francis Kelly Curtin, Richard Matthew Curf Phillips, Sculpe Willam Keita, Haidyun Kim, Minha Kim, Seraphina Sohyun-Rosa Kim, Willam Kiungun Kim, Younghoon Samuel Kim, Ko Wang Nien, Stacey Kong, Seng Enku, Andre Iwarovic Correagan, Senior Scholar Commiss, Shiva Krishna, Anishka Joshna Krishna, Senior Scholar Commiss, Boyan Kritalist, Krydolika, Natasha Sivantna Kuma, Sonal Ravanesh Kuma, Vidisha Kuma, Vinisha Kuma, Alvin Kuryakozi, Senior Scholar Commiss, Vladimir Kozmanowski, Celia Vanessa Kwan, Kong Wenkek, James Sun Singh Lai, Amrita Lal, Nikesh Lal, Nikesh Lal, and a graduate diploma in commerce. Shane Rima Lal, Aivi Wai Ching Lam, Martin Ekitoelangi Lahtua, Kayin Law, Rhys Michael Lawrence, Hiyun Li, Ji Yun Li, Min Hyok Li, Su Yun Li, Yun Hili, Chuk Hung Li, Daniel Li, Jin Li, Ren Li, Weilong Li, Jardin Li, and a graduate diploma in commerce. Jun Liang, Joe Yulim, Hanta Liu, Ying Liu, Sylvia Sharona, Taylana Lottam, and a graduate diploma in commerce. Shani Chin Lin Leu, Sujin Lo, Wushi Lu, Senior Scholar Commerce Katrina Hujing Lu, Ying Lu, Ho Wang Kelvin Luk, Teresa Yanlada Sofali, Samah, Tony Dong Min Ma, Jessica Barbara McDiamond, Mary Ellen Marriag, Tony Maitland, Tashina Nambiamani, Jenny Mao, Yu Hong Mao, Kali Aideen Marsh, Jules Menci-Martinez, Rachel Walona-Martis, Sovelini Filai Weweha Massima, Lessa Vages Matthew, Nikolai Scott Matthews, Lana Matich, Sean Matthew McGrath, Christopher Joseph McLean, Ashley Minow, Senior Scholar Commerce, Sava Mihic, Aidan John Mills, Caleb Thomas Mills, Christine Kaushalia Mishra, Shanduni Nautwalal Mestri, Maria Maltanova, Elizabeth Monrad Henson, Layton Leslie Morris, Laura Suzanne Murdoch, Remalane Naidu, Orianta Naidu, Araniel Rajesh Nasi, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Mohamed Shauib, Ziai Haidz, Kaila Thomas Mills, Christine Kaushalia Mishra, Shauib, Ziai Haidz, Nasiya, Vidya Natarajan, Hamisha Danita Nath, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Steen Craig Neal, Troy Fabian Neary, Gesaniya Andrevra, Nick Clay Iva, Kaman Ng, Wing Mae Joyce Ng, Xin Yi Ng, Karen Ng, Jiang Nguyen, Kateria Dorothea Nimand, Fahana Farin Nisha, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Rimon Nisan, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Jun Hono, Tim Franz Ottenhoff, Yang Oh, Ye Kong Oh, Weining Pai, Stephanie Jane Palmer-Cudell, Samar Pint, Chitira Paramesh Waran, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Pete Joel Park, Alex Roy Palayne, Catherine Helen Palayne, Hashi Patel, Mayor Nudvalau Patel, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Priya Bina Patel, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Priyanka Patel, Senior Scholar Commerce, Yashina Patel, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, James Robert Pete, Yiling Ping, Quinn Ann Palm, Sharadha Susan Phillip, Geoffrey Michael Phillips, Conor Sydney Gerard Phipps, Rachel Ann Pickett, Scott Alexander Porter, Conor Tyson Power, Priya Arun Prajji, Ria Shrestha Prasad, Dewashni Priya, Mia Prakusik, Christine Kwa Peju, Daniel James Quigley, Johanna Michelle Quigley, Rassashila Ramat, Nicole Latisha Rainsford, Sneha Sharon Raj, Rohit Romahan, Dehapika Rani, Raj Rani, Yufa Darjini Rata-Mahan, Vanille Kavish Reddy, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Amy Louise Redwood, Lianne Hailey Reynolds, Xena Fatima Rizwana, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Amy Louise Redwood, Xena Fatima Rizwana, Rebecca Lois Robinson, Rachelle Samantha Rodriguez, Hayden James Rodgers, Yule Anna Augustine Rosedy, Lisa Catherine Rose, Amy Lisa Suckle, Nicholas Ryan Sadler, Amanda Pearl Saldana, Joshua Benaventura Santos, Madeleine Rose Saxton Beer, Samuel Willan Markwick Scaley, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Anne Markwick Scaley, Kyle Chilliban, Christopher Michael Scott, Gemma Eileen Scott, Tamana Sadeke, Sarah Isati-Zini Muhammad, Marino Seth, Elizabeth Margaret Irene Setton, Analyze Rose Sharma, Nikola Amy Sharman, Brendan Michael Sheehan, Georgina Catherine Shelton Agar, Ray Tsoe Shur, Shwen Leechu, Victoria Margaret Simpson, Benjamin Luke Sinclair, Karanbe Singh, and a graduate diploma in commerce, Malcolm Singh, Rasheena Sonia Singh, Telpule Sione, Matthew Hui Te Rangi Ora Slade, Amy Natalie Smith, Daniel Garnham Smith, David Selwyn Smith, Glenn Madison Smith, Timothy Christopher Smith, Ivan Saltich, Wen Chiansang, Jonathan Chanden Su, Christopher John Gibson Spence, Mallory Jordan Spence, Krishna Shrikumatne, Nicole Elizabeth Stead, Lakshan Janesh Steven, Lena Su, Wensi Su, Alexi Sukhamlanoff, Lynn Lynn Sun, Nicolo McWale Valdez-Sulpanko, and a graduate diploma in commerce, Kanchan Hares-Sutani, Josh Johnson, Venlo Soxsi Pukti, Tejao Taylor, Hayden John Tolbert, Tanli Hoon, Jaohang Tan, Raywen Yingying Tan, Kori Makaira Tehera, Salota Akila Panisi Telematua, William Moore Tauri, Yong Tiang, and a graduate diploma in commerce, Inway Tiang, Norma Tanai, Joanne Eileen Tiang, and a graduate diploma in commerce, Balti Tran, Anna Tamara Tregawath, Brendan Michael Tripp, Matthew Louis Truwell, Timmy Hau Chung Tu, Alexander Michael Tuala, Michael John Turner, Karen Ann Lobo Udanga, Nicholas John Roy Underwood, Kruti Sunil Upariai, Thomas Oresin Vaafu Suwana, Kulainai Papu Douglas Vae, Ashley Gemma Vandebeck, Eila Monique Van Zest, Salisi Tuimon Henguata Ve Kuhane, Anirod Vijamkumar, Mina Tho, Rachel Rebecca Walker, Robert John Martin Wall, Aaron Yehung Wang, Philip Chite Wang, Stephanie Yafan Wang, Zoukang Fong, Wei Wang, Shwelyn Wang, Jane Rebecca Watson, Adele Faye Watts, Richard John Weber, Jiawei Wei, Lauren Andrea Wei, Hayden John White, Bianca Mei Lin Wujaja, Jacob Mark Williams, Aaron Mark Wilson, Caitlyn Joan Wilson, Daniel Craig Wilson, Stuart Andrew Wilson, Anetsu Kwan Wang, Dorothy Catherine Wang, Jonathan Rowland Wang and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Joshua Ming Ong Wang, Mei Yin Wang, Melody Winyi Wang, Nicholas Nathan Wang and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Tracy Wong Ting Wang and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Ricky Yek Wang, Nathan Michael Wood, Joshua Jake Woodhead, Benny Yu Pan Wu, Di Wu, Jing Yang Wu, Pei Yu Wu, Wen Wen Wu, Chen Zhu, Yu Hao Zhu, Emma Yang, Sally Yang, Zhu Chi Yang, Yaxuan Yang and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Yeji Jian, Xun Man Yu, Qing Yu, Brendan Xun Yang and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Nicholas Justin Yang and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Thomas Austin Gok Wai Yu, Jing Wan, Felicia Jane Julius, Ashley Monty Zaragoza and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Jia Yun Zing, Dan Zhang, Zhang Ming Zhang, Yi Zhang, Jing Feng Yi, Yang Feng Zhang, Zhuang Xu, Wei Zhu, Ying Zhu, Evgenia Egorivna Znarok, To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Conjoint, Niha Kasabia and a Bachelor of Property, Robert Peter Kim and a Bachelor of Science, Sumpiyo Kim and a Bachelor of Science, Tai Hiong Kim and a Bachelor of Science, Kieran John Kingstone and a Bachelor of Arts, Senior Scholar Commerce, Shijia Tiffany Koch and a Bachelor of Arts, Gavin Katri Kumar and a Bachelor of Property, Jessica Dupinti Kumar and a Bachelor of Arts, Priyanka Nelam Kumar and a Bachelor of Property, Sofal Lam and a Bachelor of Science, John Ronald Lawton and a Bachelor of Arts, Eliza Marie Lakock and a Bachelor of Arts, Jared P.H. Lee and a Bachelor of Arts, Su Jin Lee and a Bachelor of Arts, Senior Scholar Commerce, Senior Scholar Science, Laura Elizabeth Lease and a Bachelor of Science, Jia Yin Li and a Bachelor of Property, Jesse Yu Jia Lin and a Bachelor of Science, Jia Wen Liu and a Bachelor of Property, Sarah Ashley Lockhart and a Bachelor of Science, Lian Ma and a Bachelor of Arts, Alex Fraser Marks and a Bachelor of Arts, Amy Joan McElroy and a Bachelor of Arts, Kellan Ralph James Morris and a Bachelor of Science, Tarat Raad Naib and a Bachelor of Health Sciences, Roger Kenneth Neighbours and a Bachelor of Science, Nicholas James Nino and a Bachelor of Science, Shivani Pabu and a Bachelor of Science, Siwon Park and a Bachelor of Arts, Michelle Elizabeth Parkinson and a Bachelor of Arts, Lena Patel and a Bachelor of Arts, Joshua David Patience and a Bachelor of Laws, Boris Evtimov Peshev and a Bachelor of Arts, Yu Young Pae and a Bachelor of Arts, Andrew Ross Pilkington and a Bachelor of Science, Nichelle Navit Prasad and a Bachelor of Science, Labiba Nawar Raman and a Bachelor of Arts, Jennifer Mary Reed and a Bachelor of Science, Yun Holdri and a Bachelor of Arts, Natalia Amanda Roy and a Bachelor of Arts, Luke Andrew Rutland and a Bachelor of Science, Propae Samreth and a Bachelor of Arts, Joanna Seto and a Bachelor of Arts, Havan Sharma and a Bachelor of Property, Candice Victoria Shaw and a Bachelor of Property, Alice Tingji Shi and a Bachelor of Arts, Liam John Sweeney and a Bachelor of Science, Grace Tan and a Bachelor of Arts, Kaitlyn Alexandrina Thomas and a Bachelor of Arts, David Francis Tracy and a Bachelor of Arts, Varsha Venugopal and a Bachelor of Arts, Ji Chung Wong and a Bachelor of Laws, Rebecca Mary Woodley and a Bachelor of Arts, Yingying Zhao and a Bachelor of Property, Senior Scholar Property, Edward Yip and a Bachelor of Property, Amy Marie Young and a Bachelor of Property, Eunice Shinrong Yu and a Bachelor of Arts, Wei Yi Zhao and a Bachelor of Property, to the degree of Bachelor of Property Conjoint, Pura Va Agawal and a Bachelor of Commerce, Charles Vincent Bodd and a Bachelor of Commerce, George Mitchell Culver and a Bachelor of Commerce, Adam Peter Flint and a Bachelor of Commerce, Elliot Norman Keyes and a Bachelor of Commerce, Amanda Michelle Lee and a Bachelor of Science, Aaron David McQuibbin Sadler and a Bachelor of Commerce, James Roderick Hope Philson and a Bachelor of Commerce, Hayden John Rhodes and a Bachelor of Commerce, Anisha Gayathri Segar and a Bachelor of Commerce, David Joseph Taylor and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jocelyn Kawing Tong and a Bachelor of Commerce, Mitchell Adam Tweedy and a Bachelor of Commerce. Thank you Pro-Chancellor for conferring the degrees and awarding the diplomas in the first half of the ceremony. One of the great pleasures of graduation is the opportunity to hear performances by students from our acclaimed School of Music. Anthony Snyder on vocal, accompanied by Rosemary Barnes on piano, will now perform Sorge and Forster Una Prichella by Georg Frederick Handel. Can I ask you to show your appreciation again to Anthony and Rosemary? Each year we have memorable performances like the one you've just heard by our students and if you would like to hear further performances, all graduates and their families are invited to the graduation concert at 7.30pm this Saturday in the Town Hall. By the authority vested in me by Resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Roger Franz Chancellor, award the diplomas and confer the degrees stated upon those who, within the Faculty of Business and Economics, have satisfied the requirements of this university. I now call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Professor Wittred, to present further graduands in that faculty. Yannicka Shock-Dagie, Charlotte Andrea Edwards, Carl Martin Frankson, Kayla Marie Gillespie, Simon John Gordon, Mark Kenneth Griffin, Michael Luke Guptilbuntz, Kaili Shao Chiher, Ian Campbell Hogg, Matthew Charles Horn, Yan Yan Ho, Megan Amy Johnston, Vincent Madison, Scott Andrew McElroy, Andrew Robert McGuire, Hadley Mitford de Burgess, Christopher Hall Newman, Amy to the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce, Elizabeth Diane Nguyen-Yi and a Bachelor of Arts, Lani O'Brien, Amy Marie O'Connell, Alicia Faye Joyce O'Connor, Amanda Ong, Kesik David Pearson, Adam Aaron Ivan David Raddich, Murray Charles Rendell, Georgie Lynn Richards, Liam Phillip Rooney, Thomas Alexander Sneddon, Andrew Liam Sory, Bradley Thomas Sworn, Nicholas James Thiers, James Patrick Toomey, Edward Harold Washer, James Alexander Johnston Wilson, Zi Chiang Yang, Virginia Mi Chun Yu, Luo Yu, Postgraduate Diploma in Property with Merit Nanan Chi, to the Degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with First Class Honours, Declan Kenney in Commercial Law and a Bachelor of Commerce, Seng Joon Kwak in Accounting, Matthew Koon Hong Lee, Marketing, Shao Yun Lee, Commercial Law, Yash Yong Lee, Economics, Ka Hei Gary Lo, Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, University Graduate Scholar, Nicholas Robert Mitchell in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, Erika Ruth Myers, Marketing, Yong Joon Paek, Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, Christof Peter Pereira in Marketing and a Bachelor of Commerce, Saidel Niha Pinto in Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce, Abhinav Prabah Karan in Accounting, Siddharth Pradeep Pradhan Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce, Dayendra Premiswari Rahajah in Management, Brendon Alexander Ralph Accounting, University Graduate Scholar, Nicole Margaret Rockliffe, Commercial Law, Isaac Jason Rolf in Economics, Bachelor of Commerce Conjoint, Bachelor of Science, Daravan Syason, Marketing, Dmitry Salitschage, Information System, Melissa Dall Siegel, Economics, Kimberley Jane Summerhaze Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jason Leung Chun Tong, Information Systems, University Graduate Scholar, Elida Maria Joy Van Clink, Commercial Law, Samantha Marie Vickery, Marketing, Cleo Rosa Wainwright, Marketing, Kristen Yin Yong, Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Mi Ji Kim Accounting, Jiang Yue Lo Lu in Accounting, Pritha Rajan in Economics, Megal Dimplkanar Shah in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, Sarah Shen, Commercial Law and a Bachelor of Commerce, Megan Lilly Vettoretti in Commercial Law, Tomaslav Viljevets in Information System, Yi Jiang Wang, Economics, Jun Yin, Commercial Law, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours Second Division, Rafi Khanik, Commercial Law and a Bachelor of Commerce, Mandeep Kaur, Commercial Law, Hoi Ki Ling, Economics, Keo Tuki Tarangi Maruhu Kauri Rawiri McDonald, Economics, Andrew Tengwei Li, Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, Xi Ying Elaine Wang, Commercial Law, Ying Shi Zhang, Commercial Law, to the degree of Bachelor of Property Honours with First Class Honours, Gemma Alexandra Peterson, to the degree of Bachelor of Property Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Kwan Hui Sim, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies with First Class Honours, Gregory Malcolm Bennett, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies with Second Class Honours First Division, Ruth Leila Dobby, Solvee Marlene Eganez, Hema Lathi Sajan, Andrew John Simmons, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies with Second Class Honours Second Division, Rubina Shaheen Khan, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies, Kim Marie McCulloch. I now call upon the Vice-Chancellor to present the doctoral graduands. Chancellor, I have the honour of presenting to you the doctoral graduands, to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Trinod Paichavangit in Economics, University Doctoral Scholar. Trinod used economic decision-making experiments with human participants to study how implicit social norms affect behaviour and economic transactions, particularly those that involve a conflict between individual self-interest and cooperation for the common good. She investigated mechanisms that facilitate the emergence of cooperative norms and her findings in this area have implications for issues such as the provision of public goods, environmental protection and fighting corruption. Trinod, Sandra Dawn Smith in Marketing, University Doctoral Scholar. Sandra explored the ways in which employee narratives constructed the brand of a large service organisation and, in doing so, developed a new way of modelling this phenomenon. Richard Granville Starr Jr. in Marketing. Rick investigated the concept of authenticity and how certifying genuineness changes the perceptions of an object. He used New Zealand Ponamu or Greenstone in his tests, making the results highly relevant to the marketing of authentic New Zealand products and experiences. Dung in Economics. Mingming developed a portfolio model for a phishing firm that provides information on the trade-offs between expected profit and risk. And in absentia, all those other persons named in the Book of Convocation qualified for the conferment of a degree or the award of a diploma. I now call upon the public orator, Professor Vivian Gray, to present a fellow of the University of Auckland. Brian Allison is a southern man. He attended a high school in Alexandra where he developed the intellectual self-sufficiency that comes of learning in small groups. He took a degree in commerce from what was then the University of New Zealand and the skills he acquired in accounting and finance found him good employment and a partnership. But Brian Allison was used to higher country. So he set his sights on a career as a company director on boards that make the decisions affecting New Zealand's whole future. The success he had there brought him to the attention of the University of Auckland which in 2001 invited him to become one of the directors of their uniservices. Uniservices is a company owned by the University of Auckland. In the same way as any other company, it's managed by a board of directors who set directions for the company, provide expertise for its decision-making and appoint the chief executive officer. Its difference from other companies is that it's not set up for profit or indeed for loss, which is more usually the case these days. Instead it exists to facilitate the transfer of the new theoretical knowledge produced at the University into practical applications of benefit to the world outside. Its mission is to identify ideas with likely commercial value and to connect a good concept with a viable opportunity thereby matching the eureka moment with the market opportunity as their promotion proclaims. Government and businesses come to uniservices to find university expertise to meet their needs. Equally researchers go to uniservices seeking out investment groups who might turn their dreams into commercial reality. Brian Ellison added membership of the board of uniservices to his portfolio because though the position did not have a high remuneration, he saw that it would offer variety and high intellectual challenge and because it served the public good. He was right in his assessment. Uniservices develops applications in a large variety of interesting areas including bioengineering, education, energy, food and health, medicine and robotics. It also works for the good. Brian Ellison remembers in particular the development of the new anti-cancer therapies discovered by researchers in the medical school. These were drugs that targeted tumours with hypoxic conditions that is tumours with reduced oxygen flow which were particularly resistant to normal cancer therapies. Uniservices facilitated the application of these new treatments creating the basis for the company now known as Proactor Therapies. The University of Auckland now profits from an exclusive worldwide licence for all intellectual property developed as a result of this research that conducts the basic science in its laboratories. The advances made at the University in the development of inductive power technology also pass through uniservices in Brian Ellison's time. This is wireless technology that can be used to power a variety of types of transport from supermarket trolleys to model railways and private cars. As a result we can look forward to the easy life when we recharge our low batteries simply by driving over a pad in the garage having returned from a supermarket where the trolleys glided effortlessly along under their own steam. The University again profits from this research through the retention of licences that fund continuing local research as well as local applications of the inductive technology. Brian Ellison has brought to projects like these a free-ranging interest in imagination as well as an accountant's brain. It's interesting to see how these are reflected in his leisure pursuits. He's an avid revider of the complex stories of international corruption and money laundering in the imaginative worlds created by the novelist John Le Carré. He follows the arguments of the philosopher Carl Popper on the nature of totalitarian governments as he reflects on our electoral system in New Zealand. A more unusual pursuit but one involving another immensely significant achievement of the human imagination is quantum theory. He says he teaches himself quantum theory in order to keep his mind active. I can think of less demanding ways of activating the mind than through complicated mathematical equations. But Brian Ellison came from the south and southern man has always been well a little different from the rest. A popular television advertisement presented this legendary type of New Zealand a mustering sheep in the high country looking to large horizons and distant perspectives in the day and spending his nights under the stars. Brian Ellison would never dream of wearing oil skins when he plays his golf at Milbroke Estate near his holiday home in Arrowtown. And he's predominantly mustering only his energy when he takes his long walks through that spectacular setting. But one can just imagine him fathoming the complexities of the rules that govern the universe as he reclines there at night under the starry southern skies. They're very deep these southerners. Brian Ellison says that he pulled a plug on his directorship at UNIS Services to make way for others with something new to offer. The university respects his decision but hopes that in time to come he'll remain plugged into our circuit in some other way of his choosing perhaps even by inductive power technology. Meanwhile in order to show its gratitude for his contribution while his plug was still in the socket the university awards Brian Ellison an honorary fellowship of the University of Auckland. On behalf of the university I now invite all today's graduates to stand and receive the congratulations of us all. And this would be an ideal opportunity for the graduates to show their appreciation of their families and supporters and the staff of the university who have helped them as they achieved their qualifications. This concludes this meeting of council and convocation of the university for the confirmative degrees and the award of diplomas. I now invite you to sing the first verse of God Defend New Zealand in Maori and then in English. The words are printed on the reverse of your programs.