 inga mana, inga hou e fa, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou koutou. Pro-chancellor, vice-chancellor, university staff, special guests, graduands, whānau, and supporters. As Chancellor of the University of Auckland, I extend a warm welcome to you all on behalf of the council members and staff of the university. This is a meeting of the council of the University of Auckland, at which the pro-chancellor and I will confer diplomas and award degrees in the faculty of business and economics. Graduation is a time for celebrating success. Today you will experience the pomp and tradition of this ancient ceremony and the recognition befitting your success on your well-deserved day of celebration. Like your family and friends gathered here, we are very proud of all your achievements and look forward to your lifelong involvement as members of the University of Auckland family. Of course, graduation represents more than just a day of celebration. Your qualification from this university will have a lifetime impact on you, your family, and the community at large. We know that, compared to those whose formal education ends in high school, graduates have lower unemployment rates, higher salaries, better career prospects, and better health outcomes. University of New Zealand has estimated that the lifetime benefits of earning a degree are valued at between $1 million and $4 million. Your university experience and the qualification gained at university will thus add real value to your lives and to the lives of those around you. The fact that our university can add value in these ways reflects the abilities and achievements of our staff and students. In the Faculty of Business and Economics, we have seen several notable achievements in the last year. Mike Lee was chosen as an outstanding reviewer for Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics in the 2015 Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Catherine Fretty Bentham was inducted as a fellow by the Research Association of New Zealand. A team of four Auckland business students won first place in the Tula Longkorn International Business Case Competition in Thailand. These teams were asked to provide growth strategies for medical tourism at a Thai destination. Dr Laos Laosachas was elected president of the Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy for a three-year term. Professor Norman Wong was made a fellow of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand. In order to ensure that we can continue to achieve successes like these and to enhance our contribution to future generations of graduates and to our nation, the university must do three things, in my opinion. First, we need to attract students of high academic potential and give them an outstanding academic and extracurricular experience. In this respect, I believe we're doing very well. The proportion of domestic students entering the university with a high grade point average is growing each year and we produce outstanding graduates just like you. Second, we need to attract, develop and retain outstanding staff. This we are doing, as illustrated by the achievements I've just described. Many of our staff are world leaders in their fields and you will have been privileged to learn from and work with them. So it is no coincidence that in the QS world rankings of university subjects, the University of Auckland came top in New Zealand in 35 of the 40 ranked subjects. We don't even teach two of them. So if we just think about that achievement for a moment, the 40 ranked subjects we teach 38 and we were ranked top in 35. It sounds like an outstanding result to me. And third, we need to create the kind of academic environment and facilities that support and encourage excellence. To this end, the university has been investing heavily in its campus renewal programme so as to ensure that we do provide facilities of genuine international quality. Many of you will graduate today with a first qualification and you will rightly be proud of this achievement. However, I also want you to reflect on the ongoing learning opportunities and the wide range of postgraduate options available to you at this university. You must never rest on your laurels in a challenging and ever-changing world, but rather be prepared to embrace change and new technology and make the most of the opportunities presented to you. Although it may seem a daunting prospect right now, further study and learning is inevitable for us all as the world changes around us at an ever-accelerating pace. So whatever path you follow, I urge you as the alumni of New Zealand's leading university to never forget your alma mater, your university. We rely on our graduates for support, moral, political and financial. But today is your day with a focus firmly on your achievement. At this ceremony, we honour your success along with the support of your family, whanau and others who have sustained you through your studies. I congratulate you and trust that you will long cherish the memories of your graduation today. I'm pleased to welcome our guest speaker, Scott Perkins. Scott is an alumnus of this university, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws with honours. He has extensive Australasian and international experience as a corporate adviser. He was most recently head of corporate finance for Deutsche Bank Australia in New Zealand and a member of the Executive Committee with overall responsibility for the bank's activities in this region. He was also a member of the Asia Pacific Corporate and Investment Bank Management Committee and before that he was Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bank, New Zealand and Deputy Chief Executive of Bankers Trust, New Zealand. Scott's experience encompasses advising leading local and international companies across a broad range of markets on strategy, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets matters. He's the non-executive director of Woolworth's Limited, Bramble's Limited and he was a founding director of Meridian Energy. Scott is an active participant in the not-for-profit communities in Australia and New Zealand and has a long-standing commitment to breast cancer, the visual arts and public policy development. Among his many activities he co-founded Sweet Louise which helps women with breast cancer live positive lives was the founding director of the Public Policy Think Tank, the New Zealand initiative and a director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. He served the university as a director of Uniservices, our research commercialised company for 14 years and will, at the conclusion of this ceremony, be honoured as a fellow of the University of Auckland. Please join with me in welcoming Scott Perkins. Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, members of the council, members of the university, graduands, families and friends, tenakotou, tenakotou, tenakotou katoa. I first want to congratulate you all on achieving this milestone. You should be proud of having navigated successfully these university years. They are great times, a real journey of discovery, discovering adulthood and shedding adolescence, discovering competition for grades, for jobs, for attention, discovering the basis for new friendships outside of old school or neighbourhood or family links, discovering the reality of constant change, discovering that unlike your parents' world, your world is much flatter, closer, bigger, where the opportunities are broader, more unpredictable, more specialised and less secure. Discovering what it means to budget and the real-world pressure of cash flow, discovering that as you reflect on how you got right here today, how many people have played a pivotal role in getting you here, your parents, your wider family, mentors, the anonymous benefactors who have funded scholarships and prizes to give you a chance at a bright future. Starting to discover what it means to be a citizen with opportunities to have a point of view on your society, the bigness of thinking to give back, not just the ambitious recipient of that most precious public good, a great education. So the good news is you have made it. The bad news is you haven't. University and in particular this university is a fabulous ticket to the game. Whether you reach your full potential in my experience is a function of whether you master a bunch of complementary life skills that were not part of your core curriculum that are best and only learned on the job of life post-graduation. You won't have really learned what it takes to convince people of your point of view. You probably won't have learned how to balance in the job context your competitive instincts with your collaborative instincts. You won't have learned how to truly see the world through the eyes of your customers, your clients, your colleagues. You won't have felt the searing disappointment of professional setback or the unfairness of a fickle job market. You won't have had that moment of crushing self-awareness at the hands of a better product, a better price, a better salesperson. You won't have needed to stare down the temptation of very real short-term financial gain in favour of doing the right thing for the longer term. You won't have learned how to nicely disassemble your boss's perspective without them feeling that you're in fact saying that he or she is a complete idiot. You won't have needed to navigate adeptly the office politics that stand in the way of career progression. You may not have experienced the unpredictable joy of applying your skills to those who are less fortunate than yourselves. You won't have sensed the exhilaration of it all coming together, or the catching of reward of any sort, which would enable you of course to attend to your student loan as a first priority. These new skills needed to reach your full potential in life in my experience fit into three buckets. Ethics, empathy and energy. On ethics it's pretty simple. Without a clear moral compass, you are lost. Without a reflex to do the right thing, you will be degraded and become less valuable to others and to yourself. Without building a track record of forthright honesty, you will be passed over. Without standing up and calling out, you will limit your potential. And eventually you get found out. You should know that all the very, very smart people who work with you and for you and for whom you work have very acute olfactory ethical senses. And please do not assume these choices will be easy. Our society is full of instances where the old ways of doing things put under the new spotlights of transparency and scrutiny are showing up to full short. You will be placed in very tricky circumstances where you may have much to lose but treasure your reputation. Avoid actively those who don't pass your ethical smell test. Invariably your gut feel is right. Be assertive in staking out your own reputational boundaries and sleep well at night. But of course there are many truly good people who never make it out of the slow lane. Goodness is not the ticket to greatness. It is necessary but it is not sufficient. So why would empathy be any more important an ingredient? For all those graduands today who have outstanding marks but poor EQ and who are sitting next to great communicators who have OK marks, the playing field is about to be levelled. Empathy. The experience of understanding another person's position from their perspective is all too rare a talent. But it is learnable. It is the key that can unlock your true abilities. Seeing the world only through your own eyes and not being able to demolish your own argument, not being brave enough to concede the better point of view. In public, not having the humility or the patience to listen to others, your colleagues, your customers, your boss, and truly balance up the arguments. To me is more than anything else going to be the choke point in your career. You are all intelligent but are you clever? Invariably those with distinctive customer empathy, client empathy, team member empathy, societal empathy will see their careers accelerate. Those determined to be the cleverest in the room but who don't read the furrowed eyebrow of their colleagues, who don't sense the loss of attention in the eyes of their customers, who needlessly offend through lack of awareness. They fail to build trust. They fail to bring out the best in others. They fail to become bigger than their own constraints over time. Please see the world through other people's eyes. But sadly there are many good people with plenty of empathy who also never make it to the fast lane. Here is where a deep breath is needed. If I look back on my career, my relationships, my finances, nothing has been easy. The golden football simply don't exist. So the good people with great empathy who don't have the energy, the utter tenacity to pick themselves up after failure, to believe in themselves when others don't, to who will withstand the headwinds of prejudice or shortsightedness or dimwittedness that abounds out there. They will fail to reach their full potential. It takes practice, failure, more practice, more risk-taking, more self-awareness, more learning. And then all of that over again. To reach that sweet point of success where one permits oneself that sense of mastery, the overwhelming calmness of knowing that you did everything you could and the peace of whatever outcome that is. So if you have the ethics, the empathy and the energy, I am confident you will do this degree, this university, your family, your friends who have invested so much in you, the true justice of your full potential. Thank you very much. Thank you, Scott, for a most insightful and challenging address. Would you please join with me in thanking Scott once again? This is a meeting of council in Convocation of the University, at which the Pro-Chancellor, Scott St John 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. By the authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Scott St John Pro-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 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 and Information Management, Ms. Hard Freddy Baum, Emma Jane Burroughs, Richard Chandra, Rebecca Verne-Pincia, James Robert Easton, Ajay Gargi, Yifangor, Scott Andrew Robert Hitchens, Kieran Lee-Hen Liu, Yan Chun Lin, Tamara Sarek, Pari Tarapore, Josh Alexander Tocca, Madoka Karan Yamamoto, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, City Nunatasha Binti Abdullah Sahari, Nicole Rosalie Ramos-Aldzaz, Hezron Alban, Abdullah Al-Damele, Reem Alhelali, Tara Mukta Ali, Senior Scholar Business and Economics, Jared Matthew Allen, Fernanda Alvarez-Delugo-Comenares, Raymond Damora, Senior Scholar Business and Economics, Courtney Jordan-Indella, Simon David Anderson, Julie Ann Alones-Unico, Arisha Akil, Joshua James Alruna, Andrew Joseph Averson, Sohi Beck, Jonathan Stanley Baker, Peter Beltotski, Christy Chanel Botensual, Chitresh Mamesh Bakwan, Neil B. Buller, Christina Vivian Bilkey, Rachel Marie Blackwell, Nicola Jane Blockley, Samuel Christopher Blood, Carl Hines Bode, Isabel Grace Bosha, Lucy Rosalyn Branken, Laura Holly Brash, Jack Norman Alfred-Britland Whiting, Alexander Graham Brunton, Benjamin James Raphael Butt, Yulin Kai, Yankiao, Yi Qing Chiao, Amy Rose Chan, Henry Honglup Chan, Hocklin Chan, Michelle Chan, Pui Sansamon Chan, Yinglam Kelly Chan, Shravil Amanchandra, Sika Tatuveri, Pui Yu Lychulia Chau, Meili Chi, Teoran Chen, Wanjin Chen, Rongxi Chen, Jia Kai Chong, Matthew Jarrett Chesham, Solventara Kimchef, Wonhee Young Choy, Natasha Huidme Chong, Suzan Chong, Rachel Xiaotuan Chai, Senior Scholar of Business and Economics, Stephanie Grace Choy, Hanna Toa, Sol Chun, Lita Guilien Chunyu, Emma Victoria Clark, Anna Ann Cohen, Kimberly Marie Connolly, Daniel Joshua Corbett, Timothy James Gordon Cotton, Jessica Ann Crue Brown, Jonathan Timothy Croucher, Senior Scholar of Business and Economics, Yusuf Dada, Gasheng Dai, Maria Damien, Safiyodogh, Steven William Day, Bhavik Beppin Daya, Shanuk Denzil Philip De Silva, Jay Jacob Antonio De Souza, Vipul Dev, Brendan Day Thomas Devoie, Hamodanda, Kanupriya Dewan, Don Mandung, Emma Victoria Dorsett, Ivan Droppalec, Jocelyn Marcel De Souza, Michael LaFrasque Du Plessis, Maria Andrevna Donaskaya, Theodore Edward Michael Duncan, Eleanor Doranski, Hayden Hata Eldridge, Christelle Engelbrecht, Lillian Falcon Jimenez, Samuel William Steiner Fastia, Braden Yufing Ling Feng, Emma Louise Firmall, Ekchampo Liji Sashini Shehara Fernando, Rachel Susan Kate Ferris, Kaiskaram Fidae, Sara Phil, Max O'Brien Fitzgerald, Michael Pikitiora Fitzpatrick, Belinda Tiu Fong, Melanie Jean Foote, Sheryl Leilani Latafelle Bruin, Wan Ching Fu, Ruth Sharon Galvin, Janissa Gan, Gan Yi Jian, Jihen Ganjia, Mingau, Peter Harrison Gardner, Emma Jean Seelyart Mary Gibson, Amanpreet Singh Gill, Praveen Giratharan, Jordan Michelle Gleason, Chong Jing Goh, Harold Chuming Goh, Chandrani Divya Gunda, Roshanga Vin, Shriek Goh, Dion Samangest, Jasa Kanavei Guillamelon, Hanyu Goh, John Hyung Min Ha, Ju-Hun Hanh, Samuel Mark Hand, Glare Rosa Hanypalai, Ana Louise Harding, Martin Richard Anton-Harnett, Angosie Wood Harris, Jasper Rudi Minglin Hatonozen, Braden Rodney Harwood, Stacey Margaret Harwood, Joshua Stephen Hawkey, Alexandria Helen Haynes, Li Ying He, Xi Chen He, Xian Lei He, Nicky Nadine Husha, Benjamin Wilhelm Hendricks, Yong-Shei Hu, Jasmine Aya Higgins, Sarah Jane Higgins, Douglas Michael Hillier, Hinching Ho, Alessa Adele Hoffman, Benjamin William Holloway, Alison Liz Hong, Anthony Charles Hopper, Lucy Alice Horner, David John Howells, Ming Yu Hu, Li Huang, Rebecca Rachel Hughes, Miugi Wondersway, Florence Ulitus Hilly, Laura Jane Hunt, Eshala Rasi Alango, Michael Novena Ayoane, Davida Rochaimara Yorsefa, Angel Angine Yotua, Fabian Waichunip, Haley Robin Isaacson Hanson, Helena Maria Jean Jackson, Jessica Marie Jackson, Edward Adrian Derek James, Fergus Douglas James, Kimberly Sarah James, Daniel Mark Jesus Person, Jing-Ji, Yon Duuk Jun, Elizabeth Sjok Yun Jun, Rang Chan Kang, Yu-Chung Kang, Bhavne Ko, Daisy Ko, Mira Ambika Koshik, Mitchell Henry Calley, Timothy Raymond Kemp, Matthew Charles Kenwood, Tashfin Tayyum Khan, Raymond Ko, Trisha Kurana, Maiku Kuwata Naseine, Ki Yu He Kim, Yun He Kim, Jun Ki Yong Kim, Jing-Ji Kim, Son Min Kim, Su In Kim, Su Yun Kim, Steven Kim, Su Young Kim, Young Yun Kim, Ryan Peter King, Mariana Sherrell, Uheni Kingi, Madison Margaret Kinney, Michael John Kitching, Rachel Helen Knight, Benjamin G. Chianko, Sri Ragu Wonshe Kyo-Yil Konda Day, Yung Yang Kong, Seraku, Pei Kua, Manami Kubara, Ningwei Kuo, Rory Patrick Kvalchvik, Karen Kwan Nienkwok, Yunse Kwan, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Conjoint, Rajesh Sharibuka and a Bachelor of Arts, Christian Milan Barberich and a Bachelor of Science, Kalpesh Ramesh Bagwan and a Bachelor of Science, Krum Bhati and a Bachelor of Arts, Nicholas Michael Byrd and a Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Second Class Honours, First Division in Engineering Science, Senior Scholar of Business and Economics, Lauren Rachel Bauer and a Bachelor of Science, Thomas Kahn Brash and a Bachelor of Laws, Isaac William Buxton Brealy and a Bachelor of Science, Christopher James Bond and a Bachelor of Property, Logan Graham Burgess and a Bachelor of Science, Kibokai and a Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Second Class Honours, Second Division in Mechanical Engineering, Martin Gabriel Eldama Kamacho and a Bachelor of Arts, Jamie Ewan Cameron and a Bachelor of Property, Bobby Kunsun Chan and a Bachelor of Arts, Senior Scholar of Business and Economics and Senior Scholar of Science, Jessica Ann Channings and a Bachelor of Science, Michael Sven Shalsand and a Bachelor of Arts, Huyen Chen and a Bachelor of Science, Yee Young Chen and a Bachelor of Engineering, Jonathan Yan Lam-Cheng and a Bachelor of Arts, Vincent Kok Ping Jia and a Bachelor of Science, Aigna Sung Hui Chin and a Bachelor of Laws, Jessica Ashley Choi and a Bachelor of Science, Vera Puti Puti Clarkson and a Bachelor of Science, Michael Dacani and a Bachelor of Arts, Melody Krista Damawan and a Bachelor of Engineering Honours with First Class Honours in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Sirath Dave and a Bachelor of Science, Simon Winston Davies and a Bachelor of Science, Osman Yase Demirbas and a Bachelor of Arts, Ashley Kayla Donald Boosie and a Bachelor of Arts, Kaitlyn Draper Wheeler and a Bachelor of Arts. 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. Joella Pinto on violin will now perform the Scherzo Tarantella by Henrik Benioffski. Joella, for that stunning performance. Ladies and gentlemen, please join with me in thanking Joella. If you would like to hear more from our wonderful young musicians, I invite you to attend the graduation concerto gala competition to be held in the town hall on Thursday 12th of May at 7.30pm. The admission is free. By the authority vested in me by Resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Ian Parton, 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 call upon the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Professor Wichred, to present through the graduands in that faculty. To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Conjoint, Rachel Louise Elizabeth Erika and a Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Jennifer Fennig and a Bachelor of Arts, Sasha Sakura Finlay and a Bachelor of Arts, Alexander Campbell Fergie and a Bachelor of Arts, Nadine Leanna Wong-Foy and a Bachelor of Arts, Janey Clare-Friar and a Bachelor of Arts, Shell Wen-Gun and a Bachelor of Science, Yun Gao and a Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Second Class Honours First Division in Mechanical Engineering, Francesca Goshinyi and a Bachelor of Arts, Emma Marie Hardy and a Bachelor of Arts, Yi Lin He and a Bachelor of Science, Simon Matthew Healy and a Bachelor of Property, Sarah Elizabeth Louise Heffer and a Bachelor of Arts, Courtney Francis Henderson and a Bachelor of Arts, Sophia Huang and a Bachelor of Arts, Samuel Richard Hoskins and a Bachelor of Property, Senior Scholar Business and Economics, Robert Yuan Ho and a Bachelor of Engineering Honours, with First Class Honours in Engineering Science, Samuel John Holt and a Bachelor of Arts, Yi Lin Huang and a Bachelor of Arts, Shu Jun Hughes and a Bachelor of Arts, Emma Dawn Jobe and a Bachelor of Arts, Tala Marie Eliza Johnston and a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma in Business, Matthew William Grant Abbott in Administration, Fleur Armstrong in Administration, John Andrew Ashley in Administration, Melissa Faye Axelrad in Administration, Priscilla Viotto-Bernardas in Administration, Christopher John Bray in Administration, Monica Ann Burbitch in Administration, Andrew Gordon Brown in Administration, William Robert Brown in Administration, Helen Alice Burt in Administration, Phillip Terence Callahan in Administration, Hadas Kami-Thompson in Administration, Jodyne Juanita-Clark in Administration, Bartholomeas Stefanus Didericks in Administration, Donald Bruce Edwards in Administration, John Christopher Anthony Fahitala in Administration, Brendan Thomas Hickman in Administration, Daniel Pico Rangi-Hook in Administration, Jacob Daniel Horan in Administration, Simon Kenneth Hunt in Administration, Gabrielle Ann Knight in Administration, Peter Gordon Lamont in Administration, Fa Amanu Maava in Administration, Vika Maenu Fasavalu in Administration, Francis Paula Mayadeo in Administration, Amanda Jane Millar in Administration, Luke Douglas Muschin in Administration, Robert Simon Reid in Administration, Allison Grace Rocky in Administration, Balpreet Singh in Administration, Dilpreet Kushdev Singh in Administration, Felicity Elizabeth Jane Weekins in Administration, Michael James Wood in Administration, Nathaniali Balisasa Yali Maiwai in Administration, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with First Class Honours, Nelson Taita'i Anandale in Marketing and a Bachelor of Commerce, Brooke Liam Burroughs McFarlane in Marketing, Kaitlyn Chelsea Patricia Davies in Economics, Clegg in Glenda Gawley in Marketing and a Bachelor of Commerce, University Graduate Scholar, Malika Hariharan in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, Greer Holford in Marketing, Paula Angela Burgos-Hontalba in Economics, Maunthan Iswaran in Finance, Kiran David Love Jans in Marketing, Path Nilesh Kumar Joshi in Marketing, Andrea Korsi Hui in International Business, Alex Francis Kirkpatrick in Economics, Donna Kwong Kwong Lam in Marketing, Kit Hui Leo in Information Systems, Johnson Lu in Marketing, Waena Mac in Economics, Daniel Trongduck Nguyen in Accounting, Siwan Khan Nguyen in Information Systems, Hugh Jinn Park in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Commerce, Danielle Elise Pattenden in Management, Zoe Paige Pushon in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, Edward James Robertson in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Mengmeng Chan in Accounting, Matthew David Shaw in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Alexandra Ann Todd in Management, Linda Ming-Hieu Tran in Economics, University Graduate Scholar Hong Chuan Wang in Economics, Chen Yuan Wang in Finance, Alex Yun in Economics, Jingyuan Zhuang in Accounting. To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Molly Rebecca Benson in Economics, Emma Chawala in Information Systems, Ji-Wan Jot Kuaq Chima in International Business, David Sheng Chin-Chen in Finance, Emily Chu-Han-Go in Information Systems, Tan Hoa in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Jasmine Alexandra Lindsay in Management, Daniel John Murphy in Management, Thea Nika in International Business, Sawa Sabai-Muwang in Accounting, Maiam Tofiq Saleh in Operations and Supply Chain Management, To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours Second Division, Tasha Jia Yun-Gou in Commercial Law and a Bachelor of Commerce, Min Li in Marketing, Adele Kathleen Wright-Saint-Clair in Commercial Law, To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours, Uli Yu-Tung Wang in Management, To the degree of Master of Business Administration, Mamod Sayed Muhammad Abu-Talib, Michael Bernard Pavey-Uklund, Simon Bainbridge, Paul Robert Blue, Zachary David Burt, Gerard Andrew Ho-Sum Casey, Danny Siniao Chai, Charlie Yu-Ning Chen, Chun-Ho Samson Chung, Makenzie Cullis, Ross Nicholas Copeland, David Lang Elder, Graham John Gallagher and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Craig Alan Gillett, Tania Lynn Harvey, Grant Stevenson Henderson, Robert John Hunt, Mark Leonard Kaneko, Heather Dawn Mary Kelly, Suman Kumar Sashi-Denanda, Murthi Karidi, Shia Irku, Arjanis Lal, Gordon Robert Law, Mary Tisyola Laose, Matthew Leonard Maligan, Fiona Catherine Michelle, Brenda Mary Milbank, Anthony David Mills, Alistair James Graham Monk and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, David John Carol Morris, Taran Leanne Muir, Lisa Jane Norton, Jeffrey Brian Oakes, Daniel John Oliver, Adam Bruce Petton, Neil Punger, Alistair John Rackham, Michael Peter Rendell, Emma Francis Southwood, Sean Peter Stowers, William Vincent Thomas Tracy, Zinat Vazir, Matthew Anthony Vox, Wayne Carl Wilkie, Melanie Catherine Holly Wilson, Joanne Wright, Rangun Yu and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Shausi Yu, to the degree of Master of Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship, Craig Matthew Carpenter, Berger Victor Paula Dydex, Bruce William Douglas, Nicholas Stuart Glanfield, Nicholas Marlowe Hodson, Robert Jonathan Holmes, Waikent Lee, Hilary Ann Lewis, Yu-Jing Lee, Tahir Ahmed Mohamed Zafarela, Maheen Dumathar Moudonnaika, Nitin Prasad, Jason Philip Ransden, Dion James Shepherd, Rupak Sinha, Justin Paul Sweetman, Ning Zhu, to the degree of Master of Management, Avista Belas, Giles Rupert Hartley Cox, Mingfei Duang, Ji Geng, Nian He, Zi Yan He, Zhen Chao Chia, Faisinia Rose of Sharon Mafi, Yutamiki Xiangni, Meng Xiajin, Kong Chen, Yu Qi Shen, Yu Xin Su, Sudhan Subarayala, Dong Fang Wong, Zhong Robin Wong, Lu Wong, Yu Qian Wong, Fan Xu, Wei Xuan, Ke Yan, Mu Chan Yang, Si Yuan Yang, Jun Tao Yue, Shuo Feng Zhang, Wenwen Zhao, Xiao Fan Zhou, Ying Zhou, Boen Zhu, to the degree of Master of Professional Accounting, Ai Zhou, Raina Bano, Jing Chai, Juliana Suisu Chan, Jia Di Ding, Yu Zhou Fan, Jing Wen Feng, Li Jiafeng, Zhen Zhu Fu, Zi Wen Hu, Justin Joseph, Kuang Wan Kim, Jing Li, Meng Ying Li, Zhen Zhen Li, Yin Ru Liang, Ji Chuan Yong, Ru Zhe Xi, and Ru Jack Stuart, Sun Yao, Yin Teng, Hui Wong, Xiao Tong Wong, Jiang Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Khan Zhou Zhao, Xiao Yu Zhou, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies, with first-class honours, Michelle Robinson-Clair, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies, with second-class honours, first division, Connie Yooking Lu, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies, with second-class honours, second division, Selvendra Kuranesh Singh, to the degree of Master of Taxation Studies, Maunib Ahmed, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce. 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, Xiao Yin Bai in Information Systems, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce, with Merit in Information Systems, and a Graduate Diploma in Commerce. I am designed and implemented purposeful visualisation systems that can be used to create purpose-driven, context-sensitive, stakeholder-relevant, adaptive visualisations. Her research helps people turn their data into visual stories that inform, engage, enchant, and empower, and eventually achieve better support for decision-making. Nina Brocius and Marketing University doctoral scholar. Nina looked at how young consumers use familiar and unfamiliar branded products when living in a foreign country for a fixed period of time. Her work shows that certain branded products can provide connections to loved ones back home, while others may help with settling in and making friends in the new place of residence. Nina. Yuwei Shu in Information Systems. Yuwei examined repurchase behaviours in online auctions in New Zealand and Taiwan, looking at how buyers' repurchase intentions influence their repurchase behaviours. Her study also examined how service provision moderates the relationship between repurchase intentions and repurchase behaviours. Yuwei, congratulations. Dusan Ku in Information Systems University doctoral scholar. Container terminals play a pivotal role in completing global supply chains. Dusan studied the challenging problem of improving productivity and terminal logistics with a little additional investment. His breakthrough research was on a double-cycling strategy which enhances key crane utilisation, theoretical insights, computational algorithms, and practical solution approaches where the highlights of Dusan's thesis. Dusan, congratulations. Gregori Jubinikau in International Business University doctoral scholar. Gregori looked at how interdependencies influence competitive behaviour, focusing on interdependencies in terms of loan and deposit markets. While taking into account idiosyncratic competitive circumstances, he analysed banking organisations operating in the United States of America in the 2000s. Gregori. And in absentia, all those other persons named in the official record qualified for the conferment of a degree or the award of a diploma in the Faculty of Business and Economics. I now call upon the Chief Executive of Uni Services, Dr Andy Schenck, to present a fellow of the University of Auckland. Citation for the award of fellow of the University of Auckland to Scott Redfords Perkins. Scott Perkins is a graduate of the University of Auckland, having completed both a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of Commerce in 1988. He has had a distinguished career in the international corporate finance sector, most recently as Deutsche Bank's Head of Corporate Finance for Australia and New Zealand. Mr Perkins continues to serve the business community in both countries through a variety of senior corporate governance roles. The award of a University Fellowship recognises the outstanding support Mr Perkins has given to the university and its associated entities. Principal among these contributions is his 14 years of distinguished service as a member of the Board of Auckland Uni Services Limited, the university's research and commercialisation company, and now the leading organisation of its type in Australasia. During that period in which the company experienced initially rapid growth and then the challenges of reduced public and private sector investment and research following the global financial crisis, Mr Perkins has been a key member of the Board, leading many of the discussions around corporate strategy and financial management. As a corporate strategist, he is without parallel. Mr Perkins has thus been an important adviser to both of the chief executives during that period, doctors Peter Lee and myself. As well as to the Board, and he has helped the Board, the company, to build strategic external relationships on behalf of the Board. He has been a key figure in the company's success and therefore in the success of the university's research endeavours. Mr Perkins has also supported the university and its philanthropic activities. He has since 2005 funded the Louise Perkins Prize in Art History, established in the memory of his late wife. The Louise Perkins Prize makes a great difference to the student recipients, many of whom have gone on to significant achievements in the arts sector and also to the art history program in the Faculty of Arts. Importantly, the prize acknowledges the importance of arts at a time when much public policy is directed towards the sciences and economic development. Mr Perkins has also supported the vice-chancellor building relationships with potential donors in New Zealand and Australia and so contributed to the university's wider philanthropic activities. As universities around the world have been encouraged, some might say forced, to diversify their external relationships and revenue streams, the commercialisation of research and development of philanthropic support have become critical to their success. Mr Perkins has played a key role in supporting the university in both these activities and so has helped to lay a strong foundation for the future well-being of his alma mater. He deserves our gratitude and our recognition. Chancellor, university fellowships are awarded to those who make a unique and valuable contribution to the university. Scott Perkins' contribution has undoubtedly been both unique and valuable. Accordingly, I have the honour of presenting him to you for the award of a University of Auckland fellowship. We are now nearing the end of this graduation ceremony. On behalf of the university, I invite all today's graduates to stand and receive the congratulations of us all. And while they are standing, it will be a good time 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 conferment of degrees and the award of diplomas. I now invite you all to sing the first verse of God Defend New Zealand in Māori, then in English. The words are printed on the reverse of the programme.