 Welcome to this business and economics faculty of the University of Auckland. Our official proceedings will begin shortly. They will begin when your graduands will enter the auditorium and at that point you will be invited to stand. They will then be followed by the official party, which includes the academics who taught your students. As the official party enters, we invite you to join the singing of the traditional graduation song, Gaudi Amos. Please then take your seats when the Chancellor takes his seat. Very important message, if you're currently carrying a cell phone, please ensure it's either turned off or turned to silent. And whilst you're very welcome to take photos during the procession and during the ceremonies, please move back to your seat immediately so you don't obstruct anybody behind you. And please don't stand in the aisles to take photos. At the end of the ceremony, the Chancellor will invite the gathering to sing God Defend New Zealand with your new graduates. Please remain standing following the end of the anthem as the processions leave the auditorium. Once the last graduates have left, you'll also be invited to leave. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for your students. Enga mana, enga rai o, tena coto, tena coto, tena coto catoa. Vice Chancellor, pro Chancellor, council members, special guests, staff, graduands, family and friends of graduands. As Chancellor of the University of Auckland, I extend a warm welcome to you all on behalf of council members and staff of the university. In particular, I welcome our guest speaker, Dr Peter Raj Singh. I also acknowledge the recent passing of Dr Mehdi Mehdi Penfold, who was a long-term member of the University of Auckland staff, a distinguished Māori scholar, and for many years, a cuya at our graduation ceremonies. This is a meeting of the council of the University of Auckland for the purpose of conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. This week we will be conferring and awarding more than 6,572 qualifications on some 6,478 students in person and in absentia. At this ceremony, 464 students will graduate in person and 157 students will graduate in absentia. I will be assisted by Mr Peter Kiley, pro Chancellor. This is a happy and memorable occasion for you, the graduands, as well as your families and friends who have supported you during your studies. We congratulate you all. Equally, your achievement brings pleasure and satisfaction to the academic and professional staff of the university who have played their part in your success. Capping is a time for celebration. The graduation procession today brought academic flavour and colour to the streets of Auckland, and in this ceremony, you will experience the pomp and tradition befitting your well-deserved day of celebration. Over a period of 130 years, the University of Auckland has become a comprehensive research-led university with a strong international reputation. Today, there are more than 40,000 students and 5,000 staff. Moreover, we are New Zealand's largest research organisation with one-third of the country's externally rated world-class researchers. Within New Zealand, only our university is ranked within the top 1% of the world's universities. We also have a strong commitment to Māori education. Of all the Māori degree graduates in New Zealand each year, 25% come from just one institution, the University of Auckland. For Pacifica graduates, the number is closer to 40%. The quality and international reputation of the university are fundamentally driven by the achievements of its people, and last year was an exceptional one for our academic staff who won almost every form of recognition available to them in New Zealand. In July, Professor Alison Jones and Associate Professors Bryony James and Cather Simpson won National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching. These awards mean that for 11 of the past 12 years, our researchers have been recognised as amongst the very best in the country. In November, engineers distinguished Emeritus Professor John Boyes and Professor Grant Coveck won the Supreme Award at the Prime Minister's Science Prizes Awards for their work on inductive power transfer. Dr Ben O'Brien from the Auckland Bioengineering Institute won the McDiamond Emerging Scientist Prize for his groundbreaking work on artificial muscles. Dr Suzy Wiles from Molecular Medicine and Pathology won the Science Media Communication Prize. Our staff also excelled at the 2013 Royal Society of New Zealand Awards winning four major medals. The most notable was Distinguished Professor Dame Ann Salmond from Maori Studies winning the society's highest honour, the Rutherford Medal. This was awarded for her eminent work on Maori social structures and interactions within the European world and on European exploration in the Pacific. She was also named Kiwi Bank New Zealand of the Year for 2013. These achievements reflect the outstanding quality not only of our academic staff but also of the students who work with them and the many professional staff who support them. A key part of our challenge for the future and one that is clearly reflected in our strategic plan is to continue to invest in a community of highly accomplished staff and students. An important element of that investment is ensuring that our teaching facilities are of the highest quality. To this end, the Council completed in 2013 the purchase of the former Lion Brewery's site in Newmarket as the basis for a new campus which will be integrated with the city and Grafton campuses. At Newmarket, workers well underway on construction of the engineering research laboratories. These buildings represent an investment of approximately $88 million to support our engineering research and postgraduate teaching for the benefit of all New Zealand. We will occupy the first of these new facilities in July this year. Workers also began on the new science tower on the corner of Wellersley and Simon Streets. This major construction project represents an investment of more than $300 million. It will allow us to upgrade science teaching and research and integrate the School of Psychology and the School of Environment into the main science precinct. This will in turn free up the human sciences building for refurbishment as a centre of the arts faculty. Constant innovation is the cornerstone of a university such as ours. Innovative teaching and research is vital for long term sustainable economic growth of our country and social cohesion of our nation. This has never been more so in the testing times we face in the wake of the global recession, the Christchurch earthquakes and the yet to be defined effects of global warming. Universities equip graduates like you not simply for the jobs of today but for future careers not yet imagined in an ever changing world. So as you graduate today please reflect on the ongoing learning opportunities and consider the wide range of postgraduate options available to you at this university. Reflect on the changes in technology you have already experienced in your lifetime and remember that most of the technology you will use in your future working career has yet to be developed or commercialised. I ask you to do this because we can never rest on our laurels especially in a challenging and ever changing world. Whatever path you follow as you go out into the world 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. Funding constraints are a perennial problem for New Zealand universities who are being asked to do more and more with less and less each year. In fact we should be spending more on universities not less. So don't worry we will be in touch with you and when we do please lend us your support. But that is enough of the substantial issues facing us all as members of a 21st century university with high aspirations. Because today is your day with a focus firmly on your achievement. At this ceremony we will honour your success along with the support of your family, far now 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. It is indeed a pleasure for me to welcome this morning's guest speaker, a celebrated teacher, an international speaker and I'm proud to say a graduate of the University of Auckland. He is also the chair of the Friends of the University of Auckland in North America. Dr Peter Raj Singh sets an example for us all to follow. He was educated in New Zealand, finishing high school at Wanganui Collegiate and then graduating from the University of Auckland in 1986 when he was awarded the senior and annual prizes in politics. He has a PhD from the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York and has taught at New York University's Galliton School of Individualised Study since 1991. It is a tribute to his passion and drive that he has received four outstanding teaching awards from the university during his inspirational career. Peter is also annual visiting professor at the Nome Management School in Rem, France. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in finance, business ethics, social and political philosophy and US constitutional law, as well as interdisciplinary seminars focused on politics, philosophy and economics. He is a partner at alternative asset management firm in New York, co-founder of a media and entertainment startup and also serves on the boards of a number of private companies and charitable institutions. Welcome Peter, we're delighted to have you with us today. Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, members of the council, members of the university, graduands, families and friends. Kia ora koutu kato. Heartiest congratulations to our graduands, accomplished, celebrated, intelligent sparks of pure potentiality. It's an extraordinary honour and delight to be with you all today. Here in New Zealand, over 20 years since going to live in New York, I can't help but be moved by being back in this country and at this university, both of which played a deeply formative role that prepared me for many later challenges and opportunities. You can leave New Zealand, but New Zealand never leaves you. I'm sure you too will look back in years to come, as I constantly do, recalling your time at Auckland University is some of the most wonderful moments of your lives. With due credit to David Foster Wallace, from whom I've borrowed and adapted this, I'd like to share with you a little fable. Imagine two young native New Zealand birds chattering atop a beautiful potakawa tree. Their playful banter is abruptly cut short when an older relative, imagine an annoying uncle from Rotoraw or something like that, flies up and joins them. G'day fellas, he exclaims, how's the air up here? The young birds look at each other puzzled, and then one retorts to the other, what the heck is air? Let's reflect upon the message here. As we proceed through life, it's easy to begin taking things for granted. To become complacent and simply not perceive the stuff around us that enables us to live and breathe. When learning to fly, young birds must negotiate the critical relationship with air. But once the skill feels mastered, the relevance of the air in which birds swoop and swarm seems to fade into an inconsequence. I'd like to suggest to you that air for all of us here today is a worthy ongoing metaphor, and I'm going to stretch the metaphor throughout this talk. For one thing in New Zealand, where clean and fresh air is found in relative abundance, we often don't realise how precious a commodity air really is. But I'm interested in another interpretation of air. We can also consider that a first class tertiary education, such as the one we've been privileged to receive at Auckland University, is also a form of air. An elemental experience meant to continuously refresh and oxidinate the spirit. Education, like air, is something we must never disregard nor forget. In an age where everything tends to be commodified or treated instrumentally as a means to an end, we lose sight of significant aspects of what an education stands for, such as its relationship to contemplative, to the contemplative life of the mind, and the responsibilities that come with it. For the ancients this was a given. Education and intellectual virtue are ends in themselves and freighted with serious moral purpose. For this point too, birds provide important lessons. In their long migrations, birds fly in V or J formations, conserving energy by taking advantage of wind fields created when the wing motions of their fellows in front help propel the ones behind along. When those at the head of the formation tire, other birds take the lead, their actions helping others in the flock. The efforts of the leaders contributing to pulling along all the others. This image perhaps reflects part of the moral purpose of an education. It prescribes a duty to contribute positively, putting knowledge to work in a responsible way in the service, not only of ourselves but for the greater good. One of the misunderstandings that sometimes arises when you come from a small and airy country is the idea of not mattering. Of being irrelevant in the larger world. Here again we must remember our two young birds on top of the Potokawa tree. Air, that stuff in which we move, can simply never not concern us. We change our air by the way we navigate through it, creating various kinds of ripples and slipstreams. Whatever we do has relevance for the people around us and the broader society writ large. And so it is with how we choose to live, the goals we set and the purposes to which we dedicate ourselves. From the time of the great migration of the Maori to our terror, Kiwis have been venturing into unknown lands and excelling. This is an enduring national ethos. Consider notable New Zealanders, Edmund Hillary, Catherine Mansfield, Lord Ernest Rutherford, Kirito Kanawa, Graham Liggins, the list goes on and on. All these people were holding their own on the global stage. At the same time being geographically removed from global group think has distinct advantages. New Zealanders are possessed of a unique sense of proportion, practicality, creativity and common sense. It's imperative we never lose what's distinct and special about New Zealand and incumbent upon you, the future generation, to ensure that New Zealand does not allow itself to stray. By forgetting what is our air and thereby replicating dystopian social realities found elsewhere in the world. Untennable circumstances are commonplace, from dark social inequalities to massive indebtedness, political corruption, food and water insecurities, environmental degradation, all these things we know too much about. Those of you who become future leaders must try to develop more sustainable ways of being, both social, economic and political. Cognizant of how aspects in contemporary life have placed us upon a slippery slope. My connection to New Zealand was a lucky accident. At 15 I wanted to go away to boarding school and had never been to New Zealand, which was maybe part of the appeal. But ultimately I can probably credit coming here also on a bird. I was around six or seven when a Kiwi friend of my parents gave me a vinyl EP of Alwyn Owens, Pookie and the Bird Singing Contest. I don't know if any of you know it. This introduced me to the idea of New Zealand. I can't really remember much of the plot, but the song of the tui on the record, which went something like this, is still lodged in my mind. This random encounter with New Zealand birds turned into an education, and this carries a lesson for me. Life is as much about lucky coincidences and confluences as it is about purposeful effort and active agency. We must learn how to combine conscious effort with natural progression. Properly using your wings is important, but then there are air currents that come out of nowhere, which catch you and cause you to soar, gliding and ascending to heights you could never imagine. And all the while, as we travel, we must have an ongoing sense of gratitude for those things that are our air, their quality and buoyancy, literally and figuratively. We should also ever recognise and acknowledge the array of facts, some solidly positive, some bad even, that cannot be taken for granted or ignored. This is how we open ourselves up to concrete and abstract qualities that constitute our air, making and remaking ourselves in the existential flight called life. Before concluding, I'd like to share a quick piece of information. Make a note of a number. 09215 6754. It's for a place on Carangahapi Road where you can go to get your unwanted tattoos removed. Graduans, congratulations and please take this message to heart. Be vigilant and mindful and remember what is air. Fly high, lift those around you and land well. Thank you. Thank you, Peter, for a most challenging and insightful speech. Can I ask you to join with me again in thanking Peter for that address? This is a meeting of council and convocation of the university at which the pro-chanceler, Peter Keili, and I will be conferring degrees and awarding diplomas. I invite the pro-chanceler to award the diplomas and confer the degrees in the first half of the ceremony. The authority vested in me by resolution of the University of Auckland Council, I, Peter Keili, pro-chanceler, 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 Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, Professor Wong, to present graduands in that faculty. Pro-chanceler, as Deputy Dean, I have the honour of presenting to you the students qualified for the award of a diploma or conferment of a degree in the Faculty of Business and Economics. To the degree of Bachelor of Business and Information Management, Joshua David Adie, Jordan Michael Atkins, R.J. Christian Bellane, Argyll Abyss Bartolome, Senior Scholar Business and Economics, Linda Brock, Rohan Zubin Dalal, Joshua David Elder, Xiaoxiao Fan, Dayanel Anthea Almena Ginto, Emily Louise Hayden, Han Ho, Michelle Blair Hooper, Liesel Victoria Kallian, Crystal Rio Penel Lapis and a Graduate Diploma of Commerce, James Matthew Law, Lily Lee, Oliver Nils Warwick Marsh, Khan Sua Nyon, Afiani Douglas Oqpala, David Jonathan Perry, Dustin Sean Tanpinada, Anchita Sharma, Yu-Tung Shun, Lisa Jane Strong, Rebecca Susan Marie Van Alfost, Hailey Marie Watson, William Thomas Andrew Whelan, Christine Naira Mary Withington, Jonathan James Young, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, Abdul Sayez Abbas, Oliver James Agnew, Sue Jun-An, Faisal Ali, Ashayini Amarasingam, Roshan Anan, Arani Thulasi Anabaskaran, Nessa Anal, Ryan Latham Anderson, Dexter Fernandez Angelo, Julian John Hayes Ania, Sean Matthew Ansell, Akash Velkani-Sharian Anthony, Marvin Antonio, Matthew Alistair Thompson-Arbuckle, Holly Rebecca Armstrong, Francis Clétte-Arns, Scott Michael Ashby, Vivian Al, Vanye Babich, Sayed Fabud Badri, Minhun Bai, Sean Jin Bai, Benjamin Neil Bakalich, Ki Ying Bang, Carl Hamilton Barnhill, Eugene Olegovic, Basai Kin, Abul Khair Mohammed Muskeed-Bashiru, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Michael Boyer Ballingham, Jenna Marie Bentley, Olivia Christiana Bithio, Vimy Rysha Bagat, Abhiaf Medani, Madeleine Jean Byrd, Mayor Rose Irene Turey Burkett, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Bao Yeung Bong, Charles Dennis Bradley, Jean Robert Bradley, Brennan James Bramwell, Julia Kathleen Brown, Sam Robert Bryant, Jessica Joishi Chai, Jan Yeung Chai, Daryl James Kallenon, Kaitlin Louise Campbell, Jonathan Brian Campbell, Peter James Carpenter, Ashley Monique Castle, Cloran Ann Bayuga-Cattrell, Chris Peter Caddanach, Hamish Sinclair Chatterton, Amanda Chyman Chan, Chi Yor Chan, Ho Man Chan, Chan Le Ling, Kirti Komal Chan, Xiao Han Chan, Ji Song Chan, Xiao Hao Chan, Yun Ting Chan, Li Xuan Chao, Man Yu Chao, Chao Pui King, Bab Siok Chee, Ellen Woon Hee Chan, Hai Jo Chan, Hidi Chan, Jia Qian Chan, Jia Yu Chan, Ting Xuan Chan, Xiao Jia Qian, Yu Hua Qian, Yong Yun Chao, Bai O Choy, Hun Wun Choy, Yun Soob Choy, Andre Chukhairef, Colin Chung, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Randall Paul Clement, Elise Jane Collins, Chung San Yng, Christopher Ian Connor, Mai O'Roria O'Jarrio Corpus, Aidan Douglas Costello, Darren Michael Coyne, Justin Roland Cran, Edward Allen Styles Cran, Shane Quinton Crawford, Richard James Dalesi, Achal Ashmita Dutt, Cameron James Davis, Carl Anthony Dawson, Erangahashika Diabru, Andrew Philip Diboda, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Christian Tony Dupont, Zhi Zhi Dang, Jess Grant Singh Dutt, Hal Ching Dee, Marcia Mary Saviola Diaz, Qing Ding, Ian Mark Dilama, Logan John Dutt Driver, Debria Danielle De Souza, Ashley Kane Dufty, Priyanka Dutt, Sally Ann Agil, Denigianti Elizator, Saimi Iom, Netli Khasu Fakalogatoa, Joandie Funn, Hamas George Fanslow, Sena Fahin, Tessa Alan Fali, Ding Chi Fung, Anthony Vianni Finau, Equator Pascal Fittesimannu, Jamie Dominic Fitts, Cameron Paul Floodd, Gary Cameron Fonua, Alex Wong Foy, Morgan Alice Foy, Hayden James Doble Francis, Matthew Peter Francis, Felier Frey, Hannah Jane French, Ying Zhi Rachel Fung, Va Ying Gan, Chong Gao, Gary Keshore Gopati, Nicholas William Jinn, Yi Meigor, Rung Bangung, Bruce Leslie Goodall, Nicola Louise Goodson, Arti Achana Gounda, Shifali Goel, Cornelian Ming Grace, Louis Jefferson Granger, Darren Richard Gray, Laura Ann Greene, Matthew Lance Greene, Xian Gu, Yuan Yure Gu, Chong Gao, Rachel Alexandra Hedlow, Jack Fair Granville Hall, Ainsley Mary Ray Harrell, Chloe Usher Harry, Maggie Hur, Scott James Henderson, Centauru Shavendi Hiraf, Ashley Taylor Hill, Carl Vanelli Jr Hill Willis, Kevin Ho, Ryan Henry Hongyep Ho, Patrick William Hoban, Nicole Louise Hogarth, Charlotte Helen Holleya, Jessica Kelly Holmes, Yuan Ju Hong, Corey Ian Hooker, Xi Jie Hao, Shaquelson Hoxa, Johnny Ming Yin Su, Ken Ken Hu, Yan Ju Hu, Xiang Yun Wang, Jing Jing Wang, Kit Ying Wang, Peter Wang, Fahez Soheil Hussein, Kwa Deng Huyn, Jordan Alana Abel, Uzar Ilahi, Ia Meima Ioyani, Alana Chanel Jackson, Anna Lara Jackson, Matthew Ivor Jacobson, Jessica Elizabeth Jeffries, Nicholas Robson Jensen, Jun Hoot Jong, Albert Jong, Jia Jia, Jiang Huan, Hattel Kirit Javanji, a graduate diploma in commerce, Tristan Phillip Jo, Oliver Collin Johnson. 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. Hilary Hayes on Violin, accompanied by Bradley Wood, will now perform Pryludium and Allegro by Cresla. Thank you, Hilary and Bradley, for that. I also wish to congratulate Hilary, who won first place in the Graduation Gala Concert of Competition last evening in the Town Hall. Can you all join with me in thanking 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 Wittred, to present further graduands in that faculty. To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, Chelsea Lara Jones, Gareth James Edward Jones, Gary Stephen Joseph, Jonathan Joseph, Salil Pradeep Joshi, Gloria Janel Kham, Yng Ng Khan, Saifhwan Khan, Won Bin Kang, Yuli Kang, Dasheini Karupia Mohan, Fin Yudan Kasali, Caroline Astari-Kasmarah, Steffan Cuttich, Senior Scholar of Business and Economics, Michael Timothy Kelly, Craig Kenny, Christine Yewe Koo, Kasta Kala, Anna Kiddick, Bora Kim, Dayun Kim, Hong Kyu Kim, Nern Son Kim, Natalie Louise Kirch, Vitaly Kirilenko, Joshua Kirkwood, Kavasec Vishal Kishaw, Pei Yuko, Wei Liam Kong, Courtney Rachel Kosa, Amunpreet Khur, Ashitosvijaint Kumar, Priya Dasani Kumar, Sonam Swastika Kumar, Teijan Dananjaya Karupa, Mok Yinlai, Elliot Michael Lampotang, Huiling Selina Lam, Lisa Lam, Scott Michael Langdon, Scott Joseph Latham, Jun Young Lau, Liko Fritslau, Nicole Elizabeth McPherson-Lori, Elina Dmitrevna Lekchinskaya, Stephen Lee Chee Ket, Eleanor Lees, Michaela Claudette Luens, Elizabeth Joy Lewis, To the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Conjoint, Sahil Arora and a Bachelor of Science, Boris Babic and a Bachelor of Property, Svetlana Beliek and a Bachelor of Arts, Julia Rose Boyle and a Bachelor of Arts, Nicola Louise Carroll and a Bachelor of Arts, Ilim Chan and a Bachelor of Science, Bradley Dean Chimali and a Bachelor of Property, Stephen Fanjo Chen and a Bachelor of Property, Yuhui Chen and a Bachelor of Property, Longyu Sebastian Chung and a Bachelor of Arts, Patrick William James Chiles and a Bachelor of Arts, Rebecca Elizabeth Clark and a Bachelor of Arts, Helen Patricia Collins and a Bachelor of Arts, Nicholas Lawrence Cullinane and a Bachelor of Arts, Meggy Ellen Davison and a Bachelor of Arts, C. Yuan Ding and a Bachelor of Health Sciences, Ivana Drincovic and a Bachelor of Arts, Robert James Faye and a Bachelor of Arts, Andrew James Peter Forshaw and a Bachelor of Science, Rachel Amy Gabriel and a Bachelor of Arts, Senior Scholar, Business and Economics, Melissa Claire Goffin and a Bachelor of Arts, Dhruf Gomba and a Bachelor of Science, Catherine Francis Graham and a Bachelor of Science, Joyce Zumeho and a Bachelor of Science, Sarah Jane Hodgkinson and a Bachelor of Arts, John Ting Kelly Huang and a Bachelor of Arts, Nita Yashrani and a Bachelor of Arts, Hediyokandadji Therome Judith Jayasinger and a Bachelor of Arts, Stephen Edward Jordan and a Bachelor of Arts, Gahad Joseph and a Bachelor of Arts, Biljyn Darjeet Coor and a Bachelor of Arts, Anna Kathleen Kempkez and a Bachelor of Arts, Mario Christeve and a Bachelor of Science, Waileng Coor and a Bachelor of Science, Judy Pui Yanlong and a Bachelor of Arts, Hinsan Li and a Bachelor of Property, Yan Yun Li and a Bachelor of Arts, Xia Wen Lo and a Bachelor of Arts, Pauline Pui Yin-Lui and a Bachelor of Arts, Shihwa Luk and a Bachelor of Arts, Postgraduate Diploma in Business, Ali Babayee in Administration, Priscilla Edward Brito Pereira in Administration, Donna Marie Afracamble in Administration, Xian Ni Chen in Administration, Justine Amy Davies in Administration, Gary Bertram Gonsalves in Administration, Daria Grigiova in Administration, Haley Jane Gribble in Administration, Pavneet Grover in Administration, Dane Charles Guttenbale in Administration, Reynal Mary Hug in Administration, Sarah Grace Pennington Ibs in Administration, Jason Andrew Isaacs in Administration, Farwes Jabur in Administration, Ruth Jaeger in Administration, Vikas Jane in Administration, Carl Wayne Jones in Administration, Johnson Chun-Sin Lau in Administration, Ruth Marlowe in Administration, Michael Joseph Matheson in Administration, Annette Marie McAnche in Administration, Damien Taylor Mokoraka in Administration, Derek Bart Pepesh in Administration, Jeremy Nicholas Parsons in Administration, Jonathan Robert James Payne in Administration, Artie Rotham in Administration, Glen Darrell Roberts in Administration, Franklin Andalicio-Savaidra in Administration, Samir Saxena in Administration, Damendra Singh in Administration, Mark Elgurdas in Administration, Tanya Nicole Smith in Administration, Raymond James Stone in Administration, Stephen James Troughton in Administration, Mark Hendrick Van Swet in Administration, Zhu Kang-Wong in Administration, Gordon Francis Wiffen in Administration, Zhenyu Chao in Administration, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with First Class Honours, Elbit and Kiri Wang in Finance, James Edward Brooker in Finance, University Graduate Scholar, Julie J. Lynn Chow in Finance, Kenny Ka-Yin Chan in Accounting, Yi Lang Chan in Accounting, Mahesh Chagan in Finance and the Bachelor of Commerce Bachelor of Science Conjoint, Jin Yong Choi in Marketing, Ian Robert Clatworthy in Accounting, Jessica Joy Cribbins in Marketing, Graham Peter Debney in Management, Andrew James Dodge in Marketing, Alice Amanda Fall in Marketing, Joyce Yingfei Guan in Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce, Aileen Hu in Accounting and a Bachelor of Commerce, Benjamin David E. Nevalie in Accounting, Benjamin Stanton-Kyley in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, Julie Kim in Operations and Supply Chain Management and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jeho Kwan in Accounting, Alexandra Fredrick Leslie Lee-Ben in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Commerce, Diane Perfium Christian Lavellula Amu in Management, Yun Jong Lee in Accounting, Larissa Luchman in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours First Division, Pauline Delos-Rays-Edviento in International Business and a Bachelor of Commerce, Chio Yun An in Marketing, Daniel Mark Aldridge in Commercial Law and a Bachelor of Commerce, Elizabeth Anne Bond in Information Systems and a Bachelor of Commerce, Xi Sao in Accounting, Anna Dodoka in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce, Fu Dong-Gao Economics, Owen Luke Isaacson in International Business, Matthew Johnson in Marketing, Aaron Richard-Krebs in Economics, Alice Yin-Nor-Lum in Finance, Sung Yun Lee in Marketing and a Bachelor of Commerce, to the degree of Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours Second Division, Andrew Hilton-Godechgy in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, Lily He in International Business, Nino Tamaraz in Anishvili in Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce, Jia Yeo Kim in Marketing and a Bachelor of Commerce, Wei Cheng Lian in Economics, to the degree of Master of Business Administration, Lyndon Wallace Finlayson Bain, Marcus Terence Gordon Bosch, Andrew Jonathan Boyes, Emma Louise Brooks, David John Bryant, Aitong Chan, Vanit Balsavish Chwahan, Nicola Jan Cheesman, Joanne Yu Chen, Catherine Nancy Grace Churcher, Jody Louise Cottle, Jason Robert Cox, Paul DeQuaster Neatt, Timothy Warnock-Dipros, Eunar Robyn Diver, Andrew Christopher Ewans, Scott Ronald Fenton, Hashim Joanne Chwa and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Joanna Margolatsa, Yash Chemska, Fiona Barbara Kingsford, Fergus Leonhawk Lee, Elizabeth Margaret Lindsay and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Wendy Mary Mainwearing, Paul Anthony Matthews, Matthew George Mays, Diane Victoria Micatea, Gary Christopher McElvainer, Gavin Keith Peebles, Marcus Julian Pillay, Jonathan David Rhodes, Jessica Marie Seymark, Wei Ong Seat, Richard Bryan William Seymour Wright, Sneha Savothamthshetty, Giuseppe Simonetta, Sashi Sajiv Singh, Paul James Smith, Sharmasukul, Murray Charles Taylor, Catherine Louise Tyler and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration, Lyndon Jan Basie, Neil George Watson, Julianne Wilson. To the Degree of Master of Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship, Michael David Eagleson, Graham Robert Finch, Jim Mikael Carl-Fredrick Lawrenceon, Barbara McCardle, Owen O'Sullivan, Dimas Simon Segovia Munoz. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies with First Class Honours, Natasha Cheryl Delamore, Daniel John Hicks, Kailin Isabel Sinemoi Naik Leong, Christina Kiri Wirihana. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies with Second Class Honours First Division, Kwok Yi Gloria Chung, Gung Jerry Dong, Kay Patricia Highland, Alistair Bruce Marsh, Samar Pant and a Bachelor of Commerce Honours with Second Class Honours First Division in Commercial Law. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies with Second Class Honours Second Division, Sachin Beldiv Kumar Modgill, Donna Gale Vincent. To the Degree of Master of Taxation Studies, Myong Hee Choi. 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, Azu Atik and Information Systems. Azu investigated the design and provision of technology-enabled services that led to the development of a collaborative service system design model. This empirically constructed model stresses the seamless inclusion of consumers in the design of technology-enabled services. Rosalind Francis Bosworth in Management University doctoral scholar. Rosalind investigated innovation dynamics and practices of firm successful in the development of groundbreaking environmental and sustainable innovations. A dynamic business innovation model was developed for use by companies and industry practitioners as a means of enhancing the environmental sustainability of business innovations. Amabel Jai Hunting and Marketing University doctoral scholar. Amabel explored what it means for urban-based consumers to live sustainably in New Zealand. In absentia, all those other persons named in the official record qualified for the confirmative degree or the award of a diploma in the Faculty of Business and Economics. Teaching excellence awards. University places considerable significance on excellence in teaching. It recognises this by making awards each year to teachers who have demonstrated excellence in aspects of teaching. These awards are contestable across the university and signify a truly superior achievement. An award for innovation in teaching has been made to Dr Charlotte Wendell in the Department of Marketing within the Faculty of Business Economics. I call upon a student of that faculty, Isabelle Monk, to read the citation for Dr Wendell. Dr Charlotte Wendell is a passionate and engaging teacher with a contagious enthusiasm for learning and for design thinking. She goes above and beyond expectations in her work and is a very worthy recipient of this award. I am speaking today on behalf of the students of Lottar's undergraduate course, Services Marketing and Management. A course which she has led since 2011. There are many things which make Lottar stand out as a teacher. She has a non-traditional approach to content delivery which we as students enjoyed. Lottar's vision is to inspire and encourage students to think and act without telling them what to think and how to act. At the start of the course she said to us, I want you to be like young children, question everything and keep asking why. Lottar teaches by showing the students where to look but not what to see. She encouraged us to be active learners learning from doing, trying, failing, making improvements. Her students come away prepared with skills for work outside of university. We will need to be able to deal with change and uncertainty. Lottar is highly engaged with her students and this was a common theme in student feedback from the course. Lottar went through the struggles and the successes of our design challenge projects with us. In the classroom, Lottar is not only a teacher, she is also learning alongside her students. She constantly looks for ways to improve the course, seeking feedback from students all the time and even making changes within the semester. Personally, I gained a huge amount from this course and Lottar is a real inspiration for me. The award for teaching excellence is a fantastic recognition of Lottar's hard work. I congratulate her on this achievement. We are nearing the conclusion of the formal part of the ceremony. On behalf of the university I invite all today's graduates to stand and receive the congratulations of us all. And while you are still standing, this would 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. Thank you. 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 to fair New Zealand in Māori, then in English. The words are printed on the reverse of your programme.