Aroha Te Pareake Mead, (NZ)
Chair CEESP, Co-Chair TCC
Aroha Te Pareake Mead is from the Ngati Awa and Ngati Porou tribes (Maori) of Aotearoa, New Zealand.She has served two terms on the IUCN Council, 2000-2008 and one term as Co-Chair of the Theme on Culture & Conservation. She has been involved in indigenous cultural and intellectual property and environmental issues for over 30 years at tribal, national, Pacific regional and international levels. Currently a Senior Lecturer in Maori Business, Treaty of Waitangi, Maori Resource Management and Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property issues at Victoria University of Wellington's School of Management and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Aroha previously worked as the National Policy Director for Te Tau Ihu o Nga Wananga - the National Secretariat for the three Maori/tribal universities Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi, Te Wananga o Aotearoa, and Te Wananga o Raukawa, and before that she held managerial positions in Te Puni Kokiri, the Ministry of Maori Development. She lead the organization of the Conference that developed the 1993 Mataatua Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the 1994 Roundtable of Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination, and the 6th International Conference of Ethnobiologists as well as numerous, national, regional and international conferences on traditional knowledge, cultural and intellectual property rights, biodiversity and genetic resources.
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