Council
Meet the Members of New Zealand Geographical Society's Council
President - Professor Tony Binns,
Tony brings to NZGS his earlier experience as President of the large teacher oriented Geographical Association, UK, and active involvement in the New Zealand geography and development studies communities. He is especially interested in institution building in the education and community spheres in developed and developing countries. He is also currently President of the commonwealth Geographical Bureau (2009-12).
Past President - Peter Holland
Peter Holland is the past President of New Zealand Geographical Society Inc. His term began on 1 January 2003 and ended on 31 December 2005
Vice-President - Professor John Overton 
School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
John has a long association with NZGS throught the Canterbury, Massey and Wellington branches. He was recently a co-organiser of NZGS 2008 conference on the theme "Geography Across the Divide: Inequality, Sustainability and Policy". At Massey University he was Director of the School of People Environment and Planning.
Secretary - Dr Maria Borovnik
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ol of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University
Maria's main research area involves transnationalism and the social strategies of migrants and people living mobile livelihoods, such as seafarers. She is particularly interested in how family connections can be sustained and how people's integration in communities is affected. Recently Maria has focused on the social well being of people in the Pacific, and policies surrounding social welfare.
Treasurer - Dr David Hayward,
School of Environment, University of Auckland
David is Associate Director (Academic) in the School of Environment, University of Auckland and has an overview of undergraduate pathways in the New Zealand university system. He is currently leading a module on the global economy in the Association of American Geographers funded Centre for Global Geographical Education.
Chair, Managing Editor - Associate Professor Etienne Nel,
Department of Geography, Otago University
As Managing Editor, Etienne oversees a team of four editors supporting the New Zealand Geographer, the Society's journal with Wiley-Blackwell. In addition to his role with the New Zealand Geographer he is an Editorial Board member of the Journals: Applied Geography, Local Economy and the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. He currently chairs the International Geographic Union’s Commission on Marginalization, Globalization and Local and Regional Response (C 04-27).
Chair, NZBoGT - Annette Lanigan, 
St Mary's Wellington
Annette has been a member of the New Zealand Board of Geography Teachers for many years, as the representative for the Wellington Region. For the last five years she has held the post of Chair of the Board and has just been elected for a sixth year.
Auckland - Nick Lewis
Waikato - Associate Professor Lex Chalmers,
Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning, Waikato University
Lex's research interests are geographical education, rural change, remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems. He is Chair of the influential International Geographical Union Commission on "Geographical Education" and has a long association with the New Zeland Board of Geography Teachers. Lex is Chair of the Organising Committee for the NZGS Conference on Repositioning Geography, at the University of Waikato, 21 - 23 January, 2010.
Manawatu - Mike Roche
Michael Roche hails originally from Ashburton and attended the University of Canterbury specialising in historical geography. His first contact with the New Zealand Geographical Society was through attendance at the Canterbury Branch's 'Junior Geographical Society' meetings that took the form of a series of lectures for secondary school students. He still has vague memories from the early 1970s of Ron Johnston lecturing a full hall about the proposed 'new town' at Rolleston. He joined the society as a graduate student and has attended most of the conferences of the society since then.
Wellington - Linda Singh
Linda is a Geography teacher at Newlands College, Wellington.
Canterbury - Vaughan Wood
Otago - Peter Holland
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