 | David Carson-Parker (Wellington) has been involved with the establishment and implementation of numerous arts related projects. David received an Honorary Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts from the Whitecliff School of Art and Design. His interest in craft led him to become President of both the New Zealand Society of Potters and the New Zealand Crafts Council. He was Associate Producer of Utu (landmark New Zealand film) and is past Chairman of the New Zealand Printmakers Council; a Member of Downstage Trust Board; Founding Director and Chairman of the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra and a Trustee of the NZ International Festival of the Arts, New Zealand National Youth Choir and the Adam Foundation along with an involvement with many other arts organisations
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 | Dr Robin Congreve (Auckland) is a well-known patron of the arts. Robin and his wife Erika have made substantial donations over the years to arts and cultural facilities. Along with fellow arts patron Jenny Gibbs, Robin and Erika established and are principal donors of the Walters Prize for contemporary art in Auckland. They are members of the International Councils of the Musem of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Gallery, London. Robin was on the Founding Board of The Institute for Philanthropy at University College in London.
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 | Elizabeth Knox ONZM (Wellington) is the author of three short novels (published together as The High Jump) and ten other novels. The Vintner's Luck was the winner of New Zealand's most prestigious literary prize, the Montana Book Awards' Deutz medal for fiction, and the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. It is published in nine languages, and has also been made into a feature film. Elizabeth's books for young adults, Dreamhunter, won the 2006 Esther Glen Medal while Dreamquake, 2007, was a Michael L Printz Honor book for 2008 and, in the same year, was named an American Library Association best book. Elizabeth was made an Officer of the New Zealand order of Merit in the 2002 New Zealand Queen's Birthday Honours. And in 2009 she won the artist category in the Wellingtonian of the Year Awards.
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 | Jonathan Mane-Wheoki (Auckland/Wellington) has an extensive knowledge of New Zealand art across many genres. Of Ngā-puhi and English descent, Jonathan has held the positions of Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Canterbury University; Kaitiaki Māori (Honorary Curator of Māori Art) at the Christchurch Art Gallery; and Director of Art and Collection Services at Te Papa Tongarewa. He has been active in developing exhibitions and presenting lectures and seminars on art, museums, heritage, and cultural topics both nationally and internationally and has stood on numerous national and international bodies. Jonathan is currently Professor of Fine Arts and Head of Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.and is on the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Board of Trustees.
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 | John McCormack (Auckland) has held a number of senior positions in the arts, including Executive Director, New Zealand Art Gallery Directors Council; Visual Arts Manager and Director Arts Development Unit, QE II Arts Council of New Zealand; Director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Dunedin Public Art Gallery and the Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin and Associate Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Chair, Museum Directors' Federation of New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Chair of Artspace, Auckland. John is a founding director of Starkwhite - an Auckland-based company working in the creative industry sector, with a contemporary art space at the heart of its operations.
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 | Helen Medlyn (Auckland) is a singer who has the ability to move effortlessly between musical worlds - from cool jazz to classic opera. From playing Fräulein Schneider in the Auckland Theatre Company's season of Cabaret, to singing Messiah with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the Sydney Opera House, to taking the 'trouser' role of Prince Orlovsky in the National Business Review New Zealand Opera season of Die Fledermaus, Helen does it all. Helen is established as a regular guest artist with opera companies and orchestras throughout Australasia, Asia, America and Britain and is rated among this country's finest dramatic singers and gains critical acclaim for her distinctive performances
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 | Justin Paton (Christchurch) is Senior Curator at the Christchurch Cit Gallery He was previously Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Justin is a widely published art critic. His acclaimed survey of the painter Jeffrey Harris was a finalist in the 2006 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Illustrative Section, and his book How to Look at a Painting was the winner in the Lifestyle and Contemporary Culture Category of the same Awards. The book is to become a 12-part series on Television New Zealand, fronted by Justin himself.
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 | Gaylene Preston ONZM (Wellington) is an award winning independent filmmaker, whose films have a distinctive New Zealand flavour. Many of her feature films are considered to be New Zealand Classics including Mr Wrong, Ruby and Rata, Bread & Roses and War Stories our Mothers Never Told Us, all produced by Preston with Producer, Robin Laing. Gaylene has served on the Executive of the Independent Producers and Directors Guild, the Board of the New Zealand Film Commission, The NZ Film Archive and New Zealand on Air. She also Chaired the NZ Film and Television Awards Society in addition to raising a family and making films. She has been a strong advocate of equality within the industry and has been an inspirational role model for many young women film makers. Her forthcoming feature film, Home by Christmas is scheduled for NZ cinemas in April 2010. Gaylene Preston has been made an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for her services to film making
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 | Deirdre Tarrant MNZM (Wellington) is Company Director and founder of Footnote Dance, a national contemporary dance company. She is a choreographer, teacher, Vocational examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance and has her own studios in Wellington. She has taken many roles working with dance organisations in New Zealand at both local and national level. She was made a Distinguished Alumni of Victoria University in the inaugural awards in 2007.
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 | Marilynn Webb ONZM (Dunedin) is an artist and art educator, who had international stature as a printmaker early in her career. She is of Nga Puhi, English and Welsh descent. Marilynn has had an extensive teaching career and has been involved in over 180 national exhibitions and over 35 curated exhibitions/symposiums. She has received many national and international awards. Marilynn has maintained an art career in tandem with mostly full-time teaching and has taught nearly all the emerging print artists in Otago. She currently holds the position of Emeritus Principal Lecturerer, Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
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 | Dame Gillian Whitehead MNZM, DCNZM (Dunedin) is a prolific composer whose output includes operatic, choral, orchestral, vocal and instrumental chamber and solo pieces, with some works involving taonga puoro. One of five inaugural Arts Foundation Laureates, she was awarded a D.Mus. (honoris causa) by Victoria University of Wellington and the KBB Citation for Services to NZ Music. In 1999 Gillian was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit and in 2009 she became a DCNZM for services to music. Gillian is on the Board of SOUNZ (The Centre for New Zealand Music) and is the Patron of the John and Anna Caselberg Trust.
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 | Dr Lloyd Williams (Auckland) is a highly experienced arts manager, an accomplished musician and a passionate supporter of the arts. Lloyd managed the Auckland Philharmonia, and is now is a member of the executive committee of Arts Advocates in Auckland, Director of the MA programme in Arts Administration at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, and a Trustee of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition. Lloyd was awarded his PhD, on the organisational structure of symphony orchestras, in early 2009. He is Chair of the Board SOUNZ (the Centre for New Zealand music).
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 | Dr Rodney Wilson CNZM (Banks Peninsular, Canterbury) retired in 2007 from his position as Director of the Auckland Museum, a position he held for 13 years. He was Founding Director of the New Zealand National Maritime Museum, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the Auckland City Art Gallery and the Robert McDougall Art Gallery in Christchurch and was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury. He now provides cultural and heritage consultancy services through his company Site Specific: Rodney Wilson Associates.
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