Mayor, Wayne Brown

The Mayor of Auckland, elected in October 2022. 
Wayne Brown is a qualified engineer and businessman. He qualified as an Engineer at the University of Auckland. He was board chair of Vector and then Transpower. He is a former chair of the Northland and Auckland District Health Boards, in Auckland he oversaw the completion of the $500 million Auckland City Hospital project on time and on budget. Brown was a two-term Mayor of the Far North District Council. He was also the founding chair of Kordia and a director of Brown & Thomson Consulting Engineers, CableTalk, TVNZ, and Māori TV, among other companies. He is the author of a book, “The Five-Minute MBA” (2007). 
In his spare time, Brown is a keen surfer and feels passionate about the marine environment. He is a patron of the Sea Cleaners Charitable Trust, a non-profit organisation working to preserve New Zealand’s coastline.

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