John is a Principal Kaiwhakatere in the Beca Māori Advisory Business – Te Ahi Tūtata. Of Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and Pākeha descent and with over 20 years of experience in a range of leadership roles, John is passionate about weaving Te Ao Māori into the projects Beca helps deliver.

John is a Principal Kaiwhakatere in the Beca Māori Advisory Business – Te Ahi Tūtata. With over 20 years of experience in a range of leadership roles. With a farming background close to climate impacts John remains as passionate as ever about weaving Te Ao Māori both into Beca’s culture and the projects Beca helps deliver. Of Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and Pākeha descent John is an advocate of mātauranga alongside western based science models to meet the challenges of climate adaptation. For John mātauranga sits at the hapū, the Marae. It is with those people that live and breath an intrinsic understanding of adaptation with, and not in conflict with te Taiao. Once the expertise is acknowledged the powerful changes needed in our society can occur. John sits on the Beca NZ Ltd Board as a Director and on a number of external bodies and actively shares his thoughts and passion for industry growth in Te Ao Māori through podcasts and other forums.

Robbie Richardson is a hapū researcher from Ngāti Parewahawaha. Robbie is the lead researcher as the claimant for WAI113a Waitangi Claims for Ngāti Parewahawaha. She specialises in research concerning Rongoā Māori (Traditional Māori Healing systems), Papakāinga, Iindigenous disaster management and risk reduction. Robbie is in her final stages of her Professional Doctorate through Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Whakatāne, New Zealand. Dr Suzanne Phibbs (Kāi Tahu) is a Māori health sociologist and senior lecturer in public health in the School of Health Sciences at Massey University. Suzanne has published extensively in the field of disasters and is an expert on Sociological and Kaupapa Māori research methodologies, Māori community resilience, disaster risk reduction, response and recovery

A member of the Ngāti Haka-Patuheuheu tribe Recipient and Graduand of the Ki te Whare Tū Tonu, ki te Whare Manawaroa Research Scholarship towards a Masters in Applied indigenous Knowledge hosted through the He Waka Hiringa Masters programme, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

Member of the Ngāti Haka and Patuheuheu tribe.