Te Whānau

Aaron is a Professor in Finance and HOD, Finance. He graduated with a PhD from AUT in 2007. He researches empirical finance, with a particular interest in regulation, market microstructure and the area of financial capability. He is currently researching how individuals can make smarter financial decisions to build long-term financial wellbeing.

Ella teaches in International Business, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, and is Director of Māori Advancement for Business, with research on Māori Indigenous business and development. Ella was born in Kaitaia, but raised in Auckland, unapologetically loud and proud, mother of three wāhine ataahua. In 2022 Ella was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Khylee Quince was in 2021 appointed the first Māori Dean of a School of Law in New Zealand. She is also Director of Māori Advancement for the Law School, and her teaching and research interests include criminal law, youth justice and Māori legal issues.

Megan was born and raised in Auckland. She is a senior lecturer in the Marketing department who is currently on the Te Reo Māori journey. Megan enjoys active relaxing, extreme sports, marathon running and her very adorable kurī, Chet.

Peter is a pāpā of two wonderful tamariki, both of whom think they know more about everything than he does. Peter has always been fascinated by philosophy and religion, and consequently teaches and researches in the areas of business ethics, sustainability and spirituality in the workplace.

Nimbus was born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau. She is māma to three young kotiro ataahua, a senior lecturer in management and a member of the K.I.N. network. Her research interests relate to the nuances and complexities of Indigeneity, gender and diversity in the workplace. In 2021, Nimbus was awarded a Marsden Fast-Start Grant for her project He huarahi mo ngā wāhine Maori: Career sense-making among Māori women, and also won the Māori and Pacific research Category of the NZ Business Research Translation Competition.

I am māmā to a very opinionated toddler, treasurer of her kōhanga reo and captain of a social indoor netball team. I am a lecturer in the Management department, and a member of the K.I.N. network. In 2022, Amber, Dr Billy Lythberg and Dame Anne Salmond edited He Whenua Rangatirua, the work of Dr Manuka Henare, a great ethnohistorian who left us in 2021.

Paulette Brazzale grew up in the Wairarapa and Manawatu and now calls Tāmaki Makaurau home. Paulette worked as a food technologist and manager before becoming an organisational psychologist, currently furthering in interest in employees' experiences of change at work through her PhD research. PhD completed in 2022.

Layne is an artist and legal expert, whose PhD focused on socio-legal performance. She was previously a Learning Advisor with AUT.

Kristie was born in Tāmaki Makaurau, is mama to a teen daughter, and works in research development management in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law Faculty Office. She is studying towards a Master of Business (Management), undertaking research on unions and employee wellbeing. Kristie is also branch and national executive member of the Tertiary Institutes Allied Staff Association (TIASA Te Hononga).

Daysha is the Kaiwhakahaere (Coordinator) of the Tuakana Teina Peer Tutors. Daysha is also a PhD student in International Business, Strategy and Entrepreneurship (IBSE).

Paula Ioapo is a mother of five tamariki, and grandmother to three mokopuna, studying in her third year of a Bachelor of Laws. Paula was previously a Te Reo Māori high school teacher and business owner.

Mel is in the final semester of her Bachelor of Laws. She is passionate about Māori legal issues, non-adversarial justice, international human rights, and the Family Court. Mel is a volunteer at Community Law, South Auckland. Her interests are spending time with her son and travelling to the Far North.

Lance completed his undergraduate law degree at the University of Auckland before doing his Master of Laws specialising in criminal law at AUT (because all the best criminal law teachers in the country ended up at AUT). He is planning to commence a PhD later in 2023.

Te Haua studies a Bachelor of Business in Information Systems, with a Māori Development minor. He also serves as Moana Nui Tumuaki in our newly established Māori and Pacific business club.

Daysha is a mother of two, and is enrolled in her PhD in International Business, Strategy and Entrepreneurship (IBSE), studying the impacts of healthy food havens for Māori and Pacific whānau in Manukau. Daysha was an IBSE Master’s Top Graduate in 2019, and AUT Venture Fund Runner-Up in 2016.

Tania is a PhD student in Management exploring evaluation strategies emerging from Māori and Indigenous philosophical worldviews. PhD submitted in 2023. See her profile on LinkedIn