Rural leader Jessie Chan has been appointed as an independent director.
Jessie Chan.
Prominent rural leader Jessie Chan has been appointed as an independent director to the NZ Pork board.
Chan, who lives in Rakaia in mid-Canterbury, has an honours degree in animal science and wide-ranging experience in central government, local government, non-profit, and commercial organisations.
She is chair of Ruralco Ltd, serves on the board of Bioprotection Aotearoa, and is a trustee of Meat the Need. Chan was previously on the boards of Ngāi Tahu Farming, Alpine Energy, Connetics, Business Mid Canterbury, and Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury. She was also an associate director with DairyNZ.
Chan became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit this year, for services to dairy and agriculture.
She has completed the Fonterra Governance Development Programme and Stanford University’s Te Hono Bootcamp. She was named Dairy Woman of the Year in 2017 and received the Women in Governance Award for Inspiring Governance Leader in 2021.
She said she was excited to be joining the NZ Pork board.
“New Zealand’s pork sector is a small but proud industry with a strong environmental record. It is important to ensure the sector can thrive and pig farmers can continue to provide nutritious high-quality New Zealand-born and raised pork, farmed to high welfare standards.”
Meanwhile, former National Party MP and Deputy Speaker Eric Roy has been reappointed as an independent director and chair of NZ Pork.
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