Sir Paul Reeves
Chair for the PSSM 2002 conference

Sir Paul is a priest and bishop of the Anglican Church, who having accepted the invitation to be Governor General in 1985 began a circuitous route that led to New York for three years, observing elections in South Africa and Ghana, reviewing the post 1988 coups constitution of Fiji, positions at the University of Auckland and, currently, the Auckland University of Technology.

Sir Paul chairs the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust and will chair the yet to be established Bioethics Council. He also heads a working party of the Human Rights Commission investigating the relationship between the Treaty of Waitangi and international human rights instruments. Sir Paul belongs to the Puketapu hapu of Te Atiawa and is a trustee of the Wellington Tenths Trust, which is awaiting with interest the report of the Waitangi Tribunal on the Port Nicholson Block claim.

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