Michael Wintringham
State Services Commissioner

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Michael Wintringham was appointed State Services Commissioner in May 1997 and reappointed for a further two years in May 2002.

Prior to his appointment, Mr Wintringham was the Chief Executive of the Ministry of Housing.

He has held a number of senior positions in both the public and private sectors. He was Assistant Auditor-General, responsible for the central government and education sectors, for three years from 1993 to 1996.

As a senior officer in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, he was responsible for coordinating the major restructuring of the health system undertaken by the Government in the early 1990s.

Mr Wintringham began his Public Service career in 1970 in the Treasury. He worked there for the next 16 years, apart from a four year secondment as Economic Counsellor at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington DC. In the late 1980s Mr Wintringham left the Public Service to take up a position with Hay Management Consultants, becoming Director of Hay's Wellington Office in 1988.

Mr Wintringham was born in 1947, grew up in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, and is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington.

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