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Tony Gray | Acting Chair

Tony Gray has had a career in education spanning over 37 years across New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Tony is a former Chief Executive of NMIT and Ara Institute of Technology.

He is currently the Chief Executive of Nelson Tasman Hospice Trust. His governance portfolio includes Chair of the Tertiary Accord of New Zealand, where he worked towards establishing a shared online learning platform across member institutes. In 2023, Tony was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to education.

Daniel Wilson | Board Member

Daniel Wilson started his career in Auckland as a music teacher. After positions at several schools in Auckland and London, Daniel was appointed to the Leadership team at Manurewa High School in 2007, firstly as Deputy, then Associate Principal.

In 2015, Daniel moved to Nelson to take up the position of Principal at Nayland College. Daniel has extensive knowledge of international education from a secondary perspective, with Nayland College hosting approximately 80 international students from around the globe in 2020. Daniel also has a very good understanding of a range of markets and marketing approaches, having overseen a 40% increase in international numbers since joining Nayland College.

As well as leading Nayland College, Daniel is also the Lead Principal and Governance Chairperson for the Top of the South Trades Academy. He has also acted as a Regional Engagement Lead for the recent National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) review. Over the years Daniel has, and continues to work with various national and regional advisory groups. In his spare time Daniel is an accomplished brass musician, playing trombone in a variety of musical groups around Nelson and serving as President of Nelson City Brass.

Dr Therese Arseneau | Board Member

Dr Therese Arseneau has wide ranging governance experience including as Chair of the Board of ChristchurchNZ, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Regenerate Christchurch and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra; and as a Director of J Ballantyne Company Ltd, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Ltd, Enterprise North Canterbury and the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada.

Therese has over 30 years’ experience in the tertiary education sector, including as a university lecturer in Canada and New Zealand. A specialist in elections and New Zealand politics, she is currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow in Political Science at the University of Canterbury and in 2011 she received a UC Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. Therese holds a DPhil and MPhil from the University of Oxford, which she attended as an international student and Commonwealth Scholar.

Dr Erik Lithander | Board Member

Dr Erik Lithander has had a career in higher education spanning over 20 years across New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia. He is a former Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (International and Outreach) at the Australian National University in Canberra and Director of International Affairs at University College Dublin.

Dr Lithander is currently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Strategic Engagement at the University of Auckland. Prior to commencing this role in 2021, he was the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Global Engagement) at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Dr Lithander has an internationally focused governance portfolio, with oversight of the Auckland Confucius Institute and previously the North Asia CAPE (Centre for Asia Pacific Excellence). He also is Chair of the Advisory Boards for the New Zealand Centre at Peking University and the New Zealand Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi).

Prabha Ravi | Board Member

Prabha Ravi QSM, JP is an experienced governance leader and international education specialist with over 25 years in senior management roles, including International Director at Waiariki Institute of Technology and YMCA Central, and Senior Manager at Education New Zealand Manapou ki te Ao. She has represented New Zealand in more than 47 countries, generating millions in export education earnings and building strong global partnerships.

With nearly 20 years of governance experience across the arts, sports, education, health, community, and public sectors, Prabha serves on several boards, including the Wellington/Wairarapa Lotteries Committee.

She is also the founder and director of Natraj School of Dance, a leading Indian classical dance institution in Wellington for over 25 years, and an award-winning actor. Her contributions to education, arts, governance, and ethnic communities have been recognised with multiple honours, including the Queen’s Service Medal in 2017.

Sara Brownlie | Board Member

Sara Brownlie is a chartered accountant and chartered director with strong risk and financial management and financial planning knowledge. She has worked in the public sector for most of her career in senior financial roles including Department of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Justice and at Treasury where she was also Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and for the Public Services Commission. This followed early career at Deloitte and Unilever.

Sara now provides specialist strategic financial and project/programme advisory services through her company Fargher Woods Ltd. Sara is a board member with Catalyst.net and is the Crown appointed Deputy Chair and Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee of the Research Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ). She is also an independent member of Enable New Zealand Finance, Risk and Audit Committee, and holds a similar role with the Upper Hutt City Council's Risk and Assurance Committee.
Our team
The ENZ team works together to grow awareness of New Zealand as a study destination and to support New Zealand education providers and businesses to take their services and products overseas for enduring social, cultural and economic benefits.

Through development of a world-class international education sector, we contribute to building a thriving and globally connected New Zealand.

We have approximately 100 staff in 18 locations around the world. In New Zealand, we have offices in Wellington and Auckland.

Our values, Ngā Manapou strive to create a culture of Aroha at ENZ; a place where we all value the beliefs and culture of ENZ staff. This culture of Aroha is underpinned by four values: Manaakitanga, Be one, Kaitiakitanga, Be Bold.

ENZ is structured into three business groups:
- Strategy, Capability & Performance
- International & Sector Engagement
- International Marketing, Brand & Scholarships
To get in touch with a member of the team, click here.
Marketing development
Education New Zealand’s international staff network works to raise the profile of the country’s education system in priority markets.
Team members can support education organisations with a range of activities, including organising media visits, providing introductions to key contacts and carrying out market research.
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International media and key opinion leader visits
ENZ raises awareness of New Zealand in priority markets by organising or supporting visits from international media and key opinion leaders to different regions, locations and organisations.
International public relations
ENZ’s international public relations activities may include helping to launch new programmes, leveraging in-market visits, promoting scholarships and highlighting student successes.
Introductions and contacts
Introductions and contacts from ENZ’s domestic and international staff network can help match institutions with recruitment agencies.
Staff can also assist organisations to connect with:
- potential partners or customers
- relevant foreign regulatory agencies and authorities
- local market or industry experts
- other specialist external service providers.
Ministerial and education trade missions
Education organisations may have opportunities to profile flagship initiatives during ministerial visits and education trade missions, depending on objectives and scheduling.
In-market support
In-market teams can help support education providers by providing information on the market, leading arrangements for ENZ marketing and promotional activities, and facilitating introductions with local stakeholders.
In-market initial fact finding
ENZ’s international staff network may be able to help with initial fact verification of foreign partners. They may also be able to refer organisations to in-market third parties if more detailed due diligence is needed.
Identifying new business opportunities
International staff may be able to scout for new business opportunities for organisations seeking to develop partnerships or sell products and services.
Market research
ENZ sometimes carries out market research for sector groups or consortiums, or for individual organisations investigating high impact and high growth initiatives.
In-market events and conferences
Education organisations may be given ENZ help to take part in in-market conferences, seminars and events with external partners.
Countdown to conference
It’s being held at the Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland on Thursday and Friday, 18-19 August.
We expect to release the programme and open registrations in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, here are some key updates on New Zealand’s international education event of the year:
Help us celebrate 25th anniversary
2016 marks the 25th year of the New Zealand International Education Conference being held. We’d love you to help us celebrate 25 years of international education networking, sharing and capability development. If you’ve been around in the industry for “a while”, we’d love to hear from you.
We want to showcase how our industry has grown and changed over the past 25 years. So if you have some interesting memories, stories, records or recollections, please drop us a line. It would be great to feature your memories as part of our 25th celebrations.

BPO Intelligence comes to the party again

A big thanks to our Platinum Sponsor, BPO Intelligence, who are sponsoring NZIEC for the third consecutive year. We’re grateful for their support of NZIEC – as well as the support they provide to international education providers across the country.
BPO Intelligence offers a wide range of services for international education providers. Check out what they offer at www.bpointelligence.com and be sure to check out their booth at conference.

Official media partner
We’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with The PIE (Professionals in International Education) as our official media partner for NZIEC 2016. The PIE team will be exhibiting at and reporting from the conference. If you haven’t already, you can sign up for The PIE News here.
Gold and silver sponsors
We’re pleased to announce that Hotcourses and QS World University Rankings will be joining us at NZIEC 2016 as Gold Sponsors.
Southern Cross Travel Insurance will feature at NZIEC as a Silver Sponsor.
Find out more about our sponsors at the conference website and be sure to check out their booths at the conference exhibition hall.

Exhibitors
We have an array of exhibitors confirmed for NZIEC 2016:
- ASB Bank
- BPO Intelligence
- Education New Zealand
- Hotcourses
- ICEF
- MBIE Immigration New Zealand
- New Zealand Police
- New Zealand Qualifications Authority
- PTE Academic
- QS World University Rankings
- Schools International Education Business Association (SIEBA)
- The PIE.
Stay tuned
We’ll be releasing the programme and opening registrations for NZIEC in the coming weeks at www.nziec.co.nz. You can also stay tuned via E-News and LinkedIn.
Brazilian science scholarship opening
Education New Zealand is now working with New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (NZITP) on an agreement to include ITPs the SWB programme.
The inclusion of New Zealand universities in the national call for applications for the SWB Scholarship follows the signing of an agreement between Universities New Zealand and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) which was witnessed by Prime Minister John Key and Brazilian President Dilma Rouseff, during Mr Key’s visit to Brazil in March 2013.
The SWB programme aims to send 100,000 Brazilian students on undergraduate “sandwich” courses; PhD “sandwich” courses; full PhD and post doctorates programmes to study science, technology, engineering, mathematics and creative industries at top universities around the world.
The SWB also offers opportunities to foster relationships between institutions under a Special Visiting Researcher scholarship scheme. This scheme aims to attract recognised international researchers in priority areas set by the SWB programme to conduct projects with Brazilian research groups and visit Brazil for up to three months each year over a period of two to three years.
Information and applications for study at New Zealand universities is now available to Brazilian undergraduate and postgraduate students at this link.
Schools: roadmap workshop summary
Download the school sector summary paper.
ENZ is facilitating the Strategic Roadmap programme to help each sector, and New Zealand’s international education industry overall, to outline what success will look like in the future and develop a plan to get there.
Everyone, regardless of whether you attended the workshop, is invited and encouraged to read the summary document and send comments, questions or ideas to Greg Scott, Project Manager for the school sector.
Greg, who has been seconded from Middleton Grange School for this project, says the workshops were designed as the first of many opportunities for schools to provide input into the Strategic Roadmap process.
“During the workshops, participants reported a wide range of motivations for and benefits from enrolling international students. An exciting array of ideas emerged of what might be possible by 2025 – our roadmap destination – and the workshops demonstrated that our sector has the vision and ideas required to make a significant difference in the next 10 years.”
Greg says he was particularly impressed by the high level of creative thought: “The ideas put forward by the participants are well worth reading and reflecting on.”
Advisory Groups have been formed for each sector to provide advice and feedback to Project Managers and the sector roadmap development team during the roadmap process. These groups are tasked with representing the views of the sector throughout the process, and will also act as a communications conduit between their sector and project managers.
Growth in the outdoors
The Outdoor Education New Zealand (ODENZ) cluster has been working since 2002 to develop this niche, and enrolments are rising from northern Europe.
ODENZ chief executive Ian Reedy says the participating schools from across the country are united by two things: passion for the outdoors, and awareness that joint marketing efforts are the way to go.
ODENZ is growing the international outdoor education business through a concerted multi-year campaign, with support funding from Education New Zealand. The aim is to end up a self-sustaining organisation with a regular ‘in-market’ presence in northern Europe.
In 2012 there were 184 international students recruited to outdoor ed programmes at participating schools. Figures for Term 1 2014 show an encouraging trend, with 20 percent growth against the same time in 2013. This year they come from Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg.
The aims for 2014 and 2015 are to increase the number of schools in the cluster, and to increase the numbers of students on the ground – or the water, or high on the rockface…
ODENZ is one of several clusters supported by Education New Zealand. Others include independent schools, faith schools and regional groupings. Email us for more information about our support for clusters.
For information on the outdoor cluster, email info@outdoorednz.co.nz or see www.outdooreducation.co.nz.
Agent inbound tours kickoff in April
This is the start of the 2013/14 round of agent visits supported with Education New Zealand funding on a regional and niche market basis.
The programme gives regional and sector groups the opportunity to introduce agents directly to their specific education offering. It follows the inbound agent funding offered to regions in 2013, when nine regions hosted 38 agents from 12 different countries involving 75 institutes and schools.
This year the programme was altered to require matched funding, so hosting organisations contribute half of the costs. It was also expanded to include speciality groups, such as the MARA scholarship coordinators (and one agent) who will tour the New Zealand universities they send scholars to.
Regional groups hosting later in the year include Education Wanganui Export Network, Bay of Plenty, Venture Southland, Grow Wellington, and International Education Manawatu.
The list of region/sector groups awarded funding this year is shown on the Education New Zealand website, including the countries the agent groups are coming from.
To secure matched funding hosts have set up programmes for agents from priority markets that showcase pathway opportunities and foster alumni networks. They have also developed 12-month forward plans in order to build and maintain effective relationships with the visiting agents. All collaborative regional programmes were supported by the local economic development agency.
ANZA workshop
Education New Zealand’s Channel Development Manager Kaye Le Gros presented the Think New brand and the New Zealand Education Story to agents in a seminar that showcased New Zealand. Immigration New Zealand also presented immigration updates at the seminar.
Almost 100 education institutions attended the three day workshop, including 44 from New Zealand, along with around 60 work and travel organisations and service providers.
Agents from 50 countries were there, all focused on sending students and youth travellers to our side of the world.
For the first time, Brazil was the top agent country, reflecting the popularity of New Zealand and Australia as study destinations for Brazilian students.
Next year’s workshop is coming to New Zealand – mark 28-30 April 2015 in your diary for the workshop at Sky City in Auckland. Kaye says this will be a great opportunity for regions and groups to consider familiarisation visits for agents visiting New Zealand in 2015.
Activity in India
Shopping mall campaign
Crowds flock to the shopping malls to avoid the summer heat and monsoon rains, and through the use of highly branded booths and several promoters we were able to connect with India’s growing middle class in these key metros.
The shopping mall promotion coincided with our digital campaign in India, and secured more than 1,000 campaign registrations across both venues.
Whitireia opens new office

Whitireia New Zealand announced the opening of its Bangalore office in India in July, adding to its existing office in New Delhi which opened in 2012.
Whitireia aims to use the new Bangalore office to service its key stakeholders in South India, as well as developing new relationships. The office will support Whitireia’s strategy to grow student numbers and business development opportunities in South India.
New Zealand High Commissioner Grahame Morton and Education New Zealand’s Regional Director South and South East Asia Ziena Jalil officiated at the ribbon cutting and plaque unveiling ceremony. Gavin Young, Trade Commissioner-Mumbai was also present at the occasion. The office opening was followed by an agent briefing session, a media round table and a networking reception. There has been significant media coverage of the opening.
“We are delighted to see the establishment of a southern Indian presence for yet another New Zealand education institution and we commend Whitireia on this move.
"Education New Zealand is committed to growing the number of students New Zealand receives from south India and seeing the active participation of our institutions in this market it is an excellent endorsement of that goal,” said Ziena.