2010 WriteMark |
Friday 3 September 2010 |
New Zealand Plain English Awards |
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Special guests
Phil O’Reilly
Chief Executive, Business New Zealand
Phil O’Reilly is Chief Executive of Business NZ, New Zealand’s largest business advocacy organisation, and a special guest at the 2010 WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards ceremony. Phil has a background in business, advocacy, and communications in enterprises in New Zealand and Australia.
He has been Executive Director of the Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand, Chairman of the NZ Advertising Standards Authority, and Head of Employment Policy and Communication at Westpac Bank in Sydney. Currently, Phil is chair of the Commercialisation of Research Action Group and the Massey University Business Advisory Group, and joint chair of the Manufacturing Action Group and the Workplace Health and Safety Council. He is a member of a number of groups and advisory committees, including the Growth and Innovation Advisory Board, the Ministerial Advisory Group on Trade, and Skill New Zealand. He is also New Zealand’s Employer Delegate to the International Organisation of Employers and the International Labour Conference.
Roger Kerr
Executive Director, New Zealand Business Roundtable
Roger Kerr is the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, an organisation of chief executives of around 50 of New Zealand’s larger business firms. Earlier he was a senior official in the Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also been a director of the Electricity Corporation and the Group Board of Colonial Limited in Melbourne, and a member of the Council of Victoria University.
