Dr Barbara Disley ONZM
Chair of Board
Barbara has extensive leadership and management experience within the New Zealand education and health sectors. She was chair of the first Mental Health Commission and Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Education; Research and Evaluation Director at Cognition Education; and Chief Executive of several non-government organizations including the Mental Health Foundation and Richmond Fellowship. She was the Chief Executive of Emerge Aotearoa, has been on the Ministry of Health Mental Health and Addiction Assurance group and has recently been appointed to the Board of the Te Hiringa Mahara, Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. In 2011 Barbara was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to mental health.