Leonie Pihama

Leonie Eileen Pihama is a New Zealand Kaupapa Māori academic, of Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga and Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi descent.

Leonie Pihama
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland, University of Waikato
Thesis

Career

Pihama won a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award and is now a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga principal investigator.[1] She did a PhD at the University of Auckland and rose to Associate Professor there,[2] before moving to the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.[3]

Pihama served on the establishment board of Māori TV and then as a director, but quit after three years due to a conflict of interest involving a family member.[4]

In 2017, Pihama was ranked as one of the '100 Māori leaders' by Te Rau Matatini.[5]

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