Matthew Tukaki

Matthew Tamahae Tukaki (born 10 August 1974) is a businessman.

Tukaki is of Ngāi Te Rangi descent and has strong tribal affiliations with Matakana Island which is off the coast of the city of Tauranga in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.

Tukaki attended St Patrick's College, Silverstream (88–92) in Wellington, New Zealand.

Matthew Tukaki was the United Nations Global Compact's Australian Representative from 2010 until 2013.

In 2012, he led Australia's business delegation to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (also known as Rio+20).

In May 2013, he was officially appointed by United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, as an ex officio director of the board of the United Nations Global Compact.

In that same month, he was also elected as the chairperson of the United Nations Global Compact's Local Network Advisory Group; he states that he retired from these roles in November 2013, and denies press reports that he was asked to resign due to "an alleged serious breach of Director's Duties".

He was the first person to be elected as Australian representative, and the first person to be appointed by the secretary general in the role of LN Representative on the governing board of the UNGC.

He was also the first Australian / New Zealander and the first person of Māori descent.

In an interview with Radio New Zealand in September 2013, Tukaki also indicated a strong desire for business to play a primary role in developing technological advances as a way to solve some of the "big challenges of our time".

Tukaki retired from his role as Australian Representative to the United Nations Global Compact in November 2013.

In his memoir, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart.

Vice Chair of the United Nations Global Compact and former chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, recognised Tukaki's work and leadership during the reform process after he was elected as chairman of the Local Networks Advisory Group.

The significance of the reform agenda led to a range of new initiatives being developed such as a new collaborative fundraising framework, deeper engagement with transnational and multinational corporations, and a frontier fund to help United Nations Global Compact Networks with material and financial support.

In February 2014, Tukaki announced the formation of a new global initiative to be known as EntreHub.

The organisation was formed to support budding entrepreneurs with a target of having 100,000 people involved in the conversation by the end of 2014.

Tukaki has been active in his support for business and industry to play a larger role when it comes to sustainable development and the United Nations Post 2015 Agenda.

EntreHub announced in January 2015 that there were now more than 50,000 members located across 130 countries.

In 2016, Tukaki joined 2UE Talking Lifestyle network as co-host of the "Talking Lifestyle; Second Career" radio show.

Initially, the show was broadcast from 9 pm to 11 pm before moving to run through to midnight.

Tukaki also co-hosted the afternoon slot with Ed Phillips between 3 and 4 pm and is a regular across the network on the Morning Mix and Breakfast show.

Tukaki became a solo host in December 2016 when the network undertook a programme change.

In the 2017, a survey showed Tukaki's show was one of the few that went up the ratings period.

In November 2017, Tukaki was appointed into the role of executive chairman of the National Māori Authority, Ngā Ngaru Rautahi O Aotearoa.

In April 2018, Tukaki signed off from the 2UE Radio Network for the last time after the network announced it would become a 24-hour sports broadcaster.

Tukaki stated publicly he did not want to make the transition.

In 2018, Tukaki also became the chair of the Auckland District Māori Council, one of the sixteen Districts of the New Zealand Māori Council.

In July, Tukaki was elected to the National Executive of the New Zealand Māori Council with a clear agenda on moving the council towards leading the national social policy debate.

This new agenda began to emerge across a number of fronts including suicide prevention, homelessness and the affordability of life extending and life saving drugs for Māori.

The latter was the first call to the Māori Affairs Select Committee of the New Zealand Parliament in its history.

He was then appointed Executive Director of the Council.

Tukaki was not re-elected to the Auckland District Council in the following, 2021, triennial election and became ineligible to continue as Executive Director.

Tukaki continued to operate in the role for some months as he challenged the result in the High Court over apparent irregularities in the election, however he was unsuccessful, with the Court recommending the allegations be instead dealt with by the Māori Council's own processes.

Tukaki has been involved in a large number of public, social, and economic policy areas across the Māori world.

In January 2021, the New Zealand Government announced that Tukaki has been appointed Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Board of Oranga Tamariki with fellow Board Members being Dame Naida Glavish, Sir Mark Solomon, and Shannon Pakura.

In doing so, the Government announced that Tukaki would lead a broad reaching review of the Agency to report by 30 June 2021.

Oranga Tamariki, also known as the Ministry for Children, is responsible for New Zealand's care and protection system as well as the youth justice sector.

Tukaki is also Chair of the New Zealand Ministry of Health's Māori Health Monitoring Group and leads the negotiations into radio spectrum on behalf of Māori with the Crown.

On 29 September 2021, Tukaki was joined by New Zealand Minister for Children, Kelvin Davis, for the launch of a report into the child protection system in that country called Kahu Aroha.

The New Zealand Government accepted all of the recommendations contained in the report and further announced that the Board Tukaki Chairs (with members being Dame Naida Glavish, Sir Mark Solomon and former Chief Social Worker, Shannon Pakura) would monitor their implementation.