Peter Parussini

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ABOUT PETER PARUSSINI

Peter is responsible for ANZ Bank New Zealand’s external & internal communications, content team, customer complaints resolution team, Te Ao Maori strategy, ESG strategy and reporting, CSR and government relations, and is on the company’s New Zealand Leadership Team. He also has responsibilities in ANZ\'s Pacific business. Peter\'s more than 30 years of experience spans journalism, sports marketing, university lecturing, sponsorships, branding, broadcasting, politics and international affairs. In 2005 Peter was a “Fellow In Residence” at Furman University’s Richard Riley Institute for Politics and Education in Greenville, South Carolina, and in 2008 won a Commonwealth Broadcasters Association bursary to look at public service broadcasting in Britain. He has been an adjunct professor at The George Washington University and given guest lectures at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Peter has been recognised for his contribution to education in low decile communities with an “Outstanding Service” Award by the \"Achievement In Multi-Cultural High Schools\" group. He has been on the Board of Radio New Zealand, the Establishment Board for Stronger Public Media, and Chairs the Board of Trustees of one of Sth Auckland\'s biggest schools Southern Cross Campus in Mangere. He has also served on the Board of the Manukau Institute of Technology and Unitec. Peter is also a graduate and member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, is a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand, has served a term as a Wellington City Councillor, was a Trustee of the Wellington International Festival of the Arts and has been a senior rugby referee. He is the author of biography “Believer: Conversations with Mike Moore”.