Hirini Matunga

Biography

Director of the Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development - Lincoln University, Senior Lecturer in Planning - University of Auckland, Senior Planner specialising in Maori Issues - Auckland Regional Council and prior to that, the Ministry of Works and Development. He has also had extensive experience with iwi authorities and Maori organizations in Maori resource management and planning, and international indigenous groups in the area of indigenous cultural heritage management.

Research Interest

Māori and Indigenous approaches to planning, Approaches to 'integrating Māori and Indigenous planning' with 'mainstream planning', Māori and indigenous resource management, Māori and indigenous cultural heritage management, Treaty of Waitangi and Māori Development.