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National Interfaith Impact Foundation, and was listed in the Native North American Almanac 1993 asone of the 500 prominent American Indian leaders in the history of the United States.Sir Paul ReevesSir Paul Reeves (Te Atiawa) became a Deacon of the Anglican Church of New Zealand in 1958 and aPriest in 1960. He was Curate at Tokoroa (1958–59), St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, England (1959–61),Kirkley St Peter, Lowestoft, Suffolk (1961–63); Vicar of St Paul, Okato (1964–66); Lecturer in ChurchHistory at St John’s Theological College, Auckland (1966–69); Director of Christian Education,Diocese of Auckland (1969–71); and Bishop of Waiapu (1971–79). Sir Paul became Bishop ofAuckland in 1979 and Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand in 1980.Sir Paul Reeves is the first person of Māori descent to be appointed Governor-General of NewZealand (1985–90). On completion of his term, Sir Paul was awarded the Queen’s Service Order forservices to the people of New Zealand. The following year he was appointed by the Archbishop ofCanterbury as Anglican Observer at the United Nations in New York, a position he held for three years.Multiple positions followed in 1994: Deputy Leader of the Commonwealth Observer Group toSouth Africa; Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Trust; Dean of Te Rau Kahikatea, Auckland; andVisiting Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. From1995 to 1997, Sir Paul was Chairperson of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission, assisting Fiji toreturn to full status in the Commonwealth. Sir Paul was Special Envoy of the CommonwealthSecretary-General to Guyana from 2002–6.In February 2007, Sir Paul was appointed to the Order of New Zealand, New Zealand’s highesthonour, restricted to 20 living New Zealanders at any one time.Professor Michael WalkerProfessor Michael Walker (Whakatōhea) is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and one ofthe world’s leading scientists in the field of magnetoreception, the magnetic sense in animals. His workcombines theory and experiment, and bridges the biophysics, anatomy, neurobiology and behaviour ofanimals.Michael combines his world-leading scientific research with an outstanding leadership role as anadvocate of science to Māori and Māori to science. Throughout his career he has worked to increaseparticipation by Māori and Pacific Island people in all aspects of science. He has helped lead initiativesto improve their recruitment and retention as students entering the sciences at university level. Thiswork has included establishing the Tuakana Programme to ensure that Māori and Pacific Island studentsof biology succeed in their first year at university and the whole of their degree course. Michael is Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga.10