Peter Adams (MA 1970)

former NZ Ambassador to China

Tony Browne (MA 1974)

Head of North Asia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Sir Kerry Burke (BA 1964)

former Speaker of the NZ House of Representatives

Edmund Bohan (MA 1959)

opera singer, historian and novelist

Dr Michael Cullen (MA 1968)

Minister of Finance and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

Stevan Eldred-Grigg (MA 1975)

successful novelist, author of Oracles and Miracles

Michael Green (MA 1970)

former NZ Ambassador to Indonesia

Gerald Hensley (MA 1957)

former diplomat, Secretary of Defence and head of the Prime Minister's Department

Janet Holm, MBE (MA 1985)

historian and clean air campaigner

Richard Hill (MA 1971, Litt.D. 1998)

police historian, former Chief Historian and Senior Manager for the Crown's Treaty of Waitangi negotiations

Hugh Logan (MA 1979)

former Director-General of the Department of Conservation

Owen Marshall (MA 1965)

successful short story writer, winner of Deutz Medal for fiction in Montana NZ Book Awards, 2000

Judith Nathan (MA 1968)

former manager of training at the Ministry of Transport, now Director of Training and Development, Massey University

Paul Norris (MA 1964)

former Director of News, TVNZ, now head of Broadcasting School, Christchurch Polytechnic

John Pocock (MA 1946)

world-renowned historian of political thought, recently retired from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Graham Stoop (MA 1980)

CEO and Chief Review Officer, Education Review Office; previously Principal, Christchurch College of Education

David Thomson (MA 1977)

former Professor of History, Massey University

Jane Tolerton (BA 1977)

successful writer: author of Ettie and Convent Girls

Sherwood Young, MBE (MA 1976)

Chief Inspector, NZ Police Headquarters, Wellington