Mai Chen
Chair
Mai is one of NZ’s top constitutional and administrative law experts, specializing in central and local Government policy and legislation, and litigating major public law cases. Mai also specializes in evidential issues concerning cultural and linguistically diverse litigants. Mai is also a judicial review specialist. She is a Barrister with over 30 years of experience in Public and Administrative Law, Te Tiriti o Waitangi Issues, regulatory, judicial review, inquiries and reviews and employment law issues. She has also worked extensively in law and policy reform, as the cases below show, she has also had extensive advocacy experience from the Supreme Court down to various Tribunals.
Mai was named in the Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life in the Global Diversity List, supported by The Economist. Mai specializes in advising Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) parties in the Courts, especially in areas of regulatory breach and enforcement.
Mai advises on complex employment issues for boards and CEOs and has expertise on investigations and governance issues. She has acted for public and private organizations and is a top legal problem solver and litigator. She is known as a creative problem solver, often of last resort when conventional legal thinking has been tried and failed. She has a gift for settling difficult legal problems. She has a good strategic brain and can pretty accurately predict what is likely to happen and thus how best to prevent a certain decision or achieve a particular outcome. Mai is also a thought leader, a direction setter and a futures thinker.
Mai is approved by the New Zealand Law Society to take direct instructions from clients in certain situations.
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Superdiversity Council members include:
- Mai Chen (Chair)
- Cathy Parker, Publisher, Adrenalin Publishing
- David Tse, Director of Sales and Marketing, Jade
- Dr Hinemoa Elder, Te Whare Wānanga o Awawnuiārangi, Māori Strategic Leader CoRE Ageing Brain, University of Auckland
- Kayo Sakey, Strategic Advisor
- Kiri Nathan, Founder/Director, Kiri Nathan Ltd
- Mitchell Pham, Co-founder, Director, Augen Software Group
- Nikhil Ravishankar, Chief Digital Officer, Vector
- Priti Ambani, Director of Innovation, Tech Futures Lab
- Rob Campbell CNZM CFInstD , Director
- Sameer Handa, Managing Director, Glowbal NZ