Moana Jackson
Moana is a much loved Dad and Koro to his beloved whānau and mokopuna and a highly regarded lawyer and activist throughout Aotearoa and Internationally. Moana graduated in Law from Victoria University in Wellington; was Director of the Māori Law Commission; was appointed Judge on the international People’s Tribunal in 1993 and has since then sat on hearings in Hawai'i, Canada and Mexico. He was appointed Visiting Fellow at the Victoria University Law School in 1995, and was elected Chair of the Indigenous People's Caucus of the United Nations working Group on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Moana teaches on the Māori Law and Philosophy degree programme at Te Wānanga o Raukawa and wrote about restorative justice in a highly acclaimed report in 1996, called ‘Māori and the Criminal Justice System’.