Reserve Bank board appointment
Rt Hon Ted Thomas, DCNZM, QC, has been appointed a non-executive director of the Reserve Bank for a term of five years
from the beginning of next month.
He succeeds Bill Wilson, whose term expired on 1 February.
Ted Thomas has a long and distinguished career as a member of the Judiciary. In 2001 he was awarded the New Zealand
Order of Merit for his services as a Court of Appeal Judge.
Since retiring from the bench, Justice Thomas has continued to be active in legal research, most recently as a Visiting
Fellow in the Law Programme at the Research School of Social Sciences in Canberra, Australia.
Other RBNZ non-executive directors are: Paul Baines; Hugh Fletcher; John Goulter; Arthur Grimes; Alison Paterson; and
Ruth Richardson. Non-executive directors are paid fees of $15,000 a year.