The Foundation's executive director Simon Draper looks back on the year that's been and reflects on some of the key activities the Foundation has held and supported over the year.

Executive director Simon Draper looks back on the month that's been, including travelling to Vietnam as part of the Prime Minister' delegation and briefing the PM on Seriously Asia Revisited.

The past couple of weeks have felt like a turning point here at the Asia New Zealand Foundation, with an array of domestic events and a sense of renewed energy in New Zealand-Asia relationships.

It is always a reflective time when someone who has been a seemingly permanent fixture in your life passes on. For many New Zealanders the Queen in Right of New Zealand was such a permanence.

It’s been a busy month since my last Executive Director’s Update, with Seriously Asia Revisited (SAR) hui in Auckland and Wellington, an Honorary Advisers meeting, business events and more.

Executive director Simon Draper looks at how the Foundation's latest Perceptions of Asia survey has been received and reported on and reflects on completing a month of te reo language training.

Last week’s government announcement that New Zealand boarders would be fully reopening to international visitors by the end of July will, no doubt, have been received with a sigh of relief by many.

There’s no better way to gauge the mood of a nation than to talk to well-connected people on the ground who understand the country intimately.

Since my last update, we've welcomed nine new New Zealand Honorary Advisers to the team and said goodbye to a departing cohort.

I need to start this update by acknowledging the passing of the Foundation’s former chair John Luxton. Kua hinga te totara i te wao nui a Tane, ka tangi hotuhotu nga manu.

Ngā mihi o te Kirihimete ki a koutou. Here we are, at the end of another tumultuous year. It has been a year of challenges, plan Bs, contingencies and learning to roll with the punches...

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