Augusta Awardees
2018 Augusta Awardees
THE HON LYNTON (LYN) STEVENS ‘60 QC, BA/LLB
(HONS), BCL (OXFORD)
AGS 1960
Photo by James McCully
Lyn Stevens attended Auckland Grammar School from 1960 to 1964. He was a
Prefect in 1964. He was on the Old Boys’ Association executive for a number of
years and was the President in 1989.Justice Stevens graduated from Auckland
University in 1970 and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Civil Law from Oxford
University in 1972. He was a Crown prosecutor and partner in the firm of
Meredith Connell & Co from 1975, leaving that firm to join Russell McVeagh
McKenzie Bartleet & Co in 1980. Justice Stevens went to the Bar in 1992 and
was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1997. He was appointed to the Serious Fraud
Office Panel of Prosecutors in 1990.
He has also lectured throughout his career at a number of New Zealand and overseas universities. Justice Stevens made significant contributions to the International Bar Association and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in both the Australian Capital Territory and in New South Wales, and as a barrister in Samoa and Cook Islands.
Justice Stevens was a Judge of the High
Court Judge 2006-10, Judge of the Court of Appeal 2010-16 and appointed chair
of the Government inquiry into Havelock North drinking water contamination
2016-17.
He was a council member of the University of Auckland 1999-2011, Board member
of the Auckland Racing Club 1995-2006 (including chairman 2003-06), and a
member and chair of the New Zealand Advisory Council for the Anglican Church of
Melanesia.
STEPHEN JACOBI ’73 MA (HONS, FIRST CLASS), FRENCH AND GERMAN
AGS 1973
Stephen Jacobi attended Auckland Grammar School
from 1973 to 1977, receiving a University Scholarship in 1976 and 1977. He was
a Prefect and Dux of the School in 1977. He attended the University of Auckland
from 1978 to 1982.
He has broad experience in government, industry and trade development. He
serves concurrently as Executive Director of the NZ International Business
Forum and Managing Director of Jacobi Consulting Ltd.
Stephen has extensive diplomatic, trade and government experience including
posts as Deputy High Commissioner in Ottawa, Assistant Trade Commissioner in
Paris and adviser on trade and diplomatic issues with the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade.
Previously, Stephen served as Chief Executive of the New Zealand Forest
Industries Council, a national pan-industry body representing the forestry and
wood processing sector, the country’s third largest exporter. Stephen also ran
the NZ US Council as Executive Director from 2005 to 2014.
In all these roles Stephen is a frequent media and public commentator on trade
and economic development issues.
In 2013 Stephen was the recipient of a Fulbright award and spent three months
undertaking research on US trade policy while resident at the Center for
Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University, Washington
DC.
Stephen was appointed to the role of Executive Director of the NZ China Council
in May 2016.
He is a former Chair and current Trustee of the Te Aute Trust Board, the
proprietor of two iconic Maori Anglican secondary schools in Hawke’s Bay and
operator of two farming businesses. From 2006-16 he chaired the St John’s
College Trust Board. He was formerly Deputy Chair of Fulbright New Zealand,
Chair of Napier Girls’ High School and a director of Anglican Care (Waiapu)
Ltd.
RICHIE POULTON ’76 CNZM, MSc PGDipClPs (OTAGO) PHD (NSW)
AGS 1976
Richie Poulton attended Auckland Grammar School from 1976 to 1980. He was a
Prefect in 1980 and in the 1980 1st Rugby XV and 1st Cricket XI, captaining the
team in term three.Professor Richie Poulton is an influential social
scientist in New Zealand and has served on many government, public and academic
statutory bodies, and is a consultant internationally.
Professor Poulton’s major areas of research are mental health, nature-nurture
interplay in the prediction of complex disorders, and psychosocial determinants
of chronic physical disease. In 1995 he took up the position of Deputy Director
of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit and later
became Director in 2000. In 2007 he established and became a Co-Director of the
National Centre for Lifecourse Research, a research centre based at the
University of Otago in Dunedin, but with partners located at universities
across New Zealand and around the world.
He has led the internationally renowned Dunedin multidisciplinary longitudinal
birth cohort study since 2000. In 2014 he was appointed as part-time Chief
Science Advisor to the Ministry of Social Development and in that role he has
led much of the work advising government on social investment and was a member
of the Rebstock committee reviewing Child, Youth and Family Services. In 2014
Professor Poulton was named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson-Reuters,
one of only four New Zealanders to be so designated, and was listed in
Thomson-Reuters ‘2014 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’.
He was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to
science and health research in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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