Wednesday, November 21 * 1:30pm - 2:20pm

Tahu Kukutai Professor of Demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato

This presentation starts at Tahu's kōrero about Te Mana Raraunga and Māori data sovereignty. The first part of her presentation is not available publicly in honour and respect to Ngāti Tiipa.

Tahu Kukutai (Ngāti Tiipa, Ngāti Kinohaku, Te Aupōuri) is Professor of Demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato. Tahu specialises in Māori and indigenous demographic research and has written extensively on issues of Māori population change, Māori identity and official statistics.

Tahu is a founding member of the Māori Data Sovereignty Network Te Mana Raraunga and co-edited (with John Taylor) Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda (free download: https://press.anu.edu.au). Tahu has degrees in History, Demography and Sociology from the University of Waikato and Stanford University. She was previously a journalist.