Ngaire Woods appointed as Non-Executive Director of Arup Group

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Arup has appointed Ngaire Woods as a Non-Executive Director to the Arup Group Board.

Terry Hill, Chair of Arup’s Trustees, commented on the appointment: “Ngaire brings considerable international political and cultural knowledge, and we anticipate that she will bring very different perspectives to our Board. We are confident that Ngaire will help us greatly in our mission to shape a better world and to ensure a long-term sustainable future for the firm.”

Ngaire responded “I look forward to serving as a non-executive director on the Arup Group Board. Arup is an outstanding company. Its work across the globe is exciting and innovative, as are its longstanding aims to be humane, honest, and socially useful in all that it does. As the group takes on new challenges, it will be an honour to work with its distinguished Board to help ensure its ongoing success.”

Ngaire was educated at Auckland University (Law and Economics), completed an MPhil in International Relations as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, and went on to teach at the Government Department of Harvard University.

She is the Academic Director of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, and also Professor of International Political Economy and Dean of Graduates at University College, Oxford, and the founder and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme.

Ngaire has served as an Advisor to the IMF Board (and is a member of the IMF European Regional Advisory Group), the UNDP’s Human Development Report, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government, and has published numerous books on global regulation, international relations and governance.

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