Chris comes to FASD-CAN with very significant business, entrepreneurial, governance and strategy experience – as well as having in-home lived experience of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

She is an experienced educator and researcher and is a Professor at the University of Auckland Business School. She is a founding director of Te Potiki National Trust and Māori maps and was a school board member and chair of the primary school her children attended. Chris is currently on the advisory board of two privately owned businesses.

She is also the mother of two teenagers and has first-hand appreciation of the challenges and joys of FASD.

Find out more about Chris' background on her University of Auckland profile here.