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New Zealand M?ori chief executive (1966?2019)
Tahu Potiki
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 Potiki in April 2019
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| Born
| (
1966-12-23
)
23 December 1966
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| Died
| 27 August 2019
(2019-08-27)
(aged 52)
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| Occupation
| M?ori
leader
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| Known for
| Chief executive of
Te R?nanga o Ng?i Tahu
from 2002 to 2006
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Tahu Potiki
(23 December 1966 ? 27 August 2019) was a New Zealand
M?ori
leader who served as chief executive of
Te R?nanga o Ng?i Tahu
from 2002 to 2006.
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[2]
Biography
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Potiki was born in
Palmerston
to Les and Rona Potiki, and grew up in
Karitane
,
[3]
becoming an authority on the history of his
iwi
,
Ng?i Tahu
.
[2]
Potiki had been kaiarahi at the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, which became the
Ara Institute of Canterbury
, and board chair of Ng?i Tahu Development Corporation. He also sat on the Canterbury and West Coast health boards.
[4]
He died in
Auckland
on 27 August 2019, aged 52, having been diagnosed with
end-stage liver disease
in 2014, and receiving a liver transplant in 2017.
[3]
On 14 May 2021, asteroid
101462 Tahupotiki
, discovered by astronomer
Ian P. Griffin
at the
Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory
in 1998, was
named
in Potiki's memory by the
Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature
.
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