The late Sir Paul Callaghan headed a list of tip business people and other high achievers during a 2012 World Class New Zealand Awards.
Sir Paul, who died of cancer in March, was announced “Supreme Winner” during a eventuality in Auckland final night.
The awards applaud “nine well-developed New Zealanders who have contributed meaningfully to New Zealand’s mercantile development, and/or a general station and reputation”.
Last night’s endowment adds to a chivalry for his services to scholarship in 2009, winning a Prime Minister’s Science Prize final year and being named a 2011 New Zealander of a Year.
Other Kiwis recognised:
*Tony Falkenstein was personality in a New Thinking difficulty to recognize some-more than 3 decades of business achievement, including first a Just Water business, nurturing Bartercard New Zealand to good success and removing a theme of business on a National Curriculum.
*Sir Graeme Douglas won a Life Sciences category, recognising his purpose in formulating Douglas Pharmaceuticals, one of a fastest flourishing curative companies in Australasia. The business exports general products to 35 countries and is now a largest employer in Waitakere/
*Dr Peter Watson won a Investment and Business endowment for a career that took him from Mt Eden to a White House, where he served underneath Presidents George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush, with roles including being Director of Asian Affairs for a National Security Council during 1989-91. Now, he is boss and arch executive of a Washington DC-based investment bank.
*Jeremy Moon took a Manufacturing, Design and Innovation difficulty for formulating a Icebreaker wardrobe company, that now sells 100% merino nap wardrobe into 3000 stores opposite 43 countries. He is also a personality of a tolerable business movement.
*Professor Malcolm Grant won a Science, Technology and Academia section, recognising his care roles in places such as a University of Cambridge and a University College of London. The Oamaru-born educational has recently being allocated to chair a commissioning house for England’s National Health Service, that aims to renovate medical outcomes.
*David Kirk won a Information and Communications category, recognising a former All Black captain’s comparison roles with Fletcher Challenge, being arch process confidant to primary apportion Jim Bolger, and over a Tasman apropos CEO of imitation and media association PMP, and afterwards of Fairfax Media, where he bought Trade Me for $700 million.
*Ian Taylor won a Creative difficulty for environment adult 3 record businesses in Dunedin, and work in mechanism animation and graphics. Hawke’s Bay-born Mr Taylor is on a creation house of a Ministry of Science and is a house member of Maori Television.
The awards, managed for NZTE by Kea, a Kiwi Ex-pats Association, also presented a special endowment to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, dogmatic her an “iconic” New Zealander.