 PARLIAMENARY LIBRARY BUILDING
(Premises of the New Zealand Business & Parliament Trust which is situated on the First Floor)
Trust Chairman
(Trustee since 2000 and Chairman 2007)
JOHN GOULTER DCNZM JP
John is currently Chairman of the New Zealand Lotteries Commission and a director of the board of Television New Zealand, as well as being an advisor to ABN AMRO, all of which are corporate members of the Trust. He is also currently a director of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Chairman of the United Carriers Group. John was formerly the Managing Director of Auckland International Airport Ltd, a founding corporate member of the Trust and, until recently, a director of Vector Ltd which is also a corporate member of the Trust. In 2002, he was the Deloitte Management Top 200 Executive of the Year and the National Business Review New Zealander of the Year; and in 2003, he was inducted as a laureate into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame and was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Business and the Community.
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STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT
As from June 2008, the governance of the Trust comprises:
a Trustee Council
consisting of six members elected by the corporate membership of the Trust and, currently, ten parliamentary members representing each party represented in the New Zealand Parliament, with those parties having 20 or more members having a second representative.
The role of the Trustee Council is to provide the membership of the Trust Board (see below) and to provide advice, as required, to that Board relating to the fulfilment of the objectives of the Trust (which remain unchanged from the founding Trust Deed).
a Trust Board
consisting of four corporate members from the Trustee Council and three parliamentary members from that Council. Those parties with the largest and second largest number of members in a Parliament each have the right to appoint a member of the Trust Board and the third parliamentary member is appointed by agreement amongst all other parliamentary parties.
The Trust Board is the legal entity for exercising the powers and responsibilities of the Trust and for the management of the operations of the Trust. The Trust Board meets three or four times per year.
The Trust employs two part-time staff: an executive director and a programme coordinator who also acts as the Trust’s administration manager. The executive director, whose job it is to ensure appropriate and effective management of the Trust’s operations, recommends appropriate strategic direction for the development of the Trust and contributes to the achievement of the Trust's aims and objectives.
The Trust is financed by the business community. Member companies pay a subscription to enable the Trust to provide study courses for MPs and business people. These funds, and any other revenue earning activity, also meet costs associated with the work of the Trust's secretariat.
Corporate members with an annual turnover in excess of NZ$100 million pay NZ$4,500 per annum and those with turnover under NZ$100 million pay NZ$2,250 per annum.*
While Parliament does not provide financial support, it does make available, free of charge, venues in Parliament for the Trust’s parliamentary seminars, MPs’ Business Briefings and board meetings. The Trust’s day-to-day operations are carried out in a rented office in the historic Parliamentary Library Building.
The Trust's annual income from subscriptions amounts to around NZ$170,000. Operational costs include study programme expenses, administration and special projects.
*2008 subscription levels
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Information Bulletin December - 2007 |
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