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The Trustees of the Donald Beasley Institute
The Institute is governed by a Board of Trustees which brings together a range of expertise and experience from throughout New Zealand. The members of the Board are:
John Clarkson - Chairperson
Dr John Clarkson represents the Paediatric Society of New Zealand on the Trust Board. He is a Consultant Paediatrician with the Otago District Health Board and has had a long term interest in child development and he provides leadership for the child development service. Dr Clarkson has contributed to several national committees in this area. He is the Clinical Director of Children's Health Service and also a Clinical Senior Lecturer with the University of Otago. In this role he has contributed to Donald Beasley Institute research and publications.
John Bell
John Bell is a Senior Investment Advisor and Private Portfolio Manager for Forsyth Barr in Dunedin. He has been in Dunedin since 1983 following various transfers around New Zealand with National Insurance Co. (now Tower).
John is married to Philippa and has 5 adult children who live around the globe. He is a keen sportsman, musician and is actively involved in a number of committees and Trusts in Otago. John has been a trustee of the Donald Beasley Institute since 1998.
John Forman
John is a parent of adult twins who both have a rare genetic disorder, Alpha-Mannosidosis, which causes both physical and intellectual disability. He has a long history as a volunteer and as a paid worker in disability services and related advocacy agencies, including many years on IHC branch committees. In 2007 he completed a 7 year term on IHC's advocacy advisory committee. John is on the Board of several local and international rare disease and advocacy organizations. He takes a close interest in debates on medical and social models of disability and is particularly interested in aspects of the physical health of people with intellectual disability.
Ralph Jones
Ralph Jones is an IHC nominee on the Trust Board and is the current Chief Executive of IHC. He has over 15 years experience in the intellectual disability sector and has been IHC's previous General Manager of Corporate Services and General Manager of IDEA Services Northern Region. He has a sound working knowledge of community based services to people with an intellectual disability and an awareness of the competing demands placed on resources.
As a Chartered Accountant, Ralph has a background in both the commercial and NGO sectors. He is Wellington based and is also the current Secretary-General of Inclusion International where on the world stage New Zealand is recognised at the forefront in many aspects in understanding the issues for people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
Jackie Sanders
Jackie Sanders is the Director of the Children, Youth and Families Research Project, School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Massey University, Palmerston North. Her research interests include parenting and family development and the wellbeing of children and young people. She works on a number of collaborative research projects with community organizations in both the disability and family services sector and also with researchers internationally in the areas of family, child and young wellbeing. Jackie has research, non-governmental organization management and state sector planning experience.
Donald Thompson
Donald has been involved in IHC for a number of years and he is currently serving his second term as National President.
Donald is married to Gaye and has three children. His daughter Karen has an intellectual disability and lives in an IHC house in Oamaru. Donald lives in Wanaka where he owns a business, which his son manages.
Suzanne Win
Suzanne Win has been involved in the Health and Disability Sector for 39 years. A nurse by background, she has worked in a variety of Government and Non-Government Organization roles. She works for herself, undertaking projects for Non-Government Organizations and Government Departments and Ministries. She is on the Trust Board of the Gracelands Group of Services, is the Chair of the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board and is also appointed to the Ministerial Workforce Taskforce.
Mark Henaghan
Mark Henaghan is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Otago, specialising in Family Law and a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
He is co-author of Family Law Policy in New Zealand, 3rd edition LexisNexis Butterworths 2007. He is joint author of Family Law in New Zealand, 12th edition, LexisNexis Butterworths 2005. He is the joint author of Relationship Property on Death (2004 Thomson Brookers which won the 2005 J F Northey prize for the best published law book in New Zealand), and Relationship Property Consolidated Legislation and Analysis (2001 Brookers Thomson Group) and sole author of Care of Children (2005 LexisNexis Butterworths).
Professor Henaghan is an author and member of the Editorial Board for LexisNexis Family Law Service and the New Zealand Family Law Journal and author of a number of articles on family law. Professor Henaghan is on the editorial boards of Child and Family Law Quarterly, the leading UK journal on children's issues and The International Journal of Human Rights, the leading UK journal on human rights.
Professor Henaghan has published extensively both nationally and internationally and is on the cutting edge of international developments in family law.
Professor Henaghan is currently engaged in an international study of relocation cases and their impact on the parties and their children with collaborators from Australia and the United Kingdom.
Professor Henaghan is the Principal Investigator for the Human Genome Research Project, Te Kaupapa Rangahau Ira Tāngata - Law, Ethics and Policy for the future - sponsored by the New Zealand Law Foundation. Professor is one of the new Trustees on the Donald Beasley Institute Trust Board.
Ms Hine Forsyth
Hine was born in the lighthouse at Pukekura (Taiaroa Heads), which sits at the entrance to the Otago Harbour, to a Ngāi Tahu father and Norwegian mother.
As an active member of Dunedin's Mātuā Whāngāi, Hine has a large extended whānāu with many mokopuna to keep her young.
She is self-employed and has delivered a Treaty of Waitangi Compliance Service in Dunedin for the past six years.
Since her early days as a minute-taker until today Hine has been an active member of Ōtākou Rūnaka Executive Kōmiti.
From running her own tourism business in Australia to chairing Akona Te Rangatahi for nearly 20 years, Hine has sat on a variety of kōmiti and enjoys the role of governance. Hine has recently joined the Trust Board of the Donald Beasley Institute.
