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Satyanand

The Right Honourable
Sir Anand Satyanand
GNZM QSO KStJ
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19th Governor-General of New Zealand
In office
23 August 2006 – 23 August 2011
Monarch Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Helen Clark
John Key
Preceded by Silvia Cartwright
Succeeded by Jerry Mateparae
Personal details
Born (1944-07-22) 22 July 1944 (age 72)
Auckland, New Zealand
Spouse(s) Susan Sharpe, QSO
Alma mater University of Auckland
Profession Lawyer
Judge
Ombudsman
Religion Roman Catholicism

Sir Anand Satyanand GNZM QSO KStJ (born 22 July 1944) is a former lawyer, judge and ombudsman. He was the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand. He is currently Chair of the Commonwealth Foundation.

Satyanand was born and raised in Auckland to an Indo-Fijian family in 1944. His grandparents arrived in Fiji from India in 1911, and were married on Nukulau Island. His father, Mutyala Satyanand OBE, a medical doctor, was born in Sigatoka in 1913 and arrived in New Zealand in 1927 to attend high school. His mother Tara Tillak was a nurse from Suva. She married his father after moving to New Zealand.

Satyanand attended Sacred Heart College in Auckland, and then moved to Dunedin to take a medical intermediate course at the University of Otago. He was not successful in gaining entry to the medical school and later said "...in reality I did not do well enough ... (but)... Looking back over that year, I remembered that one of the things I had really enjoyed was the debating and forum meetings involving students." So instead he took up law, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Auckland in 1970. He worked as a lawyer for the next 12 years, initially for Greig, Bourke and Kettelwell. Later he worked as a barrister for the Crown Law Office. He served on the Council of the Auckland District Law Society from 1979 until his appointment as a judge of the District Court of New Zealand in 1982.


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