Sir Anand Satyanand
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The Right Honourable Sir Anand Satyanand GNZM QSO KStJ |
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| 19th Governor-General of New Zealand | |
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In office 23 August 2006 – 23 August 2011 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister |
Helen Clark John Key |
| Preceded by | Silvia Cartwright |
| Succeeded by | Jerry Mateparae |
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| Born |
22 July 1944 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Sharpe, QSO |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland |
| Profession |
Lawyer Judge Ombudsman |
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 was Chair of the Commonwealth Foundation for two 2-year terms, ending December 2016. He is currently chairing the Commonwealth Observation Group of the National Elections of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.
Satyanand was born and raised in Auckland to an Indo-Fijian family in 1944. His grandparents arrived in Fiji from India in 1911, and his grandfather worked as a government interpreter. His father, Dr Mutyala Satyanand OBE CF, was born in Sigatoka in 1913 and arrived in New Zealand in 1927 to attend high school and later university. His mother Tara Tillak was from Suva, and trained as a Karitane nurse in New Zealand. She married Mutyala Satyanand in 1940, after moving to New Zealand.
Satyanand attended Sacred Heart College in Auckland, and then undertook the medical intermediate course at the University of Otago in Dunedin. 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 turned to law studies, working part time as a law clerk in Auckland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Auckland in 1970. He worked as a lawyer for the next 12 years, some of that with the Crown Solicitor’s firm and then as a Partner with the legal firm Shieff Angland. His legal work centred on criminal law and revenue law. 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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