Anna–Jane Edwards

Anna-Jane Edwards is the Manukura for Amotai and is driven by an unwavering belief that every child has the right to thrive in Aotearoa, leading her to explore how economics, Indigenous knowledge systems, co-design, and systems thinking can be combined to disrupt the conditions preventing people from living full and prosperous lives.

Anna-Jane’s roles in health and local government over the past 15 years have explored this concept, eventually leading her to co-found Amotai in 2018, where she has recently returned as Manukura. Anna-Jane believes that supplier diversity presents one of the biggest opportunities for meaningful economic change for Māori and Pasifika.

Anna-Jane divides her time between raising a resilient, happy, and socially and environmentally conscious little boy and participating at a governance level with several organisations, including the New Zealand Drug Foundation and Hawaiki Hou Sport New Zealand.