WSBG Dean's Series

WSBG presents an annual Dean's Series of panel discussions, with guests and topics hand-selected by the Dean, who also chairs the individual sessions.

The theme for this year’s Dean’s Series was around the question of fairness, asking specifically what that looks like in individual sessions relating to Health, Wealth, and Wisdom—what would a fairer New Zealand look like in allowing everyone the chance to be healthy, wealthy, and wise?

In selecting the panel members for each discussion, and chairing the conversation, Professor Jane Bryson (Dean) hoped to facilitate open, honest, and engaging conversations around the topics.

Here is your chance to catch up with these, or to rewatch any of the ones you attended. Implicit in these titles is the idea of healthier futures for all, wealthier futures for all, and of course a wiser future for all.

It was important to have staff from the University, and alumni as part of each panel, but to also step outside of the Academy and engage with subject matter experts from wider in the field across all ages and stages.

Please enjoy and share the panel sessions below. And perhaps this will inform, or stimulate your own conversations on these, and related topics.

2024 WSBG Dean's Series—No. 1: How do we get to a healthier future?

Panel chaired by Professor Jane Bryson: Rob Campbell, Chancellor AUT, former Chair, Te Whata Ora, and Colin Simpson, Professor of Population Health, Victoria University of Wellington. (Ryl Jensen, CEO, Digital Health Association, was scheduled to attend but was sadly unavailable on the day).

2024 WSBG Dean's Series—No. 2: How do we get to a wealthier future for all?

Panel chaired by Professor Jane Bryson: Reverend Murray Eldrige, Wellington City Missioner, former Chief Executive of Barnados NZ, Professor Lisa Marriott, Taxation specialist, School of Accounting and Commercial Law, and Dr Ganesh Nana, Economist, Former Chair of the Productivity Commission.

2024 WSBG Dean's Series—No. 3: How do we get to a wiser future?

Panel chaired by Professor Jane Bryson: Teresa Ng and Millie Aislabie, High School Students, Wellington Girls' College, and Helmut Modlik, CEO, Tumu Whakarae, Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira (Professor Markus Luczak-Roesch, Chair, Complexity Science, Victoria University of Wellington was also scheduled but unable to attend on the day due to illness).