Suzanne Snively (almost) becomes a Dame

Suzanne Snively (almost) becomes a Dame
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Former chair of Transparency International NZ, Suzanne Snively, has been made an honorary Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, but you can’t call her a dame yet.The US-born governance leader is ineligible for the full title because she is not a New Zealand citizen, despite wanting to be.Each time she filled out the application, she found herself stumped by the final question: ‘why do you want to be a New Zealander’.“I so want to be a New Zealander that I want to put exactly the right phrase there, so every t...

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