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Debbie Power
Ministry of Social Development / Te Manatū Whakahiato Ora
Chief executive
- Appointed February 2019.
- Previously deputy state services commissioner.
- Led work to restructure and simplify chief executive remuneration.
- Started as a frontline case manager at the then-Department of Social Welfare in 1980.
- Has held a range of senior roles in MSD.
- Between 2007 and 2010 was private secretary at Parliament.
- Also worked for the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions.
- Holds an Executive Master’s in Public Administration from Victoria University and has attended the Harvard Business School.
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