Karen Mitchell
Ministry of Health / Manatū Hauora
Deputy director general, infrastructure
- Appointed early 2021.
- Previously at the Treasury leading the infrastructure transactions unit’s transition to the NZ Infrastructure Commission/Te Waihanaga.
- Earlier group manager at the Ministry of Health, establishing the national screening unit.
- Contributed to strategy, policy, planning and funding of the national immunisation register, Plunket services, and led development of the national ambulance services strategy.
- Led public-private partnership procurements and commercial negotiations for two new prisons, the Transmission Gully state highway and the social housing reform programme.
- Originally trained as a pharmacist.
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