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David Van Der Zouwe
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships
David van der Zouwe is Director Partnerships and Investment at the Department of Conservation in New Zealand (DOC). DOC faces challenges to achieve its conservation objectives with limited resources and a lack of public awareness and engagement regarding the biodiversity crisis. It is estimated DOC has 10 -15% of the necessary funds to meet its biodiversity conservation goals and one piece of research noted that 58% of New Zealanders thought that the countries' biodiversity is in good shape. DOC's Strategic Partnerships function can address these challenges by: harnessing collective action for nature and attracting resources (through private finance, commercial and philanthropic) to support priority programmes and conservation across New Zealand.
David comes to the role from a legal, commercial and investment background. Immediately prior to joining DOC David had 4 years as head of investment at Kānoa. Kānoa works with other Government organisations and industry, communities, hapū, iwi, Māori organisations and local government to manage and deliver funds tailored to build New Zealand's regional economies. Since 2018, the Government has allocated $4.5 billion towards a range of funds managed and administered by Kānoa. In particular, the team David lead had responsibility for managing circa $850 million of equity, debt and asset investments for Crown Regional Holdings Limited (CRHL). CRHL is the Schedule 4A company that holds Kanoa's assets. Prior to his role at Kanoa, David was a Senior Commercial Leader on strategic government projects, a Client Executive and manager at Spark Digital and a lawyer for the Spark family of companies.
David Van Der Zouwe
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships
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Department of Conservation | Te Papa Atawhai
David van der Zouwe is Director Partnerships and Investment at the Department of Conservation in New Zealand (DOC). DOC faces challenges to achieve its conservation objectives with limited resources and a lack of public awareness and engagement regarding the biodiversity crisis. It is estimated DOC has 10 -15% of the necessary funds to meet its biodiversity conservation goals and one piece of research noted that 58% of New Zealanders thought that the countries' biodiversity is in good shape. DOC's Strategic Partnerships function can address these challenges by: harnessing collective action for nature and attracting resources (through private finance, commercial and philanthropic) to support priority programmes and conservation across New Zealand.
David comes to the role from a legal, commercial and investment background. Immediately prior to joining DOC David had 4 years as head of investment at Kānoa. Kānoa works with other Government organisations and industry, communities, hapū, iwi, Māori organisations and local government to manage and deliver funds tailored to build New Zealand's regional economies. Since 2018, the Government has allocated $4.5 billion towards a range of funds managed and administered by Kānoa. In particular, the team David lead had responsibility for managing circa $850 million of equity, debt and asset investments for Crown Regional Holdings Limited (CRHL). CRHL is the Schedule 4A company that holds Kanoa's assets. Prior to his role at Kanoa, David was a Senior Commercial Leader on strategic government projects, a Client Executive and manager at Spark Digital and a lawyer for the Spark family of companies.
David Van Der Zouwe
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Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships
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Department of Conservation | Te Papa Atawhai
David van der Zouwe is Director Partnerships and Investment at the Department of Conservation in New Zealand (DOC). DOC faces challenges to achieve its conservation objectives with limited resources and a lack of public awareness and engagement regarding the biodiversity crisis. It is estimated DOC has 10 -15% of the necessary funds to meet its biodiversity conservation goals and one piece of research noted that 58% of New Zealanders thought that the countries' biodiversity is in good shape. DOC's Strategic Partnerships function can address these challenges by: harnessing collective action for nature and attracting resources (through private finance, commercial and philanthropic) to support priority programmes and conservation across New Zealand.
David comes to the role from a legal, commercial and investment background. Immediately prior to joining DOC David had 4 years as head of investment at Kānoa. Kānoa works with other Government organisations and industry, communities, hapū, iwi, Māori organisations and local government to manage and deliver funds tailored to build New Zealand's regional economies. Since 2018, the Government has allocated $4.5 billion towards a range of funds managed and administered by Kānoa. In particular, the team David lead had responsibility for managing circa $850 million of equity, debt and asset investments for Crown Regional Holdings Limited (CRHL). CRHL is the Schedule 4A company that holds Kanoa's assets. Prior to his role at Kanoa, David was a Senior Commercial Leader on strategic government projects, a Client Executive and manager at Spark Digital and a lawyer for the Spark family of companies.