Makere (Margaret) Mutu - What shapes us

Makere reflects on her personal journey that led her to becoming a constitutional transformation advocate, her reflections on Te Tiriti and leadership taking us forward. “Tikanga is being recognised as a legal system that predated the rule of law” 

 

 

Professor Mikaere (Margaret) Mutu 

Margaret Shirley Mutu is a Ngāti Kahu leader, author and academic from Karikari, New Zealand and works at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Professor Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa and Ngāti Whātua) is Professor of Māori Studies at the University of Auckland. For the past two decades, Margaret has chaired Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu. In that role, she represents Ngāti Kahu on the National Iwi Chairs Forum where she chairs Te Pou Tikanga, the Aotearoa Independent Monitoring Mechanism, which monitors New Zealand’s compliance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Matike Mai Aotearoa — the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation.  

Mutu went on to get a Masters and PhD as well as a diploma in teaching and has taught Māori language and Treaty of Waitangi Courses