Associate Professor Maui Hudson

Director, Te Kotahi Research Institute
University of Waikato

Maui Hudson is a member of the Whakatōhea, Ngāruahine, and Te Māhurehure Iwi in Aotearoa New Zealand. He is a member of the Whakatōhea Māori Trust Board and a number of other tribal entities. Maui Hudson is a founding member of Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance. He is a co-convener of SING Aotearoa, a capacity building initiative for Indigenous Genomics, and organized the first SING Indigenous Genomics Conference in Hamilton, New Zealand earlier this year.

Maui co-authored the Te Mata Ira Guidelines for Genomic Research with Māori and it working on the Te Nohonga Kaitiaki Guidelines for Genomic Research with Taonga Species (Indigenous flora and fauna). Maui is a member of the Senior Leadership Team for Genomics Aotearoa and is part of a team developing Biocultural Labels to recognize Indigenous interests in digital sequence information. He also leads a new research programme focusing on Tikanga and Technology, Indigenous approaches to transforming data ecosystems.