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Amanda is a policy advisor with expertise in historic heritage. Since 2019, Amanda has been a policy advisor at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, largely working in place-based heritage policy. Amanda has been the Ministry’s lead advisor on resource management reform for several years, contributing historic heritage advice to the current reforms and the work undertaken by the previous government.
Amanda holds qualifications in history, architectural history and building conservation from the University of Canterbury and the University of Melbourne. Starting her heritage career in Melbourne at the Heritage Council of Victoria in 2009, Amanda returned to New Zealand in 2014. She worked at Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga as the Registrar and then at Wellington City Council as a heritage advisor. Amanda was also on the board of ICOMOS Aotearoa NZ from 2016 to 2024.
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