Professor Gail Pacheco is the Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Commissioner at the NZ Human Rights Commission, and an adjunct Professor at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). She has previously been the Director of the NZ Policy Research Institute at AUT and a Commissioner at the NZ Productivity Commission. She has an extensive track record of social policy-focused research, often leading large-scale collaborations between academia, community organisations, and the public sector.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    EEO Commissioner, NZ Human Rights Commission
  • 2024–present
    Adjunct professor, Auckland University of Technology

Education

  • 2007 
    University of Auckland, PhD in Economics

Contact Gail for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision