Governance

Director (Professor Wayne Cutfield)
The Director has overall responsibility for the operation and scientific direction of the Institute. He reports directly to The University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor.

Senior management group
The Director is supported in his duties by a team comprising senior academic and general staff members of the Institute.

The board comprises leading international scientists and clinicians who have specialist knowledge and reputations in the fields of research undertaken at the Liggins Institute. Members of the board visit the institute regularly to review the current research and strategic directions, offer advice and report on the institute’s performance against its strategic objectives.

The board is chaired by Professor John Funder, Professor of Medicine, Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Melbourne.

Leading international scientists are scientific patrons of the Liggins Institute

• Sir Graham Liggins FRS, Emeritus Professor, The University of Auckland
• Professor Eric Kandel NAS, Nobel Laureate, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University
• Professor Mel Grumbach NAS, Department of Pediatrics, University of California
• Professor Lewis Wolpert FRS, Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London
• Professor David Barker FRS, Department of Medicine, University of Southampton
• Professor Brian Heap FRS, Former Master, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
• Professor Os Reynolds FRS, Emeritus Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics, University College London
• Professor Joseph Volpe NIM, Neurologist-in-Chief, Children's Hospital, Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Professor Lord Robert Winston, Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College, London