Sir Tamati Reedy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.jpg) Reedy in 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Tamati Muturangi Reedy 16 July 1936 Ruatoria, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Tilly Moeke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Eight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relatives | Materoa Reedy (grandmother) Arnold Reedy (uncle) Virginia Warriner (niece) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Academic background | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Hawaiʻi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thesis | Complex sentence formation in Maori (1979) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Linguistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institutions | University of Waikato | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir Tamati Muturangi Reedy KNZM (born 16 July 1936) is a New Zealand Māori academic and former public servant and rugby union player. He served as secretary of the Department of Maori Affairs between 1983 and 1989, during which time he was involved in the Māori loans affair. He was the foundation dean and professor of the School of Māori and Pacific Development at the University of Waikato in 1996, and was later the professor of Māori sustainable enterprise in the School of Management at Waikato. He was knighted, for services to education, in 2011.