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Peter Devoy

Peter Devoy is an Assistant General Manager with Immigration NZ (INZ).  His sphere of work covers Border operations, Compliance and Investigations.  He has been with  INZ for 2 years.

His previous career was with NZ Police joining in time to be involved in the 1981 Springbok tour.  His career focused on investigation work and his last position was as a Detective Superintendent at Police HQ.  In this capacity he established and led the Financial Crime Group, a group formed in response to new legislation in the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2010 and the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act 2009. 

Peter is a graduate of the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Arts and Massey University with a Masters of Business Studies.

 
 

FORUM PROGRAMME

TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016

8.30 am to 12.30 pm

Chair for the Forum: Sir Anand Satyanand
Former Governor General of New Zealand
and Member of the Rotary Club of Wellington. 

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8:45am to 8.55am

Sir Anand Satyanand
Welcome, opening comments

  

8.55am to 9.00am

Kerry Prendergast
Welcome from the President
of the Rotary Club of Wellington

 

9.00am to 9.20am

Intelligence and Security
in a Free Society
Sir Michael Cullen, Co-author
of 'Intelligence and Security
in a Free Society'

 

9.20am to 9.30am

Russell Stanners, CEO, 
Vodafone,
Sponsor of the Forum. BIO >

 

9.30am to 9.45am

Hon Chris Finlayson, Minister
responsible for the
NZSIS and GCSB. BIO >

 

9.45am to 10.00am

Discussion time and
questions with
the 3 previous speakers

 

 10.00am to 10.25am

Morning tea 

 

10.25am to 10.35am

Are Security-Liberty
Tradeoffs Necessary?
Professor Robert Ayson,
Professor of Strategic Studies,
Victoria University. BIO >

 

10.35 am  to 10.45am 

The Privacy Security
Dilemma
Peter Devoy,
Deputy Manager Border
Operations, Immigration NZ. 
BIO >

 

 10.45 am  to 10.55am

Bulk Collection, Mass
Surveillance, Targeted
Espionage and the
issue of Consent
Dr Paul Buchanan
36th Parallel Assessments Ltd,
security commentator. BIO >

 

10.55am to 11.05am

Decolonizing data: The case
for Māori data sovereignty
Karen Coutts

 

11.05am to 11.20am

Discussion time and
questions with
the 4 previous speakers

  

11.20 am to 11.30am

Digital age privacy and security
go hand-in-hand
Professor Miriam Lips, 
Chair in Digital Government,
Victoria. BIO >
PRESENTATION >

 

11.30 am to 11.40am

Why privacy isn't enough
Thomas Beagle,
National President, NZ Council
for Civil Liberties. BIO >

 

 11.40am to 11.50am

Security & social cohesion:
the value of belonging
Anjum Rahman,
Spokesperson, Islamic
Women’s Council. BIO >

 
11.50am to 12.00pm

Privacy vs Security
- The False Dichotomy
John Edwards,
Privacy Commissioner.
BIO >

 

12.00pm to 12.15pm

Discussion time and
questions with
the 4 previous speakers

 

12.15pm to 12.30pm

Summing up and close
Sir Anand Satyanand

  

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