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Dr. Rod Carr is the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canterbury.
Previously Rod had been the Managing Director of Jade Software Corporation Ltd. Rod joined Jade in 2003 after a distinguished career in the banking sector, most recently as the Acting Governor of New Zealand’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. During a five-year career at the Reserve Bank, he played a key management role as a Director and Deputy Governor, including five months as Acting Governor.
Prior to this, Rod was a senior executive at the National Australia Bank in Melbourne, Australia. During his 11-year career in commercial banking, he worked in senior executive and management roles spanning many aspects of the business.
Rod holds a PhD in Insurance and Risk Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an MBA in Finance, MSc in Applied Economics and undergraduate degrees in law and economics. In 2005 Rod accepted an invitation to become a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management and in 2006 Dr Carr was named in NZ H-Tech Company Leader of the Year.
He is involved in several private and public companies as a director, including Lyttelton Port Company Ltd and Taranaki Investment Management Ltd. Rod is a member of the Board of the New Zealand International Business Forum. This will be Rod's fourth year as a member of the Board of the Employers’ Chamber of Commerce.
Married with four children, Rod spends his spare time swimming and running and has completed the
London, Paris, Athens, Boston, New York, Istanbul, and Antarctica marathons in the past six years.
