In this video Phil Alexander-Crawford (Hanga Aro Rau) introduces three recently released publications highlighting the important contribution of Māori, Pacific and Disabled learners to the New Zealand economy.

The potential contribution of Māori, Pacific and Disabled learners to the economy - focussing on Māori learners.

In 2025 Hanga Aro Rau released three white papers focussing on the importance and potential contribution of these three groups of priority learners to the NZ economy. In this video, our guest speaker Phil Alexander-Crawford will speak about these with a focus particularly on Māori learners.

He also talks about the history of Work Development Councils (Ohumahi), particularly Hanga Aro Rau which he leads, and then to cast and eye to the future, especially with the development of Industry Skills Boards.

Phil Alexander-Crawford is an experienced transformation and transition manager with an investment for impact focus. He has a history of thought leadership in the higher education world using an akonga centered Kaupapa to improve outcomes for hapori, Iwi, hapu and whanau. In addition he has experience in engagement and solution based co-design across multiple stakeholders and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partners. With strong communication skills honed from practicing law, lecturing, extensive governance/management roles and facilitation, and education background with bachelor degrees in law and business, as well as a Master's Degree focused on State Education Policy and Māori.