Graeme Hunt


Graeme John Hunt was a New Zealand journalist, author and historian.

Biography

Hunt was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was the third of the five children, of Frederick Phillip Hunt, a self-employed wireworker, and Beverley Nance Hunt , an accounts clerk. He attended Penrose High School in Auckland.
Hunt, who initially trained as an accountant, was a journalist, author and historian. He held a history degree and a business studies diploma from Massey University in Palmerston North, and attended Green College, University of Oxford, England, in 2000 as a Chevening/David Low journalism fellow under the Reuters Foundation Programme.
Hunt was a former editor-at-large of the National Business Review, Auckland, and a former editor of that paper's annual Rich List. He was also a radio and television commentator on business and politics and wrote for a number of New Zealand publications including the New Zealand Listener, Management magazine, the New Zealand Herald, the Herald on Sunday and Metro.

Interests

Hunt was deputy chairman of One Tree Hill College Board of Trustees, Auckland, and was formerly deputy chairman of Kelston Girls' College Board of Trustees, Auckland.
He also served on the Young Enterprise Trust Supporters' Council and undertook the research into, and helped select, laureates for the Fairfax Media New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.
He was a keen genealogist and published two books on his family history.
Hunt was a critic of New Zealand's mixed-member proportional voting system and campaigned for its abolition.

Politics

On 19 April 2010 Hunt announced he would be standing on the North Now ticket for the new Auckland Council. He died at his residence in Auckland before the elections were completed.

Personal details

Hunt was married to Saluma, a human resources manager, originally from Niue. He fathered two children, a son and daughter, from a previous marriage.

Works

Hunt's works included:
Hunt wrote or edited several other books, including school and business histories.