Committee Members
The current PACDAC committee is appointed for a three year term between 2022-2024.
Chair - Hon Todd McClay
The Chair of PACDAC is Hon Todd McClay.
Todd McClay is the Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Forestry, Minister for Hunting and Fishing, Minister for Trade, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has been the MP for Rotorua since 2008.
Todd held several Ministerial roles in the Fifth National Government with portfolios including Trade, State-Owned Enterprises and Revenue.
Todd has previously been a diplomat and was the Cook Islands and Niue Ambassador to the European Union. He has worked in business in Europe as well as government and public relations internationally.
Mary Wareham
Deputy chair of PACDAC Mary Wareham is an advocate, researcher, and manager with experience in human rights and humanitarian disarmament. She is currently Advocacy Director for the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. Mary served as founding global coordinator of the Stop Killer Robots campaign until March 2021. She campaigned for the adoption of the 1997 treaty banning landmines and the 2008 convention prohibiting cluster munitions and edits annual monitoring reports assessing compliance with these treaties. Mary received a Peace and Disarmament Education Trust scholarship in 1994 and served as a PACDAC member in 2007-2012. Find Mary on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
Dr. Kevin Clements
Kevin Clements is a preeminent academic in the field of peace and conflict studies, disarmament arms control, and human security. He is currently Director of the Toda Peace Institute in Tokyo, Japan. Kevin is also Emeritus Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he served as founding director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies established in 2009. Kevin writes extensively on the integrated nature of threats to human well-being and survival as well as the imperative of non violent politics, reconciliation and peacebuilding. Find Kevin on his Blog, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Martin Donoghue
Martin Donoghue is a former NZ Army engineer who has served with the New Zealand Defence Force in several capacities. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services Association. Marty has carried out humanitarian mine clearance for the United Nations, humanitarian and private companies in Angola, Iraq, Laos and other countries contaminated by landmines, cluster munition remnants and other explosive remnants of war. He is a New Zealand Red Cross facilitator on the laws of war. Find Marty on LinkedIn.
Jamila Homayun
Jamila Homayun is a researcher, advocate, and manager with experience working in the humanitarian, disaster relief and refugee sectors. She is currently Head of International Projects at Habitat for Humanity New Zealand. Jamila has researched the impact of arms transfers for Human Rights Watch and Oxfam New Zealand. She participated in the diplomatic process to create the 2008 treaty prohibiting cluster munitions, highlighting the voices of survivors and affected communities in Afghanistan and other countries.
Edwina Hughes
Edwina Hughes is an activist and researcher with experience working to promote diplomacy and humanitarian disarmament for peace and security. She is currently the Coordinator of Peace Movement Aotearoa, which is the country’s national peace network and national lead for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Stop Killer Robots, and other global civil society coalitions. Edwina has engaged extensively human rights bodies and on women, peace and security.
Ena Manuireva
Ena Manuireva is born in Mangareva, in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia) and for the last 20 years, has become an anti-nuclear activist and campaigner for nuclear reparations justice from France over the 193 tests staged in that region over three decades. He is also a doctoral candidate and a contributor to Asia Pacific Report seeking French government’s accountability for indigenous human rights violations. Find Ena on LinkedIn.
Lucy Stewart
Lucy Stewart is an activist and manager with experience in disarmament education, events and media, and not-for-profit organizations. She is currently Programme Manager at the Disarmament and Security Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand. Lucy has worked for the New Zealand Centre for Global Studies and the Peace Foundation of New Zealand. She is a graduate of the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. Find Lucy on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Former Members in the current term:
Hon Phil Twyford
Hon Carmel Sepuloni
Dylan Maynard
Dr Andrew Chen