Josie Pagani
Josie Pagani works in geopolitics, aid and development, and governance.
She is a partner in a boutique management counsel and public affairs agency.
Josie chairs the Board of Fair Trade Australia & New Zealand.
Her column appears weekly in the capital morning daily, the Dominion Post. She was named a finalist for Best Columnist in the 2023 Voyager Media Awards.
Josie is a a trustee of the Rewi Alley foundation.
She founded Progress New Zealand and regularly participates in Global Progress events.
She is a former chair of the board of Parents Centre and a former director of the Council for International Development.
She has been a ministerial press secretary and she has worked as a manager in aid and development at the OECD in Paris and at New Zealand’s aid and development agency.
Josie has been an advocate for prison reform and an active member of UK Labour. She was a candidate for parliament in New Zealand for Labour 2011 and for the Progressive Party in 2008.
Born in New Zealand, she has lived in the US and France. She grew up in the United Kingdom and earned her degree at Warwick University. She has a Graduate Certificate in International Law from Victoria University of Wellington and has limited knowledge of German, French and Maori.
Josie is the daughter of Emory University professor Fraser J Harbutt, and leading New Zealand writer Elspeth Sandys. You can read a media profile of her here.
She is a partner in a boutique management counsel and public affairs agency.
Josie chairs the Board of Fair Trade Australia & New Zealand.
Her column appears weekly in the capital morning daily, the Dominion Post. She was named a finalist for Best Columnist in the 2023 Voyager Media Awards.
Josie is a a trustee of the Rewi Alley foundation.
She founded Progress New Zealand and regularly participates in Global Progress events.
She is a former chair of the board of Parents Centre and a former director of the Council for International Development.
She has been a ministerial press secretary and she has worked as a manager in aid and development at the OECD in Paris and at New Zealand’s aid and development agency.
Josie has been an advocate for prison reform and an active member of UK Labour. She was a candidate for parliament in New Zealand for Labour 2011 and for the Progressive Party in 2008.
Born in New Zealand, she has lived in the US and France. She grew up in the United Kingdom and earned her degree at Warwick University. She has a Graduate Certificate in International Law from Victoria University of Wellington and has limited knowledge of German, French and Maori.
Josie is the daughter of Emory University professor Fraser J Harbutt, and leading New Zealand writer Elspeth Sandys. You can read a media profile of her here.
