Ann Brower

[1] A survivor of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, she successfully lobbied for a law change to the Building Act, which was passed in 2016 as the Brower Amendment.

Her specialist area is environmental policy, particularly in relation to state-owned lands and natural resources in the US, Australia, and New Zealand.

[5] On 22 February 2011, Brower was on a bus travelling along Colombo Street in the central city area of Christchurch when an earthquake struck.

[3] She also wrote a number of opinion pieces which explained her policy recommendations and were published in the mainstream media.

[1] In 2022 Brower was awarded the Charles Fleming Award for Environmental Achievement by the Royal Society Te Apārangi "for her pioneering interdisciplinary research that challenged the foundations of high country tenure review, and catalysed legislative reform to improve the conservation of New Zealand's unique landscapes and biodiversity".