Claire Winfield Ngamihi Charters is a New Zealand Māori academic from the Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi and Tainui iwi (tribes).
In 2017, Charters was appointed an advisor to the United Nations General Assembly, representing indigenous peoples of the Pacific.
[1][4][5] In 2017, Charters received a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi for a research project entitled: 'Constitutional Transformation to Accommodate Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Lessons from Around the Globe'.
Other members include Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei (Architecture), Sam Manuela (Psychology), Kilisimasi Latu (Engineering), Lena Henry (Urban Planning), Sereana Naepi (Sociology) and Tia Reihana (Dance Studies), it is co-directed by Deidre Brown and Karamia Müller.
[7] Charters is married to fellow University of Auckland legal academic Anaru Erueti.