Sir Colin James Maiden (5 May 1933 – 31 July 2024) was a New Zealand mechanical engineer, university administrator and company director.
[2] He then attended Auckland University College completing a Bachelor and Master of Engineering, graduating with the latter degree in 1956.
[2] Following his retirement as vice chancellor, Maiden held directorships of many leading New Zealand companies including Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, DB Breweries, Mason Industries, Farmers Trading Company, Progressive Enterprises, ANZ Banking Group, Foodland Associated, New Zealand Steel, Winstone, Wilkins & Davies, National Insurance, Tower Corporation, and Independent Newspapers.
[5] In the 1992 New Year Honours, Maiden was appointed a Knight Bachelor, for services to education and business management,[6] and in 1994 he was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Auckland.
[7] He was an Honorary Fellow of his University of Oxford alma mater, Exeter College, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.