Leonie Eileen Pihama FRSNZ (born 1962) is a New Zealand kaupapa Māori academic.
[2] She completed her PhD at the same institution in 2001 and her doctoral thesis had the title Tīhei mauri ora: honouring our voices: mana wahine as a kaupapa Māori: theoretical framework, and was supervised by Fiona Cram, Judith Simon and Linda Tuhiwai Smith.
[4] She rose to Associate Professor there,[5] before moving to the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.
[7] Pihama served on the establishment board of Māori TV and then as a director, but quit after three years due to a conflict of interest involving a family member.
[8] In 2017, Pihama was ranked as one of the '100 Māori leaders' by Te Rau Matatini.