Rangimārie Te Turuki Arikirangi Rose Pere CBE (25 July 1937 – 13 December 2020) was a New Zealand educationalist, spiritual leader, Māori language advocate, academic and conservationist.
Her influences spread throughout New Zealand in education and well-being and she was renowned on the international stage as an expert in indigenous knowledge.
[6] Pere represented New Zealand in 1975 at the United Nations International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City.
[9] In the 1996 New Year Honours, Pere was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to Māori education.
[13] Her three-day tangi across three marae from Wairoa to Tūranga-Nui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne) was covered on national television by the Māori TV news programme, Te Ao.