Sir Tamati Muturangi Reedy KNZM (born 16 July 1936) is a New Zealand Māori academic and former public servant and rugby union player.
[6] Reedy married Tilly Te Koingo Moeke, also of Ngāti Porou from Ruatoria and a teacher trainee at the time, and they had eight children.
[5] A wing and fullback, Reedy was a member of the Hikurangi Rugby Club, and played for the East Coast representative team from 1956 to 1962.
[6] In 1959, Reedy played two matches for a combined Poverty Bay–East Coast side, including one against the touring British Isles team at Rugby Park, Gisborne, in which he scored two tries.
[15] From 1982 to 1983, Reedy was a Fulbright scholar and associate professor at the University of Alabama, where he taught courses in linguistics and an anthropology paper, "Peoples of the Pacific".
[16] However, he was also embroiled in the Māori loans affair, which tainted his time in office, and led to the dissolution of the department and its ultimate replacement by Te Puni Kōkiri.
[17] Between 1983 and 1989, Reedy also sat on the board of the Māori Education Foundation, and in 1989 he was a New Zealand government representative at the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention in Geneva.
[17] In 1996, Reedy was appointed as the inaugural dean and professor of the School of Māori and Pacific Development at the University of Waikato.
[5] In the 2011 New Year Honours, Reedy was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education.