Wendy Ruth Hawke ONZM[1] is a New Zealand adoption advocate.

[2][3][4] She has been the executive director[5] of Inter-Country Adoption New Zealand, also known as ICANZ,[6][7][8] since 1995.

In 2014 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to inter-country adoption.

[9][10][11] Hawke was a teacher at St Cuthbert's College, Epsom.

[9] Hawke and her husband David were the first New Zealand couple to adopt from Russia in 1992.