Anand Satyanand


Sir Anand Satyanand GNZM QSO KStJ is a former lawyer, judge and ombudsman. He was the 19th GovernorGeneral of New Zealand. He is now Chair of the Commonwealth Foundation.

Satyanand was born and raised in Auckland to an IndoFijian family in 1944. His grandparents arrived in Fiji from India in 1911, and were married on Nukulau Island. His father, Mutyala Satyanand OBE, a medical doctor, was born in Sigatoka in 1913 and arrived in New Zealand in 1927 to attend high school. His mother Tara Tillak was a nurse from Suva. She married his father after moving to New Zealand.

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