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# Professional Credentials

Professional Credentials

A continuing record of certified professional development in artificial‑intelligence governance, privacy and data law, data governance, and directorship — spanning New Zealand statutory bodies, international institutes, universities, and standards organisations.

FocusAI governance &amp; data sovereignty

Fields certified7

Active period2024–2026

Recognised credentials

Formal qualifications and certifications from established professional, governmental, and academic institutions.

Company Directors’ Course

The Institute of Directors’ foundational governance qualification for New Zealand directors.

Institute of Directors NZJan 2026

Global MOOC on the Ethics of AI

Certification against UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.

UNESCOJul 2026

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — AI Management Systems

Understanding and implementing the international standard for AI management systems (AIMS).

Standard &amp; certificationDec 2024

AI Governance Certification

Professional certification in enterprise AI governance practice.

Securiti AIAug 2024

Stakeholder Engagement Guide

Certification from the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

The Alan Turing InstituteJul 2025

TCPS 2: CORE 2022 — Research Ethics

Tri‑Council Policy Statement on the ethical conduct of research involving humans.

Panel on Research Ethics, CanadaJul 2024

Advanced Health &amp; Safety Governance

Governance-level health and safety programme for directors.

Institute of Directors NZAug 2025

AI for Business Mini‑MBA

Executive programme on applied AI strategy, delivered by Spark and Section.

Section × SparkJul 2025

Certified competencies

Sustained, current certification across the disciplines that underpin Māori data sovereignty and responsible AI practice.

Privacy &amp; information law

NZ Office of the Privacy Commissioner · 2026

• Introduction to the Privacy Act

• Employment and Privacy

• Privacy Breach Reporting

• Credit Reporting Privacy Code

• Health Information Privacy Code

• Health &amp; schools privacy codes

AI governance &amp; regulation

Certified 2024–2026

• Introduction to AI Governance (NASBA · PMI)

• Becoming a Chief AI Officer

• Navigating the EU AI Act

• AI for Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance

• Auditing AI Systems

• Fundamentals of AI Security (Microsoft)

Responsible &amp; ethical AI

Universities &amp; institutes

• Ethics of AI — University of Helsinki

• Thinking AI — Sorbonne (SCAI)

• AI &amp; Equality: A Human Rights Toolbox

• Foundations of Responsible AI

• Responsible AI Algorithm Design

• Ethics in the Age of Generative AI

Data governance &amp; stewardship

Certified 2024

• Mastering Data Governance &amp; Ethics

• Data Steward Foundations (NASBA)

• Designing Data Governance

• Data Rights Foundations

• Data Ethics: Watching for Misuse

• Microsoft Purview &amp; data cataloguing

Governance &amp; directorship

Institute of Directors · Community Governance

• Company Directors’ Course

• Advanced Health &amp; Safety Governance

• IoD AI Forum

• Institute of Community Directors

Applied &amp; technical AI

Microsoft · IBM · Google · AWS

• Azure AI &amp; Document Intelligence

• IBM AI, ML &amp; NLP fundamentals

• Responsible AI with Google Cloud

• AWS Generative AI for Executives

• Hugging Face AI Agents Fundamentals

• Prompt engineering &amp; LLM foundations

Full record

The complete certification history, grouped by field. Expand each area for the itemised list.

Privacy &amp; information law

Privacy 101: Introduction to the Privacy Act — OPC NZ 2026

Employment and Privacy — OPC NZ 2026

Privacy Breach Reporting — OPC NZ 2026

Credit Reporting Privacy Code (CRPC) — OPC NZ 2026

Health 101: Health Information Privacy Code — OPC NZ 2026

Privacy ABC for Schools — OPC NZ 2026

Health Privacy ABC — OPC NZ 2026

Health ABC — OPC NZ 2026

Data Rights Foundations — LinkedIn 2024

AI governance, ethics &amp; regulation

Global MOOC on the Ethics of AI — UNESCO 2026

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 AIMS 2024

AI Governance Certification — Securiti AI 2024

Stakeholder Engagement Guide — Alan Turing Institute 2025

IoD NZ — AI Forum 2026

Navigating the EU AI Act — LinkedIn 2025

Leveraging AI for GRC — LinkedIn 2025

Introduction to AI Governance — NASBA 2024

Introduction to AI Governance — PMI 2024

Introduction to AI Governance — LinkedIn 2024

Becoming a Chief AI Officer — LinkedIn 2024

Introduction to Auditing AI Systems — LinkedIn 2024

Fundamentals of AI Security — Microsoft 2025

Responsible &amp; ethical AI

Ethics of AI — University of Helsinki 2024

Thinking AI — Sorbonne SCAI 2024

AI &amp; Equality: A Human Rights Toolbox — Sorbonne SCAI 2024

Foundations of Responsible AI — NASBA 2024

Foundations of Responsible AI — LinkedIn 2024

Responsible AI: Principles &amp; Practical Applications — NASBA 2024

Responsible AI: Principles &amp; Practical Applications — LinkedIn 2024

Responsible AI Algorithm Design — LinkedIn 2024

Ethics in the Age of Generative AI — LinkedIn 2024

Responsible AI with Google Cloud — Google 2024

Tech On the Go: Ethics in AI — LinkedIn 2024

AI Ethics — IBM 2024

Data governance &amp; stewardship

Mastering Data Governance &amp; Ethics — LinkedIn 2024

Data Steward Foundations — NASBA 2024

Data Steward Foundations — LinkedIn 2024

Designing Data Governance — LinkedIn 2024

Learning Data Governance — LinkedIn 2024

Data Ethics: Watching Out for Data Misuse — LinkedIn 2024

Discover trusted data using Microsoft Purview 2024

Introduction to Microsoft Purview 2024

Governance &amp; directorship

Company Directors’ Course — IoD NZ 2026

Advanced Health &amp; Safety Governance — IoD NZ 2025

Institute of Community Directors — Community Governance Aotearoa 2026

Research Ethics (TCPS 2: CORE 2022) — Panel on Research Ethics, Canada 2024

Applied &amp; technical AI

AI for Business Mini‑MBA — Section × Spark 2025

AI Agents Fundamentals — Hugging Face 2025

Azure AI &amp; Document Intelligence (series) — Microsoft 2024

Fundamentals of Azure AI services — Microsoft 2024

Fundamentals of Facial Recognition — Microsoft 2024

Fundamentals of OCR — Microsoft 2024

Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals — IBM 2024

Machine Learning &amp; Deep Learning — IBM 2024

NLP &amp; Computer Vision — IBM 2024

Introduction to Generative AI — Google 2024

Introduction to Large Language Models — Google 2024

Generative AI for Executives — AWS 2024

Foundations of Prompt Engineering — AWS 2024

Building a Generative AI‑Ready Organization — AWS 2024

ChatGPT for Everyone — Learn Prompting 2024

What is Copilot? — LinkedIn 2024

Speaking &amp; contribution

Speaker — AIoT Global Summit, TechTALK 2025

Certifications and professional development recorded 2024–2026. A full list with credential IDs is available on request.
