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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & schools privacy codes
AI governance & regulation
Certified 2024–2026
• Introduction to AI Governance (NASBA · PMI)
• Becoming a Chief AI Officer
• Navigating the EU AI Act
• AI for Governance, Risk & Compliance
• Auditing AI Systems
• Fundamentals of AI Security (Microsoft)
Responsible & ethical AI
Universities & institutes
• Ethics of AI — University of Helsinki
• Thinking AI — Sorbonne (SCAI)
• AI & Equality: A Human Rights Toolbox
• Foundations of Responsible AI
• Responsible AI Algorithm Design
• Ethics in the Age of Generative AI
Data governance & stewardship
Certified 2024
• Mastering Data Governance & Ethics
• Data Steward Foundations (NASBA)
• Designing Data Governance
• Data Rights Foundations
• Data Ethics: Watching for Misuse
• Microsoft Purview & data cataloguing
Governance & directorship
Institute of Directors · Community Governance
• Company Directors’ Course
• Advanced Health & Safety Governance
• IoD AI Forum
• Institute of Community Directors
Applied & technical AI
Microsoft · IBM · Google · AWS
• Azure AI & Document Intelligence
• IBM AI, ML & NLP fundamentals
• Responsible AI with Google Cloud
• AWS Generative AI for Executives
• Hugging Face AI Agents Fundamentals
• Prompt engineering & LLM foundations
Full record
The complete certification history, grouped by field. Expand each area for the itemised list.
Privacy & 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 & 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 & ethical AI
Ethics of AI — University of Helsinki 2024
Thinking AI — Sorbonne SCAI 2024
AI & Equality: A Human Rights Toolbox — Sorbonne SCAI 2024
Foundations of Responsible AI — NASBA 2024
Foundations of Responsible AI — LinkedIn 2024
Responsible AI: Principles & Practical Applications — NASBA 2024
Responsible AI: Principles & 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 & stewardship
Mastering Data Governance & 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 & directorship
Company Directors’ Course — IoD NZ 2026
Advanced Health & 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 & technical AI
AI for Business Mini‑MBA — Section × Spark 2025
AI Agents Fundamentals — Hugging Face 2025
Azure AI & 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 & Deep Learning — IBM 2024
NLP & 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 & contribution
Speaker — AIoT Global Summit, TechTALK 2025
Certifications and professional development recorded 2024–2026. A full list with credential IDs is available on request.