Jane Taylor (lawyer)

Her other appointments include: Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Silver Fern Farms; Chair of Predator Free 2050;[1] Director of Hirepool Group and OTTP New Zealand Forest Investments; Deputy Chair of Radio New Zealand;[2] and Chair of Landcare Research New Zealand.[3] She is also a board member of the External Reporting Board (XRB). Taylor was formally a director of Forestry Corporation of New Zealand Limited, GNS Science Limited, and the Research and Education Advanced Network Limited. She holds honours degrees from the University of Auckland and a postgraduate qualification in accountancy and finance from Victoria University of Wellington. She also holds a BForSc (Hons) from the University of Canterbury.[4] She is a solicitor of the High Court, a member of the New Zealand Law Society,[5] and a member of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

Jane is a current-resource consent commissioner for the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) having sat on "about 100 hearings panels"[6] since her first panel in 2006.

In an article published 10 April 2018 in the National Business Review, it was reported that New Zealand Post, on Taylor's watch, was losing its mail delivery volumes faster than predicted.[7] The article was published days after New Zealand Post announced a controversial increase in postage prices.[8] The article also suggested that New Zealand Post was defying the new Labour led Government by not focusing on providing dividends.[7]

Taylor is a fifth-generation New Zealander, brought up in Coromandel, New Zealand. She attended secondary school in Auckland. She moved to Queenstown from Auckland in 2001. [9] Taylor lives in Queenstown with youngest son and her husband, Mark Taylor, whom she married in 1999 in Arrowtown.[10] She has four children, one of whom is a doctor at Middlemore Hospital.[10]