Peter Lennox

Peter Lennox

Best advice ever received:
"Remember to treat others with dignity from your Chair to the cleaners. This will reap dividends as useful ideas, insights and information come from many unexpected sources.”

 

Chair Since: 2025
Current position
  • CEO of LML (Lennox Mentors Limited) as from February 2025.  

 

Education
  • MBA (Finance/Marketing), Glasgow University, Scotland (1988)
  • MSc (Biological Sciences), Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (1983)
  • BSc (Hons, Biochemistry), Queen’s University, Belfast (1981)

    Peter is a member of the Institute of Directors NZ (since 2011) and holds additional UK and Ireland passports alongside NZ citizenship.

     
Prior Experience
  • United Nations World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), 2011–2020: Served as New Zealand’s Permanent Representative
  • CEO. Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), 2020–2024.
  • CEO. MetService New Zealand and MetraWeather, 2011–2020. Peter expanded the company’s global operations, and was also a Director of its subsidiaries in Thailand, the UK, and Australia.
  • General Manager. New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE), 2002–2011.
  • Executive Director. Scottish Enterprise, 1989–2002.
  • General Manager. William Grant & Sons, 1984–1989.

Peter’s career reflects a strategic blend of scientific expertise, commercial acumen, and global influence, consistently delivering impactful outcomes across diverse sectors.

He is a seasoned executive and board director with over three decades of global leadership experience across private and public sectors in Europe, the USA, South America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

His expertise spans governance, science, foreign direct investment (FDI), exporting, and the food and beverage industry, with a proven track record of driving organizational growth and securing high-value contracts from international bodies like the European Union, World Bank, United Nations (UNDP), and private entities such as SKY, Al Jazeera, BBC, and Mars Inc.