Leonie Pihama

Leonie Eileen Pihama is a New Zealand Kaupapa Māori academic, of Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga and Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi descent. 
Career.
Pihama won a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award and is now a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga principal investigator. She did a PhD at the University of Auckland and rose to Associate Professor there, before moving to the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Pihama served on the establishment board of Māori TV and then as a director, but quit after three years due to a conflict of interest involving a family member.
In 2017, Pihama was ranked as one of the '100 Māori leaders' by Te Rau Matatini.