Melanie Dooney

Melanie has leadership responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing, legal, people and capability, people services, public relations and government relations at Auckland Airport.

A proven people-leader, Melanie brings 20 years of experience in senior human resources and finance roles in New Zealand and internationally. Working across the manufacturing, IT and financial service sectors, she has previously been responsible for health & safety, employee experience, employment and industrial relations, organisational development, culture and communications.

Most recently she was Chief People Officer for Te Whatu Ora, Auckland District, where she led her team through the challenges of the pandemic and built the corporate head office People & Culture function for the newly created Te Whatu Ora.

Melanie holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Science in Biochemistry degree, both from the University of Otago.