Cindy Kiro
Also known as Cynthia Alcyion Kiro, Dame Cindy Kiro, Dame Cynthia Kiro, Cindy Alcyion Kiro, Cynthia Kiro, C. Kiro, C Kiro, Dame Cynthia Alcyion Kiro
New Zealand Governor-General, former academic and social justice advocate
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- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,222x
- Systematic review or scoping review? Guidance for authors when choosing between a systematic or scoping review approach
· 2018 · cited 8,693x
- AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models
· 2021 · cited 7,611x
- Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.
· 1987 · cited 6,517x
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Dame Alcyion Cynthia Kiro ( Māori: [kiːɾɔ]; née Simpson; born 1958) is a New Zealand public-health academic, administrator, and advocate, who has been serving as the 22nd governor-general of New Zealand since 21 October 2021. Kiro is the first Māori woman and the third person of Māori descent to hold the office.
Before she was announced as governor-general designate, Kiro was Chief Executive of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and was previously the Children's Commissioner, head of school of the School of Public Health at Massey University, head of Te Kura Māori at Victoria University of Wellington, and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Māori) of the University of Auckland.
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1958 birthsAcademic staff of Massey UniversityAcademic staff of Victoria University of WellingtonChildren's ombudsmen in New ZealandCompanions of the Queen's Service OrderDames Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of MeritDames of the Order of St JohnFemale governors-generalGovernors-general of New ZealandLiving peopleMassey University alumni