Nicola Shadbolt

Nicola Shadbolt
ONZM
Shadbolt in 2018
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
FieldsAgribusiness
WorkplacesMassey University
Transit New Zealand
Fonterra

Nicola Mary Shadbolt ONZM is a New Zealand farmer, academic and company director. She is currently a professor of farm and agribusiness management at Massey University.[1]

Academic career

Shadbolt earned degrees from the University of Nottingham and Lincoln College (at that time a constituent college of the University of Canterbury) and a diploma from Massey University. Her master's thesis was titled Alternative management strategies and drafting policies for irrigated Canterbury sheep farms.[2] Shadbolt worked at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and then in a variety of roles in government, agribusiness and consultancy before moving to Massey University, rising to full professor.[1][3]

Professional governance career

Shadbolt has held multiple public and private sector directorships. From 1994 to 2001, Shadbolt was on the board of Transit New Zealand.[4][5] She held multiple roles, including director, within the Fonterra group of companies from 2009[6][7] to 2018.[8]

On 19 August 2019 Shadbolt was appointed as Chair and Director of the Plant & Food Crown Research Institute.[9] On 17 December 2019 Shadbolt was appointed as a member of the Climate Change Commission and she concluded this appointment in December 2022.[10][11] On 1 July 2026 Shadbolt commences as a member of the Environmental Protection Authority board.[12]

Awards and honours

In 2017, Shadbolt won the rural section of the Westpac New Zealand Women of Influence Award,[3][13][14] and in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to agribusiness.[3][15]

Selected works

  • Schwendel, B. H.; Wester, T. J.; Morel, P. C. H.; Tavendale, M. H.; Deadman, C.; Shadbolt, N. M.; Otter, D. E. (2015). "Invited review: Organic and conventionally produced milk – an evaluation of factors influencing milk composition". Journal of Dairy Science. 98 (2): 721–746. doi:10.3168/jds.2014-8389. PMID 25497795.
  • Garnevska, Elena; Liu, Guozhong; Shadbolt, Nicola Mary (2011). "Factors for successful development of farmer cooperatives in Northwest China". International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 14 (4): 69–84.
  • Clare, B.; Shadbolt, N.; Reid, J.; Trienekens, J. H. (2002). Supply base relationships in the New Zealand red meat industry: a case study. 5th International Conference on Chain and Network Management in Agribusiness and the Food Industry: Paradoxes in Food Chains and Networks. pp. 805–816.
  • Shadbolt, Nicola; Martin, Sandra (2005). Farm Management in New Zealand. Oxford University Press.
  • Hodgson, J.; Cameron, K. C.; Clark, D. A.; Condron, L. M.; Fraser, Tom; Hedley, M. J.; Holmes, Colin; Kemp, P. D.; Lucas, R. J.; Moot, D. J.; Morris, S.; Nicholas, Phillipa; Shadbolt, Nicola; Sheath, G. W.; Valentine, I.; Waghorn, Garry; Woodfield, D. R. (2005). "New Zealand's pastoral industries: efficient use of grassland resources". In Reynolds, S. G.; Frame, J. (eds.). Grasslands: Developments, Opportunities, Perspectives. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Science Publishers. pp. 181–205.

References

  1. 1 2 "Prof Nicola Shadbolt - Professor in Farm & AgriBusiness Management - Massey University". Massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Shadbolt, Nicola M. (1982), Alternative management strategies and drafting policies for irrigated Canterbury sheep farms (Master's thesis), Research@Lincoln, hdl:10182/4763, Wikidata Q111964709
  3. 1 2 3 "Queen's Birthday Honours: Business leaders recognised". New Zealand Herald. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "New Roading Appointments". Beehive.govt.nz. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Appointments to Transit New Zealand". Beehive.govt.nz. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Fonterra nominates Nicola Shadbolt for shareholders' fund manager". Nbr.co.nz. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Diverse thinking needed on Fonterra's board of directors, Nicola Shadbolt says". Stuff.co.nz. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  8. ↑ Kissun, Sudesh (19 September 2018). "Nine years enough – Shadbolt". Rural News.
  9. ↑ "Annual Report 2020" (PDF). Plant and Food Research. Retrieved 5 May 2026.
  10. ↑ "Powerful climate commissioners appointed, including Harry Clark and James Renwick". Stuff. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  11. ↑ "Our Board and Chief Executive". He Pou a Rangi » Climate Change Commission. 16 July 2025. Archived from the original on 5 December 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2026.
  12. ↑ "New appointments to the Environmental Protection Authority board". The Beehive. 4 May 2026. Retrieved 5 May 2026.
  13. ↑ "Shadbolt takes rural honours at Women of Influence Awards". Stuff.co.nz. 8 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "Congratulations to Professor Shadbolt – but where are the gongs for "science"? - NZIAHS". Agscience.org.nz. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2018 - Citations for Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 14 September 2018.


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