Hirini Matunga


Hirini Matunga is a New Zealand town planning academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Lincoln University. He has written on Māori tourism as well as indigenous thinking within the field of urban planning.

Academic career

With a degree in town planning from the University of Auckland Matunga had 25 years experience as a town planner before joining Lincoln University as Director of the Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development.

Selected works

Personal life

Matunga is Māori, of Kāti Māmoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu, and Rongowhakaata descent.