Ngapare Hopa
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Ngapare Kaihina Hopa MNZM (1935–30 April 2024[1]) was a Māori academic of Waikato Tainui descent.
Hopa attended Gordonton School in Gordonton.[2] Later she moved to Auckland to attend Queen Victoria School and Epsom Girls’ Grammar.[2]
Hopa later became the first Māori woman to complete a D.Phil degree from the University of Oxford.[2][3][4]
Academic career
Hopa participated as a researcher at the University of Waikato in completing the research that informed the Waikato Raupatu claim.
Hopa headed the Māori Studies department at the University of Auckland.[5][6]
Service
Beginning in 1989, while she was a senior research fellow at Waikato, Hopa became a member of the Waitangi Tribunal. She retired from the tribunal in 1993.[7]