Peter James McBride

2023 Lincoln University Bledisloe Medal Recipient

The career of alumnus Peter James McBride fulfils those requirements with distinction.

As Chair of the Board of Directors of dairy industry giant Fonterra, Peter heads the governance of New Zealand’s largest exporter of dairy products and one of the largest dairy exporters in the world. Through Fonterra, Peter is certainly advancing New Zealand’s interests and as a Lincoln alumnus, Postgraduate Diploma in Commerce 2009, he is clearly bringing credit to this university.

Peter was elected Chair of Fonterra in 2020, after two years on the Board of Directors. It is a high- profile commercial position for which he is well
qualified, having won the New Zealand Herald Chairperson of the Year Award in 2018, when he headed the board of another major Kiwi enterprise, Zespri International. Read Peter's full citation.