LawFuel Power List 2025
No. 2
Kitteridge’s August 2025 appointment as Professor of Practice at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government wasn’t just a plum academic gig—it was a coronation.
The Deputy Public Service Commissioner role already gave her the ear of every minister who matters; Oxford gives her global heft. Her CV reads like New Zealand’s institutional spine: Secretary of the Cabinet (2008-2013), first woman to head the SIS (2014-2023), Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. She’s the person bureaucrats call when things go sideways and politicians need deniability.
Oxford’s three-year appointment (November 2025-2028) means she’ll be shaping public service delivery in New Zealand while lecturing to mandarins-in-training globally. It’s influence laundering at its finest—and it’s why she’s cemented at No. 2.
