LINZ Appoints Surveyor-general

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) chief executive Peter Mersi has announced the appointment of Mark Dyer to the roles of surveyor-general and, by extension, chair of the New Zealand Geographic Board Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB). The Office of the Surveyor-General sits within LINZ. It sets standards for the cadastral and geodetic survey systems, and monitors and audits compliance with those standards. The surveyor-general is also ex-officio chair of the NZGB.

Mr Dyer has been in professional survey practice since 1986 working in Auckland and Bay of Plenty survey and planning consultancy firms. He is currently managing director of Rotorua-based survey and planning consultancy Canmap Hawley. He holds graduate qualifications in surveying and post-graduate qualifications in resource and environmental planning.

Mr Dyer’s career includes roles as a hydrographic officer with the Royal New Zealand Navy, president and fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors, and membership of the New Zealand Planning Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Mr Mersi also said farewell to outgoing surveyor-general Dr Don Grant, who will take up an associate professor role at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.