David Flacks

Non-Executive Chair with extensive governance experience and law background from Cambridge University.

David has a number of governance roles and has been chair of AFT since the IPO in 2015. David is also chair of the Suncorp New Zealand group of companies and is a Director of Todd Corporation and a number of environmentally focused pro bono organisations. He is a former chair of the NZ Markets Disciplinary Tribunal and the NZX Regulatory Governance Committee and a former member of the Takeovers Panel. He is a Director of boutique corporate law firm Flacks & Wong. David was for many years a Senior Corporate Partner at Bell Gully and was General Counsel and Company Secretary of Carter Holt Harvey during the 1990's. He is a law graduate from Cambridge University.