Air New Zealand Limited announced Kiri Hannifin has been appointed to the newly created role of Chief Sustainability Officer. Ms. Hannifin is the Director of Corporate Affairs, Quality, Health & Safety and Sustainability at Countdown. Since 2017 she has spearheaded the company's programme to reduce emissions, managed the health, safety and wellbeing of the company's 21,000 staff and led its internal and external stakeholder management activity.

Kiri Hannifin will join Air New Zealand on 5 December 2022. She holds an LLB and BA in Political Science from Canterbury University.