Manager
Government Recordkeeping Programme
Archives New Zealand
Wellington
New Zealand.
Evelyn Wareham will be presenting on Culture, Accountability and Recordkeeping: Getting Leaders to Listen in the Pacific Islands on Tuesday
Evelyn Wareham heads the national archives team responsible for recordkeeping standards advice to New Zealand government agencies and guidance on their preparations for the recordkeeping audits required by the New Zealand Public Records Act, 2005.
Evelyn has wide experience in the international dimensions of the recordkeeping field. From 2002 to 2004, she worked at the headquarters of the International Council of Archives (ICA) in Paris, where she co-ordinated ICA’s professional programme of projects and conferences. She is currently a member of the Standards New Zealand - Standards Australia joint committee on records management and is International Notes Editor for the Australian Society of Archivists journal Archives and Manuscripts.
Before the ICA posting, Evelyn was a Senior Archives Analyst at Archives New Zealand where she co-ordinated its storage and access standards.
With a strong interest in Pacific studies, Evelyn has been working for many years with archivists and records managers from the Pacific Islands as Secretary General of the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA). She has participated in Pacific conferences in Palau, Fiji and Hawaii and has also spoken at archives events in Canada, Malaysia, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
She is the author of the book Race and Realpolitik: The Politics of Colonisation in German Samoa (Peter Lang Verlag, 2002), as well as of numerous articles on recordkeeping topics.
Evelyn Wareham
Manager
Government Recordkeeping Programme
Archives New Zealand
Street:
10 Mulgrave Street
Wellington
New Zealand
Postal:
PO Box 12-050
Wellington
New Zealand
Telephone: +64 (0)4 499 5595
