Dr Levy, also chairman of the Waitemata District Health Board, has extensive management and governance experience in both the public and private health sectors.

He has been Chief Executive and chairman of a number of health organisations, including South Auckland Health (now Counties Manukau District Health Board), the New Zealand Blood Service and the MercyAscot group of Hospitals.

He is a graduate of Medicine, an MBA and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management and has previously been awarded the prestigious King’s Fund International Fellowship.

He is currently chief executive of the New Zealand Leadership Institute and professor (adjunct) of Leadership at the University of Auckland Business School; chairman of the international engineering consultancy - Tonkin & Taylor, and deputy chairman of Health Benefits Limited, which has been charged by the Government to save $700 million from combined District Health Board expenditure through shared services over the next five years.