HRC Board member Suzanne Snively has won the 2013 Wellingtonian of the Year Award from a strong list of category winners at The Dominion Post-sponsored awards.
Suzanne is a former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Wellington and a director of several organisations, including the HRC, Transparency International and the New Zealand Opera.
In 2005 Suzanne was awarded a New Zealand Order of Merit for Services to Business, and she was one of the 100 people honoured by the Queen in Women's Suffrage Year in 1993.
At last night's awards at Te Papa in Wellington, Suzanne also won the Community Service category for work that included chairing Mary Potter Hospice's widening provision of palliative care.
Dominion Post editor Bernadette Courtney said she was in awe of the commitment and passion to Wellington shown by the finalists and award winners.
"These awards are for Wellington and about the people who make Wellington so special," she said. "That we are celebrating our 25th year of the awards is a testament to how Wellingtonians feel about their city."