{"id":1514,"date":"2019-07-12T23:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T11:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climate-x.dvlpmnt.wpengine.com\/livia-esterhazy-climate-x-judge\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T22:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:46:16","slug":"livia-esterhazy-climate-x-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/livia-esterhazy-climate-x-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Livia Esterhazy, Climate-X Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Livia Esterhazy is the Chief Executive Officer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwf.org.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWF-New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I joined WWF-New Zealand in 2017 it changed the way I saw the world. I realised both the challenges that face us in conservation, like species loss and climate change, and the determination shown by New Zealanders to overcome these challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image image regular\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/170508Livia-Esterhazy-WWF-New-Zealandjpg_e45d8628c0d70974a22d3c97225d140f_800.jpg\" alt=\"Livia Esterhazy\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ms Esterhazy is in many ways a global citizen with French, Australian and New Zealand citizenship. She\u2019s put roots down with her family in Aotearoa. After more than a decade managing advertising agencies, she now applies her commercial expertise to make a positive contribution to the wider social good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Esterhazy says, \u201cNew Zealand\u2019s natural environment is taonga. Once great flightless birds roamed Aotearoa\u2019s forests. But once humans were here, moa were hunted into extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, our world\u2019s rarest marine dolphin is at risk of disappearing forever, all because of us. Science tells us this must stop now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Livia is known as a strategic thinker with financial acumen, great communication capabilities and charisma, good networks and as a strong advocate for living in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously she was the Managing Director at Clemenger BBDO, and she\u2019s also had senior management roles with Saatchi &amp; Saatchi, Kiwibank and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and is a non-executive director on the Treasury\u2019s Board. As a judge, she\u2019ll see how ideas fit into the world of business, people and planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><!-- End strchf script --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Livia Esterhazy is the Chief Executive of WWF NZ. She&#8217;s known as a strategic thinker with financial acumen, and as a strong advocate for living in harmony with nature. As a judge, she\u2019ll see how ideas fit into the world of business, people and planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[32],"websection":[],"organisation":[],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judge","tag-judge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"websection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/websection?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"organisation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integralgood.com\/climate-x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organisation?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}