Suzanne Snively appointed honorary Dame Companion for anti-corruption efforts
Snively said she was still coming to terms with the appointment, which she greatly appreciated. "It's such a tremendous feeling of acknowledgement ... I can't even start to absorb what it really means. "The things I do are about people and not the usual things that get honoured in this way." She said it was perhaps ironic that efforts to create greater transparency were not easily seen. The advantages to New Zealand would be immense if it could address transparency in the same way it had addressed its response to Covid-19, she said. "The advantages to our economy would be massive.