Glenn Inwood

Glenn Inwood is a New Zealand right-wing political operative and public relations advisor. Inwood was the founder of the now-defunct Wellington-based Omeka Public Relations company. His duties with Omeka included acting as the speaker for the Institute of Cetacean Research, a Japanese organisation that lobbies on behalf of the Japanese whaling industry. The controversial nature of his role led him to be dubbed "Ginza Glen" by anti-whaling activists. Inwood also operates Wellington based media company Spin It Wide which distributes press releases from Imperial Tobacco. In 2021 Inwood established the far-right pseudo-news outlet and political organising operation Resistance Kiwi, which operates on Twitter, Telegram, and previously, on a now-defunct website. Inwood is also the founder of Better Wellington a conspiracy-aligned rightwing political campaign group aimed at influencing local politics in Wellington.

Early life and journalism Born in 1968, Inwood is of Māori descent and affiliates with Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāi Tūhoe iwi.

Press secretary tenure and resignation Inwood worked as a press secretary for Lianne Dalziel, Immigration Minister in the New Zealand Labour Party government. He also worked simultaneously for Morris Communications on the account of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission. and directed Inwood not to attend.

Working for the whalers Inwood left the Fisheries Commission in 2003 to run his own public relations company, Omeka Public Relations. Inwood works as a PR consultant to the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission and the Institute of Cetacean Research.

Inwood also works for Te Ohu Kaimoana,

Inwood's firm, Omeka, also works for Imperial Tobacco New Zealand, Japan Fisheries Agency, Japan Whaling Association, Species Management Specialists, and the World Council of Whalers.

Inwood is cited as the author in the Portable Document Format properties of a document that iterates alleged actions by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society against whaling entities internationally.

Spy flights Inwood, along with another man, chartered several flights out of Albany and Hobart in December 2009 and January 2010. The spy flights were paid for by Omeka Public Relations and attempted to locate the vessels of whaling protesters. Early reports indicated that Inwood posed as a government employee monitoring the ships for search and rescue purposes. While the spy flights were condemned by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Greg Hunt, charges have not been filed. The incident led to the introduction by Rachel Siewert of a parliamentary bill to ban Japanese whalers from using Australian planes to spy on protesters.