Kim Ngārimu

Kim Ngārimu is a New Zealand business executive. In public service roles she has worked at Te Puni Kōkiri and the Ministry for Women. She was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 2018. In 2023 she was a council member of the Medical Council of New Zealand and was also appointed to the board of Te Aka Whai Ora (the Māori Health Authority).

About Ngārimu is affiliated to the Māori iwi Ngāti Porou and Te Aitanga ā Mate, and is based in the Gisborne region on the East Coast of New Zealand.

Career Ngārimu started a public service career in the early 1990s and was at Te Puni Kōkiri, (the Ministry of Māori Development) a New Zealand Government ministry for Māori wellbeing and development. She left in 1999,

In 2023 she was appointed along with Ben Dalton and Helmut Modlik as a new member of the Board of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority. Ngārimu was appointed to the three-year term role of deputy chair. Associate Minister of Health Peeni Henare described her as an "influencer with proven capability in stakeholder engagement.” In the past she had been a board member of the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT).

Roles held also include:

Chair of Hauora Tairāwhiti, Tairāwhiti District Health Board