Tahu Potiki

Tahu Potiki (23 December 1966 – 27 August 2019) was a New Zealand Māori leader who served as chief executive of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu from 2002 to 2006.

Biography Potiki was born in Palmerston to Les and Rona Potiki, and grew up in Karitane, becoming an authority on the history of his iwi, Ngāi Tahu. He died in Auckland on 27 August 2019, aged 52, having been diagnosed with end-stage liver disease in 2014, and receiving a liver transplant in 2017.