Sir Anand Satyanand, GNZM, QSO, KStJ (born 22 July 1944) was the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand. He previously worked as a lawyer, judge and ombudsman.
Satyanand was born and raised in Auckland to an Indo-Fijian family. His grandparents arrived in Fiji from Andhra, India in 1911, and were married on Nukulau Island. His father, Mutyala Satyanand, a medical doctor, was born in Sigatoka in 1913 and arrived in New Zealand in 1927 to attend high...
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Sir Anand Satyanand, GNZM, QSO, KStJ (born 22 July 1944) was the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand. He previously worked as a lawyer, judge and ombudsman.
Satyanand was born and raised in Auckland to an Indo-Fijian family. His grandparents arrived in Fiji from Andhra, India in 1911, and were married on Nukulau Island. His father, Mutyala Satyanand, a medical doctor, was born in Sigatoka in 1913 and arrived in New Zealand in 1927 to attend high school. His mother Tara Tillak was a nurse from Suva. She married his father after moving to New Zealand.
Satyanand attended Sacred Heart College in Auckland and then moved to Dunedin to take a medical intermediate course at the University of Otago. He was not successful in gaining entry to the medical school and later said "...in reality I did not do well enough ... (but)... Looking back over that year, I remembered that one of the things I had really enjoyed was the debating and forum meetings involving students." So instead he took up law,...
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