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Biography
Ingread Nea Collins MNZM is a New Zealand businesswoman based in Gisborne. She chaired the Tairawhiti District Health Board from 2001 until 2010.
Career
Since at least the 1970s, Collins has worked within the Māori land business, such as managing land incorporations. Since the 1970s, she has been trustee and chairwoman of Whangara B5 and Whangara Farms.
Collins was appointed to the Tairawhiti District Health Board in 2001, and chaired until 2010. She was appointed to the Crown Health Financing Agency in December 2010, where served from 2011 until 2012. In early 2013 Collins was appointed to the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. As of 2013 she is a member of the AgResearch Māori Advisory Committee, co-owns and chief executive of Three Rivers Medical in Gisborne, and is a trustee of Chelsea Private Hospital also in Gisborne.
In the 2008 New Year Honours Collins was named a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to Māori.