The New Zealand Rugby (NZR) Board have confirmed that Professor Dame Farah Palmer might be its third consultant on the World Rugby Council.
Dame Farah loved a storied enjoying profession and captained the Black Ferns to their first three Rugby World Cup titles between 1998 and 2006. Throughout her 30 Exams with the captains armband she skilled defeat solely as soon as.
In 2014 Dame Farah was collectively named one of many first New Zealand girls to be inducted to the World Rugby Corridor of Fame alongside Anna Richards.
Two years later she grew to become the primary feminine to be elected to the NZR Board, a place she held till 2024, in 2021 she was appointed deputy chair of NZR and was a member of the New Zealand Maori Rugby Board for 17 years.
Such has been the affect of Dame Farah on girls’s rugby in New Zealand, the Nationwide Provincial Championship was renamed the Farah Palmer Cup in 2016. She is even credited for New Zealand securing the 2021 Rugby World Cup internet hosting rights.
For thus lengthy the gold normal of girls’s rugby in her residence nation, Dame Farah will now convey her years of administrative expertise to the World Rugby Council.
NZR Chair David Kirk mentioned: “Dame Farah’s contribution to rugby in New Zealand and internationally has been distinctive, each on and off the sector. She combines integrity and management and might be a robust advocate for the expansion of the sport worldwide.”
Dame Farah will signify NZR on the World Rugby Council alongside NZR Board member Greg Barclay and Bart Campbell.
The 52-year-old has changed Dr. Deb Robinson on the World Rugby Council who served on the council since 2018.
Kirk mentioned: “On behalf of the board I want to thank Dr. Deb Robinson for her wonderful contribution to the work of the World Rugby Council, specifically as Chair of the Anti-Doping Advisory Committee.”
