Michael Dreyer is the GM of National Digital Services and Chief Technology Officer at the Ministry of Health. The team provide shared national health IT Services such as the National Health Index, Payments, Screening and Registers (Cancer, Immunisation etc). During the Covid response Michael established and ran the Contact Tracing Service and has lead the delivery of technology for the response. This includes the new National Contact Tracing Solution, the Border Management systems and the COVID-19 Vaccine and Immunisation Programme.
Prior to his current role he worked for ten years at Contact Energy, finishing as Acting General Manager ICT where he lead a migration to cloud services. He has a Master’s Degree in Forestry Science (Cant.). He spent his early career running digital transformations in London and also driving superyachts in the Mediterranean.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
