Chief Executive
Environment Bay of Plenty

Bill Bayfield began a career in resource management in local government in Taranaki on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand in 1980. Taranaki, the Texas of the Tasman saw, as a result of oil and gas, rapid industrial development alongside a backbone of dairy farming.

In 2002 Bill took up a position in central government for the Ministry for the Environment as Group Leader in charge of Sustainable Industry and Climate Change. In 2006 he left Wellington to take up the challenge of CEO at Environment Bay of Plenty returning to local government but on the opposite coast.

The Bay of Plenty is the fastest growing region in New Zealand and contains in the Rotorua Lakes one of the country's most challenging water quality issues.