Dr Jesse Pirini

Jesse Pirini is a Senior Lecturer in Management. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship, people analytics, and Indigenous management, governance and organisation. Jesse was recently a Fulbright Scholar based at UMass Boston in the College of Management and UMass Amherst at the newly created Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science. His Fulbright work explored the visualisation of Indigenous management knowledges, and the intersection between these and topics commonly taught in business schools. 

Jesse is currently co-Editor for the Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks book, to be published by Sage in 2026. The companion website, available at https://www.indigenousmanagement.org shows the wide range of international collaborators, offers news about work in the Indigenous research space, and provides a growing collection of Resource pages to support teaching and learning about Indigenous management, governance and organisation. 

Jesse is a founding trustee of Te Matarau a Māui, a regional Māori development agency. Te Matarau a Māui was developed from a regional strategy development process led by Jesse and colleagues, alongside a mana whenua roopu and the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Jesse is also an Amonuku (Associate Director) on the inaugural He Tukutuku Koiora tikanga-led governance programme developed by Tapuwae Roa. In addition he is a board observer with the MetService - Te Ratonga Tirorangi.