Rob Steele

ISO Secretary-General

took up the post of ISO Secretary-General on 1 January 2009. Rob Steele was the Chief Executive Officer of Standards New Zealand (SNZ) until 2007. He is a Chartered Accountant, a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors, and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management. Since leaving SNZ, Rob Steele has provided advice to organizations both in New Zealand and overseas on strategic business and standards issues; assisted regulators and standards organizations in several countries to develop strategies in public policy and standardization; and worked with a United Nations specialized agency in three countries on energy efficiency systems and an international standard for industry. Rob Steele was Secretary of the Pacific Area Standards Congress (PASC) from 2002 to April 2007. During his tenure as CEO of the New Zealand standards body, he represented SNZ on ISO's governance bodies where he was involved in developing policies on the global relevance of International Standards and led an ad hoc group to develop recommendations on ISO’s strategy on management system standards.