number of not-for-profit and philanthropic interests, including being co-founder and trustee of the World Women Charitable Trust, the Eva Doucas Charitable Trust, Patron of the Cambodia Charitable Trust and Chair of the Wellington Board of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and then on the Royal New Zealand SPCA (RNZSPCA) National Board when all the regions joined to form a National body. She is NZ Lead for SheEO, a radically redesigned ecosystem that supports, finances, and celebrates female innovators. The Arts Foundation of New Zealand partnered with Gattung in 2019 to add a $25,000 Arts Laureate prize of the Theresa Gattung Female Arts Practitioners Award. In 2010, Gattung published an autobiography, Bird on a Wire. Awards and recognition In the 2015 New Year Honours, Gattung was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business and philanthropy. In August 2015, she was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame at the 2015 TVNZ Marketing Awards. In 2017, she received the Lifetime Achievement award in the NEXT Woman of the Year awards. In September 2018 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards and in February 2019 she was inducted into the RNZSPCA Hall of Fame. Gattung has been named in Fortune magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in international business several times, and in 2006 the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" ranked Gattung at number 49. References External links TheresaGattung.com Theresa Gattung's Official Website World Women Charitable Trust Global Women website SheEO Gattung Foundation Living people People educated at John Paul College, Rotorua New Zealand women in business University of Waikato alumni Victoria University of Wellington alumni Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand chief executives New Zealand women chief executives New Zealand businesspeople Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit Spark New Zealand people New Zealand Women of Influence Award recipients