Sandra Kai Fong

 Sandra is currently serving her second term as a trustee of the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust. She also served eight years as a Rotorua trustee on BayTrust, from 2002 to 2010. She was Chair of the Investments Committee for most of that period and also chaired the organising committee when BayTrust hosted the 2004 Community Trusts Annual conference at Taupo.

Sandra spent 26 years as a lawyer, specialising in civil and commercial litigation. She was a partner in the law firm McKechnie Quirke and Lewis for 22 years.

She has also been involved in several business initiatives to promote economic growth in Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, and was the regional Business Club Co-ordinator for NZ2011 during the Rugby World Cup. She was director of the Forest Industries Expo in 2011, and is currently director for the SICS Sports Health and Lifestyle Expo at the 50th Rotorua Marathon 2014.

She also runs an e-commerce company selling merino fabric around the world.

Sandra Kai Fong

Trustee

Local solicitor, Sandra Kai Fong, was elected to the Rotorua Trust in November 2010.
Well-known and respected in the local business community, Sandra practised law in Rotorua for 26 years. Specialising in civil litigation, she retired from practice in October last year. A member of the Bay of Connections Governance Group, which is responsible for the Bay of Plenty regional economic development strategy, Sandra represented Rotorua on the BayTrust from 2002 – 2010 and was an inaugural member of Rotorua’s Bright Economy Board.
Born and raised in Rotorua, she was educated at Rotorua Girls’ High School and Otago University, where she studied law and economics.
Sandra is married to Tim Rigter and they have two teenage children.