Sarah Auva'a, AIGP

Spark New Zealand

Lead Digital Trust Partner

Sarah Auva’a is the Lead Digital Trust Partner at Spark New Zealand where she is responsible for designing privacy, legal compliance and governance strategies and frameworks that enable customer trust. Experience in telecommunications, digital services, data analytics, banking and regulatory sectors has shaped Sarah’s interest in unlocking the value of data in an ethical way.

Sarah is an International Council Member for InfoGovANZ.  Sarah was also a member of the New Zealand Law Foundation’s Information Law and Policy Project’s independent specialist Advisory Review Committee. The Committee assisted the Law Foundation to select and refine research projects for Foundation funding in areas such as global information, cyber-security, data exploitation, and technology-driven social change. 

Sarah has previously worked at ANZ Banking Group and the New Zealand Commerce Commission.  She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from Victoria University, Wellington, and is a Certified Compliance Professional.

 

Contributions by Sarah Auva'a

  • Privacy and AI Governance in Practice — The TELCO Sector Perspective
    Speaker at IAPP ANZ Summit 2025
  • Community Reactions to the Facial Recognition Trial and OPC Findings
    Speaker at Virtual Wellington KnowledgeNet: 25 Aug. 2025
  • Privacy Week 2024: Privacy Commissioner keynote speech and panel discussion
    Speaker at In-Person Wellington KnowledgeNet: 14 May 2024
  • Busting Privacy Myths
    Speaker at In-Person Auckland KnowledgeNet: 9 May 2024
  • Building a Gender Inclusive Internet
    Speaker at IAPP ANZ Summit 2022
  • Measuring Trust in Privacy Panel
    Speaker at Virtual Auckland and Wellington KnowledgeNet: 13 May 2022