Douglas Armstrong

Who is Douglas Armstrong?

Douglas Keith Armstrong, QSO, is a former City Councillor on the Auckland City Council, New Zealand for the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket.

Armstrong was first elected in 2001 for the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket, and served as the chairman of Finance at Auckland City between 2001–2004 and 2007 onwards. He was also the deputy leader of the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket from October 2004, serving under the leadership of David Hay.

In October 2010 Armstrong unsuccessfully stood as a Citizens & Ratepayers candidate on the Orākei Ward of the new Auckland Council: he was defeated by Cameron Brewer, an independent.

Prior to his election as councillor for the centre-right Eastern Bays ward, Armstrong was the Chief Executive Officer of Unitec, one of Auckland's polytechnical institutes. He was trained as a Civil Engineer and is a past president of the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ and former member of the Prime Ministers Enterprise Council.

Armstrong was a recipient of the Queens Service Order for services to tertiary education, and is also a trustee of the Sir Woolf Fisher Trust for excellence in education.