Rukumoana Schaafhausen will join the Board of Contact Energy (`Contact') as an independent director in March 2021. Mrs. Schaafhausen chairs Waikato-Tainui and Miro Berries. She is also the managing director of Te Waharoa Investments and a director of AgResearch. She is also a trustee of the Tindall Foundation and The Princes Trust. She has previously been a director of Genesis Energy and has received a Sir Peter Blake Award for Leadership. Mrs. Schaafhausen will join the Board officially on 1 March 2021. This coincides with the retirement of current director Whaimutu Dewes from the Contact Board from 31 March 2021.