Dr Jamie Metzger (Ngāi Tahu) leads the Ngākahu National Domestic Repatriation Programme at Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Museum of New Zealand.
The programme supports New Zealand museums to repatriate the ancestral human remains held in their care and receiving descendant communities in the return of their ancestors.
She is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University, outgoing Chair of the New Zealand Repatriation Research Network and is an active member of Kāhui Kaitiaki, a network of kaimahi Māori working in the culture and heritage sector.
From 2019-2011 Jamie represented Kāhui Kaitiaki on the Museum Aotearoa board, the New Zealand sector membership organisation for museums and galleries.
In 2022 Jamie completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Otago which examined Māori engagement in museums and considers the ongoing custodial care of their taonga. Before pursuing her PhD, she worked at Tūhura Otago Museum in different collections roles, gaining skills in curation, preventative conservation, and collection management.