A tireless advocate across many sectors, Priyani Therese de Silva-Currie has been acknowledged as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for her services to netball, multicultural communities and civil engineering in the 2025 New Year Honours.
Richmond’s de Silva-Currie has coached school, club, regional and national talent identification netball teams over 20 years, in the process receiving various coaching awards. Between 1998 and 2016, she was on the executive and chaired the Nelson Netball Association (Centre). She has delivered introductory coaching clinics for Netball New Zealand for many years and was a founding committee member and fundraising manager of the Saxton Field Sports Stadium Society from 2004 – 2014.
She has also contributed to Multicultural Councils at local and national levels, holding executive offices including President of the New Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils and the respective Manawatu and Nelson branches between 2009 – 2017.
As National President, de Silva-Currie procured and implemented diverse multicultural programmes and supported programmes such as Engineering New Zealand’s Migrant Forum and the Professional Speaking for Migrants course.
Now a past President and Life Member of Āpōpō Infrastructure Asset Management Professionals, de Silva-Currie held several offices from 2015, leading a strategic transformation of the organisation and championing development of uniquely New Zealand indigenous based asset management guidance. She is patron of a scholarship for Emerging Asset Management Professionals.
De Silva-Currie is a Life Member and chaired Carbon and Energy Professionals from 2009 – 2015. She has been a New Zealand Representative and is currently Vice President of the International Federation of Municipal Engineers.