Tame Te Rangi is a New Zealand civil servant, administrator and sport commentator. Of MÃÂori descent, he identifies with the NgÃÂti WhÃÂtua iwi. He has held roles relating to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Te MÃÂngai PÃÂho, Ngati Whatua and Hato Petera College.
In the 1990s Te Rangi worked for the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, where he establish contacts which later got him a job at Te MÃÂngai PÃÂho, working for chief executive Trevor Moeke. Conflicts of interest between his Te MÃÂngai PÃÂho roles and later-developed sports commentating roles for Maori Sports Casting International (which received funding overseen by Te Rangi from Te MÃÂngai PÃÂho) were revealed as part of a campaign against Te MÃÂngai PÃÂho by politician Rodney Hide. The affair cost Te Rangi, Moeke and chairman Toby Curtis their jobs. It also emerged that in the early 1990s Te Rangi was convicted of fraud for stealing almost $40,000 from a NgÃÂti WhÃÂtua trust and served five months in jail; Te Rangi had not been asked about previous criminal convictions prior to being offered a full-time job.
In 2015 Te Rangi chaired the selection panel for Auckland Council's Independent Maori Statutory Board, which was involved in a high-profile legal and political battle with Auckland Council and candidate Willie Jackson. Jackson and Te Rangi are both on the board of Hato Petera Trust.