The governor-general of New Zealand (Māori: te kāwana tianara o Aotearoa) is the viceregal representative of the monarch of New Zealand, currently Queen Elizabeth II.As the Queen is concurrently the monarch of 14 other Commonwealth realms and lives in the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her New Zealand prime minister, appoints a governor-general to carry out …

The following is a list of the governors and governors-general of New Zealand. As the personal representative of the New Zealand monarch, the governor-general performs many of the functions vested in the Crown, such as summoning and dissolving parliament, granting or withholding the Royal Assent, making state visits and receiving ambassadors.These functions …