The Figure.NZ team

You can see who’s involved in Figure.NZ and how to contact us on our team page.

We’re a remote-first team, and we don’t have a physical office — but we still love meeting people! If you’d like to arrange a meeting, please get in touch with the person you want to see.

Join our team

We’re not taking applications for any positions right now. We’ll update this and share on our social media channels when we’re hiring again.

Volunteer to help Figure.NZ

We really like volunteers at Figure.NZ — they’re how we got started.

Here’s how you can support our work:

  • Use data from Figure.NZ in what you do — we exist so you can do just that. A community of people building things with data and sharing them is good for everyone.
  • Tell people about Figure.NZ in the real world, or on social media, using a chart that catches your eye.
  • Follow, like and share our social media:
  • Give us your thoughts on what we’re doing well and how we can improve — you can email us at feedback@figure.nz, or get in touch with us using the details on our team page. We welcome all feedback, especially if you’re using data from Figure.NZ in your own projects.

Postal address

You can send us mail and parcels at:

Figure.NZ Trust
9541/17B Farnham Street
Parnell
Auckland 1052
New Zealand

Errors on figure.nz

We always want to hear about issues you notice so we can fix them and make figure.nz more useful for everyone.

This could mean a mistake in a chart or table like a typo, or something you feel is misleading, incomplete, or inaccurate in some other way. It can also mean a problem with our website, like the search not working or an image not displaying.

If you see something wrong, please email feedback@figure.nz.

Make sure to:

  • include the phrase “bug report” or “issue report” in the message title
  • provide a description of the issue and links to problem pages.

What does a great issue report look like?

A great issue report is clear, precise, and reproducible.

It helps if you include the following.

  • A clear subject line.
  • A description of the problem. Please make this as clear and concise as possible.
  • How we can find or see the problem. This might be a link to the page, or a description of what buttons we need to push or things we need to click to see the issue. If it’s a technical issue, it’s helpful to include your browser and operating system.
  • Additional information, like console logs, images and GIFs.

Screenshots are very useful for explaining issues with how our website looks, and animated GIFs help a lot for issues with how it acts, like broken animations or transitions that aren’t very good.

People using Macs can download LICEcap to capture GIFs.

Logos and guidelines

If you’re working with Figure.NZ, you may need to use our logo or brand colours, or want to make sure the charts you download look their best.

To make that easier, we’ve put together some guidelines and logo files which you can download below.

Please email tash.barneveld@figure.nz if you want to do any of the below.

  • Use our logo or charts in a way that’s not covered by our guidelines.
  • Have us check that your use of our logo or charts meets our guidelines.
  • Source chart images in a larger size than what’s available on our website.

Media

Are you part of the media and looking for help on a story? Email tash.barneveld@figure.nz.

Media kit

About Figure.NZ

Lillian Grace founded Figure.NZ in 2012, going from concept to incorporated Trust to platform in less than a year. The initiative was originally called Wiki New Zealand, changing to Figure.NZ in 2015. The new name to better reflected the goal for all New Zealanders to feel they can figure out how to use better information to make better decisions.

“Imagine if there was a place online that had all the data in simple, visual form […] A place where people could look at and understand data on a daily basis”

Since 2012, the site has had more than 10 million visits. People have explored, learned, taught, shared, and made better decisions — all with data that once felt out of reach.

About Baruch ter Wal

Baruch stepped into the role of interm CEO in March 2026. He was Figure.NZ’s original Chair back in the day, hosting the start-up (then known as Wiki New Zealand) in his studio as it found its feet. He departed in 2019 and returned to the Board in 2025.

About Lillian Grace

Lillian is Figure.NZ’s founder and former CEO. She believes everyone will benefit when we can all better understand our context, and shift from debating about what is, to where we want to be and how to get there.

Figure.NZ Board

Current Board:

  • Chair: Kelly Brown (Te Atiawa, Taranaki, Te Aitanga a Māhaki)
  • Baruch ter Wal
  • Amokura Panoho (Rangitāne me Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama, Ngāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Te Ātiawa Taranaki, Ngā Ruahinerangi).
  • Vic Crone

Figure.NZ is stepping into a fresh chapter — shaped by the needs of now, and grounded in our same unshakable mission: to help people understand what they care about through data.

In March 2026 Ngapera Riley bade farewell to the team, and Baruch ter Wal is the interim CEO.