History
Maxim Institute was founded on 12 November 2001 by Managing Director Greg Fleming (formerly general manager of Parenting with Confidence) and Director Bruce Logan a former Headmaster, and former Director of the New Zealand Education Development Foundation (NZEDF) in Christchurch. John Graham (then University of Auckland Chancellor, also played a role in the Institute's founding.
After serving four years as the Institute's Director, Bruce Logan was accused of plagiarism in some of his opinion articles, and left the organisation in 2005. Maxim Institute's Christchurch office closed in early 2006. Currently, the Institute has fourteen staff based in their Auckland office, and Greg Fleming has been their current CEO since that time.
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