Wendy Shaw was Secretary of the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa. She prepared the New Zealand national report, dated 23 June 2017, for the Eleventh United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names. Her documented work belongs to geographic-names administration and the official naming framework. Available sources do not identify her as a developer of the Gazetteer software or an iwi mapping system.