Administrator of the Pitcairn Islands explained

The Administrator of the Pitcairn Islands is the de facto Chair of the Island Council. The officeholder represents the interests of the Governor.

As a British overseas territory the head of state is Charles III, with the Governor of the Pitcairn Islands appointed by the British government to act as his local representative. However, as the Governor of the Pitcairn Islands is also the British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Samoa, an Administrator is appointed as the Governor's representative on the island.

However, Pitcairn is largely autonomous, and most power is exercised not by officials appointed by the British government, but rather by the locally elected Mayor and Island Council.

The first and inaugural Administrator is His Honour Alan Richmond, who took up the office in November 2014.^[1] In August 2018 Nicholas Kennedy become the second Administrator.^[2]

List of administrators of the Pitcairn Islands

Pitcairn Islands
align=center rowspan="2"		Name	Portrait	Tenure		Notes	Governor of Pitcairn	Monarch
From	Until
align=center	1	Alan Richmond		November 2014	May 2016		Jonathan Sinclair	Elizabeth II
align=center	2	Robin Shackell		May 2016	August 2016	Temporary administrator
3	Nicola Hebb		September 2016	August 2018
						Laura Clarke
align=center	4	Nicholas Kennedy ^[3]		August 2018	December 2020
align=center	5	Mark Tomlinson		January 2021	February 2022
align=center	6	Alasdair Hamilton ^[4]		February 2022	April 2022
align=center	7	Colin Leeman		April 2022	June 2022	Temporary administrator	Iona Thomas
align=center	8	Stephen Twaites		June 2022	July 2022	Temporary administrator
align=center	9	Tim Moody		July 2022	October 2022	Temporary administrator
align=center	10	Simon Bull		October 2022	November 2022	Temporary administrator		Charles III
11	Steve Townsend		December 2022	April 2024	Joint administrators (Job share)
	Fiona Kilpatrick
12	Lindsy Thompson ^[5]		April 2024

External links

• Government of the Pitcairn Islands
• Pitcairn Islands:Written question - 212288

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jonathan Sinclair on Twitter: "Signing into law new post of Administrator, flanked by Mayor (L) and Admin'r, Alan Richmond (R)" . Twitter . 2014-11-28 . 2016-05-12.
2. Web site: Laura Clarke on Twitter: "Nick Kennedy is moving to Pitcairn later this month as our new Administrator - and greatly looking forward to it!)" . Twitter . 2018-08-09 . 2020-01-15.
3. Web site: Nick Kennedy . 2022-08-22 . gov.uk . en.
4. Web site: Alasdair Hamilton . 2022-07-12 . gov.uk . en.
5. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6526ff6fef608a3828c13d05/t/664ed8e6674ec54c1518dfd1/1716443378661/Regular_Council_Minutes_24_April_2024_20240521_0001.pdf