Neil Waka

Neil Waka is a New Zealand broadcaster and journalist. After graduating from Rotorua Boys' High School, he began his career in radio as a news and current affairs journalist before moving into television. Waka helped establish and was the first presenter in New Zealand to present the weekday 4:30pm news bulletins on ONE News for TVNZ, for almost two years from 2007.

In 2010 Waka resigned from his television roles and moved into public relations. He took on a corporate role with global organisation General Motors Holden New Zealand for five years before moving to Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand as head of corporate affairs for New Zealand and Fiji.

Waka returned to New Zealand television as a guest sports news presenter for Newshub's AM Show prior to Christmas 2019, and the following year he took a broadcasting role at Māori Television presenting the current affair programme Te Ao Tapatahi, which he held until December 2023.