Rosara Joseph

Rosara Joseph (born 21 February 1982 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand cyclist who won a silver medal for New Zealand in the Women's mountain bike racing event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is also the current Oceania champion, a Rhodes Scholar at St John's College, Oxford, and a lawyer.

Cycling

 * In training for the 2006 Commonwealth games, in 2005 she finished 16th in the World Cross Country Mountainbiking Championships in Italy
 * Silver Medal for New Zealand in the Women's Mountain bike racing event at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
 * She finished ninth in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in the women's cross country race.

Education and prizes

 * 2000 – Brooker's Prize in Legal System
 * 2002 – Duncan Cotterill Award in Law
 * 2003 – Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Prize in Law
 * 2003 – Russell McVeagh Prize for Excellence in Intellectual Property
 * 2005 – Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours, Canterbury
 * 2005 – Gold Medal in Law
 * 2005 – Inaugural Gerald Orchard Prize in Law for excellence in the Law of Evidence
 * 2005 – Bachelor of Arts in History
 * 2006 – Commenced Bachelor of Civil Law ("a highly-esteemed master’s-level qualification") at Oxford
 * 2011 – DPhil at Oxford University

Legal career

 * Clerk for the President of the NZ Court of Appeal in Wellington. (Justice Anderson and Justice Glazebrook)
 * Legal and policy consultant, New Zealand Productivity Commission, 2012–