Anne Speir

{{Short description|Television producer from New Zealand}}

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Anne Elizabeth Speir is a former television producer from New Zealand.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10813466|title=Drugs charges for past TVNZ editor|date=2012-06-16|work=NZ Herald|access-date=2018-04-13|language=en-NZ|issn=1170-0777}}

In the 1970s Speir was the first female professional lifeguard on Mount Maunganui beach.

Speir joined South Pacific Television in the late 1970s and later moved to Television New Zealand where she worked on A Week Of It. She also worked for Maori Television and produced Takataapui, a gay lifestyle series, in 2004.{{Cite book|title=Sexuality and the Stories of Indigenous People|last=Hutchings and Aspin|first=Jessica and Clive|publisher=Huia Publishers|year=2007|isbn=|location=|pages=128}}

Speir has also served as the chairwoman of the Hero Trust, which organised gay pride parades in Auckland from 1992 to 2001.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pridenz.com/gaynz/1766.html|title=Chair Anne Speir resigns from Hero trust » archived article sourced from GayNZ.com|website=www.pridenz.com|access-date=2018-04-13}}