Mr Burden, who is from Petersfield, in Hampshire, England, came to New Zealand five years ago, settling in Christchurch.
He moved to Dunedin in 2007, with his "Kiwi" wife Tania and daughters Kaitlin (8) and Millie (6), because of his involvement with the Forsyth Barr Stadium project.
Twenty people from eight countries became New Zealand citizens at this week's ceremony.
They are: Paul Blezard, Mark Draper, John Reid, Susan Chalmers, Peter Costello, Catherine Price, Katherine Shillito, Dr Simon Stebbings (Britain); Hsin Huang (Taiwan); Johan Peens, Jandre Niehaus, Fielden Smous (South Africa); Spencer Grover (US); Sonya Hamel (Switzerland); Chole Henderson (Korea); Yi Liu, Yilong Zhao (China); Willem and Hendrika Velthuis (Netherlands).
