Paul Harris (public servant)

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Paul Raymond Harris (born Auckland 16 July 1946), Ph.D (1981) ANU, is a New Zealand senior public servant and political and constitutional studies academic. [1]

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Education

Harris spent his childhood in Auckland and received his secondary education at St Peter's College. He graduated BA(Hons) at Victoria University of Wellington in 1971 and Ph.D at the Australian National University in 1981. [1]

Career

Harris was Chief Executive of the Electoral Commission from 1994 until 2003. [2] In 2007 he headed an independent working group on Fiji's elections, under the auspices of the Fiji interim Government and the Pacific Islands Forum, in the wake of the 2006 Fijian coup d'état. [3] He has also been Country Director for Yemen at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, [4] and served twice as an official New Zealand election observer in Indonesia. [5] Before serving on the electoral commission, he was a Lecturer at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (1975–1979), Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, Victoria University of Wellington (1979–1994) and Principal Research officer, Royal Commission on the Electoral System (1985–1986). [1]

Notable student

Bronwyn Hayward  – New Zealand political scientist [6]

Publications

Harris's publications [1] include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 2001, p. 417
  2. Submission to the Electoral Commission on the review of MMP, Paul Harris, 31 May 2012, accessed 2013-11-12.
  3. Young, Audrey (June 26, 2007), "NZ to extend ban on Fiji's rulers", New Zealand Herald .
  4. Al-Kibsi, Mohammed (Apr 21, 2005), "Changes to elections law recommended, IFES", Yemen Observer, archived from the original on 2013-11-13.
  5. "NZ team to observe Indonesia's elections", Scoop, 2 July 2004.
  6. Hayward, Bronwyn (2000). Beyond consensus : social learning in urban planning (Doctoral thesis). University of Otago.
  7. The Philosophy of T. H. Green, pp 127–42, Andrew Vincent editor, Gower Publishing, ISBN   0-566-05104-4