Sir Donald Charles McKinnon is a New Zealand politician who served as the 12th deputy prime minister of New Zealand and the minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008.
James Brendan Bolger is a New Zealand retired politician of the National Party who was the 35th prime minister of New Zealand,serving from 1990 to 1997.
Neil Douglas Walter is a New Zealand diplomat,and a former Administrator of Tokelau,a territory of New Zealand. He served from February 1988 until 1990,and again from 1 March 2003 to 17 October 2006.
Sir James Kenneth McLay is a New Zealand diplomat and former politician. He served as the ninth deputy prime minister of New Zealand from 15 March to 26 July 1984. McLay was also Leader of the National Party and Leader of the Opposition from 29 November 1984 to 26 March 1986. Following his ousting as party leader,he retired from parliamentary politics in 1987. In June 2009,he became New Zealand's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In May 2015,McLay became New Zealand's Representative to the Palestinian Authority. From May 2016 to January 2017,he was New Zealand's Consul General in Honolulu.
John Bernard Hayes is a New Zealand politician and diplomat. He represented the electorate of Wairarapa for the National Party from 2005 to 2014.
John Henry Whitehead is a New Zealand economist. He served as Secretary of the Treasury between April 2003 and May 2011. He has been chancellor and board chair of St John New Zealand since June 2020.
Merwyn Norrish was a New Zealand diplomat who served as New Zealand's ambassador to the European Community,acting high commissioner to London,ambassador to the United States,and secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Frank Henry Corner was a New Zealand diplomat. Corner served as New Zealand's Ambassador to the United Nations and the United States,before becoming New Zealand's third Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1973–1980).
John Walter McKinnon is a New Zealand diplomat and public servant.
Sir George Robert Laking was a New Zealand diplomat who served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,Ambassador to the United States,Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Chief Ombudsman.
Simon Peter Wallace Murdoch is a New Zealand diplomat and public servant. He was New Zealand's Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was previously New Zealand High Commissioner to Canberra,and Chief Executive of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Roy Neil Ferguson,,is the former New Zealand Ambassador to the United States. He was replaced by former New Zealand Prime Minister and Director-General of the World Trade Organization Mike Moore in 2010. Ferguson replaced John Wood in the role in 2006. He was Director of the Americas Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2002 to 2005,and has served on the Boards of the New Zealand-United States Council,Fulbright New Zealand,the Ian Axford Fellowships,and the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies. Ferguson previously served in Washington as Deputy Chief of Mission between 1991 and 1995. From 1999 to 2002 he served as the New Zealand Ambassador to South Korea and concurrently served as Ambassador to North Korea from 2001. He has also served in Manila and Canberra.
Paul Thomas O'Sullivan,is an Australian diplomat and public servant who served as Australia's High Commissioner to New Zealand and as former Director-General of Security. O'Sullivan accepted a role as a political advisor for the Abbott government in 2013.
Zoran Jolevski is a Macedonian diplomat and the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Macedonia. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Defense,he served as Macedonia's Ambassador to the United States of America. In November 2008,he was appointed chief negotiator to the Macedonia naming dispute,and in 2011 he was appointed Ambassador to the United Mexican States and as Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. He served as Secretary General of the late Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski from 2000–2004. He holds a Ph.D. in International Economy from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. He is married to Suzana Jolevska,and together they have two sons,Pero (1988) and Filip (1992).
Gerald Christopher Philip Hensley is a former New Zealand diplomat and public servant.
Edward Richard Woods,is a New Zealand diplomat and public servant. He is currently Chair of the Board of the Environmental Risk Management Authority,a New Zealand Government Agency that ensures compliance with the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act –HSNO Act 1996. He took over as chairman on the retirement of Neil Walter.
Brian John Lynch is a former New Zealand public servant,diplomat,and director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
Sir Archie John Te Atawhai Taiaroa was a New Zealand Māori leader who affiliated to the Ngāti Tūwharetoa,Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi,Ngāti Apa and Ngāti Maru iwi. He chaired the Whanganui River Maori Trust Board and Te Ohu Kaimoana,the latter for five years. He lived for a long time at Taumarunui,where he was a borough councillor and deputy mayor.
Neville Hugo Sale Judd was a New Zealand diplomat and public servant.
John Stewart Ombler is a New Zealand public servant. He served as deputy State Services Commissioner from 2008 until 2014,and briefly in 2019,and as the controller of the all-of-government response during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
