Helen Clark
Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark ONZ SSIis the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, and was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. As Prime Minister she served three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008 and was the first woman elected at a general election as the Prime Minister, and was the fifth longest serving person to hold that office. She has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position, since 2009. In April 2016, she declared...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 February 1950
CityHamilton, New Zealand
We can take pride ... in being nuclear free and in having the strength and independence not to send our young people off to fight in unjust wars,
Well, look, that's not for me to judge. I have a completely different style.
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.
Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all.
We live in a very strong and robust democracy. This election has been very finely balanced and the result has been a close one.
would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.