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
Helen Clark quotes about
I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.
I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world,
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
Health and education are always issues.
Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
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.
I'm not into power for the sake of it.
There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.
The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.
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 are confident that the Mir space station poses no risk to New Zealand,