Biography


Rt. Hon. Mike Moore


Positions Held
1999-2002 Director General of the World Trade Organisation.
1993-1999 Opposition (NZ Labour Party) Spokesperson, Foreign Affairs.
1990-1993 Leader, Parliamentary NZ Labour Party.
1990 Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1984-90 Minister of Overseas Trade and marketing.
1984-87 Minister of Tourism, Sport and Recreation.
1984-90 Chair, Cabinet Committee, Economic Development and Employment.
1988-90 Minister for the America’s Cup.
1988-90 Minister of External Relations and Trade.
1988-90 Deputy Minister of Finance.
1978-99 Member of Parliament, Waimakariri (formerly Papanui and Christchurch North).
1972-75 Member of Parliament, Eden.

External Services and Appointments
Commissioner, UN Commission of Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
Commissioner, Global Commission on International Migration.
Founding member, Global Leadership Foundation.
Former member, Board, SGS.
Senior Counsellor, Fonterra.
Member, Trilateral Commission.
Member, Economic Development Board, South Australia.
Special Advisor, China Institute for Reform and Development’s World Trade Organisation Reference Centre.
New Zealand Government Trade Envoy.
Special Advisor to the United Nations Global Compact for Business and Development.
Former Board Member to the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute.
Member, Board of Governors for the Institute for International Business, Economics and Law, University of Adelaide.
Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia and University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Chairperson, Advisory Board of Carnegie Mellon University, Adelaide.
Appointed by several Universities as an Examiner for PHD, thesis.
Honorary Professor, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai.
Honorary Professor, Chinese University for Political Science and International Law, Beijing.
Honorary Professor, Shanghai Customs College.
Visiting Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, 2003.
Member, Advisory Board, I-Ca.
Member, Competition Council, South Australia.
Member, Advisory Board, Partners in Performance International, a global management company based in Australia.
Honorary President, Beijing Afforestation Foundation.
Regular columnist in the Australian Financial Review which is carried in seven other countries and frequent contributor to many other publications.
CEO, The Moore Group International Ltd.

Books Published
  A World Without Walls, Cambridge University Press, 2003. (Also published in Chinese and Turkish)
  On Balance
  Beyond Today
  A Pacific Parliament
  The Added Value Economy
  Hard Labour
  Fighting for New Zealand
  Children of the Poor
  A Brief History of the Future

Honours and Awards
The Order of New Zealand – New Zealand’s highest honour.
Commemoration Medal 1990.
Honorary Doctorate of Commerce – Lincoln University, New Zealand.
Honorary Doctorate in Economics – the People’s University of China (Beijing).
Honorary Doctorate in Commerce – Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
Honorary Doctorate, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Commander of the Order of the Equatorial Star (Commandeur de l’Ordre de Laetrile Equatoriale) – Government of Gabon.
Chancellor’s Medal (Medalla Rectoral) – University of Chile.
National Order of Cote d’Ivoire (l’Ordre National de Cote d’Ivoire en Qualite de Commandeur) and also the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya.
Business Week Award, Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Order of Duke Branimir with Ribbon – Republic of Croatia.
National Honour of Georgia – Government of Georgia.
The Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay – Government of Uruguay – highest national honour.
Pope John Paul II Annual Medal – The Holy See.
Honorary Doctorate in Law, La Trobe University, Australia.

Married 1975 to Yvonne Moore (nee Dereany)

 

 


Mike Moore's reflection on his time as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation is an important addition to the great globalization debate.

 

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