Andrew Bayly
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Andrew Bayly MP |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Hunua |
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Assumed office 20 September 2014 |
Andrew Henry Bayly, FRGS, is a New Zealand politician who was elected to the New Zealand Parliament at the 2014 general election as the MP for Hunua and a representative of the New Zealand National Party.
Bayly was born in Wanganui and has a twin brother. He had a long career in adventure racing, including competing in three Coast-to-Coast events, marathons and Ironman events.
More recently he took up mountaineering, having scaled many mountain peaks, including Aoraki Mt Cook and Mt. Aspiring, and four mountains in Antarctica, including Vinson Massif, the highest mountain in Antarctica. In the summer of 2012/13 he dragged a sled 112 km to the South Pole. In 2016 he and his son each dragged sledges 120 km to the North Pole, raising $10 000 for the Korako Bird Recovery Programme in the Hunua Ranges.
Bayly attended Wanganui Collegiate School and graduated with a degree in Accounting & Finance from Massey University.
He is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management, the NZ Chartered Institute of Corporate Management and the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Bayly was an officer in the New Zealand Army Territorials and also served in the British Parachute Regiment.
Bayly worked as a merchant banker, founding the Cranleigh firm with his brother Paul, where he offered corporate advisory and capital markets advice to a range of government entities, local authorities and corporate clients. Cranleigh has offices in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore.
He was a director of numerous companies, the chair of the board of New Zealand Financial Planning and a trustee of the Enterprise Franklin Development Trust, the economic development arm of the Franklin Council.
Bayly is a former director of Envirofert, an organic compost product company that received the prestigious “Green Ribbon Award” in 2010 for making an outstanding contribution to protecting the environment.
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