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Helen Clark

The Right Honourable
Helen Clark
ONZ
Helen Clark UNDP 2010.jpg
8th Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
Assumed office
17 April 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
António Guterres
Preceded by Kemal Derviş
37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
In office
10 December 1999 – 19 November 2008
Monarch Elizabeth II
Governor-General Michael Hardie Boys
Silvia Cartwright
Anand Satyanand
Deputy Jim Anderton
Michael Cullen
Preceded by Jenny Shipley
Succeeded by John Key
27th Leader of the Opposition
In office
1 December 1993 – 10 December 1999
Deputy David Caygill
Michael Cullen
Preceded by Mike Moore
Succeeded by Jenny Shipley
11th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
In office
8 August 1989 – 2 November 1990
Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer
Mike Moore
Preceded by Geoffrey Palmer
Succeeded by Don McKinnon
29th Minister of Health
In office
30 January 1989 – 2 November 1990
Prime Minister David Lange
Geoffrey Palmer
Mike Moore
Preceded by David Caygill
Succeeded by Simon Upton
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Mount Albert
In office
28 November 1981 – 17 April 2009
Preceded by Warren Freer
Succeeded by David Shearer
Majority 14,749
Personal details
Born Helen Elizabeth Clark
(1950-02-26) 26 February 1950 (age 67)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Political party Labour Party
Spouse(s) Peter Davis
Alma mater University of Auckland
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Helen Elizabeth Clark PC ONZ (born 26 February 1950) is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 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 her candidacy for the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Clark graduated from the University of Auckland in 1974 and became politically active in the New Zealand Labour Party as a teenager. While a junior lecturer at the University in the early 1970s, Clark entered local politics in 1974 in Auckland but was not elected to any position. In 1975 she came second for Labour in the rural (and safe National) seat of Piako. In 1981 she was elected to Parliament for the safe Labour seat of Mount Albert, a position she held until her resignation in 2009. Clark held numerous Cabinet positions in the Fourth Labour government of 1984–1990, including Minister of Housing, Minister of Health and Minister of Conservation. She was Deputy Prime Minister from 1989–1990 under Prime Ministers Geoffrey Palmer and Mike Moore.


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