Helen Clark
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The Right Honourable Helen Clark ONZ |
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| 8th Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme | |
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Assumed office 17 April 2009 |
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| Secretary-General |
Ban Ki-moon António Guterres |
| Preceded by | Kemal Derviş |
| 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand | |
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In office 10 December 1999 – 19 November 2008 |
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| 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 | |
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In office 1 December 1993 – 10 December 1999 |
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| Deputy |
David Caygill Michael Cullen |
| Preceded by | Mike Moore |
| Succeeded by | Jenny Shipley |
| 11th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand | |
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In office 8 August 1989 – 2 November 1990 |
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| Prime Minister |
Geoffrey Palmer Mike Moore |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Palmer |
| Succeeded by | Don McKinnon |
| 29th Minister of Health | |
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In office 30 January 1989 – 2 November 1990 |
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| 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 |
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In office 28 November 1981 – 17 April 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Warren Freer |
| Succeeded by | David Shearer |
| Majority | 14,749 |
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Helen Elizabeth Clark 26 February 1950 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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