Kennedy Graham
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Kennedy Graham MP |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Green Party List |
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Assumed office 2008 |
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Kennedy Gollan Montrose Graham 1946 (age 70–71) |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Relations |
Doug Graham (brother) Robert Graham (great-grandfather) |
| Children | Two |
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| Website | Green Party profile |
Kennedy Gollan Montrose Graham (born 1946) is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament for the Green Party. He has served in the New Zealand Foreign Service for sixteen years, and lectured at the University of Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington.
He is the brother of Sir Douglas Graham, a former National Party MP (1984-1999) and cabinet minister (1991-1999). He is also a great-grandson of Robert Graham, an MP from 1855 to 1868 .
Graham has a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) from the University of Auckland, a Masters of Arts (MA) in International Relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, and a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington. He received Fulbright and Fletcher scholarships (1972), a McCarthy Fellowship (1986) and a Quatercentenery Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (1995).
As a New Zealand diplomat, Graham was involved in the negotiation of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone in the mid-1980s, and represented New Zealand's nuclear-free policy in the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in the late 1980s. He worked as Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action in New York (1989-1994) where he developed the concept of the "planetary interest" for promotion in parliaments around the world. From 1996-1998, Graham worked in Stockholm at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, holding the position of Director of Planning and Coordination. Graham was also a United Nations official working as a director at the UN University Leadership Academy (Amman, Jordan) from 1999 to 2002, and later as Senior Consultant in the Department of Political Affairs (2005-2006). He was also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges/Belgium, teaching International Relations at MA level. In 2007, after returning to New Zealand, he became Adjunct Senior Fellow at the University of Canterbury School of Law, and was a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington. Graham is founding director and trustee for the New Zealand Center for Global Studies, which commenced in 2013.
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