Simon Murdoch
| Simon Murdoch | |
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| Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade | |
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In office 2002–2009 |
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| Preceded by | Neil Walter |
| Succeeded by | John Allen |
| High Commissioner to Australia | |
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In office 1999–2002 |
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| Preceded by | Graham Fortune |
| Succeeded by | Kate Lackey |
| Chief Executive of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet | |
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In office 1991–1998 |
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| Prime Minister | Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley |
| Succeeded by | Mark Prebble |
Simon Murdoch, CNZM (born 1948) is a New Zealand diplomat and public servant. He was New Zealand’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was previously New Zealand High Commissioner to Canberra, and Chief Executive of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Murdoch attended University of Canterbury, where he gained a first class master's degree with honours in history.
Murdoch joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972. He had an early posting to Canberra, before joining the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in 1980 as foreign affairs adviser to Prime Minister Rob Muldoon.
In 1983, Murdoch was assistant head of the Asian division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later that year, he was posted to Washington DC as political counsellor, and the New Zealand intelligence liaison officer to the United States.
In 1987, Murdoch returned to New Zealand and became head of the Australia Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In 1989, Murdoch was seconded to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet to be head of the Policy Advisory Group. In 1991, State Services Commissioner Don Hunn appointed Murdoch to the post of Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Murdoch was head of the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Prime Ministers Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley. He left the post in 1998, to become Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Management at Victoria University of Wellington for a year.
In 1999, Murdoch was appointed New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia. At the time, the posting was seen to be grooming Murdoch for the role of Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
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