Brian Lynch (public servant)

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Brian John Lynch ONZM (born 1936) is a former New Zealand public servant, diplomat, and was the director of the .

Background[]

Lynch studied at the University of Canterbury where he completed master's degrees in History (1958) and Geography (1962). He was then a secondary teacher for three years.[1]

Public service[]

Lynch joined the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1964 where he was successively, Careers and Special Projects Office (1969–1971), Deputy High Commissioner in Singapore (1971–1974), and Head of the Asian and Pacific Division in Wellington (1974–1977). He was involved in the building of the first tentative relationship with Beijing, extricating New Zealand from Vietnam, establishing the new Pacific Forum as a going concern and also in setting up the new Pacific Forum Line. He was Deputy High Commissioner in London (1977–1981) and Assistant Secretary of the Ministry in 1981 and 1982. Lynch was Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Transport from 1982 to 1992, a decade during which the whole structure of air, rail, road and sea transport was corporatized and eventually privatised as part of the restructuring of the state sector which occurred in those years in New Zealand.[1]

Meat, trade and international affairs[]

Lynch was the Chief Executive of the from 1992 until 2003. "It was for his work in assisting the meat industry to rationalize and adjust to a very different commodity chain in the post-subsidy open market conditions of the 1990s that he was made Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2004".[citation needed] He played a major role in debates about the implications of trade liberalization for New Zealand’s food industries. He was the foundation chairman of the New Zealand Trade Liberalization Network from October 2001. He was also Chairman of the and the and a Senior Adviser and Alternate Member on the New Zealand Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council. In 2004 Lynch became Director of the .[1] He was replaced in 2012 by Peter Kennedy.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c New Zealand Geographic Society, Brian Lynch, 2005 Archived May 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "New Zealand Institute of International Affairs - ANNUAL REPORT 2014".

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