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Helen Elizabeth Clark is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 and was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was New Zealand's fifth-longest-serving prime minister, and the second woman to hold that office.
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politics · Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 · politician · university teacher · political scientist · also Helen Clark, Helen Elizabeth Clark, The Right Honourable Helen Elizabeth Clark, Helen E. Clark, Clark
Born 26 February 1950 · Q180383
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“but, if there is one silver lining from all this, we need all these people coming forward ... Women are not prepared to suffer in silence. The lid is off and that has to be healthy.”
“represent a home invasion of noise”
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“that New Zealand has worked on a bipartisan basis for decades to balance its economic interests, democratic values, and nuclear-free and independent foreign policy.”
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“establish bilateral long-term and stable overall cooperative relations [with New Zealand]”
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globaldispatches.org: Helen Clark on Whether the World Is Ready for the Next Pandemic
RNZ: Helen Clark dismisses Opportunity Party's tax plan as 'fantasy posing as policy'
Interest.co.nz: Inside the Capital: Greens go after groceries, Helen Clark goes after Qiulae Wong and Christopher Luxon holds firm
Stuff: Helen Clark: Opportunity Party leader’s interview a ‘train wreck’
Chris Lynch Media: Helen Clark calls Opportunity leader’s interview ‘train wreck’ as donation contradiction revealed
Stuff: WATCH: Helen Clark on Luxon's caucus room 'Last Supper'
The Press: Helen Clark to speak in Timaru
The Guardian: The Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks warn us we must be better prepared if we are to prevent the next pandemic | Helen Clark
Yahoo: Helen Clark's family speaks out after her death while
The Eden Park Trust Board requested the right to stage six concerts a year, without having to seek individual planning permission – a process that had forced it to drop past concert plans
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“so many countries chose to wait and see”
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Clark became the patron of the Helen Clark Foundation
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Was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from Carleton University
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Awarded Lifetime Achievement award (2017).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Waikato (2017).
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2017).
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Awarded Order of Francisc Skorina (2016).
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Published “The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship” in Scientific Data — cited 14,803 times.
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,752 times.
Stood for the position of secretary-general of the United Nations, but was unsuccessful
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,862 times.
And 2016, under Clark's administration
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Awarded BBC 100 Women (2013).
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Forbes upgraded her position to 21st most powerful woman in the world after she was appointed to administer UNDP for a second term and for her potential future as UN Secretary General
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Published “Improved Survival with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 13,011 times.
Awarded Order of New Zealand (2009).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Auckland (2009).
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Career landmark: Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (2009).
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Awarded Champions of the Earth (2008).
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs (2008–2008).
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Clark was 20th in Forbes magazine's ranking of the world's 100 most powerful women
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Awarded Star of the Solomon Islands (2005).
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“My right hon. Friend will be aware that there is rising concern and anger among doctors, patients, families and carers about the initial National Institute for Clinical Excellence recommendation to deny Alzheimer's disease drugs on the national health service. Will he allocate parliamentary time to debate that devastating and disastrous proposal?”
“I am glad to have the opportunity to add my voice to this debate. The Bill has been the focus of some impassioned language in national newspapers, broadcast media and the House, so it is vital that we look at the facts as they stand and not at the welter of hysterical material that has attached itself to the Bill. <span id="1102" class="column-number" data-column-number="1102"></span>First, I wish to address the issue of the clarity of the law. I think that the law is clear to Sir Ian Blair,”
“I do not think that it would help in any way, so my hon. Friend's point is well made. Critics of the Bill have said that there is a strong scent of opportunism, and the measure tries to play on people's fears, as my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton and Wanstead (Harry Cohen) said. It does not, unlike the Labour Government, appeal to people's common sense. Most of our constituents, in fact, have much more common sense than many politicians give them credit for. I am certain that my Peterborou”
“<Question HRSContentId=""> 4. If he will make a statement on the integration of asylum seekers and economic migrants in Peterborough. [211496] </Question>”
“Does the Minister agree that, instead of being an asylum hot spot, Peterborough has recently become a model for managing and controlling immigration properly? We have been greatly assisted by local employers such as Peter Boizot, the owner of the Great Northern hotel, who welcome these additions to the work force, and by the splendid New Link centre, which is funded by this Labour Government and provides vital help and support to all our new arrivals to Peterborough.”
“I am glad to have this opportunity to debate our Sub-Committee's reports because I was particularly keen that we should hold the inquiry on which the reports are based. In fact, I am sure that my colleagues will allow me to say that I promoted the theme in our discussions and made the suggestion. I have been worried for some time about the state of the local environment in my constituency, which is supposedly the "environment city".”
“Indeed, I am sure that it was. However, I am still concerned about matters in my constituency. We members of the Environmental Audit Committee, its Sub-Committee or other Committees are only too well aware that constituents do not make appointments to see us at our regular surgeries to have ideological debates about local taxation or privatisation. They might write to us about such matters, but they turn up in person when their quality of life is threatened to the extent that day-to-day livin”
“I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that and I certainly agree with her. Will she contact me in the next couple of days? I should like to put my chief executive in contact with hers, so that we can work together. That sounds like a wonderful scheme. I shall quote a comment that I often hear from my constituents, which I am sure hon. Members from all parties have heard: "I didn't bother to report it because nothing is ever done. What's the point?" How many times have we heard that one? The rep”
“It is indeed; the hon. Gentleman was well photographed. Step forward also Southwark. We were terrified of the Southwark representatives at our inquiry. They justified their tough line on environmental crime on the grounds that such offenders were very likely to commit other types of crime as well. I am sad to say that we felt that those authorities were the exception rather than the rule. In our report, we recommend that the Local Government Association should co-ordinate good practice, co”
“<span id="172WH" class="column-number" data-column-number="172WH"></span> As a current member of the Environmental Audit Committee who has served with the hon. Gentleman, I welcome his complimentary comments about the Committee. However, he threw cold water over those comments by saying that we had got cold feet. Will he give examples of our freezing feet, cold feet or need for central heating?”
Published “First principles methods using CASTEP” in Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials — cited 12,312 times.
The government of the Solomon Islands awarded Clark (with John Howard) the Star of the Solomon Islands in recognition of New Zealand's role in restoring law and order in the Solomon Islands
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But the paper revealed they had checked the story with Clark
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Following that year's general election, Labour and the Progressive Party renewed their coalition, with confidence and supply arrangements with both New Zealand First and United Future in exchange for giving the leaders o
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To 42% at the time of the 2008 general election
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“Will my hon. Friend join me in welcoming the new prison in Peterborough, and will he condemn the Peterborough Conservative Association, which clearly does not understand the policy of its own party or its own shadow Home—”
Clark criticised the Invasion of Iraq without an explicit United Nations mandate, and her government opposed New Zealand military action in the Iraq War
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Over the Government's commitment of New Zealand troops to the War in Afghanistan, leading to the imminent dissolution of Labour's coalition with that party
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That she thought it was "inevitable" that New Zealand would become a republic in the near future
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Was presented with the Nuclear-Free Future Award, for "installing New Zealand at the forefront of the world political movement to rid the earth of nuclear weapons"
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Published “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science — cited 10,212 times.
Labour MP Chris Carter investigated the background of one of Clark's Cabinet colleagues, Māori Affairs Minister Dover Samuels, regarding allegations of historic statutory rape
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999–2008).
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Clark was involved in a defamation case in the High Court of New Zealand with Auckland orthopaedic surgeon Joe Brownlee, resulting in Clark's making an unreserved apology
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Clark signed her name to a canvas that had been painted on by another artist
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Clark guest starred as herself in the popular New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
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Won New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 (1993).
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Clark was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1993–1999).
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Clark received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
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“Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.”
Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (1990).
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“If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.”
“I believe I'm the best person for the job. Obviously I'm a woman, but I've never sought election on the basis of being a woman. I've always sought election as the best person for the job.”
Career landmark: Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (1989–1990).
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Career landmark: Minister of Health (1989–1990).
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Published “Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.” in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology — cited 29,372 times.
Clark became a Cabinet minister in the Fourth Labour Government, led by David Lange (1984–1989), Geoffrey Palmer (1989–1990) and Mike Moore (1990)
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Career landmark: Minister of Conservation (1987–1989).
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Clark was awarded the annual Peace Prize of the Danish Peace Foundation for her work in promoting peace and nuclear disarmament
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Said: "As a single woman I was really hammered
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Was appointed as Labour's spokesperson for Overseas Aid and Disarmament
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When Eden Park was a venue for daytime cricket and rugby
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Shortly before she was elected to Parliament
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As the member for Mount Albert, an electorate she represented until 2009
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After the 1981 elections Clark said: "It was a difficult campaign".
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Put her name forward to replace long serving MP Warren Freer in the safe Labour seat of Mount Albert
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Stood as a candidate for the position of junior vice-president
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And then lectured in political studies at Auckland again while undertaking her PhD (which she never completed) from 1977 until her election to Parliament in 1981
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1978, 1983 and 1986, at an Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation Conference held in Sydney in 1981, and at the Socialist International Party Leaders' Meeting in Sydney in 1991
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In Auckland but was not elected to any position
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Sought the nomination for the Auckland Central electorate, but lost to Richard Prebble
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Assisted Labour candidates to the Auckland City Council, three of whom were elected
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To study politics and became active in the New Zealand Labour Party
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Born 1950-02-26.
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And ran the Clarks' farm from his early adulthood to retirement in 1987, when the elder Clarks retired to Waihi Beach
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My right hon. Friend will be aware that there is rising concern and anger among doctors, patients, families and carers about the initial National Institute for Clinical Excellence recommendation to deny Alzheimer's disease drugs on the national health service. Will he allocate parliamentary time to debate that devastating and disastrous proposal?
I am glad to have the opportunity to add my voice to this debate. The Bill has been the focus of some impassioned language in national newspapers, broadcast media and the House, so it is vital that we look at the facts as they stand and not at the welter of hysterical material that has attached itself to the Bill. <span id="1102" class="column-number" data-column-number="1102"></span>First, I wish to address the issue of the clarity of the law. I think that the law is clear to Sir Ian Blair,
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