Guest Speaker:
Mr Ben King
Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Event Date: Tuesday 12th June 2018
Event Time: 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Event Location:
Bell Gully
Level 21, HP Tower, 171 Featherston Street, Wellington, 6011.
Please note no building access after 6pm.
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Ben King is Deputy Secretary of the Americas and Asia Group at New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, a role he commenced in September 2017.
Prior to this role, Ben was New Zealand’s Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and the Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic. Ben was also the Foreign Policy Advisor at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Ben has had postings at the New Zealand Embassies in Washington DC and in Riyadh, and at the New Zealand High Commission in Canberra. Earlier in his career, Ben was Private Secretary and Press Secretary to the Minister for International Trade.
Ben is a graduate of the University of Waikato, and of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
