Phil Goff

The leader of the New Zealand Labour and Leader of the Opposition took up a Chevening fellowship in 1992 to study comparative politics in New Zealand and Britain. He came away with a deep affection for the United Kingdom and a respect for the British media.

Dr Helen Anderson

One of the New Zealand’s most talented geologists Dr Anderson studied plate tectonics at Cambridge. She returned again for her Chevening Fellowhip in 2002 to investigate the relationship between Science and Business and is currently the ministerial science adviser to the Government Minister Mapp.

Marie Shroff

Marie Shroff is New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner and was a Chevening Fellow in 2002. At the time she was Secretary to the New Zealand Cabinet and she created her own study programme to look at public and private policy in Britain.

Andrew Kirton

A senior political advisor in Helen Clark’s office throughout her last government, Andrew Kirton went to London this year on a Chevening Hansard Fellowship. He studied at the London School of Economics and took up an internship in the Office of the Third Sector in Westminster.