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Ben King
New Zealand
Chief Executive, Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet
Description
Since 2020, Mr King has been in the role of Deputy Chief Executive (Policy), Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade. From 2017 to 2020, he was MFAT’s Deputy Secretary, Americas and Asia Group. Prior to this (2015—2017), Mr King was New Zealand Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia, and Lao PDR. From 2012—2014, he was in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Policy Advisory Group as the Foreign Policy Advisor. Before this Mr King held a number of roles at MFAT between 2000 and 2011. From 2009 to 2011 he was Head of the Trade and Economic Section (Counsellor), New Zealand Embassy, Washington DC. He was Senior Negotiator in MFAT’s Trade Negotiations Division in 2008—2009. And for three years (2004—2007) Mr King was Deputy Chief of Mission at the New Zealand Embassy in Riyadh. In 2004 he was Senior Policy Officer, Americas Division and from 2000—2004 he was Second Secretary (Economic), New Zealand High Commission, Canberra. From 1998 to 2000 Mr King was Private Secretary (Trade) and Press Secretary to the Minister for International Trade. He started his public service career in 1997 as Development Programme Manager, Development Cooperation, at MFAT.
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