Thursday 27 September 2007

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Topic | Update on New Zealand

John Key, MP for Helensville, became Leader of the National Party in November 2006.  Prior to that he held the post of National’s Finance spokesman.  Having graduated from the University of Canterbury with a B.Comm, John launched his investment banking career in the mid-1980s, working at Elders Finance and then Bankers’ Trust.  After 10 years working in New Zealand he joined Merrill Lynch’s investment banking arm, working in Singapore, London, New York and Sydney.  During that time John was in charge of a number of business units including global foreign exchange and European bond and derivative trading.  In 1999 he was invited to join the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY and on two occasions undertook management studies at Harvard University in Boston.

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