Tim groser biography

Groser was born in Perth, Scotland and came to New Zealand with his parents Antony and Joanna Groser (née Derrill), who were professional actors, in 1958.
Prior to his appointment as a Member of Parliament in 2005, Mr Groser held a range of senior trade and economic roles within the New Zealand civil service.
Timothy John Groser is a New Zealand former politician and diplomat.

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The Hagstrom Report

Editor’s note: Today we continue our series of profiles of the nine candidates to become the World Trade Organization’s next director-general.

Tim Groser (WTO/Studio Casagrande)
GENEVA — Tim Groser, the New Zealand trade minister who chaired the agriculture negotiations when he was New Zealand’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization, told the General Council and reporters on Wednesday that the next director-general must deal not with a “crisis” but a problem of long term “relevance.”

International institutions that don’t advance, he said, “don’t disappear,” but just cease to be “the go-to place.”

In his speech and at his news conference, Groser, who was born in Scotland but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, made a series of statements that appeared to be criticisms of the style of Pascal Lamy, the director-general for the past eight years.

But when The Hagstrom Report asked him what he would do differently from Lamy, he said he would “never comment&rdq

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Tim Groser

New Zealand politician and ambassador

Timothy John Groser (born 6 March 1950) is a New Zealand former politician and diplomat. A member of the New Zealand National Party, Groser was a Member of Parliament between 2005 and 2015. He held the offices of Minister of Trade, Minister of Conservation, and Minister for Climate Change in the Fifth National Government.

Previously, Groser was a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and served as New Zealand's ambassador to the World Trade Organization from 2002 to 2005 and ambassador to Indonesia from 1994 to 1997. He resigned from Parliament on 19 December 2015 to take up the role of New Zealand's ambassador to the United States of America, which he held from January 2016 until August 2018, when he retired.

Early life and education

Groser was born in Perth, Scotland and came to New Zealand with his parents Antony and Joanna Groser (née Derrill),^[3] who were professional actors, in 1958.^[4] As a child, Groser acted in radio dramas, on the television soap opera Close to Home

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Our Specialty

We create international strategies, negotiating and fixing ‘wicked’ problems by identifying common ground amongst proponents. I have done this at the highest international level, combining both the political level entrée that my title gives me with deep technocratic training and background.

2019: Founder Groser & Associates
2016-18: New Zealand Ambassador to the United States and Special Envoy to the Pacific Alliance.
2008-15: New Zealand Minister of Trade, Climate Change Issues, and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs. Minister of Conservation 2008-09
2005-15: Member of Parliament, New Zealand
2002-05: Ambassador to the WTO, Chair of the Rules Negotiating Group (2002-2003); Chair of the Agriculture Negotiating Group 2003-June 2005
1999-02: Chief Executive of the Asia NZ Foundation (a Think-Tank) and Adviser to ABAC (APEC Business Advisory Council)
1997-99: Principal Economic Adviser, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1994-97: Ambassador to Indonesia
1990-94: NZ Chief Negotiator, GATT Uruguay Round
1986-90: Min