ENG - Helen Elizabeth Clark, ONZ (born 26 February 1950) is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position, and was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand for three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008. She led the Labour Party from 1993 until it lost the 2008 general election. Before resigning from Parliament in April 2009, Clark was Labour's foreign affairs spokeswoman and MP for the Mount Albert electorate which she had held since 1981. Forbes magazine ranked her 20th most powerful woman in the world in 2006.
When the New Zealand Labour Party came into office as part of a coalition following the 1999 election, Clark became the second female Prime Minister of New Zealand and the first to have won office at an election. (The previous Prime ...
Amid a tournament that's all about men, one woman is watching from afar, satisfied in the role she has played to help secure hosting rights for the biggest event this country has seen.
Former prime minister Helen Clark is now the administrator of the United Nations development programme, the third-highest UN position, based in New York. However, she plans to be in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup final on October 23.
"I just hope the All Blacks are in it," she told the Waikato Times this week.
Ms Clark said the idea to pitch for RWC hosting rights was rolled around the Beehive "in the ...
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is using the legacy of one of her predecessors as motivation to push harder towards achieving global aid goals. Now heading the United Nations Development Programme from New York, Miss Clark said in a speech in Wellington tonight that while progress was being made through the Millennium Declaration in tackling global crises such as disease, poverty and lack of education, national interest was hindering progress in other areas. The developing world was generally on target to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) poverty reduction targets by 2015, but ...
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has lent her public support, yet again, to her main man.Having opened Paul Serville's last hairdressing academy 10 years ago, Clark was keen to do it again.Serville has been intimately acquainted with Clark's hair for more than 15 years - taking her from fashion dud to hot head honcho."It took me a long time to find someone who could deal with my very difficult hair. So Paul's been very loyal to my hair and I've been very loyal to him," Clark said.
New Zealand's first elected female PM has had her fair share of dud do's - from bowl cut to 90's power bob. But ...
