Chair of Apec 2021 senior officials’ meeting and chief negotiator for the free-trade agreement with the European Union.
Previously the chief negotiator of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, and before that sealed the Asean-Australia-NZ Free Trade Agreement and the Malaysia-NZ Free Trade Agreement, and was NZ’s permanent representative to the WTO in Geneva.
Has also been the ambassador to the European Union and NATO in Brussels and was posted to Canberra and Moscow.