James Kenneth McLay

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James Kenneth McLay
(December 22, 2009)

Sir James Kenneth McLay , QSO , CNZM , KNZM (born February 21, 1945 in Pentlands, Devonport , Auckland , New Zealand ), also known in public as Jim McLay , is a New Zealand politician and diplomat for the New Zealand National Party .

Life

James Kenneth McLay was born on February 21, 1945 to Robert McLay and his wife Joyce in Devonport , a suburb of Auckland . He attended Kings College and after graduating from the University of Auckland , where he studied law and graduated with a Bachelor of Law . He then went to the New Zealand Army , which he left as an officer in 1970. In 1971 he opened his own law firm.

Political career

McLay won a seat in the New Zealand House of Representatives for the first time in 1975 with the Birkenhead constituency in Auckland . In 1978 he already entered the government of Robert Muldoon and took over the position of Attorney General and at the same time became Minister of Justice of the country. At 39, he was the youngest member of the cabinet at the time. Shortly before the end of Muldoon's government , McLay was appointed deputy prime minister on March 15, 1984 and elected deputy leader of the National Party .

After his party had to surrender government power to the New Zealand Labor Party after the parliamentary elections in July 1984 and Robert Muldoon made the party chair available, McLay successfully ran for the position of party leadership on November 29, 1964 and returned to parliament as opposition leader. He also took on the role of spokesman for the judiciary of his party.

In April 1986, McLay lost his leadership role to his deputy Jim Bolger in a snap vote . In September 1986, McLay then announced that he would no longer run for his party in the next general election.

Businessman

After the end of his political career in his party, McLay began to work as a businessman and took on various management positions. He was chairman of various New Zealand companies, such as Macquarie Group Holdings New Zealand , from 1998 to 2009 chairman of the Project Manukau Audit Group , founder and from 2005 to 2006 chairman of the New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development and numerous other companies.

Career as a diplomat

From 1994 to 2002, McLay represented his country on the International Whaling Commission .

In June 2009 McLay took on a diplomatic role as representative of New Zealand at the United Nations and in 2014 managed to get New Zealand a seat on the United Nations Security Council . After six years of diplomatic work at the UN, McLay left the organization in May 2015 and went to Hawaii as Consul General in May 2016 .

Awards

family

McLay married Marcy Farden in October 1983 in Ottawa , Canada .

Web links

Commons : James Kenneth McLay  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Births - McLay . In: New Zealand Herald . Volume 82 , Issue 25135 , February 23, 1945 (English, online [accessed July 1, 2020]).
  2. ↑ James K. McLay . Munzinger Archiv GmbH , August 12, 1985, accessed on July 1, 2020 (English).
  3. ^ New Deputy Prime Minister Chosen . In: New Zealand Update . Vol. 6 , No. 3 , April 1984 (English).
  4. ^ National Party Changes Leadership . In: New Zealand Update . Vol. 6 , No. December 11 , 1984 (English).
  5. ^ Leadership changes in the National Party . In: New Zealand Update . Vol. 8 , No. 3 , April 1986 (English).
  6. ^ Leadership changes in the National Party . In: New Zealand Update . Vol. 8 , No. September 9 , 1986 (English).
  7. ↑ Jim McLay NZ's next representative to UN . In: New Zealand Herald . NZME. Publishing Limited , March 11, 2009, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ MCLAY, The Honorable James Kenneth (Jim), CNZM, QSO . In: Queen's Birthday Honors 2015 - Citations for Knight Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinat , May 28, 2015, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Barry Soper : Exclusive: Sir Jim McLay to take up job as Acting Consul General in Hawaii . NZME Radio Limited , May 5, 2016, accessed on July 1, 2020 .
  10. ^ The Queen's Service Order for Public Services . In: The London Gazette . June 13, 1987, p. B33 , accessed July 1, 2020 .
  11. ^ McLay Glacier . In: US Geological Survey . January 1, 2003, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  12. ^ Political Marriage . In: The Ottawa Citizen . October 13, 1983, p.  64 (English, online [accessed July 1, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME McLay, James Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McLay, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand politician and diplomat with the New Zealand National Party
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Devonport , Auckland , New Zealand