Brian Lynch ONZM.

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Brian Lynch was the director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs for nine years from 2004 to 2012. Before this he had a diverse career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before becoming deputy secretary of transport and then chief executive of the Meat Industry Association from 1992 to 2003. For his work in assisting the meat industry to rationalise and adjust to a very different commodity chain in the post-subsidy open market conditions of the 1990s he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2004.

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During his time as director of the NZIIA, he was instrumental in increasing corporate and institutional support for NZIIA National Office from 35 to over 100 members and increasing the number of NZIIA branches by three. He was a regular contributor of articles, book reviews and conference reports to the New Zealand International Review, edited nine volumes of conference proceedings, and co-edited a major study of the New Zealand-United States...