Dr Roderic Alley.

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Dr Rod Alley is the longest serving member of the Standing Committee, to which he was initially elected in 1967. During that time he served also as chairman of the Wellington branch for several years as well as playing a key role in national conference organising. Dr Alley rates highly some of those held in the 1970s in providing critical platforms for the enunciation of an increasingly independent New Zealand foreign policy. He has addressed branch and national conference meetings, either as an individual speaker in the case of developments in Fiji or as a panellist.

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Rod Alley has contributed regularly to the NZIIA's publications, both in series form and through the New Zealand International Review. He has also been a regular book review contributor. He organised and edited the fourth volume of the New Zealand in Warld Affairs series, covering the years 1990-2005. He has also served on and...