National Office and branch activities.

• Date: 01 September 2023

Shortly after the NZIIA's Annual General Meeting outgoing Board member and former chair Sir Anand Satyanand GNZM, QSO accepted an invitation from the Board to serve as the institute's patron.

The National Conference was held at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland on 8 June. More than 150 attended with about 30 zooming in. A report is to be found elsewhere in this issue.

The prime minister, Rt Hon Chris Hipkins MP, addressed the NZIIA at Parliament on 7 July. His topic was 'Aotearoa New Zealand's Foreign Policy in a Complex World'. (The text of his address is to found elsewhere in this issue.)

On 25 July German citizen David McAllister MEP, the chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and substitute member of both the Committee on International Trade and the Sub-Committee on Security and Defence, gave a presentation at Victoria University of Wellington on 'Development, Trade and Security in the Pacific: A European Perspective'.

The NZIIA joined the Council for International Development Aotearoa New Zealand to host a pre-election debate 'Navigating Global Uncertainty: Aid, Trade and Foreign Affairs' at the Hotel Intercontinental, Wellington on 3 August. The panellists included Dan...