New life members.

• Position: INSTITUTE NOTES - New Zealand Institute of International Affairs members

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MR BRUCE BROWN, QSO

Bruce Brown was National Vice President of NZIIA for five years (200409). He was the NZIINs first director (1969-71) and played a prominent role in extracting a second significant funding grant from the Ford Foundation. He was director again from 1993 to 1997. He chaired the NZIIA Research and Publications Committee from 1993 to 2004 and has remained actively involved in that work. He has been a longstanding member of the NZIIA's Standing Committee.

In his distinguished diplomatic career, recognised by his appointment as companion of the QSO, Bruce Brown served in Kuala Lumpur; New York; Canberra; Tehran as New Zealand's first ambassador to Iran, accredited also to Pakistan; London as deputy high commissioner; Bangkok as ambassador to Thailand, accredited also to Burma, Laos and Vietnam; and Ottawa as high commissioner, accredited as well to states in the Caribbean. He has an extraordinary ability to record highlights of his overseas postings. We await his memoirs!

Bruce has published and presented extensively on New Zealand political history and foreign policy, edited the proceedings of NZIIA seminars and been a regular contributor to the NZIIA's bimonthly journal New Zealand International Review.

SIR FRANK HOLMES, KT

Sir Frank Holmes's contribution to the work of the NZIIA goes back ever a half-century. An early mishap did not undermine his faith in the NZIIA's future. In 1953 the NZIIA sent a delegation of three to a Commonwealth relations conference in Lahore, Pakistan. The plane crashed in Singapore; fortunately Frank was not on it and he was the only member of the delegation to attend the conference.

In 1968 Frank Holmes was instrumental along with Les Castle in gaining the first grant from the Ford Foundation that enabled the NZIIA to set up a national office with Bruce Brown as the first fulltime director. The grant provided funds for research and publications, and travel for conferences. Frank was President of the NZIIA in 1999-2000 and has been an honorary vice-president since 2001. He introduced such novel concepts as strategic analysis to the way the NZIIA developed its activities programme.

Frank Holmes is well-known for his long and distinguished career in the fields of economics and education, work for which he was knighted in 1975. He has been the author or co-author of publications dealing with New Zealand's relations with its main international areas of engagement and where much...