Downtown Rotary meeting - 16 April 2019

Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland, Inc.

Weekly meeting – Tuesday 16/04/2019

 

The Rt Hon Jim Bolger ONZ

Replacing GDP, Implications of Climate change, international issues from President Trump to Brexit.

 

The Rt Hon James Bolger had a 25-year career in politics, as leader of the National Party for almost 12 years, a cabinet minister for 16 years, and as Prime Minister from October 1990 to December 1997. He was subsequently Ambassador to the United States of America.

 

He currently holds a number of key governance roles including Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the World Agricultural Forum and Chairman of the Gas Industry Company Ltd (an industry body with the principal objective of ensuring that gas is delivered to existing and new customers in a safe, efficient, fair, reliable, and environmentally sustainable manner). He is also Chancellor of the University of Waikato, a member of Te Uruwera Board, and a Treaty Negotiations consultant.  He was appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand in December 1997.

 

Mr Bolger will chat about replacing GDP, which just measures money transactions, with a more comprehensive measure of progress. He will also look at the enormous implications of climate change: the council for the Kapiti Coast, where he lives, have just announced that they will be implementing a plan to start moving back from the coastline. Finally, he will look at various international issues from President Trump to Brexit.

 

Introducer/host: Suzanne O'Leary

Thanker: Christine Fenby

 

5-minute speaker: Simon Walton (US war history tour)

 

Reception: Daniel Turkel, Christine Fenby, Mark Forbes

 

Upcoming meetings:

 

23/04/2019

No meeting

(Day after Easter Monday)

 

30/04/2019

Alywn Poole

Academic Manager – Mt Hobson Middle School

“The role of charter schools”

 

07/05/2019

Victoria Brownlee

Alumni development assistant – University of Auckland

“UN experience”