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Brian Lynch (Brian John), ONZM, MA 1958 & 1962 Canterbury, is a former New Zealand public servant, diplomat, and is the director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs .

Background

Lynch came fron Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College. He studied at the University of Canterbury where he completed Masters degrees in History (1958) and Geography (1962). He was then a secondary teacher for three years.

Public service

Lynch joined the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1964 where he was successively, Careers and Special Projects Officer (1969 – 1971), Deputy High Commissioner in Singapore (1971-1974) , Head of the Asian and Pacific Division in Wellington (1974-1977) (where he was involved in the building of the first tentative relationship with Beijing and extricating New Zealand from Vietnam and establishing the new Pacific Forum as a going concern and also insetting up the new Pacific Forum Line), Deputy High Commissioner in London (1977-1981) and Assistant Secretary of the Ministry in 1981 and 1982. From 1982, Lynch became Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, a decade during which the whole structure of air, rail, road and sea transport was corporatized and eventually privatized as part of the state sector restructuring.

Meat Board, trade and intenrational affairs

Lynch was the Chief Executive of the Meat Industry Association from 1992 until 2003. "It was for his work in assisting the meat industry to rationalize and adjust to a very different com-modity chain in the post-subsidy open market conditions of the 1990s that he was made Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2004". He played a major role in debates about the implications of trade liberalization for New Zealand’s food industries. He was the foundation chairman of the New Zealand Trade Liberalization Network from October 200.1 He wass also Chairman of the New Zealand Food Industry Foundation and the New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority and a Senior Adviser and Alternate Member on the New Zealand Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council. In 2004 Lynch became Director of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. <ref name "NZGeog_Lynch">

External links

• New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.]