Nigel Haworth
Nigel Haworth | |
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35th President of the Labour Party | |
Assumed office 27 February 2015 |
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Vice President | Virginia Andersen |
Leader | Andrew Little |
Preceded by | Moira Coatsworth |
Personal details | |
Born | Nigel Anthony Fell Haworth 1951 Wales |
Political party | Labour |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Economics Latin American studies International labour market |
Institutions | University of Strathclyde University of Auckland |
Alma mater | University of Liverpool |
Thesis | The industrial community in Arequipa: the failure of a new unitarism (1982) |
Nigel Anthony Fell Haworth (born 1951) is a New Zealand economics academic and politician. He was elected president of the New Zealand Labour Party in February 2015, succeeding Moira Coatsworth.
Education and academic career[edit]
Born in Wales in 1951,[1] Haworth studied economics at the University of Liverpool,[2] and completed a PhD there in 1982.[3] He specialises in Latin American studies and the international labour market.[2]
From 1978 to 1988, Haworth was a lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Strathclyde. He then emigrated to New Zealand to take up a post at the University of Auckland, becoming a professor in 1993. He was appointed head of the Department of Management and International Business in 2012 for a three-year term.[4]
Politics[edit]
Haworth served as president of the Association of University Staff of New Zealand from 2005 to 2008.[4] In 2012 he was elected as a member of the New Zealand Labour Party's policy council, and the following year he became a member of the Labour Party's New Zealand Council. He was elected to succeed Moira Coatworth as party president in 2015.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "England & Wales, birth index, 1916–2005". Ancestry.com. 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2015. (subscription required (help)).
- ^ a b Collings, David G.; Vood, Geoffrey T.; Caligiuri, Paula M., eds. (2015). The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management. Abingdon: Routledgeg. p. xviii. ISBN 978-0-415-63604-9. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ^ "Catalogue search". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ^ a b "Professor Nigel Haworth". University of Auckland. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- ^ Davison, Isaac (27 February 2015). "Nigel Haworth replaces Moira Coatsworth as Labour Party president". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
Party political offices | ||
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Preceded by Moira Coatsworth |
President of the Labour Party 2015–present |
Incumbent |