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Presenter
Biography

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Michael Poweles

Michael Powles was partly brought up in Samoa and educated at VUW. He spent 30 years working in the Aotearoa New Zealand foreign service, including three years as ambassador to China. He also headed our embassies and missions in Fiji and Indonesia and at the United Nations. He has written and spoken publicly about our foreign relations.

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