Derek Leask

HE Derek Leask
Leask in 2008
25th High Commissioner from New Zealand to the United Kingdom
Incumbent
Assumed office March 2008
Preceded by	Jonathan Hunt
Personal details
Born	1948 (age 62–63) Wellington, New Zealand
Alma mater	Victoria University of Wellington, University of Canterbury

Derek Leask (born 1948) is a New Zealand diplomat, since March 2008 the High Commissioner from New Zealand to the United Kingdom, and concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Ireland and High Commissioner to Nigeria. Leask is a career diplomat, who joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1969. Before becoming Commissioner, he was Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Wellington. He served as Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from 1994 to 1999, and was earlier posted to Suva, Ottawa and London, between 1985 and 1989.^[1]

Leask was born in Wellington, and has degrees from Victoria University of Wellington (BCA), and the University of Canterbury (M. Comm, Hons-Economics).^[2]

High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

Minster of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters announced Leask would be the next High Commissioner in London on 22 November 2007, succeeding Jonathan Hunt.^[1] As High Commissioner, Leask attended the service for Edmund Hillary at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on 2 April 2008.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Peters names High Commissioner to London". New Zealand Government. 22 November 2007. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0711/S00421.htm. Retrieved 1 March 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "His Excellency Mr Derek Leask". Diplomat. http://d342537.u26.pipeten.co.uk/headsofmission/diplomat.aspx?intDiplomatID=340. Retrieved 1 March 2011. 

External links

• New Zealand High Commission website

Persondata
Name	Leask, Derek
Alternative names
Short description	New Zealand diplomat
Date of birth	1948
Place of birth	Wellington, New Zealand
Date of death
Place of death