Tim Groser

Tim Groser
Minister of Trade, New Zealand

 

Tim Groser is Minister Responsible for International Climate Change Negotiations in New Zealand.

 

He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on international trade, and until recently was New Zealand's Ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Chair of Agricultural Negotiations for the WTO.

 

Mr Groser has served New Zealand with distinction in a number of capacities, including being New Zealand's Chief Negotiator in the GATT Uruguay Round, the Round that brought agriculture into the system of world trade rules for the first time, and has been instrumental in helping to develop the Global Research Alliance on greenhouse gas emissions.

 

Mr Groser was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 2005.