Charles Chauvel left the New Zealand Parliament in March 2013 to begin work in New York as the Parliamentary Development Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme. He was Shadow Attorney-General, Shadow Minister for Justice, Courts and Corrections, chaired the NZ Parliament’s public accounts committee, scrutiny of regulations committee, and privileges committee, was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney-General, as well as shadow minister for environment, energy, and climate matters. He is the only person of Pacific Islands ancestry to have served on the front bench of any major NZ political party. He founded the NZ Chapter of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption.
His previous governance experience includes: NZ Public Health Commissioner; chair of the NZ AIDS Foundation; deputy president of the NZ Lotteries Commission; deputy chair of the board of Meridian Energy Ltd, NZ’s largest renewable energy generator; board member of the Pacific Friends of the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria; and UN Global Commissioner on HIV and the Law.
