Nigel Moore

Nigel Moore was appointed Director of the Americas Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in early 2010.

Nigel joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in the mid 1970s having graduated from Auckland University with a Masters in History.  Much of his professional career has focused on the Pacific and Asia both in terms of work at head office in Wellington and assignment at New Zealand missions overseas.

Nigel remains keenly interested in Pacific development and security issues, and played an active role in conflict resolution on Bougainville in the late 1990s.  Nigel has had three Pacific postings - Samoa, Tonga and Papua New Guinea, the latter two as High Commissioner.  In more recent years the direction of Nigel's work has moved more towards Asia.  He was High Commissioner to Singapore from 2001 to 2004 (building on a posting to the New Zealand High Commission in Malaysia in the early 1980s).  Since his return to Wellington in mid 2004 Nigel been engaged almost exclusively as Director Asia Division, in helping shape New Zealand's closer engagement with the region, including through strengthening key bilateral relationships and positioning New Zealand in new and important institutional architecture developing in Asia.