New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has today named top diplomat Chris Seed as New Zealand's next High Commissioner to Australia
Mr Seed, currently a Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has extensive experience in the Pacific and Australia, including a one-year secondment to Australia's Foreign Affairs Department.
He was also High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea in 2001-2003, and was New Zealand's first senior national officer in the International Peace Monitoring Team in Solomon Islands.
Mr Seed replaces outgoing High Commissioner Martyn Dunne who is returning to Wellington to take up the role of Director General at the Ministry for Primary Industries.
