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Sir John Phillip Key GNZM AC (born 9 August 1961) is a New Zealand retired politician who served as the 38th prime minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016 and as leader of the New Zealand National Party from 2006 to 2016.
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John Key, (born August 9, 1961, Auckland, New Zealand), New Zealand business executive and politician who was leader of the New Zealand National Party (2006–16) and prime minister of New Zealand (2008–16).
Key was the son of an English father and a Jewish mother, who fled Austria for the United Kingdom in 1939. The couple married in 1948 and immigrated to New Zealand, eventually settling in Auckland. When Key’s father died in 1969, the family moved to Christchurch, where they lived in a state rental house and Key’s mother worked as a night porter and cleaner to repay accumulated debt. Key did well at Burnside High School, where he excelled in public speaking, debating, and economics. He later studied accounting at the University of Canterbury, from which he graduated with a degree in commerce in 1983, the year before his marriage to fellow student Bronough Irene Dougan.
After Prime Minister David Lange’s 1984–87 Labour government loosened exchange controls on the New Zealand dollar, Key quit his job with a sportswear clothing manufacturer and took a position as a foreign currency trader in Wellington for Australia-based Elders Merchant Finance. In 1988 he was lured to the newly established Bankers Trust in Auckland. Beginning in 1995, Key worked in Singapore, London, and Sydney for American investment bankers Merrill Lynch, assuming responsibility for various business units, notably international foreign-exchange and European bond and derivative trading. He developed a reputation as a smart risk taker, and in 1999 he joined the foreign-exchange committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also took management studies courses at Harvard University.
Key steered the country through tough times in response to the global economic downturn that began shortly after he took office and as New Zealanders faced tragedy and loss brought about by the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010–11. In the process, he earned a second term as prime minister when the National Party won a historic victory in the general election in November 2011, capturing 48 percent of the vote (the highest total for any party since mixed-member proportional representation was introduced in 1996) and 60 seats in the House of Representatives (Parliament).
Much time and treasure was spent on earthquake recovery efforts, which Key, in 2013, called “the largest economic undertaking in New Zealand’s history,” equivalent to almost 20 percent of the country’s annual GDP. Earthquakes and aftershocks of up to 6.6 magnitude again buffeted the country in 2013, this time beneath Cook Strait, but caused only superficial damage in Wellington, though several dwellings were destroyed in the small South Island community of Seddon.
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Under the direction of Key and Finance Minister Bill English, New Zealand experienced a robust economic recovery from the international financial crisis of 2008–09, and by 2014 it had become one of the first developed countries to return to normal performance after the global crisis. Largely as a result of that success, in the 2014 general election the National Party won 60 seats in the House of Representatives under the mixed member proportional electoral system, returning Key for a third term as prime minister after support for the government was won from the Maori Party (2 seats) and ACT New Zealand and United Future (1 each). The victory of the National Party came despite the political fallout that it had experienced over the handling of the attempted extradition by the U.S. of German-born Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom—a permanent resident in New Zealand since November 2010—on charges of copyright infringement in relation to his Megaupload Web site. The case had been delayed by a government investigation into allegations that New Zealand security services had unlawfully spied on Dotcom.
Meanwhile, Key and his family visited Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle in September 2013. Later that month, in an address to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Key urged the reform of various UN bodies, including the Security Council, which he said were “hostage to their own traditions and to the interests of the most powerful” and damaging to the reputation and credibility of the UN itself. In November 2014 Key hosted state visits to New Zealand by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping.
John Phillip Key ( Auckland, 9 de agosto de 1961) é um político da Nova Zelândia que serviu como primeiro-ministro de seu país de 2008 a 2016. Foi também líder do Partido Nacional Neozelandês de 2006 a 2016. [ 1][ 2] Durante seu governo, conseguiu manter sua popularidade em alta.
28 de nov. de 2023 · Learn about John Key, the former prime minister of New Zealand who led National to three election victories and formed confidence-and-supply agreements with other parties. Find out his biography, achievements, challenges and controversies.
5 de dez. de 2016 · Reuters. From financier to three-term prime minister. John Key, who has announced his resignation as prime minister of New Zealand, made a fortune as a currency trader before returning home to...
John Key is resigning as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Key made the announcement at his weekly press conference this afternoon. • Read John Key's full resignation speech
John Phillip Key (born 9 August 1961) was the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand and was the leader of the New Zealand National Party. He entered the New Zealand Parliament in 2002 representing the north-west Auckland area of Helensville as a National MP, a seat that he still holds.
