| 词条 | Simon Upton |
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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = Simon Upton |honorific-suffix = |image = Simon Upton 01 crop.jpg |caption = Simon Upton at a sustainable development Forum in Prague, November 2014 |office = 4th Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment |primeminister = Bill English Jacinda Ardern |term_start = 16 October 2017 |term_end = |predecessor = Jan Wright |successor = |order1 = 30th Minister of Health |primeminister1 = Jim Bolger |term_start1 = 2 November 1990 |term_end1 = 27 March 1993 |predecessor1 = Helen Clark |successor1 = Bill Birch |order2 = 2nd Minister for the Environment |primeminister2 = Jim Bolger, Jenny Shipley |term_start2 = 2 November 1990 |term_end2 = 10 December 1999 |predecessor2 = Geoffrey Palmer |successor2 = Marian Hobbs |constituency_MP3 = Waikato |parliament3 = New Zealand |majority3 = |term_start3 = 1981 |term_end3 = 1984 |predecessor3 = Lance Adams-Schneider |successor3 = Rob Storey |constituency_MP4 = Raglan |parliament4 = New Zealand |majority4 = |term_start4 = 1984 |term_end4 = 1996 |predecessor4 = Marilyn Waring (in 1978) |successor4 = |constituency_MP5 = National Party list |parliament5 = New Zealand |term_start5 = 1996 |term_end5 = 2001 |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1958|2|7}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |restingplace = |restingplacecoordinates = |birthname = |nationality = |party = National |otherparty = |spouse = |partner = |relations = |children = |residence = |alma_mater = |occupation = |profession = |cabinet = |committees = |portfolio = |religion = |signature = |website = |footnotes = |blank1 = |data1 = }} Simon David Upton (born 7 February 1958) is a former New Zealand politician and member of Parliament from 1981 to 2001, representing the National Party, and the current Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. Early lifeUpton was educated at Southwell School, St Paul's Collegiate School and the University of Auckland, where he gained degrees in English literature, music and law, and Wolfson College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. Member of Parliament{{NZ parlbox header|align=left}}{{NZ parlbox|term=40th|start=1981|end=1984|party=New Zealand National Party|electorate=Waikato}}{{NZ parlbox|term=41st|start=1984|end=1987|party=New Zealand National Party|electorate=Raglan}}{{NZ parlbox|term=42nd|start=1987|end=1990|party=New Zealand National Party|electorate=Raglan}}{{NZ parlbox|term=43rd|start=1990|end=1993|party=New Zealand National Party|electorate=Raglan}}{{NZ parlbox|term=44th|start=1993|end=1996|party=New Zealand National Party|electorate=Raglan}}{{NZ parlbox|term=45th|start=1996|end=1999|party=New Zealand National Party|electorate=List|list=11}}{{NZ parlbox|term=46th|start=1999|end=2001|party=New Zealand National Party|electorate=List|list=12}}{{NZ parlbox footer}}Having joined the National Party in 1976, he served as Chairman of the New Zealand Young Nationals among other positions and became the then-youngest MP for Waikato in the 1981 election. In the 1984 election, he was elected MP for Raglan, which he held until the 1996 election, when he chose to become a list MP. Cabinet minister{{see also|Fourth National Government of New Zealand}}Upton became one of New Zealand's youngest ever Ministers in the Cabinet in 1990, when he became Minister of Health, Minister for the Environment, and Minister of Research, Science and Technology. In the environment post, Upton enacted the Resource Management Act 1991. He was responsible for establishing the Crown Research Institutes. He has an interest in sustainable development, and chaired the OECD's Round Table on Sustainable Development. He is a founding member of the Board of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.[1] He was sworn to the Privy Council in 1999.[2] Life after politicsHe resigned from Parliament in 2001, and moved to France. He took up a full-time post at the OECD as the chair of the Round Table on Sustainable Development which he held until 2005. He was also a part-time consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers for several years. In April 2010 he was appointed as the head of the OECD Environment Directorate, in Paris, France.[3] In April 2017, he was appointed by Parliament to be the next Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. He replaced the previous commissioner, Dr Jan Wright, when her second five-year term ended in October 2017.[4] Personal lifeHe has two adult children.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}} {{s-start}}{{s-par|nz}}{{s-bef|before=Lance Adams-Schneider}}{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Waikato|years=1981–1984}}{{s-aft|after=Rob Storey}}|-{{s-vac|last=Marilyn Waring|reason=Constituency abolished in 1978}}{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Raglan|years=1984–1996}}{{s-non|reason=Constituency abolished}} |-{{s-off}}{{s-bef|before=Helen Clark}}{{s-ttl|title=Minister of Health|years=1990–1993}}{{s-aft|after=Bill Birch}} |-{{s-bef|before=Geoffrey Palmer}}{{s-ttl|title=Minister for the Environment|years=1990–1999}}{{s-aft|after=Marian Hobbs}}{{end}} Notes1. ^{{cite journal|title=Holcim Hands out Building Prizes |journal=Rock Products|date=1 October 2005|first=Rick|last=Markley|volume=108|issue=10|pages=6|id= |url=}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page76.asp#u|title=Privy Council Members|publisher=Privy Council Office|accessdate=12 December 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202200122/http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page76.asp#u|archivedate=2 December 2010|df=dmy-all}} 3. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.oecd.org/document/49/0,3746,en_2649_33713_45081905_1_1_1_1,00.html |title= Simon Upton, Director, Environment Directorate |publisher=OECD |year=2012|accessdate=23 July 2012}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/328759/upton-to-be-parliamentary-commissioner-for-the-environment|title=Upton to be Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment|date=2017-04-13|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=2017-04-24|language=en-nz}} External links{{Commons category|Simon Upton}}
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