PNND Honorary Members

Helen Clark

PNND Honorary Member
New Zealand – House of Representatives

Helen Clark is the head of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position. Clark was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand for three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008. Before resigning from Parliament in April 2009, Clark was Labour's foreign affairs spokeswoman and MP for the Mount Albert electorate which she had held since 1981. Forbes magazine ranked her 20th most powerful woman in the world in 2006.

Laura Chinchilla

PNND Honorary Member
Former President of Costa Rica
Costa Rica – Legislative Assembly

Laura Chinchilla was a member of the Costa Rican parliament from 2002 until 2006 and was the President of Costa Rica from 2010 until 2014 (Costa Rica has term limits of four years). During her term as president she supported a number of nuclear disarmament initiatives including the UN Open Ended Working Group (Costa Rica chaired it), the Nuclear Disarmament Resource Guide for Religious Communities (President Chinchilla launched it at the United Nations), the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention (Costa Rica submitted it to the UN General Assembly, NPT Review Conference and OEWG), and UN High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament in September 2013 at which she spoke.