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David Bruce Payton
(born c. 1952)
[1]
was the
Administrator
of
Tokelau
from 17 October 2006 to 2009.
[2]
Payton joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1975, where he worked in the aid division assisting
Niue
.
[1]
From 1977-79 he was posted the New Zealand High Commission in
Nuku'alofa
,
Tonga
.
[1]
He also served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General for the International Conference on Population and Development as part of the United Nations Population Fund (from 1992-1994) based in New York. He was also on the New Zealand Delegation to the historic Rio Summit in 1993 led by New Zealand diplomat,
Terence O'Brien
. From 1997 to 2000 he was New Zealand Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and from 2002 to 2006 Ambassador to the Netherlands.
[3]
[4]
He was appointed Administrator of Tokelau in October 2006.
[5]
He retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) in 2014 at the age of 62, after spending the last few years of his career (2011-2014) working in New York (for the second time) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on issues related to development in Small Island Developing States (SIDs).
[6]
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