Jacinda Ardern
Former New Zealand prime minister
Jacinda Ardern led New Zealand as prime minister from 2017 to 2023. She is the author of A Different Kind of Power.
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Born 1980 in Hamilton, New Zealand
About Jacinda Ardern
Jacinda Ardern led the Labour Party and served as prime minister of New Zealand from 2017 to 2023. She became the country's 40th prime minister at 37, its youngest in more than 150 years. She grew up in Morrinsville and Murupara, joined Labour at 17, and graduated from the University of Waikato in 2001. She later worked in the office of Prime Minister Helen Clark and as an adviser in the Cabinet Office in London, and she entered Parliament in 2008. Ardern stepped down as prime minister in January 2023. Since then she has founded the Field Fellowship on empathetic leadership and become a senior fellow at Harvard University. She is also patron of the Christchurch Call to Action, which works to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. She is the author of A Different Kind of Power.