Name Peter Shirtcliffe | ||
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Born July 28, 1931 ( 1931-07-28 ) | ||
George Peter Shirtcliffe, (born 28 July 1931), is a New Zealand businessman. He was the chairman of Telecom New Zealand, New Zealand's largest listed company, from 1990 to 1999. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to marketing and business management. He received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. He is also a Laureate of the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame, a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (honorary retired) and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Directors. He was the founding chairman of the Enterprise Education Foundation and later a trustee of the Enterprise New Zealand Trust. He was an active member of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1953 to 1967, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
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In 2016 along with Don Brash he formed the lobby group Hobson's Pledge to oppose alleged favouritism towards Māori in New Zealand.
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During the debate over electoral reform in New Zealand in the early 1990s, he led the Campaign for Better Government which unsuccessfully opposed the Mixed Member Proportional system. In the late 2000s, he campaigned for changes to the format of the 2011 referendum.