Nigel Haworth
35th President of the Labour Party
In office
27 February 2015 – 11 September 2019
Vice PresidentGinny Andersen
Beth Houston
Tracey McLellan
LeaderAndrew Little
Jacinda Ardern
Preceded byMoira Coatsworth
Succeeded byClaire Szabó
Personal details
Born
Nigel Anthony Fell Haworth

1951 (age 72–73)
Wales
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Liverpool
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
Latin American studies
International labour market
InstitutionsUniversity of Strathclyde
University of Auckland
ThesisThe industrial community in Arequipa: the failure of a new unitarism (1982)

Nigel Anthony Fell Haworth (born 1951) is a New Zealand economics academic and politician. He was elected President of the New Zealand Labour Party in February 2015, succeeding Moira Coatsworth.

Education and academic career

Born in Wales in 1951,[1] Haworth studied economics at the University of Liverpool,[2] and completed a PhD there in 1982.[3] He specialises in Latin American studies and the international labour market.[2]

From 1978 to 1988, Haworth was a lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Strathclyde. He then emigrated to New Zealand to take up a post at the University of Auckland, becoming a professor in 1993. He was appointed head of the Department of Management and International Business in 2012 for a three-year term.[4]

Politics

Haworth served as president of the Association of University Staff of New Zealand from 2005 to 2008.[4] In 2012 he was elected as a member of the New Zealand Labour Party's policy council, and the following year he became a member of the Labour Party's New Zealand Council. He was elected to succeed Moira Coatworth as Labour Party President in 2015.[5]

In September 2019, Haworth resigned as Labour Party President in response to criticism over his handling of allegations of bullying, harassment, and sexual assault against a male Labour Party staffer. His resignation followed an allegation by a female Labour Party volunteer that she had been violently sexually assaulted by the male staffer.[6][7][8] In December 2019, an independent review into the allegations of sexual assault, undertaken by Maria Dew QC on behalf of the Labour Party, found no sexual assaults nor instances of sexual harassment could be established. The Dew investigation cast major doubt over the allegations made by the principal complainant, who was also found to have been in a personal relationship with the respondent. Ms Dew concluded that the New Zealand Labour Party Code of Conduct and Harassment policies did not govern their personal relationship.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ "England & Wales, birth index, 1916–2005". Ancestry.com. 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  2. ^ a b Collings, David G.; Vood, Geoffrey T.; Caligiuri, Paula M., eds. (2015). The Routledge Companion to International Human Resource Management. Abingdon: Routledgeg. p. xviii. ISBN 978-0-415-63604-9. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Catalogue search". University of Liverpool. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Nigel Haworth". University of Auckland. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  5. ^ Davison, Isaac (27 February 2015). "Nigel Haworth replaces Moira Coatsworth as Labour Party president". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  6. ^ Devlin, Collette (11 September 2019). "Labour Party President Nigel Haworth resigns". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  7. ^ McKay, Ben (11 September 2019). "Ardern accepts Labour chief's resignation amid sex assault scandal". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  8. ^ Casey, Alex (9 September 2019). "A Labour volunteer alleged a violent sexual assault by a Labour staffer. This is her story". The Spinoff. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Labour: report finds no sexual assaults, harassment". newsroom.co.nz. 18 December 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  10. ^ Patterson, Jane (18 December 2019). "Sexual assault allegations against ex-Labour staffer 'not established'". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
Party political offices Preceded byMoira Coatsworth President of the Labour Party 2015–2019 Succeeded byClaire Szabó
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