{"id":189294,"date":"2025-12-18T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189294\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:45:07","slug":"nathan-guy-appointed-as-new-zealands-special-agricultural-trade-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/189294\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Guy appointed as New Zealand\u2019s special agricultural trade envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI have asked Mr Guy to show particular focus on India and GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] markets, to leverage the opportunities that trade agreements with these countries would present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guy brings extensive experience to the position. <\/p>\n

A dairy farmer and agribusiness leader, he is a former Minister for Primary Industries and chairs the Meat Industry Association and Apiculture New Zealand. <\/p>\n

He has a strong track record of promoting New Zealand\u2019s producers both domestically and internationally.<\/p>\n

McClay said Guy\u2019s background as both a farmer and a former minister made him \u201cuniquely well placed to tell the story of New Zealand\u2019s primary production sector to the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

Guy will replace Hamish Marr, who has held the role since 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamish has made an outstanding contribution to New Zealand\u2019s agricultural trade interests,\u201d McClay said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been highly effective in conveying the message that New Zealand agriculture is not a threat to others but rather that we can complement our partners to our mutual advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guy will officially take up the role on January 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI have asked Mr Guy to show particular focus on India and GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] markets, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17394,26216,17623,806,7224,102350,12026,82216,13489,89505,117,111,43,139,69,1962,584,2963],"class_list":["post-189294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-agribusiness","tag-agricultural","tag-appointed","tag-as","tag-dairy","tag-envoy","tag-farmer","tag-guy","tag-leader","tag-nathan","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-special","tag-trade","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}