Udall was confirmed by the Senate in October 2021 and was in New Zealand by December, about nine months after Biden was inaugurated.<\/p>\n
Scott Brown, Trump\u2019s previous Ambassador to New Zealand, was confirmed within six months of the President taking office and here about six weeks later.<\/p>\n
Novelly, originally from St Louis, Missouri, owns the Illawarra Hawks \u2013 a basketball team that competes in the National Basketball League in Australia. <\/p>\n
He holds a Masters of Property Development from the University of Technology Sydney and a BA from Saint Louis University in St Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n
US Ambassador Jared Novelly presenting his credentials to Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro. Photo \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
During his confirmation hearing, Novelly said his priority in the new job will be \u201cexpanding our defence partnership\u201d.<\/p>\n
He has also made his interest clear in the critical minerals found in the seabed around the Cook Islands.<\/p>\n
Novelly said he would work<\/a> \u201ctirelessly to advance President Trump\u2019s<\/a> and Secretary [Marco] Rubio\u2019s foreign policies\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIn advancing the President\u2019s agenda, we have few better partners than New Zealand. The Government of New Zealand consistently supports our goals in the region and beyond,\u201d the nominee said.<\/p>\n Alongside being Trump\u2019s man in Wellington, the post comes with representing the US in Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Niue.<\/p>\n Novelly intended to \u201cdo everything in my power to take our relationship to new heights\u201d.<\/p>\n He listed three priorities, including partnering with New Zealand to \u201cpromote a free and open Pacific\u201d, \u201cexpanding our defence partnership with New Zealand\u201d and \u201cpromoting opportunities for US business entities\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cFew countries understand the darkening security environment in the Pacific better than New Zealand,\u201d Novelly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Udall was confirmed by the Senate in October 2021 and was in New Zealand by December, about nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45343,13475,48024,57104,2947,9872,71,25807,6871,55143,231197,117,111,43,139,251727,69,59966,3117,15225,213,9939,4758,223,181896,9938,80],"class_list":["post-504624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-ambassador","tag-billionaire","tag-cindy","tag-credentials","tag-dame","tag-finally","tag-from","tag-governor","tag-has","tag-jared","tag-kiro","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-novelly","tag-nz","tag-officially","tag-post","tag-presented","tag-sports","tag-states","tag-taking","tag-the","tag-tycoon","tag-united","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504624","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=504624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}