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Peter
Parussini |
Peter Parussini
Public Address: "Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Into
the 21st Century"
Location: Furman University,
Hartness Pavilion
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 7:30 pm
Peter Parussini
has been involved in New Zealand’s communications industry
for more than twenty years. He started his career as a journalist
and worked for more than a decade in the industry, primarily with
Wellington’s daily circulation broadsheet newspaper The
Evening Post and the New Zealand Press Association.
In his time as a journalist he covered major international sporting
events at home and abroad, and finished his career as a political
reporter in the New Zealand Parliamentary Press Gallery.
His love of
politics led him to become the speech writer, and later press secretary
and media advisor for former Prime Minister and World Trade Organization
Secretary General Rt Hon Mike Moore. Peter’s involvement in
politics led him to public office in 1992 at the age of 30, the
youngest member and highest polling Labour Party candidate of the
Wellington City Council.
Since early
2004, Peter has been Head of Internal Communications and Sponsorship
for Telecom New Zealand Ltd, the country’s largest publicly
listed company. He is currently on sabbatical from Telecom and is
a visiting professor at George Washington University’s School
of Business where he is teaching a graduate class in sports marketing
and an undergraduate class in event management and sports business.
He is also an “Executive on Loan” to Washington, DC
based educational NGO, the Virtual Trade Mission.
Peter was educated
at Victoria University of Wellington, the Beijing Foreign Studies
University in the Peoples Republic of China and at the Wellington
Polytechnic School of Journalism. He has wide interests in sports
and is an active rugby union referee, as a member of Wellington’s
“intermediate” squad. A native of south Auckland, Peter
now lives in Wellington.
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