Phillip Turner (born 1960) MA (History) (1986) Auck is a New Zealand public servant and diplomat.[1] He spent his childhood in
Auckland and was educated at
St Peter's College and
Auckland University.[2] Turner worked for the New Zealand
Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1986 to 1999. He held various senior management positions in
Fonterra from 2000, culminating as Fonterra director of global stakeholder affairs from 2015 to 2018. Turner became the New Zealand ambassador to Korea (North Korea and South Korea), resident in
Seoul, in April 2018.[3][4]
^St Peter's College Magazine 1977, p. 23; Phillip Turner, The politics of neutrality: the Catholic mission and the Maori 1838–1870, Thesis for MA in History, University of Auckland, 1986