The Honourable Steven Joyce, of Albany, CNZM for services as a Member of Parliament
The Honourable Steven Joyce was a senior Minister in the Fifth National Government. He variously held the portfolios for communications and technology, economic development, infrastructure, science and innovation, regulatory reform, small business, finance, transport and the portfolio of tertiary education, skills and employment for five years. He had ministerial responsibility for resolving some of New Zealand’s most difficult issues, such as Novopay, the government response to the grounding of the Rena, and a botulism scare. He led the initial rollout of New Zealand’s ultrafast broadband network and created the concept of roads of national significance. As the Minister of Economic Development, he put in place a new regulatory regime to enable space launches in New Zealand. Earlier in his career Mr Joyce established Energy FM, which became RadioWorks New Zealand.