Career After Parliament
Rich took up a position of chief executive of the New Zealand Food & Grocery Council in March 2009, following appointment in November 2008. The Council represents grocery manufacturers and suppliers and described itself as "a powerful lobby group".
She was appointed to the board of the Health Promotion Agency in June 2012. Prime Minister John Key of the National Party thought that she would be able to manage conflicts of interest with her role with the Food & Grocery Council, which had campaigned against some anti-obesity initiatives.
Read more about this topic: Katherine Rich (politician)
Famous quotes containing the words career and/or parliament:
“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)