North Pole to South Pole to parliament

Overview

Formerly an Officer in the New Zealand Territorial Army and British Parachute (TA) Regiment, Andrew has a long career in endurance events. His mountaineering ascents include Aoraki Mt Cook and Mt. Aspiring in New Zealand, and four mountains in Antarctica.

In the summer of 2012/13 he dragged a sled 112 km to the South Pole and in 2016 he and his oldest son each dragged sledges 120 km across the ice to the North Pole. It is estimated that only about 120 people have trekked to both poles!

In January 2019, with his second son, he undertook a three-week journey on camel back through the desert in Jordan retracing some of the route taken by Colonel T.E. Lawrence.

Currently Shadow Treasurer and spokesperson for revenue, infrastructure and statistics, Andrew will share with us how his exploration passion has led him to a career in governance and parliament.

Andrew Bayly

MP, FRGS, CA, FCCA, FNZIML, FCCM

Andrew Bayly is the National Party Member of Parliament for Port Waikato, elected in Hunua, in 2014.

Prior to the 2020 election Andrew had been spokesperson for revenue, commerce, state owned enterprises, small business and manufacturing, and associate spokesperson for finance. 

He has been a Member of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee since his election to parliament in 2014.

A trained accountant, Andrew had worked with merchant banks in New Zealand and London, before co-founding Cranleigh, a merchant bank which had offices in NZ, Australia and, more latterly, Singapore.  With teams working in infrastructure, health, property, agriculture and food, Cranleigh offered advisory and capital markets advice to a range of government entities, local authorities and corporate clients.

He has also been chair of the board of New Zealand Financial Planning and a trustee of the Enterprise Franklin Development Trust, the economic development arm of the Franklin Council.

Andrew graduated from Massey University, is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the former NZ Institute of Management, Fellow of Governance NZ, Fellow of the NZ Chartered Institute of Corporate Management and the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

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