Constance Minett

2023 Fellow

Constance is a foreign policy adviser working for New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her current role is as a legal adviser focusing on International Humanitarian Law. She has also worked on New Zealand's relationship with Fiji, in Parliament as a Private Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and negotiated quarantine-free travel arrangements with Tonga, Vanuatu and Samoa. This year, Constance completed a Master of Public Policy from Oxford University. Her final report focused on international regulation of artificial intelligence, a topic inspired by her time spent at the International Law Commission as Dapo Akande's research assistant. Constance also has a Bachelor of Laws with first-class honours and Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University Wellington. She also spent three years studying Chinese as a Prime Minister's Scholar in Taipei and speaks fluent Mandarin.