Russell Marshall
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Cedric Russell Marshall, CNZM (born 1936) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, who had been a Methodist minister from 1960 to 1972. He is known as Russell Marshall.
He represented the seat of Wanganui from 1972 to 1990, when he retired. He was a Cabinet Minister from 1984; Minister of Education (1984-87), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987-90), Minister for the Environment (1984-86), Minister of Conservation (1986-87), Minister of Disarmament (1987-89) and Minister of Pacific Island Affairs (1988-90).
He later represented New Zealand as Permanent Delegate to UNESCO (1998-2000) and as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2002-2005). He was Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington (2000-2002), and later chaired the Tertiary Education Commission (2005-2007). In July 2007 he was elected president of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
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