Phillip Turner (diplomat)

Phillip Turner (born 1960) MA (History) (1986) Auck is a New Zealand public servant and diplomat. He spent his childhood in Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College and Auckland University. Turner worked for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1986 to 1999. He held various senior management positions in Fonterra from 2000, culminating as Fonterra director of global stakeholder affairs from 2015 to 2018. Turner became the New Zealand ambassador to Korea (North Korea and South Korea), resident in Seoul, in April 2018.