The Honourable Dr Wayne Mapp QSO was New Zealand’s Minister of Defence and Minister of Science and Innovation from 2008 to 2011. He served as the Member of Parliament for the North Shore electorate from the 1996 elections until his retirement in late 2011, and he was appointed to the New Zealand Law Commission in 2012. As defence minister, Dr Mapp launched the 2010 Defence White Paper, and was a member of the Advisory Panel for the 2016 Defence White Paper. Before entering politics, he lectured in commercial law at the University of Auckland.
Selected Articles (as author)
- MAPP: Quantity, Capability, or Both: More investment in Navy needed, Line of Defence Magazine, Winter 2024.
- Defence Policy Review: Time stops for no government, Line of Defence Magazine, Summer 2022-23.
- New Zealand’s Defence stability in uncertain times, Line of Defence Magazine, Winter 2020.
- COVID-19: Defence personnel, facilities provide national reserve, Line of Defence Magazine, Autumn 2020.
- Capability questions for the next government, Line of Defence Magazine, Summer 2019-20.
- New Zealand’s China Challenge, Line of Defence Magazine, Summer 2018-19.
- Not Quite the Internationalist: Foreign and defence policy in need of new thinking, Line of Defence Magazine, Spring 2018.
- Clock ticking on Defence procurement decisions, Line of Defence Magazine, Winter 2018.
- Does New Zealand have to choose between China and the United States?, Line of Defence Magazine, Autumn 2018
- Prime Minister’s international scorecard: a win and a loss, Line of Defence Magazine, Summer 2017/18
- Is North Korea actually a serous threat to peace?, Line of Defence Magazine, Spring 2017
- US-China relations through the North Korea looking glass, Line of Defence Magazine, Winter 2017
- New Zealand foreign policy with President Trump, Line of Defence Magazine, Autumn 2017
- Defence White Paper a constructive way forward, Line of Defence Magazine, November 2016
