Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
Dell HIGGIE
Ambassador and Chargée d’Affaires at the New Zealand Embassy and Permanent Mission to the UN in Vienna
Dell Higgie is Ambassador and former Chargé d’Affaires at the New Zealand Embassy and Permanent Mission to the UN in Vienna. She was New Zealand’s global Ambassador for Disarmament, and Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the Conference on Disarmament.
During over 40 years as a career diplomat in the New Zealand foreign service, Dell Higgie specialised in international legal and multilateral affairs ranging, for instance, from human rights, counter-radicalisation and international security issues to the WTO dispute settlement process. This included postings as New Zealand’s Ambassador in Brussels and in Geneva and as New Zealand’s first Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism.
For a 12-year period from 2009, Dell was New Zealand’s global Ambassador for Disarmament leading NZ Delegations, inter alia, to meetings of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to the negotiations on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). During this time she was also President of the CD in 2015 and served as Chair of the Missile Technology Control Regime from 2019-2020.
After her retirement in 2021 she continued to serve as an Ambassador-at-Large for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade and as Chair of the Geneva-based Voluntary Trust Fund for the Arms Trade Treaty until August 2022. From November 2022 until October 2023, she was Ambassador and Chargé d’Affaires at the New Zealand Embassy and Permanent Mission to the UN in Vienna.