Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.