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Winston Peters

Diplomat · PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Winston Peters is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Winston Peters · Уинстон Питерс · וינסטון פיטרס · ونستون بيترز · وینستن پیترز · 3 more...				[sources]
Alias	Peters, Winston · Winitana Pita · Winston Raymond Peters · Wynston Raymond Peters · Уинстон Питерс · 4 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	温斯顿·彼特斯				[sources]
Birth date	1945-04-11				[sources]
Place of birth	Whangārei				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom · New Zealand				[sources]
Citizenship	New Zealand				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	winston.peters@parliament.govt.nz				[sources]
First name	Raymond · Winston				[sources]
Last name	Peters				[sources]
Political association	New Zealand First · New Zealand National Party				[sources]
Title	His Excellency				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1396178				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (1996-1998) · Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017-2020) · Member of the New Zealand Parliament · Member of the New Zealand Parliament (-2015) · Member of the New Zealand Parliament (1984-2005) · 16 more...				[sources]
Education	University of Auckland				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-09	Last processed	2026-04-09	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

New Zealand politician (born 1945)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-05-08

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Bree Peters Close Associate	child	-	-
Joan Peters Close Associate	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand	2023-11-27	-
Minister of Foreign Affairs	2005-10-19	2008-08-29

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Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Jim Peters PEP	sibling	-	-
Ian Peters PEP	sibling	-	-

Data sources

US CIA World Leaders10,935

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons273,471

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs1,075

The UN's list of senior government officials in all of its member states.

DGACM

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories341,406

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata329,999

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,757

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-995239c2-94c8-40d4-9343-839e60aaebea · us-cia-new-zealand-winston-peters-deputy-prime-minister · unprot-7485e6ec26514b76b8fe23827965002969f91b05 · us-cia-new-zealand-winston-peters-minister-for-racing · us-cia-new-zealand-winston-peters-minister-of-foreign-affairs · unprot-9131d4e2072ae4b2b473ddd32ded500776517d3d · us-cia-new-zealand-winston-peters-minister-for-rail

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