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Winston Peters

Diplomat · Politician

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]
Other name	Peters, Winston · Winitana Pita · Winston Raymond Peters · Wynston Raymond Peters · Уинстон Питерс · 5 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]
Nationality	New Zealand				[sources]
Country	United Kingdom · New Zealand				[sources]
Citizenship	New Zealand				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
E-Mail	winston.peters@parliament.govt.nz				[sources]
First name	Raymond · Winston				[sources]
Last name	Peters				[sources]
Title	His Excellency				[sources]
Website	facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q1396178				[sources]
Position	Deputy Prime Minister · 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) · 15 more...				[sources]
Education	University of Auckland				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2025-08-14	Last processed	2025-09-08	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	-	-
Marie Tautari Close Associate	sibling	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Foreign Affairs	2005-10-19	2008-08-29

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

Data sources

US CIA World Leaders11,021

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

United States of America · CIA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,110

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

Wikidata · non-official source

UN Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs1,039

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

DGACM

Every Politician58,326

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

MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories376,790

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

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata349,174

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,038

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: unprot-fb11b086c2fdb662a6acf38682107a189f39bd23 · evpo-995239c2-94c8-40d4-9343-839e60aaebea · unprot-7485e6ec26514b76b8fe23827965002969f91b05 · us-cia-new-zealand-winston-peters-deputy-prime-minister · unprot-9131d4e2072ae4b2b473ddd32ded500776517d3d · us-cia-new-zealand-winston-peters-minister-of-foreign-affairs · NK-4Bi93T9xUkSu6ow7RZjWnM · us-cia-new-zealand-winston-peters-minister-for-racing

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