Shane Jones

The Honourable Shane Jones MP
Jones in April 2018
3rd Minister for Infrastructure
In office 26 October 2017 – 6 November 2020
Prime Minister	Jacinda Ardern
Preceded by	Steven Joyce
Succeeded by	Grant Robertson
31st Minister for Forestry
In office 26 October 2017 – 6 November 2020
Prime Minister	Jacinda Ardern
Preceded by	Vacant (last held by David Carter)
Succeeded by	Stuart Nash
1st Minister for Regional Economic Development
In office 26 October 2017 – 6 November 2020
Prime Minister	Jacinda Ardern
Succeeded by	Stuart Nash
Minister for Building and Construction
In office 31 October 2007 – 19 November 2008
Prime Minister	Helen Clark
Preceded by	Clayton Cosgrove
Succeeded by	Maurice Williamson
14th Minister for Oceans and Fisheries
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 November 2023
Prime Minister	Christopher Luxon
Preceded by	Rachel Brooking
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for New Zealand First list
In office 23 September 2017 – 17 October 2020
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Labour Party list
In office 17 September 2005 – 22 May 2014
Succeeded by	Kelvin Davis[n 1]
Personal details
Born	(1959-09-03) 3 September 1959 (age 65) Awanui, New Zealand
Political party	NZ First (2017–present)
Other political affiliations	Labour (2005–2017)
Spouses	Ngāreta Jones (died 2015) Dorothy Pumipi (2018–present)
Children	7
Alma mater	Victoria University of Wellington Harvard Kennedy School

Shane Geoffrey Jones (born 3 September 1959) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the New Zealand First party.

Jones' political career began in 2005 as a list MP for the Labour Party. He became a cabinet minister in his first term, serving as Minister for Building and Construction in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. Following Labour's defeat in the 2008 election, he was a senior opposition MP and unsuccessfully contested the leadership of the Labour Party in a 2013 leadership election.^[1][2] He left parliament the following year for a brief diplomatic career,^[3] before returning as a New Zealand First MP at the 2017 general election.

Jones was Minister for Regional Economic Development and Minister of Forestry in the Labour–New Zealand First coalition government from 2017 to 2020. He was elected for a fifth non-consecutive term in Parliament at the 2023 general election, and is Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, Minister for Regional Development, and Minister for Resources in the National–ACT–New Zealand First coalition government.

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