Barry Brill

Barry Edward Brill, OBE, JP (born 22 October 1940) is a New Zealand politician and a lawyer. Brill was a parliamentary under-secretary in the Third National Government from 1978 to 1981. He is a climate change sceptic and chairs the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.

Brill was born in 1940 in Te Awamutu.

Brill was a member of the National Party. He stood for the electorate of Kapiti in the 1972 election unsuccessfully, but won the seat in the 1975 election. In the 1981 election he was defeated by Margaret Shields. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Energy, Science and Technology in the Third National Government from 1978 to 1981.

Brill stood for ACT New Zealand in Northland in the 2011 general election, where he received 0.83% of the candidate vote.

Brill was national president of the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation 1988-91, and of the Electricity Supply Association in 1993-4. He was president of the Employers & Manufacturer Association (Northern) in 1998-2001 and founding Vice-President of Business New Zealand in 2002-4.

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