David Martin Wilson

Clerk of the House of Representatives since 2015. Reappointed for a second term in 2022.

David Martin Wilson is the fourteenth and current Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives, appointed on 6 July 2015. He began his parliamentary career in 1994 as a select committee report writer and was appointed as a Parliamentary Officer with the Office of the Clerk in February 1995. He left in 1999 to become a Senior Policy Analyst with the Department for Courts, later working at the Department of Internal Affairs and the Office of Film and Literature Classification. He rejoined the Office of the Clerk in February 2008 as a Clerk-Assistant. From 2012 to 2015, he served as President of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Clerks-at-the-Table. In May 2022, he was reappointed for a further seven-year term beginning 6 July 2022. He is a graduate of the University of Otago.