Michael Crozier | |||||||||||||||
Order: | 5th President of ACT New Zealand | ||||||||||||||
Vicepresident: | Dave Moore (2009–2010) Bruce Haycock (2010–2011) | ||||||||||||||
Leader: | Rodney Hide | ||||||||||||||
Term Start: | 2009 | ||||||||||||||
Term End: | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Predecessor: | Garry Mallett | ||||||||||||||
Successor: | Chris Simmons | ||||||||||||||
Birth Date: | 8 June 1937 | ||||||||||||||
Birthname: | Michael Henry Crozier | ||||||||||||||
Party: | ACT | ||||||||||||||
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Michael Henry Crozier (8 June 1937 – 21 July 2012) was New Zealand politician and physicist. He was the fifth president of ACT New Zealand, a libertarian right-wing political party.
Crozier was elected as the ACT New Zealand president in March 2009, defeating Chris Simmons. Crozier resigned five months before his two-year term was to finish to take a long-planned trip to Europe with his wife. Chris Simmons was confirmed as the new president by the ACT New Zealand board on 21 October 2010.
Crozier had a PhD in physics, and was chief scientist at the Ministry of Defence.[1] He died on 21 July 2012.