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Helen Elizabeth Clark was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. She is a New Zealander politician. She was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. As Prime Minister she served three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008 and was the first woman elected at a general election as the Prime Minister. She has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, the third-highest UN position, since 2009. She graduated from the University of Auckland in 1974 and became politically active in the New Zealand Labour Party as a teenager. In 1981 she was elected to Parliament for the safe Labour seat of Mount Albert, a position she held until her resignation in 2009. She was Deputy Prime Minister from 1989–1990 under Prime Ministers Geoffrey Palmer and Mike Moore.