Constance Minett is a foreign policy adviser and diplomat working for New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Constance spent the last six months in Suva, Fiji working at the New Zealand High Commission in a development role leading on programmes related to social well-being.

Before her time in Fiji she worked on New Zealand's relationship with Singapore and Timor-Leste, in Parliament as a Private Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and negotiated quarantine-free travel arrangements with Tonga, Vanuatu and Samoa.

Constance completed her Bachelor of Laws with first-class honours and Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University Wellington working briefly for commercial law firm Bell Gully. She also spent three years studying Chinese as a Prime Minister's Scholar in Taipei and speaks fluent Mandarin.

Constance's parents moved to New Zealand the year before she was born. She is very proud to be a first-generation New Zealander alongside her three sisters and brothers.