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==Early life== Cunliffe was born in [[Te Aroha]] on 30 April 1963.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11285307 |title=Unauthorised biography of David Cunliffe: The man who would be PM |first=Phil |last=Taylor |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=5 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705221942/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11285307 |archive-date=5 July 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> His family moved to [[Te Kūiti]], then to [[Pleasant Point, New Zealand|Pleasant Point]]. His father, Bill, an [[Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia|Anglican]] minister, was active in the Labour Party.<ref name=taylor_2012>{{cite news |title=The other David |first=Phil |last=Taylor |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10849606 |newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=24 November 2012 |access-date=24 November 2012}}</ref> As a teenager he won a scholarship to study the International Baccalaureate at the [[United World College of the Atlantic]] in [[Wales]]. Cunliffe studied politics at the [[University of Otago]], where he was a member of the [[Otago University Debating Society]], and gained a BA with first-class honours. He worked as a diplomat from 1987 to 1994 and gained a Diploma in Social Sciences (Distinction) in economics from [[Massey University]] in 1993. He was a [[Fulbright Scholar]] and Kennedy Memorial Fellow at [[Harvard University]]’s [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]], including some courses at [[Harvard Business and Law School]] in 1994 and 1995, earning a [[Master of Public Administration]]. He worked as a management consultant with [[The Boston Consulting Group]] in [[Auckland]] from 1995 to 1999.<ref name=parl>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/MPs/1/6/b/50MP30551-Cunliffe-David.htm |title=Hon David Cunliffe |work=New Zealand Parliament |access-date=18 November 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017053312/http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/MPs/1/6/b/50MP30551-Cunliffe-David.htm |archive-date=17 October 2012 }}</ref>
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