Jacinda Ardern speaks before the World Health Organisation (Who) in Geneva earlier this year. Photo / Who
She refuses to respond, instead putting her head down to continue walking.
The person attempts to follow her, but security prevents them and asks them to “leave her alone” as she walks indoors.
An argument ensues regarding the man’s right to record Ardern and ask her questions.
Yesterday, she took the stage alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Regarding the progressive approach to rising global crises, Ardern remarked, “We can’t stand there next to a dumpster on fire and not acknowledge that it’s on fire behind us.”
Trudeau has posted a video to X (formerly known as Twitter) of the pair warmly greeting each other.
“Oh, so nice to see you,” Ardern says, giving Trudeau a hug. “How are you?”
At the beginning of April, she delivered a valedictory speech to Parliament which capped more than five years spent as the Prime Minister, marked by a series of tragedies in the mosque attacks, Whakaari/White Island eruption and Covid-19 pandemic - and Ardern’s globally respected responses to them.
She made the announcement on her Instagram account, confirming she’d been invited to join Harvard University later this year.
In the post, Ardern explained she would take up the first tech governance leadership fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre and work with its research community.
In May, she reflected on her time as head of the country throughout the pandemic in a speech during the opening of the World Health Organisation’s 76th assembly in Geneva.
