<img class="size-medium wp-image-3790 alignleft" src="http://www.thoughtforaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/ruthrichardson_2016-300x200.jpg" alt="RuthRichardson_2016" width="300" height="200" />New Zealand's Finance Minister from 1990 to 1993. Made her name by driving New Zealand's reform agenda forward and laying the basis for the subsequent turnaround of the country's growth and employment performance.