Claire Szabó

Claire Elizabeth Szabó is a New Zealand chief executive officer and was president of the New Zealand Labour Party from 2019 to 2022.

After finishing her high school education at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, she studied music at the University of Auckland and later gained degrees at Trinity College Dublin in Education Management, Victoria University of Wellington in Commerce and Administration, and Harvard University in Public Administration. On 30 November 2019, she was elected President of the Labour Party following the resignation of Nigel Haworth earlier that year.

In 2021, Szabó was appointed to the board of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, alongside Chris Finlayson.

On 17 June 2022, Szabó announced that she will not seek re-election to the Labour Party presidency at the November 2022 annual conference, and will end her tenure then. She told The New Zealand Herald that she has reflected on standing for Parliament again at the 2023 general election, but said "I know definitively it's too early to make a decision." She was succeeded by Jill Day, the former Deputy Mayor of Wellington, at the party's conference in November 2022.

In February 2023, Szabó was one of four candidates vying for the Labour nomination in for the . She was unsuccessful with list MP Ibrahim Omer winning the selection contest.

Personal life She is married to Rowan Johnston, a choir conductor, and has two children.

Szabó speaks fluent Hungarian, the mother tongue of her father.