Shane Reti is a member of the National Party [47] who has represented the Whangārei electorate in Parliament [35][36].
According to a single reputable secondary source, Reti trained as a medical doctor [11] and worked as a general practitioner in Whangarei [3][8][9]. He is also reported to have been a physician practicing in New Zealand from 1990 [14], and to hold an honorary senior lectureship in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland [16]. According to the same class of source, he has worked as an informatician dealing with data, ciphers, and encryption [10], and served as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants [12].
His reported educational background includes study at Auckland University [24], Cardiff University [25], and Harvard Medical School [26]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he held the 2007–08 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice [18], during which he was on secondment to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School [4][13]. He is also reported to have held an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School [7] and an operational role at Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston [13]. Separately, a single reputable secondary source describes him as having been an Assistant Professor at Harvard from 2007 [1]. Before these roles, he is reported to have participated as a Rotary exchange student to Idaho, USA, sponsored by the Hamilton Rotary Club [20].
In civic life, a single reputable secondary source indicates he served on the Northland District Health Board as a director [23], including for three consecutive terms [22]. He is also reported to have served as an editorial committee member for the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (Medinfo 2010) in September 2010 [21], as a Beacheads Middle East advisor out of the Dubai consulate [2], and as a speaker and facilitator at the Arab Health Workshop in Dubai for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise [17]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he received a Queen's Service Medal for Public Services (QSM) in 2006 [46].
Reti entered Parliament as MP for Whangārei from 2014, and according to a single reputable secondary source was the first Māori MP to win that seat [30]. He is reported to have held the seat again from 2023 as an electorate MP [34], and to have been returned via the National Party list in 2020 [33]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he has served as Deputy Leader of the National Party [27] and as Interim Leader of the National Party [28]. From 27 November 2023, he is reported to have served as Minister of Health [39] and Minister of Pacific Peoples [40], with additional portfolios reported to include Minister of Statistics [42], Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology [41], and Minister for Universities [38].