Paul Goldsmith is a New Zealand Member of Parliament affiliated with the National Party, currently holding several ministerial portfolios [16][32].
According to a single reputable secondary source, Goldsmith worked before politics as a historian and biographer, authoring biographical and historical works about New Zealand businessmen and political figures [3][6][7]. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School [9].
Goldsmith served as an Auckland City Councillor from 2007 [11]. He entered Parliament in November 2011 as a list Member of Parliament on the National Party list [16][31]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he was appointed Associate Minister for ACC from 2014 and Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs from 2014 [10][27]. Sources differ on his exact affiliation period — some place his National Party membership from as early as 1990, while others identify 2011 as the relevant start date [32].
During the Fifth National Government, he held several portfolios according to a single reputable secondary source, including Minister for Regulatory Reform and Minister for Science and Innovation from 2016 [22][23], and Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment and Minister of Regulatory Reform from 20 December 2016 [24][29]. He also served as Chair of the Parliamentary Finance and Expenditure Select Committee [13].
From 2023, Goldsmith has held the confirmed portfolios of Minister of Justice [28], Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage [18], Minister for Media and Communications [19], Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations [25], and Minister for Pacific Peoples [20]. According to a single reputable secondary source, he also holds the portfolio of Minister for the Public Service and Digitising Government [26].