Rodney Hide

The Honourable Rodney Hide QSO
13th Minister of Local Government
In office 19 November 2008 – 14 December 2011
Prime Minister	John Key
Preceded by	Nanaia Mahuta
Succeeded by	Chris Tremain
Minister for Regulatory Reform
In office 19 November 2008 – 14 December 2011
Prime Minister	John Key
Succeeded by	John Banks
Leader of ACT New Zealand
In office 13 June 2004 – 28 April 2011
Deputy	Muriel Newman Heather Roy
Preceded by	Richard Prebble
Succeeded by	Don Brash
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for ACT List
In office 1996–2005
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Epsom
In office 2005–2011
Preceded by	Richard Worth
Succeeded by	John Banks
Majority	3102 (8.67%)
Personal details
Born	(1956-12-16) 16 December 1956 (age 67) Oxford, New Zealand
Political party	ACT New Zealand
Spouse	Louise Crome
Children	4
Occupation	Economist

Rodney Philip Hide QSO (born 16 December 1956) is a former New Zealand politician of the ACT New Zealand party. Hide was a Member of Parliament for ACT from 1996 until 2011, was ACT's leader between 2004 and 2011, and represented the Epsom constituency from 2005 to 2011. In the Fifth National Government, Hide was Minister of Local Government, Associate Minister of Commerce and Minister of Regulatory Reform until 2011.^[1]

He stepped down as ACT leader in April 2011 after a leadership challenge from Don Brash and retired from Parliament at the general election later that year.^[2]