the Electricity Supply Association in 1993–4 and was appointed to the Board of EMCO (Electricity Market Company) which established the New Zealand electricity exchange. More recently, Brill has been active in challenging establishment climate scientists' views on global warming. Since 2009, he has been Chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. He acted for the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust, a charitable organisation that took a judicial review against the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), alleging that New Zealand's century-long temperature record (the 7SS) was skewed by non-random adjustments. The Trust lost its case and was ordered to pay costs. Brill is a co-author of the subsequent scientific journal paper, de Freitas et al (2014). Travel In recent decades, Brill’s major interest has been world travel. He has been to all the world’s continents on multiple occasions and has so far visited over 160 out of the 194 UN countries. According to the 2020 databases of both Most Traveled People and Nomad Mania, he is the most widely-travelled person currently resident in New Zealand while his wife is the most widely-travelled New Zealand woman. Honours and awards Brill was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal and the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. In the 1996 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to manufacturing. Brill was appointed a justice of the peace in 1985. References 1940 births Living people Wellington Hospital Board members New Zealand National Party MPs 20th-century New Zealand lawyers Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand ACT New Zealand politicians Unsuccessful candidates in the 1972 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1981 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 2011 New Zealand general election New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates People from Te Awamutu New Zealand justices of the peace Victoria University of Wellington alumni University of Auckland alumni