Mike Rann

Mike Rann
44th Premier of South Australia
In office
5 March 2002 – 21 October 2011
MonarchElizabeth II
GovernorMarjorie Jackson-Nelson
Kevin Scarce
DeputyKevin Foley
John Rau
Preceded byRob Kerin
Succeeded byJay Weatherill
Diplomatic Posts
Australian Ambassador to Italy, Albania, Libya and San Marino
In office
27 June 2014 – 8 January 2016
Preceded byDavid Ritchie
Succeeded byGreg French
Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
In office
23 August 2012 – 31 March 2014
Preceded byJohn Dauth
Succeeded byAlexander Downer]
National President of the Labor Party
In office
27 February 2008 – 27 December 2008
Preceded byJohn Faulkner
Succeeded byLinda Burney
Leader of the Opposition in South Australia
In office
20 September 1994 – 5 March 2002
DeputyRalph Clarke
Annette Hurley
Preceded byLynn Arnold
Succeeded byRob Kerin
Leader of the South Australian Labor Party
In office
20 September 1994 – 21 October 2011
DeputyRalph Clarke
Annette Hurley
Kevin Foley
John Rau
Preceded byLynn Arnold
Succeeded byJay Weatherill
Deputy Leader of the South Australian Labor Party
In office
14 December 1993 – 20 September 1994
LeaderDr. Lynn Arnold
Preceded byFrank Blevins
Succeeded byRalph Clarke
Minister for Business and Tourism
In office
1 October 1992 – 14 December 1993
Preceded byBarbara Wiese
Succeeded byGraham Ingerson
Minister of Employment and Further Education, Minister of Youth and Aboriginal Affairs
In office
14 December 1989 – 1 October 1992
Preceded byTerry Hemmings
Succeeded byKym Mayes
Member of the South Australian
House of Assembly
In office
7 December 1985 – 13 January 2012
Preceded bydistrict established (Briggs)
Lynn Arnold (Ramsay)
Succeeded bydistrict abolished (Briggs)
Zoe Bettison (Ramsay)
ConstituencyBriggs (1985–1993)
Ramsay (1993–2012)
Personal details
Born
Michael David Rann

(1953-01-05) 5 January 1953 (age 71)
Sidcup, Kent, England, UK
Political partyAustralian Labor Party (SA)
Other political
affiliations
New Zealand Labour Party (1970s)
Spouse(s)Jenny Russell (divorced)
Sasha Carruozzo (2006–present)
EducationNorthcote College
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
ProfessionJournalist

Michael David Rann, AC, CNZM (born 5 January 1953) is an Australian former politician who was the 44th premier of South Australia from 2002 to 2011. He was later Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2014, and Australian ambassador to Italy, Albania, Libya and San Marino from 2014 to 2016.

Rann grew up in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, completing a Bachelor and Master of Arts in political science at the University of Auckland. Before entering Parliament, Rann worked as an advisor to South Australian Labor Parliamentarians.

Rann became leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party and South Australian Leader of the Opposition in 1994 and led the party to minority government at the 2002 election. He resigned as Premier in October 2011 and was succeeded by Jay Weatherill. Rann is the third-longest serving Premier of South Australia behind Thomas Playford IV and John Bannon and served a record 17 years as South Australian Labor parliamentary leader from 1994 to 2011. He was a South Australian MP in the House of Assembly from the 1985 election and Father of the House from the 2010 election until his parliamentary resignation on 13 January 2012.