Life After Politics
In 2007, Shipley joined the financial services firm Source Sentinel. She also has business interests in China and is on the board of the China Construction Bank. According to Companies Office records, Jack Chen, Jenny Shipley and another investor founded a business together in 2004 called New Zealand Pure & Natural. Mr Chen quit as a director a year later but only quit his shareholding in 2010. Mr Chen was instrumental in promoting the 'Chinese Business Roundtable Council', and set up a new political party in NZ, before being forced to resign due to fraud & corruption charges being laid in HK
In 2010 the China Construction Bank agreed to help finance a proposal by May Wang & Jack Chen to invest in the New Zealand dairy industry by taking over the Crafar Farms.
She appeared on an episode of the television reality/travel show Intrepid Journeys where she visited Namibia. She later started a charity to help a school she came across as part of that trip.
Shipley accepted a damehood on 14 August 2009 after the Fifth National Government reinstated them. Since 2009, Shipley has chaired the Genesis Power board. She is also a member of the Club de Madrid, a group of more than 80 former Presidents and Prime Ministers of democratic states, which works to strengthen democratic leadership and governance worldwide.
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