Charles Pierre Chauvel (born 16 April 1969) is a New Zealand lawyer and former politician who was a Labour list Member of Parliament (2006–2013) until his resignation to take up a position with the UN Development Programme.

Chauvel stood as Labour's electoral candidate for Maramarua, in 1990 losing to the National Party's Bill Birch.

He next stood in 2005 as Labour's candidate for Ohariu-Belmont, then losing to United Future leader Peter Dunne.

[11] He was also parliamentary private secretary to the Attorney-General in 2008, although his appointment to the role was delayed from the Government's late-2007 reshuffle because Chauvel announced he would be accepting the position before it had been officially confirmed.

[12][13] In Labour's opposition years, he held party spokesperson roles for energy, climate change and the environment from 2008 until 2011,[14][15] and for justice and the arts from 2011 until 2013.

[17] On 19 February 2013, Chauvel announced his resignation from parliament, effective 11 March, to take a job working at the United Nations Development Programme.

[23] In February 2009, he and the former leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, Helen Clark, were appointed as New Zealand's inaugural representatives on the Board of the Pacific Friends of the Global Fund, the regional partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's major initiative against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.