Celia Wade-Brown
Celia Wade-Brown | |
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Wade-Brown in 2023 | |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Green party list | |
| Assumed office 19 January 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Golriz Ghahraman |
| 34th Mayor of Wellington | |
| In office 27 October 2010 – 10 October 2016 | |
| Deputy | Ian McKinnon (2010–13) Justin Lester (2013–16) |
| Preceded by | Kerry Prendergast |
| Succeeded by | Justin Lester |
| Member of the Wellington City Council for the Southern Ward | |
| In office 13 October 2001 – 27 October 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Alick Shaw |
| Succeeded by | Paul Eagle |
| In office 30 April 1994 – 10 October 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Merrin Downing |
| Succeeded by | Alick Shaw |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 July 1956 Paddington, London, England |
| Political party | Green |
| Other political affiliations | Alliance (1991–1997) |
| Spouse |
Alastair Nicholson (m. 1993) |
| Children | Two |
Celia Margaret Wade-Brown QSO MP (born 12 July 1956) is a New Zealand politician who has been a Green Party list MP since 19 January 2024. She previously served as the 34th mayor of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, from 2010 until 2016.
Wade-Brown was the third female mayor of the city, replacing centre-right Kerry Prendergast. She defeated Prendergast by 176 votes in the 2010 single transferable vote mayoral election. Wade-Brown won a second term in 2013. She was the second mayor of a major New Zealand city to have been a member of the Green Party, after Dunedin's Sukhi Turner, but she stood as an independent candidate. Wade-Brown did not contest the Wellington mayoralty in the 2016 local election for a third term.