Vicki Buck

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Vicki Buck was Mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand for nine years from 1989.

Elected to the Christchurch City Council in 1975 at the age of 19, she became the city's first woman mayor fourteen years later.

She began her political career as a member of the Labour Party, but stood for mayor as an independent. An active and vigorous leader she is widely credited with leading a turnaround in the perception of Christchurch as a city.

Before becoming mayor she also was one of five Local Government Commissioners working from from 1984 to 1989 on a major reorganisation of local government in New Zealand.

Since stepping down as Mayor she has:

  • worked as Development Manager for Christchurch Polytechnic
  • founded the New Zealand de Bono Innovation Institute
  • founded of Adrenalin Ventures, a NZ South Island venture capital company
  • been a member of the NZ Government's Science and Innovation Advisory Council
  • been on the Board of Netball NZ
  • been Chair of the NZ Learning Discovery Trust

She is now one of the Directors of Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, a bio-fuel company.

In 2008 she was nominated by a panel commissioned by The Guardian newspaper as one of 50 people who could reverse the effect of climate change.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "50 people who could save the planet", The Guardian, 2008-01-05. Retrieved on 2008-01-08. 

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