Cameron Brewer is a New Zealand politician who is currently an Auckland Councillor.
Between 2005 and 2010 he was the chief executive of the Newmarket Business Association.
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A former journalist, Brewer is a member of the New Zealand National Party and worked as press secretary to Jenny Shipley, John Banks and Rodney Hide.[1]
In the 2010 Auckland Council elections Brewer was elected from the Orakei ward while standing as an Independent. He ran against Citizens & Ratepayers candidate Doug Armstrong.
A total of 18,228 people voted for him – making him the fifth highest polling Auckland councillor. He beat local veteran and Auckland City Council’s highest polling councillor for 2007, Doug Armstrong, by over 7,000 votes – the largest margin achieved by an Auckland councillor in the 2010 elections. Brewer was also the only councillor who obtained majority support - that is over 51.5% of Orakei voters voted for him. Elected at 37, he is the second youngest Auckland councillor and the only one not to have served on a council before.
Cameron Brewer was sworn in with his 19 councillor colleagues and Mayor Len Brown at the Auckland Town Hall on 1 November 2010. He is chairman of the Business Advisory Panel and chairman of the Planning & Urban Design Forum. He is also deputy chairman of the Economic Development Forum.
He already had a personal profile in Auckland, largely due to his hard work as leader of the second largest business association in New Zealand for over five years.
He stepped down as chief executive of the Newmarket Business Association to campaign full-time on 8 September 2010. He’d been in that position since 2 May 2005.
Born in Hawera on 8 March 1973, Brewer is the youngest of three boys who grew up on a South Taranaki sheep farm. From 1986 to 1990 he was a boarder at Wanganui Collegiate School. From 1991 to 1994 he attended Massey University in Palmerston North where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in History and Sociology. He also studied journalism and was a polytechic student president in 1995.
From 1996 to 1998 he founded, owned and edited a Dunedin community newspaper called Inside Otago, which he sold to an investor and moved to Wellington where he worked in the National Parliamentary Research Unit, before being promoted as a press secretary to former Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jenny Shipley.
He moved to Auckland in November 2001, where he worked as a public relations consultant in Porter Novelli. From 2002 to 2004 he was press secretary to Auckland Mayor John Banks. In 2004 and 2005 he was press secretary to Act Leader Rodney Hide, before taking up the position as CEO of the Newmarket Business Association.
Brewer has one daughter and lives in Remuera.