Vicki Buck

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

Elected to the Christchurch City Council[1] 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

External links

• A short biographical note