Geoff Simmons
Leader

Geoff Simmons is Leader of The Opportunities Party (TOP).

Geoff is an economist, and in previous lives has written four books, run his own business and been a manager in the public service. Geoff has spent his career searching for solutions to New Zealand's biggest problems such as the housing crisis and our environmental emergency. He has seen that the biggest barrier to fundamental change is lack of political will - politicians are too keen to...

Jessica Hammond
Ōhāriu

Jessica is a public servant who has worked on issues from transport infrastructure funding, to health and disability legislation, to Māori economic development. She has a Masters in Philosophy from Victoria University of Wellington. She has two young children of her own, and the idea that other children in Aotearoa are living in houses worse than her scummy student flat outrages and infuriates her. She is standing for TOP because she wants to take action for those who...