Geoff Simmons
Leader
Rongotai

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...

Ben Atkinson
Banks Peninsula

Kia ora. After working most of my life as a chef and musician I quit my job in 2015 and founded an organisation to feed tamariki going to school without lunch. Donating over 63,000 lunches to hungry Kiwi kids, enabling them to have a better capacity to learn, I realised that I had a passion for community engagement and working directly with people. I then worked as a capability coach for promising young leaders, launched a men’s mental health 71...