Celia Wade-Brown

Celia Wade-Brown QSO MP
Wade-Brown in 2023
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Green party list
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 January 2024
Preceded by	Golriz Ghahraman
34th Mayor of Wellington
In office 27 October 2010[1] – 10 October 2016
Deputy	Ian McKinnon (2010–13) Justin Lester (2013–16)
Preceded by	Kerry Prendergast
Succeeded by	Justin Lester
Member of the Wellington City Council for the Southern Ward
In office 13 October 2001 – 27 October 2010
Preceded by	Alick Shaw
Succeeded by	Paul Eagle
In office 30 April 1994 – 10 October 1998
Preceded by	Merrin Downing
Succeeded by	Alick Shaw
Personal details
Born	(1956-07-12) 12 July 1956 (age 67) Paddington, London, England
Political party	Green
Other political affiliations	Alliance (1991–1997)
Spouse	Alastair Nicholson ​ (m. 1993)​
Children	Two

Celia Margaret Wade-Brown QSO MP (born 12 July 1956) is a New Zealand politician who has been a Green Party list MP since 19 January 2024. She previously served as the 34th mayor of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, from 2010 until 2016.

Wade-Brown was the third female mayor of the city, replacing centre-right Kerry Prendergast. She defeated Prendergast by 176 votes in the 2010 single transferable vote mayoral election.^[2] Wade-Brown won a second term in 2013. She was the second mayor of a major New Zealand city to have been a member of the Green Party, after Dunedin's Sukhi Turner, but she stood as an independent candidate. Wade-Brown did not contest the Wellington mayoralty in the 2016 local election for a third term.