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Elections / 2026 / Wellington Bays / Kayla Kingdon-Bebb
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2026 general election
Standing for Wellington Bays

Kayla Kingdon-Bebb

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elections-wikipedia
As of
9 Jun 2026

Background

Research run #186 · 7 May 2026
Every claim below traces to a verbatim quote in the cited source. Click any footnote [1] in the prose, or expand the citation index below, to see where the fact came from.

Kayla Kingdon-Bebb is a New Zealand environmental policy professional and a candidate for the Opportunity Party [20].

According to a single reputable secondary source, Kingdon-Bebb has worked across a range of public and private sector roles, including as an employee at KPMG [6] and in venture capital [12]. She is also noted, according to the same source tier, as having worked at the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment as an environmental policy leader [8] and at the Department of Conservation, where she held the roles of private secretary to the minister of conservation [10] and Director of Policy [3][4][5].

According to a single reputable secondary source, her areas of expertise span environmental policy, Treaty law, and trade and conservation [7][11]. She is also noted as having been a visiting scholar at Victoria University of Wellington [16].

In the civic sphere, according to a single reputable secondary source, Kingdon-Bebb was appointed from 2019 as a member of the Declaration Working Group (DWG) by te Minita Whanaketanga Māori [13][14]. She is further noted, according to the same source tier, as an author of the He Puapua report on Indigenous rights [15].

According to a single reputable secondary source, Kingdon-Bebb took on the role of Chief Executive Officer of WWF-New Zealand from March 2023 [17][1][2]. She has been an Opportunity Party candidate for the Wellington Bays electorate [18][19][20].

Generated 16 Jun 2026 · model claude-sonnet-4-6
AI-generated biography. Assembled by an LLM from public sources (Wikipedia, parliament register, Beehive, news archives). Every claim is backed by a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources below and tagged confirmed, unverified, or disputed by corroboration. Use as a starting reference, not a final source — cross-check anything load-bearing.
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Education

Career

Political offices

Party affiliation

Civic roles & honours

  • [13]
    Civic role: Member of the Declaration Working Group (DWG) appointed by te Minita Whanaketanga Māori (from 2019). unverified
  • [14]
    Civic role: Member of the Declaration Working Group (DWG) — Technical Working Group on a plan to realise the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (from 2019). unverified
  • [15]
    Civic role: author of He Puapua report on Indigenous rights (from 2019). unverified

Looked for, not found

  • Unable to verify PhD thesis title "The Queen's law on top of our land" from a fetchable source; SAS-Space PDF returned no verbatim claims.
  • Specific dates of Kayla Kingdon-Bebb's roles at Ministry for the Environment (policy analyst) and as private secretary to the Minister of Conservation not confirmed from a fetchable public source.

The agent checked these topics across the allowed public sources but could not find verbatim-quotable evidence. Absence doesn't rule the fact out — it just means no journalist-accessible source covered it at run time.