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Katie Nimon

Napier · National Party
Pecuniary interests
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Directorships
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Research run #54 · 5 May 2026
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Katie Nimon is a member of the National Party [33] who has represented the Napier electorate in Parliament since 2023 [27][28].

According to a single reputable secondary source, Nimon attended Iona College [20] and went on to study at Massey University [21] and Trinity College London [22]. She is reported to have completed a Bachelor of Visual Communication Design (Honours) in 2013 [31] and a Master of Business Administration in 2019 [32], according to that same source.

Her early career included, according to a single reputable secondary source, participation in the Clemenger Group Graduate Programme from 2014 [7][11], and employment at Colenso BBDO [3] and Touchcast [4]. She confirmed her role as Marketing Manager at Nimon Luxury Passenger Transport from 2015 [2], a family transport business [14]. According to a single reputable secondary source, she also served as General Manager of three depots across Hastings, Napier and Taupo [1] and as general manager at Nimon & Sons [5], with experience spanning the passenger transport and regional tourism industry [6].

Nimon was a confirmed member of the EIT School of Tourism and Hospitality advisory committee [16] and a member of the Iona College Old Girls Association committee [17]. According to a single reputable secondary source, she also served as a tutor at the National Youth Drama School [18] and as a volunteer at Meeanee Speedway [19].

According to a single reputable secondary source, Nimon stood as a candidate for the Napier seat at the 2023 general election [29] and entered Parliament on 6 December 2023 [26]. She is reported to serve on the Environment Select Committee [30] and as Chair of the Education and Workforce Select Committee [24], according to that same source.

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AI-generated biography. Assembled by an LLM from public sources (Wikipedia, Hansard, Beehive, Parliament register, news archives). Every claim is backed by a verbatim quote in one of the cited sources below and tagged confirmed, unverified, or disputed based on corroboration. Use as a starting reference, not a final source — cross-check anything load-bearing.
4 confirmed 30 unverified 0 disputed
Verify the bio — expand the citation index 34 sourced claims

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  • Unable to confirm specific Hawke's Bay Tourism Award year/category that Katie Nimon personally received (vs. Nimon & Sons company award). The Profit article referenced a recognition but verbatim quote not extractable.
  • Transport Manager role at Hawke's Bay Regional Council — mentioned in multiple secondary sources but verbatim quote confirmation not achieved due to paywalls/page limits.
  • Specific year Katie Nimon became General Manager of Nimon Luxury Passenger Transport (2018 referenced in secondary sources but not extractable verbatim).

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

01 Positions

03 Pecuniary interests (2025) Methodology →

as of 2026-05-27 02:22
Company directorships and controlling interests
J & K Land Holdings Limited – residential property investment — J & K Land Holdings Limited (Director)
Mates Travel Limited – tour arranging and assembling — Mates Travel Limited (Director)
Debts owed by you
ANZ Bank – home loan — ANZ Bank
ASB Bank – home loan — ASB Bank
Nimon & Sons Limited – personal loan* — Nimon & Sons Limited
Gifts
Art Deco Weekend 2024 (x2 events) – Art Deco Trust — Art Deco Trust
NZ Parliamentary Hunt – New Zealand Game Animal Council — New Zealand Game Animal Council
Real property
Family home (jointly owned) – Marewa, Napier
Rental property (x2; jointly owned) – Havelock North, Hastings
Retirement schemes
Generate KiwiSaver — Generate KiwiSaver

04 Directorships Methodology →

as of 2026-05-29 17:15

08 Recent meetings (as minister) Methodology →

No meetings recorded.

09 Recent Hansard speeches

12 In the news Methodology →

50 articles

Coverage from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff that mentions this person. Click any source to expand. Article body markdown is captured separately and used for AI summarisation downstream.

1News 15
RNZ 9
The Spinoff 9
  • The Spinoff reveals the parliamentarians with the most clout among their peers (according to scientific data, which should not be questioned). Every three years, New Zealand holds a nationwide popularity contest. The prize? Control over…
    2026-08-09
  • Wanting to tax land: absolutely not. Xenophobia? That we can work with. Christopher Luxon made what he described as a principled political decision on Monday, ruling out the Opportunity Party over what he deemed to be fundamental…
    2026-07-30
  • ‘I do totally believe in karma, and as I kept saying last week, decency prevails.’ Whoever it was that accused National’s Katie Nimon of being an idle MP has clearly never seen her double-parked at Pint of Order with a Coke and pinot noir…
    2026-07-30
  • I have a pussy and a pair of tits but I don’t know where to shop for clothes, shoes and chocolates. Veronica Schmidt works through her gender identity with the help of NZ First. Before New Zealand First began its campaign to define men and…
    2026-07-29
  • While coalition partner NZ First ties itself in knots defining women, National seems to just be cottoning on to the fact that women exist. Mum was the word at the Hippo playground in Botany, where Christopher Luxon was positively glowing…
    2026-07-27
  • She had dreams of being a train driver, a basketball player and a te reo teacher, but MP isn’t a bad plan B – even if she hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in a decade. For third-term Labour MP Willow-Jean Prime, “the juggle is real”. A…
    2026-07-26
  • The week in parliament was marked by intra-coalition potshots, patsies and a former politician hoist with his own petard.  Tuesday’s question time was preempted by a series of lows and a brief high. The lows: the passing of former finance…
    2026-07-24
  • Can an enmity-riddled relationship between Winston Peters and Christopher Luxon survive this? A few hours after we published a story ranking the coalition’s internal dust-ups in May, a senior figure in the Act Party got in touch with a…
    2026-07-22
  • The former-Labour minister resigns as NZ First candidate after calling new mother the ‘laziest MP’ he’d ever seen, writes Henry Oliver in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday,  sign up here…
    2026-07-22
Stuff 9
NZ Herald 5
Newsroom 3
  • From The Detail: A constant drip-fed diet of woman-hating propaganda has become the norm for young NZ men from a cross-section of society The post Mainlining the manosphere appeared first on Newsroom .
    2026-07-28
  • Inside the mind of the undisputed wretch of the week The post The secret diary of .. Stuart Nash appeared first on Newsroom .
    2026-07-24
  • Comment: Condemning Stuart Nash's misogynistic text was easy, but the coalition's record on equal pay and family violence tells a more troubling story The post Why Parliament’s ‘bad guy’ playbook fails women appeared first on Newsroom .
    2026-07-24

12.5 Heard on radio

2 segments

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13 Commentary topics Methodology →

6 topics · 12 weeks

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14 Press topics Methodology →

6 topics · 12 weeks

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