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Nicola Laura "Nikki" Kaye〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Zealand Hansard - Members Sworn [Volume:651;Page:2] )〕 (born 11 February 1980) is the member of the New Zealand Parliament for the electorate. In January 2013, she was appointed to the Cabinet by Prime Minister John Key, giving her the portfolios of Food Safety, Civil Defence, and Youth Affairs, and Associate Minister of Education and Immigration. ==Early life== Kaye was born in Auckland and grew up in Epsom and Kohimarama, Kaye's parents separated when she was seven years old. Her family includes a brother and sister, "two half-brothers, four half-sisters, one stepbrother and two step-parents". She was educated at Corran School, where she was Head Prefect, before earning a science degree in genetics from the University of Otago, where she also began her Bachelor of Laws, later completing it in Wellington.〔〔 Kaye is an accomplished competitive athlete, having been the Auckland Women's 3,000 m running champion in 1997, and has raced in numerous marathons and multi-sport events. In 2008 Kaye competed in the Coast to Coast multi-sport event. In February 2013, Kaye completed the Coast to Coast race a second time, becoming the first New Zealand Cabinet Minister to do so. In 1997, Kaye participated in a television documentary called ''Fish out of Water'', in which she and five other teenagers were marooned on Rakitu Island (off Great Barrier Island) and fended for themselves for eight days.〔 The documentary footage was located in March 2014 and was published on New Zealand on Air's on-line archive NZ On Screen as part of its "before they were famous" series.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Fish out of Water (1997) )〕 Kaye joined the National Party in 1998, becoming women's vice-chair of the southern region of the New Zealand Young Nationals. She is presently an International Vice-Chairman of the International Young Democrat Union. Kaye began working for Bill English in the office of the Leader of the Opposition in 2002 as a policy researcher. In 2003 she travelled to the United Kingdom, where she worked as a policy officer and project manager at the London boroughs of Enfield and Bromley, and then at Transport for London, where she managed a disabled people transport program, before working as an IT project manager at the Halifax Bank of Scotland.〔 In 2006, Kaye co-founded a website, networkme.com, and acts as Director of Communications for that company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nikki Kaye」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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