11 Facts About Shai Navot

Shai Navot is a New Zealand lawyer, former crown prosecutor, and leader of The Opportunities Party between 2020 and 2022.

Shai Navot previously served as deputy leader of The Opportunities Party during the 2020 election.

Shai Navot ran for The Opportunities Party in North Shore.

Shai Navot said TOP's plan for affordable dental care for low-income earners would improve long-term health outcomes.

Shai Navot called setting up fruit and veggie box schemes around the country a "no-brainer" and said that community-based responses to food waste were successful models.

Shai Navot led a group of Opportunities Party candidates to gather at an open home to protest the lack of affordable housing.

Shai Navot did not win the North Shore electorate, coming fifth with 1,493 votes.

In November 2020, at TOP's first AGM after the election, Geoff Simmons resigned as leader of The Opportunities Party and Shai Navot became party leader.

Shai Navot began studying towards a Master of Public Policy at University of Auckland in 2017, and will continue this study in 2020.

Shai Navot worked for seven years as a lawyer in both civil litigation and criminal prosecution.

Shai Navot initially specialised in pursuing weathertightness claims in the High Court on behalf of the Ministry of Education, and subsequently became a Crown prosecutor in June 2013, where she remained until September 2019.