Erica Stanford is the Minister of Education and Minister of Immigration. She has been the MP for East Coast Bays since the 2017 election. 

Erica completed a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours at the University of Auckland, majoring in Political Science and minoring in Māori Studies. She worked in a number of export sales roles for New Zealand manufacturers. 

She also spent four years working in the electorate office of former MP for East Coast Bays, Hon Murray McCully.