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Past Chairs and Presidents of the Academy

View past Chairs and Presidents of the Academy.

Past Chairs of the Academy

  • Professor Charlotte Macdonald FRSNZ 2020-2023
  • Professor Richard Blaikie FRSNZ 2018-2020
  • Professor Barry Scott FRSNZ  2017-2018
  • Professor Gaven Martin FRSNZ 2016-2017
  • Professor Richard Le Heron FRSNZ 2015-2016
  • Dr John Caradus FRSNZ FASNZ HFNZIAS 2014-2015
  • Professor Geoff Austin FRSNZ 2013-2014
  • Professor Richard Le Heron FRSNZ 2012-2013
  • Dr Stephen Goldson CRSNZ FRSNZ 2011-2012
  • Professor Keith Hunter FRSNZ 2010-2011
  • Professor David Thorns ONZM FRSNZ 2009-2010
  • Dr Brent Clothier FRSNZ 2008-2009

Past Presidents of the Academy

  • Conder, Marston FRSNZ 2006-2008
  • Burns, Carolyn CBE FRSNZ 2003-2006
  • Callaghan, Paul FRS FRSNZ 2000-2003
  • Petersen, George ONZM FRSNZ 1997-2000
  • Black, Philippa Margaret, CNZM PhD Auck FRSNZ FMSAm 1993–97
  • Dodd, John Newton, MSc(Hons) PhD B’ham FRSNZ FInstP 1989–93
  • Hatherton, Trevor, OBE DIC PhD Lond DSc Lond HonDSc Vict FRSNZ 1985–89
  • Bollard, Edward George, CBE BSc PhD Cantab HonDSc Auck FRSNZ FNZIC 1981–85
  • Dell, Richard Kenneth, QSO BA DSc DipEd FRSNZ FMANZ 1977–81
  • Burns, Sir Malcolm McRae, KBE MSc PhD Aberdeen FRSNZ FNZlC FNZIAS 1974–77
  • Willett, Richard Wright, MSc HonDSc FRSNZ MAIMM 1970–74
  • Miles, John Arthur Reginald, CBE MA MD Cantab FRSNZ FRACP 1966–70
  • Fleming, Sir Charles Alexander, KBE BA DSc NZ FRS FRSNZ FMANZ FGS 1964–66
  • Barnett, Miles Aylmer Fulton, OBE MSc PhD Cantab FRSNZ FInstP 1964
  • Fleming, Sir Charles Alexander, KBE BA DSc NZ FRS FRSNZ FMANZ FGS 1962–64
  • Dixon, Joseph Keith, MSc PhD Lond DIC FRSNZ FRIC NZIC 1960–62
  • Allan, Robin Sutcliffe, PhD Cantab DSc FRSNZ 1958–60
  • Briggs, Lindsay Heathcote, DSc DPhil Oxon FRSNZ FNZIC 1956–58
  • Miller, David, CBE MSc PhD CMZS CSChE FRSNZ FRES 1954–56
  • Oliver, Walter Reginald Brook, DSc FRSNZ FZS 1952–54
  • Callaghan, Francis Raymond, ISO MA NZ FRSNZ FRES 1950–52
  • Falla, Sir Robert Alexander, KBE CMG MA DSc NZ FRSNZ FMANZ 1948–50
  • Marsden, Sir Ernest, KB CMG MC DSc NZ FRS FRSNZ MIEE 1947
  • Benson, William Noel, BA DSc FRS FRSNZ FGS 1946–47
  • Allan, Harry Howard, CBE MA DSc PhD hon FRSNZ FLS 1943–45
  • Archey, Sir Gilbert, KB CBE MA DSc FRSNZ FZS FMANZ 1941–42
  • Holloway, Rev. John Ernest, LTh DSc FRS FRSNZ 1939–40
  • Evans, William Percival, CBE MA PhD FRSNZ HonFNZIC 1937–38
  • Williams, Right Rev. Bishop, MA LittD FRSNZ 1935–36
  • Speight, Robert, MA MSc FRSNZ FGS 1933–34
  • Segar, Hugh William, MA FRSNZ 1931–32
  • Farr, Clinton Coleridge, DSc FRS FRSNZ FPSL 1929–30
  • Thomson, J Allan, MA DSc FNZI FGS AOSM (Mr BC Aston reappointed May, 1928, vice Dr J Allan Thomson, deceased.) 1928
  • Aston, Bernard Cracroft, FRSNZ FRIC FCS 1926–27
  • Marshall, Patrick, MA DSc FRSNZ FGS FRGS FES 1924–25
  • Kirk, Harry Borrer, MA FRSNZ 1922–23
  • Easterfield, Sir Thomas Hill, KBE MA PhD FRSNZ FRIC FCS 1920–21
  • Cockayne, Leonard, CMG PhD FRS FRSNZ FLS 1918–19
  • Benham, Sir William Blaxland, KBE MA DSc FRS FRSNZ FZS 1916–17
  • Petrie, Donald, MA PhD FNZI FLS 1915
  • Chilton, Charles, MB CM MA DSc LLD FNZI FLS CMZS 1913–14
  • Cheeseman, Thomas Frederic, FNZI FLS FZS 1911–12
  • Hamilton, Augustus 1909–10
  • Thomson, Hon. George Malcolm, FRSNZ FLS MLC 1907–08
  • Hector, Sir James, KCMG MD FRS 1905–06
  • Hutton, Captain Frederick Wollaston, FRS 1903–04