Peter Gluckman - Biography

Sir Peter David Gluckman, KNZM, FRS, FMedSc, FRSNZ (born 1949) is a New Zealand scientist who is the first Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister.

Life

Born in Auckland, he attended Auckland Grammar School before studying paediatrics and endocrinology at the University of Otago gaining a MBChB in 1971. This was followed by MMedSc in 1976 and a DSc in 1987 from the University of Auckland.

He is Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Biology and past-Director of the National Research Centre for Growth and Development at the University of Auckland. He was formerly Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and was founding Director of the Liggins Institute.

In 2007 he was appointed Programme Director for Growth, Development and Metabolism at the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences. He also holds honorary chairs at National University of Singapore and the University of Southampton.

He is the only New Zealander elected to the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academies of Science and a Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences of Great Britain. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, an honour bestowed on just 37 New Zealand-born scientists since the Society's establishment in 1660.

In 2001 received New Zealand’s top science award, the Rutherford Medal.

In 2004 he was New Zealand Herald New Zealander of the Year and in 2006 won the KEA/NZTE World Class New Zealander Award.

In 2007 he was made a DCNZM (later ressigned to Knight Companion in 2009) for services to medicine having previously been made a CNZM in 1997.

Publications

External links

• The Liggins Institute website - Professor Sir Peter Gluckman bio
• NZ Herald article 18 Dec 2004 - "Herald New Zealander of the Year - Dr Peter Gluckman"
• NZ Governor-General Website - Professor Peter Gluckman's Investiture at Government House in Auckland, 16 April 2008