Keith Hunter

Keith Andrew Hunter is a New Zealand ocean chemist who is currently a professor of chemistry and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Sciences, at the University of Otago.
He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, graduated from the University of Auckland with a first-class degree in chemistry in 1974, and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1977. He joined the University of Otago in 1979 and is a former president of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. He was awarded the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2011 and the Marsden Medal in 2014, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1997.