Gary Wilson

Professor Gary Wilson was appointed as the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at the University of Waikato in February 2024. Prior to this he was Chief Scientist and General Manager Research Strategy and Partnerships at GNS Science. He also previously held the role of Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Antarctic Programme. Gary also holds a number of Governance roles, including being Chair of the Royal Society Te Apārangi National Committee on Antarctic Sciences, and President of the International Science Council Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

Gary’s research is highly collaborative and involves working with experts in economics, sociology, mātauranga Māori, and politics to advance our understanding of earth’s climate system and carbon cycle and generating a wider, science based and mode effective response to that. Current research programmes include international research investigating the changing carbon emission from warming frozen ground in Antarctica and the science and economics of changing carbon burial in New Zealand fiords.