Stuart McCutcheon | |
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Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland | |
In office January 2005 – March 2020 | |
Chancellor | Roger France |
Preceded by | John Hood |
Succeeded by | Dawn Freshwater |
Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington | |
In office November 2000[1] – December 2004 | |
Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Massey University | |
In office January 1999 – ? | |
Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) of Massey University | |
In office January 1994 – December 1998 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Stuart Norman McCutcheon 10 November 1954 Wellington, New Zealand |
Died | 6 January 2023 Auckland, New Zealand | (aged 68)
Alma mater | Massey University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Animal science |
Institutions | Massey University |
Thesis | A study of some factors affecting the resistance of newborn lambs to cold-stress with particular reference to starvation and exposure mortality (1981) |
Doctoral advisors |
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Stuart Norman McCutcheon (10 November 1954 – 6 January 2023) was a New Zealand university administrator. Until March 2020 he was vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, at which point he was the longest-serving current vice-chancellor in New Zealand, having served three five-year terms. He was previously vice-chancellor at Victoria University of Wellington, and deputy vice-chancellor and assistant vice-chancellor (research) at Massey University.[2]
In 2012, he was the highest-paid public sector worker in New Zealand.[3]
McCutcheon was the chairman of the Riddet Institute, a Centre of Research Excellence in food science based in Palmerston North, and Secretary of the Woolf Fisher Trust.[4][5]