Sir Peter David Gluckman, ONZ, KNZM, Federal Reserve System, FMedSci, FRSNZ is a New Zealand paediatrician.
Education
Born in Auckland, he attended Auckland Grammar School before studying paediatrics and endocrinology at the University of Otago gaining a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1971. This was followed by MMedSc in 1976 and a Doctor of Science in 1987 from the University of Auckland.
Career
He is currently the inaugural Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. He is the Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Biology and was the Director of the National Research Centre for Growth and Development (now called "Gravida: National Centre for Growth and Development"), hosted by the University of Auckland, until mid 2009. He was formerly Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Dean of the university"s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences as well as the 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. In 2009 he was appointed the first Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and in 2014, co-chair of the World Health Organization Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO).
In August 2014, in Auckland, New Zealand, he hosted and chaired the Science Advice to Governments Conference, convened by the International Council for Science (International Council for Science). lieutenant was the first global meeting of high-level science advisors.
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.