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| Born | Garth Alan Carnaby 1950 (age 72–73) |
| Other names | Garth Alan Carnaby |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
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| Thesis | The structure and mechanical properties of wool carpet yarns (1976) |
Garth Alan Carnaby CNZM (born 1950) is a New Zealand fibre physicist and science and public administrator.
Carnaby completed a PhD at the Department of Textile Industries at University of Leeds in 1976. The title of his doctoral thesis was The structure and mechanical properties of wool carpet yarns. [1] He then returned to New Zealand, where he rose to become managing director of the Wool Research Organisation of New Zealand. [2]
In 1989 Carnaby received a DSc by thesis (Publications and papers on wool and the wool industry) from the University of New South Wales, [3] followed by an honorary DSc from Lincoln University in 2010. [4]
Carnaby served as president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2009 to 2012, preceded by Neville Jordan and followed by David Skegg. [5]
Carnaby has also served as chair of the board of the Canterbury Development Corporation [6] and chair for Marsden Fund Council (2005–2009). [7] He has served as 'Entrepreneur in Residence' [8] and chair of the Research and Commercialisation Committee at Lincoln University. [9]
In 1992, Carnaby was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. [10]
In the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours, Carnaby was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the wool industry. [11] He was promoted to Companion of the same order in the 2018 New Year Honours, for services to science and governance. [12]
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