Peter Benfell

BE (Hons) (University of Auckland), DipBusAdmin (Victoria University of Wellington)

Peter began in his role of leading and managing staff within the Science Group in October 2018. He has additional responsibility for the strategic direction of the science programmes. Peter has worked at GNS Science before – from 1998 until 2001 he was GM, Environment and Natural Resources Group. He has had more than 30 years’ experience in research, science and technology and its successful application, as well as in establishing several major R&D partnerships. Peter has held senior management roles at FORST, AgResearch and Opus International, and was the Chief Executive at Connexis.