Caroline Saunders

Caroline Mary Saunders is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2020 is a distinguished professor at Lincoln University, specialising in environmental economics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Academic career

After a BSc (Hons) degree at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University), Saunders completed a PhD titled Intra-EC agricultural trade with special reference to wheat at Newcastle University in 1984. Saunders was then appointed as a lecturer at Newcastle, before moving in 1996 to Lincoln University as a senior lecturer. She is professor of international trade and the environment and is director of the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit. Saunders has worked for the EU Commission, FAO, MFAT, the New Zealand Treasury, OECD and Fonterra, among others. She was also appointed as a member of the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, and is a director of Landcare Research.

Honours and awards In 2007, Saunders was the NZIER Economist of the Year.

Saunders was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words in 2017.

In March 2021, Saunders was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, in recognition of her "outstanding contributions to the advancement of science by creating new knowledge in her research field of agriculture and economics".

Selected works