Donald Fraser

Donald Gordon Fraser (born 30 October 1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University, a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and in 2008-09 held the office of Senior Proctor within the University. and served as senior proctor in the 2008-09 year. He was a tutorial fellow in geology at Worcester College, Oxford.

He was a senior visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, in 1980-81, later joining CNRS Nice as a senior research associate 1984-85, and as a fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Earth's Interior (Misasa, Japan) 1997-98, returning in 2001-02 as a research fellow and afterwards as a member of its advisory panel. He also worked as a visiting associate of the California Institute of Technology 1998-99, primarily in geological and planetary sciences.

He works on the origin of biological chirality, the development of early biomolecules and the origin of life. He was an opponent of Vice-Chancellor Dr John Hood's proposal for Governance reform in Oxford. He has also warned of a growing "bonus culture" in Oxford, something the University denies.