Graeme Avery

Sir Graeme Seton Avery (born 18 June 1941) is a New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. After training as a pharmacist, he founded medical publishing company Adis International in 1963, and it had an annual turnover of $100 million when he sold it to Wolters Kluwer in 1996. The following year, he co-founded Sileni Wine Estates in Hawke's Bay. In 2009, Avery became chair of the AUT Millennium Ownership Trust. In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to business and sport, and in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours he was promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to business and sport.

Avery was named New Zealander of the Year in 2003 by Metro magazine, and in 2006 he was conferred an honorary doctorate by AUT.