Shaun Hendy

Shaun Hendy MNZM FRSNZ is Chief Scientist and a Co-founder of Toha, a New Zealand company that builds and operates digital marketplaces for environmental action. He has previously worked as an academic at both Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington (2002-13) and Waipapa Taumata Rau - the University of Auckland (2013-22), as well as as a scientist at Callaghan Innovation (1998-2013), where he has been on the Board since 2018. He has won many awards, including the Callaghan Medal for Science Communication, the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize, and the E. O. Tuck medal for applied mathematics. He also led the team that won the 2021 Prime Minister’s Science Prize for their COVID-19 modelling and communication. Shaun is the co-author of Get Off the Grass with the late Sir Paul Callaghan, and author of Silencing Science and #NoFly.