Dr Stephen Knight-Lenihan profile
Dr Stephen Knight-Lenihan is an environmental scientist and environmental planner, having worked as a consultant and an academic for over 30 years.
Stephen has published widely in academic journals, books and the media on issues relating to transport, resilience, risk, biodiversity offsetting, ecological restoration and environmental legislation.
After working as a consultant in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and South Africa, Stephen joined the University of Auckland in 2010. He has also worked as a print and broadcast journalist for the National Business Review, Radio New Zealand, and the New Zealand Herald. At the end of 2023, Stephen returned from a two-year stint working as a volunteer in Sweden for a non-governmental organisation on climate change adaptation and ecological restoration issues in developing economies. Currently, he splits his time between contract work for the University of Auckland and contributing to a range of legal and community-based projects on climate change adaptation, ecological restoration and promoting urban walking and cycling.
Qualifications: B.Sc. (Hons) Canterbury University 1978; M.Sc. (Environmental Science) University of Auckland, 1994; Ph.D. (Planning) 2008 University of Auckland.