Anne Briar Smith CNZM FRSNZ (née Riddall, 13 August 1940 – 22 May 2016) was a New Zealand professor at the University of Otago, and was a pioneering children's rights researcher.
Her father worked for the Iraq Petroleum Company, and when that necessitated the family move to Syria, Smith boarded at the Welsh Girls' School in England, aged nine.
[1] She then undertook an MEd at the University of Alberta in 1969, and then completed a PhD titled Verbalization and selective attention in discrimination shift problems there in 1971.
[1] After Smith finished her PhD, she and her husband spent two years working for an experimental tertiary education institution in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[2] Smith was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 1995, and appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to children, in the 2007 New Year Honours.