Anne French

Anne French (born 1956) is a New Zealand editor and poet.

Initially she worked as Literary Editor for Oxford University Press, becoming New Zealand Managing Editor in 1982, and subsequently New Zealand Publisher.

She worked for the government's principal research funding agency, the Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology, initially as Strategy Manager, subsequently becoming Acting Policy Manager (and writing her first BIM).

She was responsible for developing funder-to-funder agreements with funders in North Asian countries, managing a $15 m fund to stimulate international research collaborations in key areas, and helping to build research collaborations between NZ researchers and those in Korea, Japan, and China.

This work had some long-term consequences: a robotics collaboration between researchers at the University of Auckland and at ETRI, a Korean institute, that lasted more than a decade; and a strong interest in Korean history and literature, especially C20 Korean poetry, and also Chinese poetry of the Tang dynasty.