Bronwyn Hayward

She attended Christchurch Girls' High School and then moved to Dunedin to study at the University of Otago.

She was a co-researcher at the University of Oslo on the Voices of the Future project, a study of young people growing up in a changing climate.

She is also director of the university's Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination: Hei Puāwaitanga research group.

She was a lead author on UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C.

[7] In the 2021 New Year Honours, Hayward was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to political science, particularly sustainability, climate change and youth.

Discussion on the Anthropocene challenge in 2015. From left to right: Lucile Schmid , Prof David Frame, Kim Hill , Prof. Catherine Larrère and Bronwyn Hayward.
Hayward (left), after her investiture as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Dame Patsy Reddy , at Government House, Wellington , on 6 May 2021