David Theunis Runia AM FAHA is a Dutch-Australian classical scholar and educational administrator who has worked in both Australia and the Netherlands.
At the age of four he emigrated to Australia when his father Klaas Runia took up a chair at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong.
), enabling him to be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 1986–87 and a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra in 1987.
In 2002 he returned to Australia on his appointment as Master of Queen's College at the University of Melbourne, a position he held until retiring in 2016.
[7] Runia's scholarship research has focused on two main areas: (1) the interaction of Greek philosophy and Jewish-Christian thought, with particular attention paid to the contribution of the Hellenistic-Jewish author Philo of Alexandria and (2) the genre of ancient doxography, which gives us valuable information on the thought of early Greek philosophers.