Gerard "Ged" F. R. Parkin (born February 15, 1959) is a professor of chemistry at Columbia University.

Gerard Parkin attended the English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College before working under Malcolm Green during both his undergraduate and graduate studies at The Queen's College, Oxford.

His work involved exploring the chemistry of tungsten phosphine derivatives.

He obtained a post-doctoral position at the California Institute of Technology working with Professor John Bercaw on tungstenocene reactivity.

In 1988, Ged joined the faculty at Columbia University, where he currently investigates a myriad of problems in main group and transition metal chemistry, including: Parkin received the 2008 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry[2] and the 1994 ACS Award in pure chemistry[3] from the American Chemical Society.