Neville Douglas Peat MNZM (born 29 November 1947) is a New Zealand author and photographer, based at Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula.

[3] Peat was an elected member of the Otago Regional Council from 1998 to 2007, and was its deputy chairperson from 2004 to 2007.

[4][5] In 2013, Peat was elected to the Dunedin City Council, and served one term before standing down in 2016.

[10] In 2016, he received the CLNZ Writers' Award for his project The Invading Sea.

[11][12][13] In the 2018 New Year Honours, Peat was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to conservation.