Peter J. Rimmer AM is an English-born economic and human geographer concerned with urban and regional development within the Asian-Pacific Rim with a particular emphasis on the role of communications, transport (road, rail, sea, air) and logistics.
[3] Rimmer was a schoolmaster at the Oldershaw Grammar School, Wallasey (1960-62), and Labour councillor for the Victoria Ward, Ellesmere Port Municipal Borough Council.
From 1967-2000 he was based in the Department of Geography/Human Geography in the then Research School of Pacific (and Asian) Studies, Australian National University.
Rimmer was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia "for service to economic geography, and to the urban and regional development in the Asia-Pacific Rim, particularly through research into the area of transport and communications systems".
[8] A bequest by former PhD student, the late Associate Professor Lisa Drummond,[9] led to the Peter J. Rimmer Prize being instituted at the Australian National University in 2023.