Philippa Margaret Black CNZM (born 26 November 1941) is a New Zealand academic specialising in geology, specifically mineralogy and metamorphic petrology.
[3] Her PhD focused on the Tokatea Reef in the hills behind Coromandel township and the title of her doctoral thesis was Petrology of the Cuvier and Paritu Plutons and their metamorphic Aureoles.
[7] Between 1993 and 1997, Black was president of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the first woman to hold the role.
[7] In the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.
[8] In 2013, after her retirement, she was elected Companion to the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ).