Charles Richard William Beasley CNZM is a New Zealand academic physician, the founder and Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand,[1] and as of 2019 is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.

[2] Beasley has received multiple grants from the Health Research Council of New Zealand.

[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Beasley was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to medical research, in particular asthma.

[14] In 2019, he was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand 's Beaven Medal.

[15] In 2024 he was awarded the Rutherford Medal for "revolutionising the treatment of asthma worldwide".