Richard Grant Mulgan (5 March 1940 – 15 November 2024) was a New Zealand political scientist who spent much of his career in Australia.
He was on the 1985–86 New Zealand Royal Commission that recommended MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) representation for elections to the New Zealand Parliament.
[3] He was later married to Aurelia George Mulgan, an academic specialising in Japanese politics and foreign policy.
[4] Mulgan was professor emeritus at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Prior to his retirement in 2008, he was a professor of public policy there.