Edward Neill Baker CNZM (born 29 October 1942) is a New Zealand scientist specialising in protein purification and crystallization and bioinformatics.

[2] Born at Port Stanley in 1942 to New Zealanders Harold and Moya (née Boak) Baker,[3] he spent his early life in the Falkland Islands,[4] where his father was the superintendent of education.

[8] He then took up an academic post at Massey University,[8] where he determined the structure of the kiwifruit enzyme actinidin.

[6] In 1997 he moved back to the University of Auckland where he became professor of structural biology and later direct of the Maurice Wilkins Center for Molecular Diversity.

[12] In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science.