Wendy Larner FRSNZ is a New Zealand social scientist who has focussed on the interdisciplinary areas of globalisation, governance and gender.

In July 2018 she became the President of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, taking over from Richard Bedford.

[2] Larner has a master's degree from the University of Canterbury, with a thesis titled Migration and female labour: Samoan women in New Zealand [3] and a PhD in Geography from Carleton University in Canada.

She was awarded the Victoria Medal in 2018 by the Royal Geographical Society.

[8] Larner was previously Professor of Human Geography and Sociology at the University of Bristol.