Stuart McCutcheon
Stuart Norman McCutcheon is a New Zealand university administrator and current chair of Universities NZ. Until March 2020 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, at which point he was the longest serving current Vice-Chancellor in New Zealand, having served three five-year terms. He was previously Vice-Chancellor at Victoria University of Wellington, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Massey University. In 2012, he was the highest paid public sector worker in New Zealand. Education. McCutcheon was educated at Massey University where he graduated with a BAgrSc (Hons ) with first class honours in 1976 before becoming a lecturer whilst completing a 1981 PhD in metabolic physiology. Controversies. In September 2019, McCutcheon was criticised for not removing posters by a white supremacist group after several University of Auckland students complained that individuals wearing swastikas were intimidating students, while fascist posters, stickers and white supremacist messages were reportedly appearing on campus. Formerly, McCutcheon had labelled the claims of wider white supremacist rhetoric at the university 'nonsense'.