Rae Weston
{{Short description|New Zealand professor of banking}}
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Caryl Rae Weston (18 December 1941 – 4 October 2014) was a New Zealand academic, and was the first woman professor at Massey University, appointed in 1984. She held the Chair of Banking and Management.
Academic career
Born in Oamaru in 1941, Weston attended Queen Margaret College in Wellington. Weston studied commerce at the University of Melbourne, where she earned an honours degree in 1966, and then moved to Monash University, where she gained a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws. She followed these degrees with a PhD on the predictability of Australian share markets, also at Monash, in 1972.{{Cite thesis |title=An economic and statistical study of predictability in Australian share markets |last=Weston |first=Rae |type=PhD thesis |publisher=Monash University. Department of Economics |url=https://monash.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/61MONASH_AU/1o6fval/alma99167893201751 |date=1971 |access-date=14 June 2024 |oclc=223329305}} Weston worked at the School of Economics at La Trobe University in Australia, where she was a senior lecturer.
Weston then joined the faculty of Massey University in New Zealand, rising to full professor in 1984. She was the first woman professor at Massey, and held the Chair of Banking and Management.{{Cite news |date=18 January 1985 |title=Massey now has three women professors |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19850118.2.101.1 |access-date=2024-06-14 |work=Press |pages=12}}{{Cite web |title=Rae Weston, 1985 |url=https://tamiro.massey.ac.nz/nodes/view/10678 |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Massey University Library |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=2 May 1989 |title=Banking slip sparks debate |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19890502.2.36 |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Press |pages=4}} Professors Glynnis Cropp, head of modern languages, and Nancy Kinross, Chair of Nursing Studies, were appointed at Massey the following year. Weston wrote a number of books and published extensively. Among the topics she published on are monetary policy, foreign exchange risk exposure and commercial crime. She also wrote a world survey on gold. One of Weston's notable doctoral students is governmental marine conservation advisor Takiora Ingram.{{Cite thesis |title=Indigenous entrepreneurship and tourism development in the Cook Islands and Fiji |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10179/3344 |publisher=Massey Research Online, Massey University |date=1990 |degree=PhD |language=en |first=Pamela Takiora |last=Ingram|hdl=10179/3344 }} In 1988 Weston was appointed to the Board of New Zealand's Earthquake and War Damage Commission (now EQC).{{Cite news |date=15 October 1988 |title=Boorman given job |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19881015.2.57 |access-date=15 June 2024 |work=Press |pages=10}}
Personal life
Weston was awarded a university blue in badminton, and was active in the sport's administration in New Zealand. Weston died in Harrington Park, Sydney in 2014, and is buried at Macquarie Park Cemetery.{{Cite web |title=Rae WESTON Death Notice - Sydney, New South Wales {{!}} Sydney Morning Herald |url=https://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/60820/rae-weston/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=tributes.smh.com.au}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite book|title=Domestic and Multinational Banking: The Effects of Monetary Policy|publisher=Columbia University Press|date=1980 |last=Weston|first=Rae|isbn=9780231050586|url=https://archive.org/details/domesticmultinat0000west }}
- {{Cite book|last=Weston|first=Rae|title=Gold: a world survey|date=1983| publisher=Routledge|doi=10.4324/9780203097588|isbn=9780203097588}}
- {{Cite book|title=Managing foreign exchange risk exposure|last=Weston|first=Rae|publisher=Law Book Co|place=Sydney|date=1986|isbn=0455206252 }}
- {{Cite book|title=Combating commercial crime|last=Weston|first=Rae|date=1987|publisher=Law Book Co|place=Sydney|isbn=0455207526}}
- {{Cite book |title=International trade finance: a guide to the instruments and techniques of Australian exports |last2=Weston |first2=Rae |last1=Edwards |first1=Robin |date= 1986|publisher=Law Book Co |place=Sydney |isbn=0455203504}}
- {{Cite book |last=Weston |first=Rae |title=The Role Of Intangible Assets And Other Accounting Issues In A Corporate Disaster}}
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:People educated at Queen Margaret College, Wellington
Category:University of Melbourne alumni
Category:Monash University alumni
Category:Academic staff of La Trobe University