Rae Weston

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. 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. 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. In 1988 Weston was appointed to the Board of New Zealand's Earthquake and War Damage Commission (now EQC).

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.