• Honorary Research Associate, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University

Jeff McNeill is a former senior lecturer in environmental policy and planning in the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in politics, a MA(Hons) in Geography and a Master of Public Policy (Distinction). Jeff came to academia after an extensive career in New Zealand central and regional government and as a consultant. He has also spent time working in the New Zealand and European parliaments. His research focuses primarily on the regional level of government and non-state regulation and their implications for environmental management in New Zealand. He is a commissioner on the International Geographic Union Commission on the Geography of Governance.

He also undertakes research from an historical geography perspective of New Zealand soldiers in First World War. Reviews of his recently published book, 'Taking the Ridge: Anzacs and Germans at the Battle of Messines 1917' recognise it as the definitive Anzac account of that battle.

• 2008–present Senior lecturer, Massey University

• 2008 Massey University, PhD
• 1994 Victoria University of Wellington, Master of Public Policy (Distinction)
• 1982 University of Canterbury, MA(Hons) in Geography

• 2022 Taking the Ridge: Anzacs & Germans at the Battle of Messines 1917, Titipounamu Rifleman Press
• 2022 McNeilll, J & A. Asquith End of the World: New Zealand's local government and Covid-19. In: Nunes Silva, C. (ed) Local Government and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Local and Urban Governance., Springer, Cham
• 2021 de Koning, J., Hobbis, S. K., McNeill, J., & Prinsen, G. (2021). Vacating place, vacated space? A research agenda for places where people leave. , Journal of Rural Studies, 82, 271-278
• 2020 Exporting environmental objectives or erecting trade barriers in recent EU free trade agreements, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies 12(1), 40-53.

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