Dame Anne Salmond is Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland. Among many honours and awards, she is an International Member of the American Philosophical Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 2013 she became New Zealander of the Year and winner of the Rutherford Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand. She received the CBE in 1988, was made Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1995, and in 2020 she became a member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ).

Her most recent book is Knowledge Is a Blessing on Your Mind: Selected Writings, 1980–2020 (Auckland University Press, 2023).