Geoffrey Bannister Explained

Birth Place:	Manchester, England
Alma Mater:	University of Otago
Thesis Year:	1969
Thesis Title:	Central Place Theory and the Distribution of Retail Centres within Dunedin
Thesis Url:	http://hdl.handle.net/10523/11445

Geoffrey Bannister (born 1946, Manchester, England) was an English-American educator and geographer. He was the fourth president of Hawai'i Pacific University. His goals for the university were to expand the graduate program research as well as building connections with other universities around the world.^{[1] [2]}

Bannister was born in Manchester, England. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to New Zealand. He completed a master's thesis on the distribution of retail centres in Dunedin in 1969, at the University of Otago.^[3]

He later moved to Toronto, Canada to get a doctorate in geography. He became a U.S. citizen in 1989.

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1. Web site: Featured Columns Archives.
2. Web site: Talk Story with Geoffrey Bannister - Hawaii Business - May 2011 - Hawaii . 2013-04-11 . 2013-02-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130211163106/http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/Hawaii-Business/May-2011/Geoffrey-Bannister/ . dead .
3. Master's thesis.