During the past eight years he has juggled his studies between his rowing training and international racing.
Bond (26) will be capped today with a bachelor of business studies degree, majoring in finance, and with a graduate diploma in financial planning, from the Massey campus in Albany, on Auckland's North Shore.
"It has been a long eight years but at long last Hamish is to be capped," his father, Graeme, said.
"Shirley [mother] and I will be there as will his girlfriend, Lizzy, and Alistair [brother] who has been released from training at Lake Karapiro to attend."
Bond (26) was a commerce student at the University of Otago when he was named in the New Zealand eight for the world under-23 championships at Amsterdam in 2005.
The eight trained on Lake Karapiro and this meant changes to Bond's studies. He enrolled as an extramural student at Massey University to pursue his rowing goals.
"It was a matter of time management," he said. "The trick was to balance my university studies with my rowing and find time to get everything done."
Despite the intense demands on the life of an elite athlete, he has found time outside of his six hours a day training to swap his oars for books.
Massey was the first university in New Zealand to be named an athlete-friendly university by High Performance Sport New Zealand because of the flexibility of its distance learning programme.
Bond has sat exams in odd locations like the hotel conference room in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana.
Bond won a gold medal in the four at the world championships in 2007 but it was when he teamed up with Eric Murray in 2009 that he became part of an invincible pair.
They have remained unbeaten, won three world titles and have dominated the New Zealand and international rowing scene.
They are favoured to win the gold medal at the Olympics.
Bond was born in Dunedin and the family moved to Ashburton when he was 6. He returned to the city to study at Otago Boys High School and was head boy in 2003.
Bond is a member of the North End club in Dunedin and New Zealand rowing guru Fred Strachan was his first coach and has remained his mentor throughout his career.
He has won 15 red coats in premier events at national championships.
