Denis McLean

Denis McLean CMG (born August 18, 1930 in Napier , † March 30, 2011 in Wellington ) was a New Zealand diplomat , university professor and author .

Life

McLean studied at Victoria University and was a 1954 Rhodes Fellow at the University of Oxford . From 1957 he worked in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His activities there brought him to London , Washington, DC , Paris and Kuala Lumpur . In 1978 he moved to the Ministry of Defense and served as Secretary of Defense from 1979 until his resignation in 1988 .

McLean has also served as visiting professor and has taught at the Australian National University in Canberra , as well as at several institutes located in Washington, DC, including the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the United States Institute of Peace . During his time in Washington, DC he also held the post of New Zealand Ambassador to the United States from 1991 to 1994 . From 1995 to 1998, McLean Warburg was Professor of International Relations at Simmons College, Boston .

He wrote several books, including on international relations with Australia and the United States. In 2008 he published a biography of New Zealand Major General Howard Kippenberger .

Denis McLean was named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1988 . He was married and has three children, two sons and a daughter. He passed away in March 2011.

Publications (selection)

• McLean, Denis: The Prickly Pair: Making Nationalism in Australia and New Zealand (2003)
• McLean, Denis: Howard Kippenberger: Dauntless Spirit (2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Denis McLean . Randomhouse , accessed August 9, 2014 .  
2. ^ Former diplomat Denis McLean dies . March 31, 2011, accessed August 9, 2014 .