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

McLean was also active as a visiting professor and taught at the Australian National University in Canberra, as well as several in Washington, DC nearby institutions, 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, D.C. In addition, he held from 1991 to 1994 the post of the New Zealand Ambassador to the United States. From 1995 to 1998 McLean Warburg was a professor of international relations at Boston Simmons College.

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 appointed Companion of the Order of 1988 St Michael and St George. He was married and has three children, two sons and a daughter.

Publications (selection)

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