Ian McKinnon

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Ian McKinnon

CNZM QSO JP
Ian McKinnon CNZM (cropped).jpg
McKinnon in 2013
23rd Deputy Mayor of Wellington
In office
2007–2013
Mayor Kerry Prendergast
Celia Wade-Brown
Preceded byAlick Shaw
Succeeded by Justin Lester
Personal details
Born
Ian Duncan McKinnon

(1943-04-21) 21 April 1943 (age 77)
Wellington, New Zealand
Relatives Walter McKinnon (father)
Don McKinnon (brother)
John McKinnon (brother)
Malcolm McKinnon (brother)
OccupationHeadmaster, education consultant, Pro-Chancellor

Ian Duncan McKinnon CNZM QSO JP (born 21 April 1943) is a New Zealand educator and local politician, and is a former deputy mayor of Wellington.

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Education

McKinnon was educated at Nelson College from 1957 to 1961. He went on to Victoria University of Wellington, where he graduated with a BCom, and The University of Auckland, where he was awarded a DipEd. [1]

Career

Teacher administrator

McKinnon began his teaching career at King's College, Auckland. He has been Headmaster of a number of prominent private schools in New Zealand, including Wanganui Collegiate School (1980–88), and Scots College (1992–2002). He was also Lower Master at Eton College in the UK from 1988.

At Wanganui Collegiate, he steered the school through a period of sustained pupil growth, despite the fall-off of its traditional catchment area – the education of central North Island farmer's sons, in the wake of the removal of state produce subsidies.

Educational consultancy work

Since 2002, McKinnon has practised as an education consultant. He was appointed Chairman of the Correspondence School and until its merger with Victoria University of Wellington was Chairman of the Council of the Wellington College of Education. [2]

He is on the University Council of Victoria University of Wellington, after being Chancellor for a number of years. [2]

Local government

In 2004 McKinnon was elected to the Wellington City Council for the Lambton Ward. He served as Deputy Mayor of Wellington from 2017 until 2013 first under Kerry Prendergast then Celia Wade-Brown. [3] He retired from the city council at the 2013 local government elections, and was succeeded by Justin Lester as Deputy Mayor.

In 2016 he was elected to the Wellington Regional Council. [4]

In 2019 McKinnon announced that he would not be standing for re-election to the Wellington Regional Council, on which he has been a councillor since 2016. [5]

Honours and awards

In 1990, McKinnon was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, and in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service. [6] In the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours, McKinnon was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and the community. [7] He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1992, and is a justice of the peace.

Family connections

McKinnon has a number of famous siblings, including Don McKinnon – a former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, and Malcolm McKinnon – a university professor at Victoria University of Wellington. John McKinnon is New Zealand Defence Secretary.

McKinnon's father was Chief of General Staff, Major General Walter McKinnon, CB, CBE. The McKinnon brothers are great-great-grandsons of John Plimmer, known as the father of Wellington. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006, 6th edition
  2. 1 2 "Council member profiles". Victoria.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Councillor - Ian McKinnon". Wellington City Council. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013.
  4. ↑ "Wellington constituency - Preliminary result" (PDF). Greater Wellington Regional Council. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Fourth Wellington regional councillor drops out of local elections". Stuff (Fairfax). 29 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "No. 52564". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 15 June 1991. p. 31.
  7. ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2013". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  8. ↑ Dominion Post 18 June 2009 page C2
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Preceded by
Alick Shaw		 Deputy Mayor of Wellington
2007–2013		Succeeded by
Justin Lester
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