Winfred Peppinck

Winfred Marcel Peppinck
Australian High Commissioner to
Barbados
In office
2001[1] – May 2004[2]
Prime Minister John Howard
Succeeded by John Michell (to Port of Spain)
Personal details
Born (1946-01-02) 2 January 1946
The Hague, Netherlands
Website Australia in Trinidad and Tobago

Winfred Marcel Peppinck (born 2 January 1946) was the Australian Ambassador to the Caribbean at the former High Commission in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Biography

He was born in The Hague, in the Netherlands on 2 January 1946. His family Annette (mum) Waldemar (dad) and Wido (younger brother) moved to the Dutch East Indies and in 1951 they emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. He received a degree in politics then worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs as a diplomatic trainee. He was assigned to Brazil, South Africa, Uganda and Indonesia. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Ambassador to the Caribbean.[3]

Since 2004 he has served as an advisor to Bahrain prime minister Shaikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa.[4][5]

After the start of the Bahraini uprising, Peppinck has written a number of articles in the pro-government Gulf Daily News, defending the Bahrain government's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ announcement of the Governor General of Australia , 14 March 2001
  2. ↑ Australia's diplomat arrives: John Michell, www.newsday.co.tt
  3. ↑ "Winfred Peppinck". Olympia Publishers. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  4. ↑ "Insights into life of a globetrotter". Gulf Daily News. 4 January 2009.
  5. ↑ "Wilfred Peppinck - The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados". m-ybooks.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2011. In 2004 I was recruited as an Adviser to the Prime Minister’s Court. Bahrain is now ‘home’ – till we return to Australia!”
  6. ↑ Peppinck, Winfred (10 April 2011). "Let's be media-savvy...". Gulf Daily News.
  7. ↑ Peppinck, Winfred (16 May 2011). "Justice must be seen to reign supreme...". Gulf Daily News.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Paul Smith		 Australian High Commissioner to Barbados
2001 – 2004 		Succeeded by
John Michell
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.