Winfred Peppinck Explained

Winfred Marcel Peppinck
Office:Australian High Commissioner to
Barbados
Term Start:2001[1]
Term End:May 2004[2]
Primeminister:John Howard
Successor:John Michell (to Port of Spain)
Birth Date:2 January 1946
Birth Place:The Hague, Netherlands
Death Place:Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Website:Australia in Trinidad and Tobago

Winfred Marcel Peppinck (2 January 1946 – 1 October 2020) was an Australian author and former diplomat who served as 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]

From 2004 he served as an advisor to Bahrain prime minister Shaikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa.[4] [5] After the start of the 2011 Bahraini uprising, Peppinck wrote a number of articles in the pro-government Gulf Daily News, defending the Bahrain government's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.[6] [7]

Peppinck died on 1 October 2020.[8]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.gg.gov.au/program.php/view/id/74/title/on-wednesday-14-march-2001-at-the-australian-defence-college-canberra-the-governor-general-sir-william-deane-attended-a-ceremony-commemorating-the-formation-of-the-australian-defence-college-and-the-opening-of-the-australian-command-and-staff-college announcement of the Governor General of Australia
  2. http://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/2156 Australia's diplomat arrives: John Michell
  3. News: Winfred Peppinck . . 2010-05-19 .
  4. News: Insights into life of a globetrotter. Gulf Daily News. 4 January 2009.
  5. Web site: Wilfred Peppinck - The Diplomatic Dog of Barbados. m-ybooks.co.uk. 16 May 2011.
  6. News: Peppinck. Winfred. Let's be media-savvy.... Gulf Daily News. 10 April 2011.
  7. News: Peppinck. Winfred. Justice must be seen to reign supreme.... Gulf Daily News. 16 May 2011.
  8. News: Death Notice: Winfred Peppinck . 10 November 2022 . The Canberra Times . 3 October 2020.