Don McKinnon


Sir Donald Charles Don McKinnon ONZ GCVO is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand. He was the SecretaryGeneral of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2000 until 2008.

McKinnon was born in Blackheath, London. His father was MajorGeneral Walter McKinnon, CB CBE, a New Zealand Chief of the General Staff, and once Chairman of New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. McKinnons brothers include the twins John McKinnon, the current New Zealand Secretary of Defence and a former Ambassador to China, and Malcolm McKinnon, an editor and academic, and Ian McKinnon, ProChancellor of Victoria University of Wellington, School Headmaster of Scots College and former Deputy Mayor of Wellington City. The McKinnon brothers are greatgreatgrandsons of John Plimmer, known as the father of Wellington.

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