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

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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 The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

and in 1951 they emigrated to Perth, Western Australia. He received a degree in politics then worked for the

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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. From 2004 he served as an advisor to Bahrain prime minister Shaikh

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. After the start of the

2011 Bahraini uprising The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the Shia-dominant and some Sunni minority Bahraini opposition from 2011 until 2014. The protests were inspired by the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and prote ...

, Peppinck wrote a number of articles in the pro-government Gulf Daily News, defending the Bahrain government's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Peppinck died on 1 October 2020.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Peppinck, Winfred 1946 births 2020 deaths High commissioners of Australia to Barbados High commissioners of Australia to Jamaica High commissioners of Australia to Trinidad and Tobago Dutch emigrants to Australia