Alec McLean
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| Full name | Alexander Robert McLean | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 October 1950 Wellington, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alexander Robert McLean QSO (born 18 October 1950) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic bronze medal.
Rowing career
McLean was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1950. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal he crewed the eight along with Tony Hurt, Ivan Sutherland, Trevor Coker, Peter Dignan, Lindsay Wilson, Athol Earl and Dave Rodger and Simon Dickie (cox).[1]
He was a member of New Zealand rowing eight between 1974 and 1976. He won a bronze medal at the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was again a bronze medallist at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England.[2]
Career as a public servant
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A long-serving parliamentary private secretary to prime ministers and ministers in the New Zealand Government until November 2008, McLean then served as deputy official secretary to the Governor-General of New Zealand from 2009 to 2012. From March 2012 McLean returned to parliament as private secretary to David Shearer, Leader of the Opposition.
From October 2014 to May 2015 he worked as property manager at Caniwi Capital Partners, in Wellington.
In June 2015 he again returned to parliament as executive assistant to Leader of the Opposition, David Shearer, MP for Mount Albert. After Shearer's departure from Parliament in December 2016 to take up a position with the United Nations, McLean became executive assistant to the new Mt Roskill MP, Michael Wood, Revenue spokesperson for the Labour opposition. In October 2017, Mclean took up the interim position as senior private secretary to Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance in the new Labour-led Government. McLean retired in December 2017.
Honours and awards
McLean was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services in the New Zealand 2010 New Year Honours.[3] He was also awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
References
- ^ "Biography". New Zealand Olympic Committee.
- ^ "(M8+) Men's Eight – Final". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- ^ "New Year honours list 2010". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
External links
- Official New Zealand Olympic Committee[permanent dead link]
- Alex MCLEAN at World Rowing
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alec McLean". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- 1950 births
- New Zealand male rowers
- Olympic rowers of New Zealand
- Olympic bronze medalists for New Zealand
- Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Companions of the Queen's Service Order
- World Rowing Championships medalists for New Zealand
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics