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	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.