Ian McKinnon

Ian McKinnon CNZM QSO JP
23rd Deputy Mayor of Wellington City
In office 2007 - 2013
Preceded by	Alick Shaw
Succeeded by	Justin Lester
Personal details
Nationality	New Zealander
Relatives	Don McKinnon
Occupation	Headmaster, education consultant, Pro-Chancellor

Ian Duncan McKinnon CNZM QSO JP is a New Zealand educator and local politician, and is a former Deputy Mayor of Wellington.

McKinnon was educated at Nelson College from 1957 to 1961. He went on to Victoria University of Wellington, where he graduated with a BCom, and The University of Auckland, where he was awarded a DipEd.

McKinnon began his teaching career at King's College, Auckland. He has been Headmaster of a number of prominent private schools in New Zealand, including Wanganui Collegiate School (1980–88), and Scots College (1992–2002). He was also Lower Master at Eton College in the UK from 1988.

At Wanganui Collegiate, he steered the school through a period of sustained pupil growth, despite the fall-off of its traditional catchment area – the education of central North Island farmer's sons, in the wake of the removal of state produce subsidies.

Since 2002, McKinnon has practised as an education consultant. He was appointed Chairman of the Correspondence School and until its merger with Victoria University of Wellington was Chairman of the Council of the Wellington College of Education.

He is on the University Council of Victoria University of Wellington, after being Chancellor for a number of years.

McKinnon is a former Deputy Mayor of Wellington City Council.

He retired from the Wellington City Council at the 2013 local government elections, and was succeeded by Justin Lester as Deputy Mayor of Wellington.

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