Denis McLean

Denis Bazeley Gordon McLean CMG (18 August 1930 – 30 March 2011) was a New Zealand diplomat, academic, author and civil servant.

McLean attended Nelson College from 1944 to 1948,[1] earned a Master of Science with first-class honours in geology at Victoria University College, and won a Senior Scholarship in 1953 and a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford in 1954.

[4] After he retired from government service in 1995, McLean was appointed the Joan and James Warburg Chair of International Relations at Simmons College in Boston.

McLean wrote three books: The Long Pathway, Te Araroa (1986), about walking the east coast of the North Island with his family; The Prickly Pair (2003), on Australia-New Zealand relations; and Howard Kippenberger: Dauntless Spirit (2008), a biography of the military commander Sir Howard Kippenberger.

The common theme underlying the apparent diversity of McLean's writing was a fascination with New Zealand's evolving national identity.