About Winfred Peppinck
Lived 1946 – 2020 (aged 74). Winfred Peppinck was an Australian diplomat.
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 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.
From 2004 he served as an advisor to Bahrain prime minister Shaikh Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa. After the start of the 2011 Bahraini uprising, 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.
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Winfred Peppinck was born on 2 January 1946 in The Hague.
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