Ian McLean (politician)

Ian McLean (born 1934) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

He represented the Tarawera electorate from the 1978 general election to 1990, when he retired and was replaced by Max Bradford.

He graduated from Auckland University with a maths degree in 1956.,^[1] and returned to the eastern Bay of Plenty to farm family beef, sheep and dairy farms before joining the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture as an economist.

He led an FAO/UNDP project in Tanzania. Elected to the NZ Parliament he was chair of the Public Expenditure Committee. On retiring as an MP, he chaired the NZ Earthquake Commission and was one of the first in the world to use Dynamic Financial Analysis commercially. He later advised on the formation of earthquake insurance schemes in Turkey and Romania under the World Bank. He led the revival of the LakesWater Quality Society which initiated restoration of the Rotorua lakes.^[2] He is chair of the Mahi Tahi Akoranga Trust which works with Maori inmates in prison.^[3]

He led the Review of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Response to the 22 February Christchurch Earthquake^[4][5]

References

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.