Malcolm McKinnon
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Malcolm McKinnon (b. 1950) is a New Zealand historian and international relations expert. He is currently a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, and edited the New Zealand Historical Atlas, which received the 1998 Montana Book Awards Reader's Choice Award.
McKinnon is also the author of Independence and Foreign Policy: New Zealand in the world since 1935, and the official history of the New Zealand Treasury department.
McKinnon is also president of the Professional Historians Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa, and a vice president of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs and on the editorial committee of its journal, New Zealand International Review.
McKinnon was educated at Nelson College, Victoria University of Wellington, and Balliol College, Oxford and has held Harkness and Fulbright Scholarships in the United States and a Japan Foundation fellowship at Kyushu University, Fukuoka.
McKinnon is the younger brother of Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon, and twin brother of New Zealand Defence Secretary John McKinnon. McKinnon's father was Chief of General Staff, Major General Walter McKinnon.
