Ian mcintosh biography
- Ian McIntosh (24 September 1938 – 5 April 2023) was a Zimbabwean–South African rugby union coach.
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Ian McIntosh
Not to be confused with Ian McIntosh (Royal Navy officer).
Rugby player
Ian McIntosh (24 September 1938 – 5 April 2023)[1] was a Zimbabwean–South African rugby union coach. He served as head coach for the Springboks during 1993 and 1994.
McIntosh grew up near Bulawayo in Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
McIntosh never played for his country (Rhodesian national rugby union team) as a player, but became acquainted with coaching in the 1970s under the tutelage of the then Welsh Rugby Union coaching director Ray Williams.
When his coaching career ended, McIntosh was a Springbok selector for 13 years and he also served as a mentor for numerous South African national coaches in the senior and junior ranks. He also stayed in touch with the game through his involvement with the South African Rugby Legends Association (SARLA).
In 2013 Ian McIntosh became the first South African and the first Durban North resident to win the IRB’s Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service, recognising his achievement in changing the face of rugb
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Ian McIntosh (Royal Navy officer)
Vice AdmiralSir Ian Stewart McIntoshKBE, CB, DSO, DSC (11 October 1919 – 31 July 2003) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Operational Requirements).
Background
McIntosh was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1919.[1] He was educated at Geelong Grammar School.[1]
Naval career
McIntosh joined the Royal Navy in 1938 and served in World War II.[2] By the end of 1940 he had been promoted to sub-lieutenant and volunteered for service in submarines.[3]
In March 1941 he joined the passenger ship Britannia at Liverpool, bound for a posting with the First Submarine Flotilla based in Alexandria, Egypt. On the morning of 25 March Britannia was sunk by gunfire from the German raider Thor approximately 700 miles west of Freetown, Sierra Leone. McIntosh took command of Lifeboat No. 7 with 82 survivors on board - 26 more than the boat was rated for - and successfully navigated 1,500 miles in 23 days to neutral Brazil. For this remarkable feat he was awa
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Ian McIntosh
Biography
Having retired from his role as chief executive of Netherlands-based Louis Dreyfus Co. (LDC) Holdings BV in September 2020, Ian McIntosh provides ongoing pro bono consultancy to TNC’s global agriculture leadership.
Based on his experiences at the helm of one of world’s ‘Big Four’ commodity traders, McIntosh’s insights contribute in particular to the Conservancy’s efforts to reduce deforestation, habitat conversion and land degradation across global food systems, as well as informing its work to expand the role played by innovative financial mechanisms in driving progress against these and other pressing conservation priorities.
A British national, McIntosh led LDC as group CEO from September 2018 through October 2020, culminating a 34-year career in global soft commodity markets. McIntosh joined the Louis Dreyfus Group in 1986 as a grains trader in London. Having led the UK grains desk from 1989 to 1991, he moved to Paris to trade global feed grains, and then to Melbourne to lead LDC’s Australasian grains and oilseeds activities. Returning to Lond
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