Don Elder
{{Short description|New Zealand engineer and businessman}}
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Dr. Donald McGillivray Elder (born November 1958) is a New Zealand engineer and businessman. He was the CEO of the New Zealand state-owned coal miner Solid Energy for more than a decade.
Biography
Don Elder was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in November 1958.{{cite web |title=ASB Bank Limited Auckland |url=https://uk1001.co.uk/company/FC018272/ASB-BANK-LIMITED |publisher=Check Company |access-date=19 September 2022}} He attended high school at Christ's College and graduated from the University of Canterbury with a degree in engineering. He then gained a Rhodes Scholarship,{{Cite web |url=http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/rhodes_scholars/pdf/rhodes_scholars.pdf |title=New Zealand Rhodes Scholars |access-date=21 December 2007 |archive-date=15 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015071732/http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/rhodes_scholars/pdf/rhodes_scholars.pdf |url-status=dead }} to go to Oxford University. Later, he moved back to New Zealand and became CEO of Solid Energy.
Elder resigned as CEO of Solid Energy on 4 February 2013, having served as the CEO for 12 years since May 2000.{{cite news |last1=Hutching |first1=Chris |title=Don Elder resigns from Solid Energy |url=http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/elder-resigns-solid-energy-ch-135347 |access-date=19 September 2022 |work=National Business Review |date=4 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205152509/http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/elder-resigns-solid-energy-ch-135347 |archive-date=5 February 2013}}{{cite news |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/8700745/Don-Elders-grandiose-Solid-Energy-plans |title= Don Elder's grandiose Solid Energy plans |work=Fairfax |date=22 May 2015}}
Elder currently lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.{{cite news |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8411392/Ex-Solid-Energy-boss-asks-media-to-leave |title= Ex-Solid Energy boss asks media to leave |work= Fairfax |date= 12 March 2013}}
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Category:Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
Category:New Zealand Rhodes Scholars
Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch
Category:20th-century New Zealand businesspeople
Category:20th-century New Zealand engineers