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2023-24 年度國際扶輪社長

葛登．麥金納利 R. Gordon R. McInally 簡介

R. Gordon R. McInally
2023-24 Rotary International President
Rotary Club of South Queensferry

West Lothian, Scotland

Gordon R. McInally is president-elect of Rotary International. He was educated at the Roy-
al High School in Edinburgh and at the University of Dundee, where he earned his gradu-
ate degree in dental surgery. He operated his own dental practice in Edinburgh until 2016.
Gordon was chair of the East of Scotland branch of the British Paedodontic Society and
has held various academic positions. He has also served as a presbytery elder, chair of the
Queensferry parish congregational board, and commissioner to the general assembly of
the Church of Scotland.

Gordon joined Rotary in 1984 at age 26. A member of the Rotary Club of South Queens-
ferry, he has served as president and vice president of Rotary International in Great Britain
and Ireland (RIBI). He has also served RI as a director and on several committees, including
as an adviser to the 2022 Houston Convention Committee and chair of the Operations
Review Committee.

Gordon says he looks forward to working with members to build new Rotary clubs and
groups. “My vision is that Rotary should exist everywhere in a style to suit everyone who has
the desire to be part of us and to help us do good in the world,” he says.

Gordon is a patron of the UK-based nonprofit Hope and Homes for Children and led a
partnership between that organization and RIBI to support children in Rwanda who had
been orphaned in the genocide there. He is a patron of Trade-Aid, an initiative of the
Rotary Club of Grantham Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, that provides sustainable hu-
manitarian aid to individuals, families, and businesses in the developing world. He is also an
ambassador for Bipolar UK, a national mental health organization.

In his free time, Gordon enjoys rugby, good food and wine, and stick dressing, the tradi-
tional Scottish craft of making walking sticks.

Gordon describes The Rotary Foundation as “the fuel that provides the energy to do Ro-
tary service.” He and his spouse, Heather, also a Rotarian, are Paul Harris Fellows, Major
Donors, and Benefactors of The Rotary Foundation. They are also members of the Bequest
Society.

Gordon wishes to dedicate his presidency to making the world a better place for his
granddaughters, Ivy and Florence, to live and thrive.

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