| Maxine McClean | |
| Office: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Primeminister: | David Thompson Freundel Stuart |
| Term Start: | January 2008 |
| Term End: | May 2018[1] |
| Predecessor: | Christopher Sinckler |
| Successor: | Jerome Walcott |
| Nationality: | Barbadian |
| Party: | Democratic Labour Party |
| Alma Mater: | University of the West Indies Ohio University Louisiana State University |
Maxine Pamela Ometa McClean is a Barbadian politician who served as her country's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2018.
McClean is a graduate of the University of the West Indies. While she was there she received second class honors in Public Administration. McClean was also a lecturer in the Department of Management Studies. In 1999, she established her own consulting firm.[2]
A few years later, in January 2008, Maxine was invited to join the Barbados Cabinet as a minister in the Prime Minister's office. Eleven months after this, she was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. McClean opened a new embassy in Brazil and appointed Yvette Goddard as the first ambassador of Barbados to Brazil in 2009.[3] In the same year she addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations.[4] In 2010 McClean opened Barbados' mission to Beijing, China, where Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford served as the first resident Ambassador to that country.[5]