Born in 1955 in Tauranga, New Zealand; Ian attended the Officer Cadet School Portsea in Australia and was commissioned into the New Zealand Army as an Infantry Officer. He served overseas in Rhodesia, Singapore, and Malaysia and held numerous training and command postings covering a twenty-year career. On retirement he completed a Business Management degree while serving as CEO and Executive Director for a number of national outdoor not-for-profit organisations.

Fr. Ian attended St Johns Theological College and Laidlaw College, and was ordained in 2009 in the Auckland Diocese of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Ian served the community on Waiheke Island before coming to Doha, Qatar in 2014 with his wife Carol. He has served as a NSM with the Church of Epiphany. In May 2016 Fr Ian was appointed General Manager of the Anglican Centre Qatar till April 2019.

Fr. Ian is married to Carol, a general practitioner, who worked for the Mobile Doctor Service in Hamad Medical Corporation. They have three married sons Daniel, Kenneth and Angus living in London, New Zealand, and Germany and two granddaughters and one grandson.

Fr. Ian took up the appointment of parish priest St Barnabas, Limassol and St Lazarus, Pissouri and Diocesan Discipleship advisor in Cyprus October 2020.