100 Notable alumni of
Australian National University
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Australian National University is 334th in the world, 7th in Oceania, and 6th in Australia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Australian National University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 2 individuals affiliated with Australian National University won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Physiology or Medicine.
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Richard Roxburgh
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actorfilm director
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Richard Roxburgh is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of a number of accolades across film, television, and theatre, including several AFI and AACTA Awards, Logie Awards, and Helpmann Awards.
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Ronny Chieng
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Legal Practice Course
- Occupations
- social workerlawyeractorcomedian
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Ronny Xin Yi Chieng is a Malaysian comedian and actor based in the United States. He is a senior correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, and he created and starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student. He has also appeared in films such as Crazy Rich Asians and the English version of Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow.
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Hannah Gadsby
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- comedianactor
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Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian, writer, author and actor. They began their career in Australia after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006. In 2018, their show Nanette on Netflix won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Peabody Award.
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Bob Hawke
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- politiciantrade unionistunion organizer
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Robert James Lee Hawke was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1969 to 1980 and president of the Labor Party national executive from 1973 to 1978.
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Nagita Slavina
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- actor
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Nagita Slavina Mariana Tengker is an Indonesian actress, presenter, singer and businesswoman of mixed Minahasan, Javanese and Minangkabau descent. Nagita was also the co-founder of RANS Entertainment company.
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Yoshihito, Prince Katsura
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- aristocrat
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Yoshihito, Prince Katsura was a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the second son of Takahito, Prince Mikasa and Yuriko, Princess Mikasa. He was a first cousin of Emperor Akihito. Originally known as Prince Yoshihito of Mikasa, he received the title Prince Katsura (Katsura-no-miya) and authorization to start a new branch of the Imperial Family on 1 January 1988 at age 39. He died of a heart attack on 8 June 2014, aged 66.
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Peter Garrett
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- human rights activistsingerpoliticianpeace activistenvironmentalist
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Peter Robert Garrett AM is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and former politician.
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Annastacia Palaszczuk
- Occupations
- solicitorpolitician
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Annastacia Palaszczuk is an Australian politician who served as the 39th premier of Queensland from 2015 to 2023. She held office as the leader of the Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2012 until her resignation, and has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (MLA) for the division of Inala since 2006. Palaszczuk is the fifth-most-tenured premier in Queensland state history and the first woman to win the premiership from opposition, she also presided over the first majority female cabinet in Australian state and federal history.
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William Lawrence Bragg
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- physicistchemistcrystallographeruniversity teacherNobel Prize winner
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Sir William Lawrence Bragg, known as Lawrence Bragg, was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint recipient (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915, "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"; an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.
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Rodolfo Llinás
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- neurologistphysicianneuroscientist
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Rodolfo Llinás Riascos is a Colombian neuroscientist. He is currently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. Llinás has published over 800 scientific articles.
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William Cheung
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- martial artist
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William Cheung or Cheung Cheuk-hing is a Hong Kong Wing Chun kung fu practitioner and the Grandmaster of his lineage, Traditional Wing Chun (TWC). He is also the head of the Global Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu Association (GTWCKFA), the sanctioning body of TWC. Cheung has received the Masters Award for lifetime achievement in Kung Fu from Martial Arts Australia.
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Syed Akbaruddin
- Occupations
- civil servant
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Syed Akbaruddin is a retired Indian diplomat from 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service and served as India's permanent representative at the United Nations at New York from January 2016 to April 2020. He had previously served as official spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs from January 2012 to April 2015 and was Indian representative at IAEA from 2006 to 2011. He is currently serving as the dean of Kautilya School of Public Policy.
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Tara Morice
- Occupations
- film directorfilm actoractor
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Tara Morice is an Australian actress, singer and dancer.
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Jim Chalmers
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Edward Chalmers is an Australian politician. He has been Treasurer of Australia in the Albanese government since May 2022. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a member of parliament for the division of Rankin since 2013.
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Brian Schmidt
- Occupations
- professorastronomeruniversity teacherphysicistastrophysicist
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Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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Jeff Kennett
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- soldierpoliticianadvertising person
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Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC is an Australian former politician who served as the 43rd Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999, Leader of the Victorian Liberal Party from 1982 to 1989 and from 1991 to 1999, and the Member for Burwood from 1976 to 1999. He is currently a media commentator.
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John Eccles
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- philosopherphysicianneurologistphysiologistprofessor
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Sir John Carew Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
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Marty Natalegawa
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
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Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa, is an Indonesian diplomat and was the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet. He served as Indonesia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 5 September 2007 until his latest appointment and has also served as the Indonesian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and as a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
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Katy Gallagher
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- social workertrade unionistpolitician
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Katherine Ruth Gallagher is an Australian politician who has been serving as the Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Minister for the Public Service and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Albanese Government since 2022 and since 2025 as Minister for Government Services. She also formerly served as the 6th Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2011 to 2014. She has been a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory since the 2019 federal election, as a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) having previously served in the Senate from 2015 to 2018.
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Michael Kirby
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- judgelegal counselorbarristersolicitor
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Michael Donald Kirby AC CMG is an Australian jurist and academic who is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009. He has remained active in retirement; in May 2013 he was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead an inquiry into human rights abuses in North Korea, which reported in February 2014.
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Va'aletoa Sualauvi II
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Afioga Tuimalealiʻifano Vaʻaletoʻa Eti Sualauvi II is a Samoan politician who is the current O le Ao o le Malo (head of state) of Samoa, in office since 2017.
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Jennifer Robinson
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Jennifer Robinson is an Australian human rights lawyer and barrister with Doughty Street Chambers in London.
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
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- sociologistauthoruniversity teacherhistoriananthropologist
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Dipesh Chakrabarty is an Indian historian and leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University of Chicago, and is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, named after Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity. He is the author of the seminal Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000).
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Sam Mostyn
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- company directorbusiness executive
- Biography
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Samantha Joy Mostyn, AC is an Australian businesswoman and advocate serving as the 28th governor-general of Australia since July 2024.
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Liew Chin Tong
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- politicianwriterresearcherstrategist
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Liew Chin Tong is a Malaysian politician and author who has served as the deputy minister of investment, trade and industry in the Unity Government administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz since April 2023, member of parliament (MP) for Iskandar Puteri since November 2022 and Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Perling since March 2022. He served as deputy minister of international trade and industry in the PH administration under Prime Minister Anwar and Minister Tengku Zafrul from December 2022 to April 2023, State Leader of the Opposition of Johor from April 2022 to his reappointment as a deputy minister in December 2022, the deputy minister of defence in the PH administration under former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad and former minister Mohamad Sabu from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020, senator from July 2018 to July 2021 and the MP for Kluang from May 2013 to May 2018 and Bukit Bendera from March 2008 to May 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH coalition. He has served as deputy secretary-general of DAP since March 2022 and state chairman of DAP of Johor. He was the political education director of DAP.
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Bettina Arndt
- Occupations
- journalistmen's rights movement
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Bettina Mary Arndt AM is an Australian writer and commentator who specialises in sex and gender issues. Starting as a sex therapist, she established her career in the 1970s publishing and broadcasting as well as writing several books. In the last two decades she has abandoned feminism and attracted controversy with her social commentary and her views on sexual abuse, domestic violence and men's rights advocacy.
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Mari Elka Pangestu
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Mari Elka Pangestu, who is currently serving as the Indonesian President's Special Advisor for International Trade and Multilateral Cooperation, appointed by President Prabowo Subianto on 21 October 2024. In early November 2024, she is appointed by President Prabowo Subianto as the Vice Chair of the National Economic Council of the Republic of Indonesia, serving with Mr. Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan as the Chairman. Mari is an Indonesian economist who served as managing director of Development Policy and Partnerships in the World Bank from 2020 to 2023. The President of the World Bank, David Malpass, announced her appointment on 9 January 2020 saying that she would be responsible for development policy and partnerships in her role in the bank. Previously she served as Minister of Trade in Indonesia from October 2004 to October 2011.
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Patricia Hewitt
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- politicianwriterpress secretaryadministrator
- Biography
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Dame Patricia Hope Hewitt is a British government adviser and former politician, who was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party, she had previously been the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2005.
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David Morrison
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- military officer
- Biography
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Lieutenant General David Lindsay Morrison AO is a retired senior officer of the Australian Army. He served as Chief of Army from June 2011 until his retirement in May 2015. He was named Australian of the Year for 2016.
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Martin Indyk
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- In 1977 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in international relations
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Martin Sean Indyk was an Australian-American diplomat and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the Middle East.
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Delfin Lorenzana
- Occupations
- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Delfin Negrillo Lorenzana, OLH, KGOR is a retired Philippine Army general who served as Chairman of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority from 2022 until September 2024. He previously served as Secretary of National Defense in the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2016 to 2022. He served in the Philippine Army from 1973 to 2004.
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Tam Yiu-chung
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- justice of the peacetrade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Tam Yiu-chung, GBM, JP is a pro-Beijing politician in Hong Kong. He is a former member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC), former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) and former chairman of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB).
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Barry O'Farrell
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- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Barry Robert O'Farrell AO is an Australian former politician who was Australia's High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan from February 2020 to 30 June 2023. O'Farrell was the 43rd Premier of New South Wales and Minister for Western Sydney from 2011 to 2014. He was the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from 2007 to 2014, and was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 2015, representing Northcott until 1999 and representing Ku-ring-gai on the Upper North Shore of Sydney from 1999 to 2015. He was President and Independent Board Chair of Diabetes Australia, Chair of the Wests Tigers Rugby League Football Club and CEO of Racing Australia Ltd until taking up his role in India.
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Andrew Barr
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- politician
- Biography
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Andrew James Barr is an Australian politician who has been serving as the 7th and current chief minister of the Australian Capital Territory since 2014 and the treasurer of the Australian Capital Territory since 2011. He has been the leader of the Australian Capital Territory branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since 2014 and a member (MLA) of the ACT Legislative Assembly since 2006.
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Stephen Larkham
- Occupations
- rugby union player
- Biography
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Stephen Larkham is a retired Australian rugby union professional player, currently in the role of head coach for Brumbies. He spent his career with the Brumbies in Super Rugby, for whom he played from the inception of the professional Super 12 in 1996 through 2007. He is best known for his long tenure with the Wallabies at international level, for whom he played 102 times. After initial selection at fullback from 1996 to 1997, Larkham was the first-choice Australian fly-half from 1997 to 2007, playing in the 1999, 2003, and 2007 Rugby World Cups.
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Gareth Evans
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- barristerpoliticiandiplomat
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Gareth John Evans, is an Australian politician, international policymaker, academic, and barrister. He represented the Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.
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Marcia Langton
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- anthropologistgeographeracademic
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Marcia Lynne Langton is an Aboriginal Australian writer and academic. As of 2022 she is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. Langton is known for her activism in the Indigenous rights arena.
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Andrew Tridgell
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- engineercomputer scientistprogrammer
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Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell OAM is an Australian computer programmer. He is the author of and a contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm.
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Rolf M. Zinkernagel
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- university teacherphysicianprofessorimmunologist
- Biography
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Rolf Martin Zinkernagel AC is a professor of experimental immunology at the University of Zurich. Along with Peter C. Doherty, he shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells.
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Kith Meng
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Kith Meng is the Chairman and CEO of Royal Group of Companies. Established in 1991, Cambodia’s strategic investment holding company, the Royal Group is recognized as the country’s most dynamic and diversified business conglomerate with interests in a wide range of industries.
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Thérèse Rein
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Thérèse Virginia Rein /təˈreɪz ˈreɪn/ is an Australian entrepreneur who is the founder of Ingeus, an international employment and business psychology services company.
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Don Brash
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Donald Thomas Brash is a former New Zealand politician who was Leader of the Opposition and leader of the New Zealand National Party from October 2003 to November 2006, and leader of the ACT New Zealand party for seven months from April to November 2011.
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Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistlawyer
- Biography
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Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum CF is a Fijian politician and a former cabinet minister. He was the Fijian Attorney-General and the Minister for Economy, Civil Service and Communications, and also served as the Minister responsible for Climate Change under the FijiFirst government. He is the third-highest polling candidate from the Fijian general elections of 2014, 2018 and 2022.
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Chong Chieng Jen
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Chong Chieng Jen, is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as Chairman of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) since February 2024, State Leader of the Opposition of Sarawak from June 2013 to November 2020 and again since March 2024, Member of Parliament (MP) for Stampin since May 2018 and Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Padungan since December 2021. He served as the Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020, MP for Bandar Kuching from March 2004 to May 2018 and MLA for Kota Sentosa from May 2006 to December 2021. He is a member, National Vice Chairman, State Chairman of Sarawak, Branch Chairman of Kuching and State Youth Advisor of Sarawak as well as Bandar Kuching of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) and Barisan Alternatif (BA) coalitions.
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Putri Zulkifli Hasan
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- politicianofficial
- Biography
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Putri Zulkifli Hasan is an Indonesian politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2024. She is the daughter of Zulkifli Hasan, the niece of Helmi Hasan, the sister of Zita Anjani, and the former daughter-in-law of Amien Rais.
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Zed Seselja
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Zdenko Matthew "Zed" Seselja is an Australian politician who was a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 2013 to 2022, representing the Liberal Party. He was the Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Morrison government from December 2020 to May 2022, and previously served as an assistant minister in the Morrison and Turnbull governments since 2016.
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Stephen Conroy
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephen Michael Conroy is an Australian former politician who was an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate from 1996 to 2016, representing the state of Victoria. He served as a minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments. He resigned from the Senate in September 2016. He has since worked as a lobbyist, political commentator and football administrator.
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Michael Cullen
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Sir Michael John Cullen KNZM was a New Zealand politician. He was a Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1981 to 2009, the Deputy Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1996 to 2008 and a senior minister in the Fifth Labour Government from 1999 to 2008, serving as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and Attorney-General.
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Clive Hamilton
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- writereconomistprofessor
- Biography
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Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual currently serving as Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government, and is the founder and former executive director of The Australia Institute. He regularly appears in the Australian media and contributes to public policy debates. Hamilton was granted the award of Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 2009 for "service to public debate and policy development, particularly in the fields of climate change, sustainability and societal trends".
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Elana Stone
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Elana Stone is an Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Her debut solo album, In the Garden of Wild Things, was released in 2005 on the Jazzgroove label. Its follow-up, Your Anniversary, was released in 2009, while her third and fourth albums were released independently in 2015 and 2024, respectively. She was also a member of the ARIA award–winning folk quartet All Our Exes Live in Texas, in which she provided vocals and played the accordion.
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Peta Murphy
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in psychology
- Occupations
- politiciansolicitorlawyer
- Biography
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Peta Jan Murphy was an Australian politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 2019 until her death in 2023, representing the Victorian seat of Dunkley for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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Susan Ryan
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianeducator
- Biography
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Susan Maree Ryan was an Australian politician and public servant. She was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and held ministerial office in the Hawke government as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women (1983–1988), Minister for Education and Youth Affairs (1983–1984), Minister for Education (1984–1987) and Special Minister of State (1987–1988). She was the first woman from the ALP to serve in cabinet and was notably involved in the creation of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and the Affirmative Action (Equal Opportunities in Employment) Act 1986. Ryan served as a senator for the Australian Capital Territory from 1975 to 1987. After leaving politics she served as the Age Discrimination Commissioner from 2011 to 2016, within the Australian Human Rights Commission.
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Yvette D'Ath
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yvette Maree D'Ath is an Australian politician. She served as the Labor member for Redcliffe in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2014 until her retirement in 2024. D'Ath served as Attorney-General and Minister for the Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence from 2023 to 2024. Prior to this she held an extensive list of various ministerial and other governmental positions, including Minister for Justice and Leader of the House. She was previously a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the outer Brisbane seat of Petrie from 2007 until her defeat at the 2013 Australian federal election.
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John H Coates
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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John Henry Coates FRS was an Australian mathematician who was the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2012.
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Concetta Fierravanti-Wells
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Concetta Anna Fierravanti-Wells is an Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 2005 to 2022, representing the Liberal Party. She served as Minister for International Development and the Pacific in the Turnbull government from 2016 to 2018. She grew up in Port Kembla, New South Wales, and, prior to entering politics, worked as a lawyer and policy adviser.
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Anika Wells
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anika Shay Wells is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2019 federal election. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and represents the Division of Lilley in Queensland. Wells is currently the Minister for Aged Care and Minister for Sport.
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Holly Williams
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Holly Williams is an Australian foreign correspondent and war correspondent who has worked for CBS since 2012. Prior to that, she worked for BBC News, CNN, and Sky News.
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Shahnon Ahmad
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Shahnon bin Ahmad was a Malaysian writer, a National Laureate, and a Member of Parliament. He was awarded with the National Literary Award in 1982. He was also a Professor Emeritus at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.
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Colin Groves
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- anthropologistzoologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Colin Peter Groves was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist. Groves was Professor of Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
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Swarnim Wagle
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Dr. Swarnim Wagle is a prominent South Asian economist and a member of Nepal's Federal Parliament since April 2023, having been elected in a by-election from the seat of Tanahun 1 vacated when the incumbent became the third President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. He currently serves as the vice-chair of the Rastriya Swatantra Party.
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Craig Emerson
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Craig Anthony Emerson is an Australian economist and former politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he served as the Australian House of Representatives Member for the Division of Rankin in Queensland from 1998 until 2013. Emerson also served as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research and Minister for Competition Policy, Small Business and Consumer Affairs in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.
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Butet Manurung
- Occupations
- anthropologist
- Biography
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Butet Manurung or Saur Marlina Manurung is a pioneer for alternative education for indigenous people in isolated and remote areas in Indonesia. Like other young Batak girls, she was called "Butet". Therefore, she is well known as Butet Manurung.
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Gai Brodtmann
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Gai Marie Brodtmann is an Australian former politician, who served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Canberra representing the Australian Labor Party from 2010 until 2019. A career public servant, diplomat and later small business owner, she succeeded Labor MP Annette Ellis, who retired from politics at the 2010 federal election. Like Ellis, Brodtmann was aligned with the Right faction. Appointed Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence following the 2013 Election, Brodtmann was the Shadow Assistant Minister for Cyber Security and Defence in the Outer Shadow Cabinet after the 2016 election. As at 2021, Gai is a member of the think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute council, which is funded by the Australian Department of Defence along with overseas governments, and defence and technology companies.
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Catherine King
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Catherine Fiona King is an Australian politician serving as the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government since 2022 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ballarat since 2001. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and briefly served as a minister in the Gillard and Rudd governments in 2013. She served as Shadow Minister of Health from 2013 to 2019 and as Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development from 2019 to 2022.
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Feleti Teo
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Feleti Penitala Teo OBE MP is a Tuvaluan politician and lawyer who is serving as the 14th prime minister of Tuvalu since 2024. He was elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu in the 2024 Tuvaluan general election, with his previous role being the executive director of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).
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Stephen Gageler
- Occupations
- judgebarrister
- Biography
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Stephen John Gageler AC is an Australian judge and former barrister. He has been a Justice of the High Court of Australia since 2012 and was appointed Chief Justice of Australia in 2023. He previously served as Solicitor-General of Australia from 2008 to 2012. He is a graduate of the Australian National University and Harvard Law School and was a barrister in private practice before his appointment as solicitor-general.
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Simon Overland
- Occupations
- police officermanagerAustralian rules football player
- Biography
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Simon James Overland APM is the former Chief Executive Officer at the City of Whittlesea and a former Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police in Australia. He previously worked with the Australian Federal Police and then with Victoria Police focusing on Melbourne's gangland wars. On 2 March 2009 he was named by the Premier, John Brumby, as Victoria Police Chief Commissioner. He resigned from this position on 16 June 2011 after intense public pressure from critics who questioned his performance. In July 2011, he was appointed the chair of the Board of Management of the Tasmania University Union and was responsible for overseeing the direction of the student union.
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Peter Khalil
- Occupations
- politiciantennis player
- Biography
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Peter Khalil is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served in the House of Representatives since the 2016 federal election, representing the Victorian seat of Wills.
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Jane Halton
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Sarah Jane "Jane" Halton AO PSM is a former senior Australian public servant, current global health leader and former casino board member. She was the head of the Department of Health between January 2002 and June 2014, and the head of the Department of Finance from 2014 to 2016. She has held senior board roles with ANZ Bank, Clayton Utz, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and Crown Casino. She was the Independent Chair of COTA Australia (Council on the Ageing) beginning December 2017. In 2020, she was appointed to the Morrison government's National COVID Commission.
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Rebecca Miano
- Occupations
- lawyerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Rebecca Miano is a Kenyan lawyer and a continental business leader, currently serving as Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife. She previously served as the Cabinet Secretary for Investments, Trade & Industry from October 2023 to July 2024. She is a former Cabinet Secretary for East African Community, the ASALs and Regional Development.Before joining Cabinet, she was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of KenGen Plc., the largest producer of electricity in the East African region from November 2017. She was confirmed on 1 November 2017, having served in acting capacity since August 2017.
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Anna Frebel
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- astronomeruniversity teacherastrophysicist
- Biography
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Anna Frebel is a German astronomer and author working on discovering the oldest stars in the universe.
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Warren Snowdon
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- politician
- Biography
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Warren Edward Snowdon is an Australian former politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from July 1987 to March 1996, and again from October 1998 until May 2022. Initially representing the Division of Northern Territory, and later the Division of Lingiari, his constituents consisted of all the residents of the Northern Territory located outside Darwin, as well as Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean. He was the last sitting MP who was first elected in the 1980s, and the last who served in Old Parliament House.
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Andrew Bragg
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- accountantpolitician
- Biography
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Andrew James Bragg is an Australian politician who was elected as a Senator for New South Wales at the 2019 federal election. He is a member of the Liberal Party. A member of several committees related to finance and technology, Bragg advocates changes to the Australian retirement system and supports the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart.
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Megan Davis
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Megan Jane Davis AC FAHA FASSA FAAL is a Scientia Professor, international human rights lawyer and constitutional law expert. She is currently the Harvard University Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australia Studies and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.
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Mike Nahan
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Michael Dennis Nahan is an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Western Australian Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition from the 2017 state election until his resignation in June 2019. He served as Treasurer of Western Australia under the Barnett ministry from March 2014 until the government's election defeat in March 2017. Nahan was also the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Riverton from 2008 until 2021, when he was succeeded by Labor's Jags Krishnan.
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Ross Garnaut
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- diplomateconomist
- Biography
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Ross Gregory Garnaut AC is an Australian economist, currently serving as a vice-chancellor's fellow and professorial fellow of economics at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of numerous publications in scholarly journals on international economics, public finance and economic development, particularly in relation to East Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
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Michael A. Mcrobbie
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Michael Alexander McRobbie AO is an Australian–American computer scientist and university administrator. He served as the 18th president of Indiana University from 2007 to 2021. Upon stepping down from the IU presidency, McRobbie was replaced by Pamela Whitten, who became the 19th president of Indiana University on July 1, 2021. On July 1, 2021, he assumed the titles of university chancellor, president emeritus and university professor. He is the third person to serve as university chancellor in the university's more than 200-year-old history.
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John Quiggin
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- economist
- Biography
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John Quiggin is an Australian economist, a professor at the University of Queensland. He was formerly an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Federation Fellow and a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government.
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Muhammad Chatib Basri
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Studied in 1996
- In 2001 graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianfinance ministercommissionerresearchereconomist
- Biography
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Muhammad Chatib "Dede" Basri is an Indonesian economist who served as Minister of Finance in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet from 21 May 2013 to 20 October 2014 during the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Before he was appointed Minister of Finance he was the head of the Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board (Badan Kordinasi Penanaman Modal, or BKPM).
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Martin Parkinson
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Master of Economics
- Occupations
- civil servanteconomist
- Biography
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Martin Lee Parkinson AC PSM is a senior Australian public servant. He was Secretary of the Department of the Treasury between March 2011 and December 2014. On 3 December 2015 it was announced that he would return to the public service as Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. He retired from the position on 30 August 2019 and was replaced by Phil Gaetjens, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Parkinson has served as the Chancellor of Macquarie University since 2019.
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Elizabeth Lee
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- university teacherpoliticianprofessional fitness coachlawyer
- Biography
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Elizabeth Lee is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the Liberal Party and has served in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since 2016, representing the electorate of Kurrajong. Before entering the ACT Legislative Assembly, Lee worked as a lawyer, before becoming a lecturer at the Australian National University and University of Canberra.
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Nick Minchin
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Nicholas Hugh Minchin AO is an Australian former politician and former Australian Consul-General in New York, USA. He previously served as a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing South Australia from July 1993 to June 2011, and a former cabinet minister in the Howard government.
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David Foster
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- chemistnovelistpoet
- Biography
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David Manning Foster is an Australian novelist and scientist. He has written a range of satires on the theme of the decline of Western civilization and produced short stories, poetry, essays, and several radio plays.
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Peter Gavin Hall
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- statisticianuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Peter Gavin Hall AO FAA FRS was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical statisticians in the history of the field. The School of Mathematics and Statistics Building at The University of Melbourne was renamed the Peter Hall building in his honour on 9 December 2016.
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Kusmayanto Kadiman
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Kusmayanto Kadiman is an Indonesian engineer and politician who served as State Minister for Research and Technology in the United Indonesia Cabinet between 2004 and 2009.
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Nick Warner
- Occupations
- intelligence officer
- Biography
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Nicholas Peter Warner, AO, PSM is an Australian diplomat, intelligence official, public servant, and the Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence since 20 December 2018.
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Ben Morton
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- bus driverpolitician
- Biography
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Ben Morton is an Australian former politician. He represented the Australian House of Representatives seat of Tangney for the Liberal Party from 2 July 2016 until he lost the seat at the 2022 Australian federal election. Morton served as Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 2019 to 2020, Assistant Minister to the Minister for the Public Service and Assistant Minister for Electoral Matters from 2020 to 2021, and Minister for the Public Service and Special Minister of State from 2021 to 2022.
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Daniel Mulino
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistcivil servant
- Biography
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Daniel Mulino is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Eastern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2018. In the 2019 federal election he was elected as the inaugural Member for the Division of Fraser.
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Teuea Toatu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Teuea Toatu is an I-Kiribati politician who is the current vice president and minister for Finance & Economic Development in the Cabinet of Kiribati. He is 1 of 3 Members of the House of Assembly representing the constituency of Abaiang. He was appointed vice-president on 19 June 2019. He graduated with a BA in accounting and economics form the University of the South Pacific in 1980, and completed a certificate in computing at the University of East Anglia in 1984. He subsequently completed his MSc at the University of Strathclyde and his PhD at the Australian National University.
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Jillian Banfield
- Occupations
- biochemistmicrobiologistbotanistgeologistgeomicrobiologist
- Biography
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Jillian Fiona Banfield FRS FAA is professor at the University of California, Berkeley with appointments in the Earth Science, Ecosystem Science and Materials Science and Engineering departments. She is the director of microbiology the Innovative Genomics Institute, is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has a position at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Some of her most noted work includes publications on the structure and functioning of microbial communities and the nature, properties and reactivity (especially crystal growth) of nanomaterials.
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Greg Moriarty
- Enrolled in Australian National University
- Graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomatcivil servant
- Biography
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Gregory Laurence Moriarty, AO is a senior Australian public servant and diplomat, and the current Secretary of the Department of Defence since 4 September 2017. He was previously the Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Moriarty has been Australian Ambassador to Iran from 2005 to 2008, Australian Ambassador to Indonesia from 2010 to 2014, the inaugural Commonwealth Counter-Terrorism Coordinator from 2015 to 2016, and the International and National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister.
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Ray Griggs
- Biography
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Vice Admiral Raymond James Griggs, AO, CSC is a former Australian senior public servant and a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve. He served as Chief of Navy from June 2011 to June 2014, before being appointed Vice Chief of the Defence Force until his transfer to the reserve in July 2018.
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Jon Stanhope
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jonathan Donald Stanhope AO is a former Australian politician who was Labor Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2001 to 2011. Stanhope represented the Ginninderra electorate in the ACT Legislative Assembly from 1998 until 2011. He is the only ACT Chief Minister to have governed with a majority in the ACT Assembly. From 2012 to 2014 Stanhope was Administrator of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, which consists of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
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Shane Rattenbury
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Shane Stephen Rattenbury is an Australian politician who currently serves as the Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and a member of the multi-member district unicameral Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Molonglo from 2008 to 2016 and the electorate of Kurrajong since 2016 for the ACT Greens. He was previously the Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly, and was the first Speaker in any parliament in the world representing a Green political party.
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Harry Jenkins
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Alfred "Harry" Jenkins, AO is an Australian former politician who served as the 26th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2008 to 2011. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Scullin from 1986 until his resignation in 2013.
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Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury is a former Bangladesh Advisor of Foreign Affairs (2007-2009), a position he held after a long career in diplomacy and the Civil Service, starting in Pakistan in 1969, thereafter transferring to Bangladesh after the nation gained independence in 1971.
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Abass Bundu
- Occupations
- diplomatwriter
- Biography
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Abass Chernor Bundu is a Sierra Leonean politician, diplomat, and the current Speaker of the Sierra Leone House of Parliament, in office since April 25, 2018. Bundu was elected speaker by receiving 70 votes in Parliament. The main opposition the All People's Congress, which won the most seats in Parliament, boycotted the election process in protest and did not nominate a candidate for speaker. Bundu is a veteran politician, and a very close ally and personal friend of Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio.
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Geremie Barmé
- Occupations
- historianlinguistsinologist
- Biography
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Geremie R. Barmé is an Australian sinologist and film-maker on modern and traditional China. He was formerly Director, Australian Centre on China in the World and Chair Professor of Chinese History at Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra.
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Chris Crewther
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Christopher John Crewther is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2019 before being elected to the Victorian State Parliament in 2022, representing the division of Mornington.
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Alistair Coe
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alistair Bruce Coe is an Australian politician and a former leader of the Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). He was a member of the ACT Legislative Assembly from 2008 to 2021, representing the Ginninderra electorate from 2008 to 2016 and the Yerrabi electorate from 2016 to 2021. As Opposition Leader Coe led the Liberal Party to defeat at the 2020 election. He chose not to re-contest the party's leadership position, and resigned from the Assembly in 2021.
