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List Of University Of New South Wales Alumni
This is a list of University of New South Wales alumni. Academia *Toby Walsh, computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert * Dijana Alić, architect and academic * Michael Barber, mathematician, physicist and Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University from 2008 until 2014 (Mathematics) * Gernot Heiser, John Lions chair and computer scientist *Sharon Beder, arts academic (Engineering) *Glyn Davis , current Vice-Chancellor of University of Melbourne (Political science) *John Deeble, Architect of Medicare Australia *Rosalyn Diprose, philosopher and UNSW academic (Philosophy) *Ross Fitzgerald , academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator (PhD Politics) *Michael Fullilove, public and international policy academic, executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (Arts/Law) *David Gonski , prominent businessman, Chancellor of UNSW Sydney (Commerce/LLB) *Atiqul Islam, accountant and current Vice-chancellor of North South University, Bangl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive universities. Established in 1949, UNSW is a research university, ranked 44th in the world in the 2021 ''QS World University Rankings'' and 67th in the world in the 2021 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings''. It is one of the members of Universitas 21, a global network of research universities. It has international exchange and research partnerships with over 200 universities around the world. According to the 2021 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UNSW is ranked top 20 in the world for Law, Accounting and Finance, and 1st in Australia for Mathematics, Engineering and Technology. UNSW is also one of the leading Australian universities in Medicine, where the median ATAR (Australian university entrance examination re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNSW Sydney
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive universities. Established in 1949, UNSW is a research university, ranked 44th in the world in the 2021 ''QS World University Rankings'' and 67th in the world in the 2021 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings''. It is one of the members of Universitas 21, a global network of research universities. It has international exchange and research partnerships with over 200 universities around the world. According to the 2021 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UNSW is ranked top 20 in the world for Law, Accounting and Finance, and 1st in Australia for Mathematics, Engineering and Technology. UNSW is also one of the leading Australian universities in Medicine, where the median ATAR (Australian university entrance examination re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Bouris
Mark Leigh Bouris is an Australian businessman who is best known as the founder and chairman of 'Wizard Home Loans', Australia's second largest non-bank mortgage lender behind Aussie Home Loans. He is now the chairman of Yellow Brick Road, a business which he founded in 2007. Bouris was the host of ''The Celebrity Apprentice Australia'' from 2011 to 2015. He has also hosted ''The Apprentice Australia'' and ''The Mentor'', and has written numerous books and appeared on various podcasts. Background Mark Bouris was born in Punchbowl, New South Wales, to a Greek father of the Greek Orthodox faith and an Irish mother of the Roman Catholic faith. and lived in Punchbowl until the age of 18. Bouris attended the University of New South Wales. Business career Wizard Home Loans was founded by Bouris in 1996 and was sold to GE Money in 2004 for $500 million. Subsequently, Wizard was sold by GE to competitor, Aussie Home Loans, for a fraction of the $500 million during the midst of the G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Bart
Cheryl Sarah Bart Order of Australia, AO is an Australian lawyer and company director. She is also the first Australian female and the 31st person worldwide to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam. Early life and education Bart was educated at Moriah College in Sydney and graduated from the University of New South Wales with degrees in Commerce and Law. Career She began her career as a banking and finance lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques. Bart has been the Chairman of the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, ANZ Trustees Limited, the South Australian Film Corporation, the Adelaide Film Festival, and the South Australian Environmental Protection Authority. She is also serves as a non-executive director on numerous company boards including: Spark Infrastructure Limited, ETSA Utitilies, Shaw of Australia, Audio pixels Limited, and the Buckland Foundation. On 3 June 2010, she commenced a five-year term on the Board of the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Attard
Monica Ann Attard OAM (born 12 December 1958) is an Australian journalist and academic. Early life Attard was born to Maltese parents in Sydney, where she was educated at Bethlehem College, Ashfield and Santa Sabina College.''Who's Who in Australia'', entry on Monica Attard She attended the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, which she attained in 2002. Career Attard's career in journalism began at Channel Seven, where she was a reporter from 1977 to 1981. From 1981 to 1982, she worked for 2WS Radio and at 2GB Radio from 1982 to 1983. In 1983, Attard moved to the ABC, where she has remained since. Attard worked on ABC Radio News from 1983 to 1985 and reporter on ABC Radio programs ''The World Today'' and ''PM'' from 1985 to 1988. She was a researcher for TV programs ''Four Corners'' from 1988 to 1999 and a reporter for ''Lateline'' from 1989 to 1990. Attard was Russian Correspon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FAI Insurance
HIH Insurance was Australia's second-largest insurance company before it was placed into provisional liquidation on 15 March 2001. The demise of HIH is considered to be the largest corporate collapse in Australia's history, with liquidators estimating that HIH's losses totalled up to A$5.3 billion. Investigations into the cause of the collapse have led to conviction and imprisonment of a handful of members of HIH management on various charges relating to fraud. History In 1968, Ray Williams and Michael Payne formed "M W Payne Underwriting Agency Pty Ltd", which was acquired in 1971 by British company CE Heath PLC. Ray Williams was appointed to the board of CE Heath in 1980. The business operations of CE Heath were subsequently transferred to "CE Heath International Holdings Ltd" in 1989 with CE Heath PLC retaining 90% ownership of CE Heath International Holdings. In 1992, CE Heath International Holdings floated on the Australian Stock Exchange. In 1995, CE Heath International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Adler
Rodney Stephen Adler (born 19 August 1959) is an Australian whose family founded the FAI Insurances group, of which he became chief executive in 1989, and which was at one stage Australia's third largest general insurer. Adler became a director of HIH Insurance after the acquisition of that company, and resigned in January 2001, two months before HIH collapsed. He was jailed in 2005 for his conduct related to the collapse of HIH, where Adler obtained 2 million from HIH by false or misleading statements and being dishonest as a director. Early life Adler is the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrant Larry Adler, who founded the insurance company FAI in 1960. He was educated at Cranbrook School, and later obtained degrees of Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and Master of Economics from Macquarie University and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Business Adler was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Vinson
Tony Vinson (11 November 1935 – 17 February 2017) was an Australian academic, regarded as "one of Australia's leading social scientists and outspoken public intellectuals". His career spanned the disciplines of social work, social policy, psychology, education, public administration and social research. Career Vinson's long and diverse career in social research, education, government services, prison reform, and community development, has included many projects on social disadvantage and young people. Vinson has also studied the impact of cumulative medico-social problems and life opportunities generally. The determinative influence of education (or life prospects) has remained a theme in this strand of his research, culminating in the recent publication of an influential study on the distribution of social disadvantage in Victoria and New South Wales. His work as the Foundation Professor in Behavioural science within the University of Newcastle (NSW) in the 1970s follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House. In 1505, the college was granted a new royal charter, was given a substantial endowment by Lady Margaret Beaufort, and changed its name to Christ's College, becoming the twelfth of the Cambridge colleges to be founded in its current form. Alumni of the college include some of Cambridge University’s most famous members, including Charles Darwin and John Milton. Within Cambridge, Christ's has a reputation for high academic standards. It has averaged 1st place on the Tompkins Table from 1980 to 2006 and third place from 2006 to 2013, returning to first place in 2018, 2019 and 2022. Simon McDonald is the college's current Master. Robert Evans is the chaplain; he was ordained in the Church of England. History Christ's Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Stapleton
Jane Stapleton (born 26 March 1952) is an Australian academic lawyer with a specialism in tort law. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and was the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2016 to 2022. Early life and education Stapleton was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1952. She initially studied science, gaining a BSc in chemistry from the University of New South Wales (1974) and a PhD in physical organic chemistry from the University of Adelaide (1977) supervised by John Hamilton Bowie. She came to the UK in the mid-1970s and in 1977 took up a post-doctoral research post at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge in the laboratory of Dudley Williams. She then decided to switch to law. She gained an LLB from the Australian National University (1981), followed by a DPhil in private law from the University of Oxford (1984). Her thesis, supervised by Patrick Atiyah, was on compensation for n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandran Kukathas
Chandran Kukathas (born 12 September 1957) is a Malaysian-born Australian political theorist and the author of several books. Until 2019 he was Head of the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, where he held a Chair in Political Theory. Early life Chandran Kukathas was born on 12 September 1957 in The Federation of Malaya which later became a part of Malaysia. He obtained a BA in History and Political Science from Australian National University and an MA in Politics from University of New South Wales. He earned his DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he cofounded the Oxford Hayek Society. Career Kukathas has taught at the Australian Defence Force Academy campus of the University of New South Wales, the University of Oxford, and the Australian National University. He was the 1986–87 R.C. Hoiles Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He was, from 2003–2007, the Neal A. Maxwell Professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Singapore
The Parliament of Singapore is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Singapore, which governs the country alongside the president of Singapore. Largely based upon the Westminster system, the Parliament is made up of Members of Parliament (MPs) who are elected, as well as Non-constituency Members of Parliament (NCMPs) and Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs) who are appointed. Following the 2020 general election, 93 (currently 92) MPs and two NCMPs were elected to the 14th Parliament. Nine NMPs will usually be appointed by the president. The speaker of Parliament has overall charge of the administration of Parliament and its secretariat, and presides over parliamentary sittings. The leader of the house is an MP appointed by the prime minister to arrange government business and the legislative programme of Parliament, while the leader of the opposition is the MP who leads the largest political party not in the government. Some of Parliament's work is carried out b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
