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Dr Dianne McGrath and Abbas Nazari join AIEC Keynotes | |
We're excited to announce more keynotes for the plenary sessions at AIEC 2024.
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We’re delighted to welcome environmental engineer, modern-day explorer and creative problem solver Dr Dianne McGrath to our Friday keynote lineup.
Dianne is circumnavigating our world in the Clipper 2023-24 Round the World Yacht Race to share stories that will inspire us to protect our planet.
One of Australia’s leading sustainability experts, Dianne holds three degrees in sustainability including a PhD, and is a member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals. Dianne lives a sustainable life to demonstrate that individually, as organisations and in our communities, we can have a collective positive impact on the pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social.
Dianne has lived her life challenging what others thought impossible, whether that was to live a year with no single-use plastics, prepare for a fully sustainable one-way mission to Mars, choosing to circumnavigate our planet to help protect our oceans, cycle extreme distances, sail gale storms in a tall ship in the Southern Ocean or biohack her body and mind to become Dianne 2.0.
Dianne will share the importance of resilience, achievement and constant learning, drawing on her experiences as an environmental engineer and modern-day explorer.
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We’re delighted to welcome New Zealand-based author Abbas Nazari to the Friday Plenary lineup.
Abbas is a former Afghan refugee who fled the Taliban in 2001. Abbas was one of more than 400 asylum seekers who were rescued by the Norwegian container ship, the MV Tampa, in the Indian Ocean as they sought asylum in Australia in 2001. After being denied asylum in Australia and held offshore for weeks by Australian special forces, Abbas and his family were eventually resettled in New Zealand. | |
Having arrived as an eight year old with no English, Abbas thrived in school and university, completing a Masters at Georgetown University in Washington DC as a Fulbright Scholar. His memoir, After The Tampa: From Afghanistan to New Zealand, was published in 2021, received critical acclaim and became a No. 1 bestseller. | |
Abbas will share the story of his journey, the impact of education on his life, and his experiences of thriving in a foreign country as an international student on Friday 25 October during the Closing Plenary.
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