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2015. It’s a wrap
2015 was a milestone year for the Office of Advancement, with our alumni community growing to more than 164,000 across 142 countries. During the year we expanded the range of benefits on offer to alumni and hosted diverse events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra, as well as New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore for expat and international alumni. Once a...
Swim Safe Warriors make the water safe for international students
International students are benefitting from the new Swim Safe Warriors Program, which was created by Macquarie in conjunction with Royal Life Saving after research revealed that international students entering Australia have little exposure to aquatic environments. This is in striking contrast to Australians where there is a very strong water culture and exposure to aquatic environments starts...
Congratulations to our Australia Day Honours recipients
Once again Macquarie alumni have shone in the Australia Day Honours list, with 13 alumni recognised this year. Richard Ackland AM (BLegalStudies,1986) was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the print and television media, through reporting on legal issues, and as a publisher. Dr Stephen Giugni OAM (PhD, 1991) received the Medal of the Order of Australia for se...
Macquarie congratulates Australia China Alumni Award winners Chenggang Zhou and Jun Zou
Macquarie alumni Chenggang Zhou and Jun Zou have taken out two of the nine awards at the prestigious seventh ACAA/IELTS Australia China Alumni Awards. Six prominent Macquarie alumni were finalists in the awards, which were held recently in Beijing, and attended by more than 250 guests, including alumni and university representatives from 18 Australian universities, Australia-China business ...
Macquarie alumni feature as the finalists in 2015 ACAA/IELTS Australia China Alumni Awards
Six prominent Macquarie alumni have been announced as finalists in the 2015 ACAA/IELTS Australia China Alumni Awards. Tianjin-based Jicheng Liu is a finalist in the Austrade – Australia China Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship. He is the CEO of Richfields Capital Limited, and holds a Masters of Management and an MBA from Macquarie. In the last decade, he successfully managed the IPO of Dyn...
Alumni shine at Thai awards
Macquarie alumnus Khun Prom was recently invited to share his experiences studying in Australia at the Australian Chamber of Commerce Alumni Awards in Bangkok. The awards promote the value of an Australian education to Thai students and inspire young alumni to follow in the footsteps of prominent alumni who are using what they have learnt to deliver genuine change, development and real prog...