ANU 2017 Commencement Address

The Commencement Address is a new tradition introduced at the University in 2016 to welcome new and returning students to ANU at the start of the academic year.

This year ANU Alumni Thérèse Rein and Jamila Rizvi will reflect on their time at ANU and how an ANU education has influenced their personal and professional life.

More information to come soon.

SPEAKERS
Thérèse Rein, BA 1980, MQual (Psychology) 1981
Thérèse Rein is an Australian entrepreneur and founder of Ingeus, an international business that has helped hundreds of thousands of people battling disability or social disadvantage to find work. She has been patron of ten charities and been the rock beneath her husband’s, former Prime Minister and ANU alumnus Kevin Rudd (BA (Asian Studies) (Hons) ‘81, political career.

Jamila Rizvi, BComm 2010, LLB 2010
In the three years since graduating from ANU, Jamila has taken the Australian political and media world by storm. She is fast becoming the leading voice for young Australian women, breaking down barriers in the media to promote her own very modern brand of feminism and to advocate for a more harmonious and multicultural Australia.