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The Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce (IACC)
Opportunely headquartered in Chennai, the IACC is a non-profit organization with jurisdiction throughout India. With a view to maintain trade relations between India and Australia, the IACC functions primarily as a catalyst to facilitate collaborations in a broad spectrum of activities like joint-ventures, technology transfer and investment is both countries. |
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The Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)
Austrade is an agency of the Federal Government and is a statutory authority within the Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio. It is represented in 105 locations in 58 countries including an extensive domestic network throughout Australia. It provides advice and guidance on overseas investment and joint venture opportunities. |
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IDP Education Australia Limited
It's a world leader in international education and development services. It is a global organisation with 62 offices in 27 countries.Owned by 38 prestigious universities in Australia and representing all education sectors, IDP is an independent not-for-profit organisation. For students interested in studying in Australia, IDP provides information on more than 1,000 Australian institutions, including universities, vocational education and training institutes, English language colleges and schools. |
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Bilimoria & Associate
Bilimoria & Associate are trusted Immigration Consultants with a sound reputation and a registered firm, established in 1995. They provide the highest standards of service and excellent track record of success in areas of immigration and related services. Their experience allows an assessment of the likelihood of success in Migration matters. Preparation of Residence Applications is made on the basis of thorough knowledge of Government policy. |
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Message From The President, AAA |
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| President, AAA |
Thank you one all for being supportive in establishing the Australian Alumni Association and making it one of the leading Alumni Associations in India. We also stand tall as our organization today is looked on par with the Harvard Alumni Association and Oxford Alumni Association. Which is seen in the articles of a national magazine “ The Business India”, on December 22nd 2003. We also have successfully completed our website which facilitate to better networking as well as provides news which the alumni can use.
In the current year our main aim is to make all other city chapters very active. We also would be working on developing the model which can facilitate operations for the individual chapters. We also intend to create a governing body for all the chapters, which would steer all the chapters. The heads of all the main chapters would ideally form the board of the Governing Body. Well moving from the administrative side we are also trying to organize an annual fund raising event for AAA in every major city. The funds collected would be dedicated either to specific projects, or to the corpus of the AAA, towards a particular cause.
Well as our vision statement says ‘To create a network, which imparts knowledge for the development of the community' . In view of the same we at the committee decided that education is the only way we can shape future generations and also increasing the pace of India overall development. Hence we propose that each chapter should look at adopting a public school at the nearest where the members of the AAA can be involved in teaching classes, contribute towards their expenses, hosting the teachers or students from Australia who would like come to India to join our project by contributing to the development of the children as well as the school the school at large. The first such project would be started in Chennai. |
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Patrons and Associates |
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Dr K.M. Cherian
M.S. FRACS |
Dr. K M Cherian is one of the world's leading Cardio-Thoracic surgeons and is currently the Director of the Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases, Madras Medical Mission, Chennai. After his MBBS, Dr K.M. Cherian headed for Australia to become a FRACS (Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons). He has the rare distinction of having performed the first successful heart transplant in India in 1975. He has many more firsts to his name, including the first pediatric heart transplant and more recently, the first heart and lung transplant .
He is the recipient of several honours including the Padmashri in 1991. He has authored several National and International publications and was the Honorary Surgeon to the President of India from 1990 to 1993. He has performed more than 17,000 operations. He is Emeritus Professor of Cardiac Surgery, the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University and Chairman of Indian Association of Laser Surgery & Medicine. He has also held numerous positions abroad, including Visiting Professor at University of Oregon, USA; Senior Registrar of Greenlane Hospital, Royal Alexandria Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He is a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Past President of the Indian Association of Thoracic and Cardio vascular Surgeons and member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and the International Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons (ISCTS). He is also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and a member of the Australian Society of Cardio Thoracic Surgeons. |
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Mr. N. Ram
The Hindu, Businessline, Front Line, Sportstar Publications. |
One of India's most well known journalists; Mr. N. Ram is currently the editor of Frontline and Sportstar. Mr. Ram has been in the media since 1966 and has previously served as editor of The Hindu. He has also spearheaded some of India's most significant investigative projects. Mr. Ram has been conferred several awards in the past some of which include the Padma Bhushan (for journalism) in 1990, the Asian Investigative Journalist of the Year award from the Press Foundation of Asia (1990), the B.D. Goenka award for excellence in journalism (1989) and the National Citizen's award(1995). Lately, he was also conferred XLRI Jamshedpur's J.R.D. Tata award for Business Ethics. |
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Mr. N. Shankar -
Sanmar Group |
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Mr. N. Sankar holds a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. He is the Chairman of the Sanmar Group and its associates, operating in diverse areas such as Chlorochemicals, Speciality Chemicals, Shipping, Engineering, Insurance and Cement. Mr Sankar serves on the Board of a few companies outside the group such as Fuller India Limited and IL&FS Asset Management Company Limited. Over the years, Mr Sankar has held office in several public bodies representing trade and industry - President - Assocham; Chairman - Indo-US Joint Business Council; etc. |
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He has also received awards recognizing his services to business and industry, including the `Lala Shriram National Award for Leadership in Chemical Industry' from the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.Mr Sankar is involved with the management of many educational and charitable organizations. A keen sportsman, he has been the Vice President of the All India Tennis Association, and President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket and Tennis Associations. Mr Sankar has been the Honorary Consul General for Denmark in South India since 1989, and was awarded the `Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog' by the Danish Government in recognition of his services. |
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| Ms. Kiran Mazumdar |
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw graduated with a Master in Science in 1975 from Melbourne University. She has the distinction of being trained as India's first Lady Brewmaster at Melbourne University.
Today, she is the Chairman of Syngene International Limited, Clinigene International Limited and Chairperson and Managing Director of Biocon India Limited. Biocon India Group is India's leading biotech enterprise which produces healthcare molecules, industrial enzymes, drug intermediates, food ingredients and process aids.
Ms. Mazumdar has left a trail of awards behind her. The most recent of these is the Australian Alumni High Achiever Award 2003 instituted by IDP education Australia and the Australian Alumni Association for her outstanding performance in the Biotech field. She has a clutch of awards from Rotary which include Rotary Citizen Extraordinary 2001, Rotary Award for the Best Small Scale Industry in Karnataka, 1983, and Rotary Award for the Best Model Employer, 1983.
Her company, Biocon India group was awarded the Biotech Product and Process Development and Commercialization Award 2001 by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. The previous year, she earned a prestigious Technology pioneer recognition by World Economic Forum in 2000. The highest honor she has received to date is the Padma Shri, awarded to her by the Government of India in 1989. |
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