Notable Alumni

  • Pablo Javier Larrimbe

    One year after heading home to Argentina and Pablo Larrimbe’s career is off to a great start. Pablo studied the Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) program at Carnegie Mellon Univers...more

  • Dr Andy Thomas

    Dr Thomas was born in Adelaide, South Australia and graduated with First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering in 1973 at theUniversity of Adelaide and received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1...more

  • Debra Tran

    Debra Tran plans to become the first woman from a Vietnamese background to fly fighter planes for the Royal Australian Air Force.  The foundations for her trailblazing career were laid in 2007 when s...more

  • Duncan Chessell

    No hill is too high for Adelaide-born Duncan Chessell. By the age of 15 he’d conquered Australia’s highest peak, Mt Kosciusko. By 37 he’d scaled the seven major peaks on the planet and earnt his...more

  • Alfred Portenschlager

    If you have ever considered studying and forging a career in the international hospitality industry, you can’t go past the opportunities that abound in Adelaide – like working at the world renowne...more

  • Ben Zhao

    Ben arrived in Adelaide from China on a hot summer’s day in February 2007, to begin a Civil and Environmental Engineering Masters program at the University of Adelaide. After also completing a Mast...more

  • Crystal Deng

    Five short years ago, Crystal Deng was a high school student in China. She’s now got an accountancy degree from one of the best universities in Australia and is working for one of the nation’s top...more

  • Francis Chen

    How’s this for a great result? In 2004, Francis Chen took the courageous step of leaving his family in Shanghai, China, to pursue his dream of studying commerce in Australia. He flew into Adelaide j...more

  • Steven Li

    If the art of good business is reaching new clients then when Aussie Glenelg in Adelaide hired Navitas Professional Year graduate Steven Li – who speaks Mandarin and Japanese – as a loans broker, ...more

  • Adriana Espejo Sanchez

    It was a dream she chased half-way around the world to achieve, but Adriana Espejo Sanchez has found success and is now working to accomplish her goals in Adelaide. Armed with her positive attitude to...more

  • Kapil Virmani

    Kapil Virmani flew to Australia on a one-way ticket in 1995. He arrived in Perth at 11 o’clock at night with just two suitcases and $500 to his name, and not a single friend in the whole country. Fi...more

  • Nikhil Mittal

    With a successful chain of bakeries to his name, several awards, and a personal reference from Adelaide’s former Lord Mayor, Michael Harbison, Nikhil Mittal’s career is not one to be easily forgot...more

  • Robby Gupta

    Robby Gupta fell in love with Adelaide while watching the cricket at Adelaide Oval on television. “Having grown up in New Dehli I wanted to live a very busy lifestyle in a quiet city, I knew Adelaid...more

  • Navneet Singh

    Adelaide graduate Navneet Singh is quickly carving a name as one of the young guns of the Australian wine industry. At the age of 32, the Delhi-born winemaker already judges at prestigious wine shows ...more

  • Shivani Gupta

    Shivani’s personal experience of moving from India to a remote area in South Australia at a young age was the first major change in her life. With a determination to overcome obstacles and the motiv...more

  • Professor Hepsibah Sharmil

    Hepsibah “Hepsi” Sharmil is one among the most highly qualified nurses in India. But she is not a woman to rest on past qualifications. It started with a Bachelor in Nursing at Madurai Sacred Hear...more

  • Dr Ines Atmosukarto

    The term ‘high achiever’ doesn’t really do justice to Dr Ines Atmosukarto.  At 37, she is an internationally recognised research scientist with numerous awards to her name, including a 2009 Aus...more

  • Amir Asadabadi

    Amir Asadabadi is a Mechatronics Engineering postgraduate student who came to Adelaide in 2010. He chose to continue his studies atThe University of Adelaide because of the numerous successful projec...more

  • Mamoru Mohri

    Mamoru learned at Flinders University that he could not just survive, but thrive, and developed into a more complete person. Those Australian discoveries led Mamoru to be a professor at Hokkaido Uni...more

  • Tomoko Ichikawa

    After a one-year stint at Flinders University in Adelaide, Tomoko Ichikawa calls Australia her second home.  And she puts her love of Australia to very good use, working as a Business Development M...more

  • Elijah Liech

    Elijah Liech was flicking through the newspaper at home in Nairobi one day, when he spotted an advertisement that sent him half way around the world. The ad was promoting Carnegie Mellon University, ...more

  • Palden Lama

    Palden Lama was born in a little village in Nepal, and despite now living on a different continent, he visits Kathmandu every day of the week. That’s because he’s joined forces with couple of frie...more

  • Tim Bernabe

    The Adelaide Convention Centre is consistently ranked among the top convention centres on the planet – a result of world-class facilities and exceptional customer service.  Tim Bernabe from the Phi...more

  • Rod Sollesta

    When Rod Sollesta accepted a scholarship to study at the new Adelaide campus of the prestigious United States institution, Carnegie Mellon University, he also had to sacrifice his job as a program of...more

  • Dr Tony Tan

    Dr Tan was elected the seventh President of Singapore in August 2011. He was also the former Deputy Prime Minister and Co-ordinating Minister for Security and Defence of Singapore. He is noted for his...more

  • Ramesh Krishnasamy

    The vast dry plains fringing the South Australian regional city of Whyalla are a far cry from the tiny lush island of Singapore, but Graduate Electrical Engineer Ramesh Krishnasamy is right in his ele...more

  • Eric Ho

    Eric Ho, originally from Singapore, is clearly a man who knows how to combine hard work and fun. Two years after starting a Bachelor of Computing and Multimedia at the University of South Australia, ...more

  • Julim Kwak

    Julim Kwak was teaching mathematics in a private school in Seoul when she decided on a career change. Health care was her preferred option and studying overseas was a must, because changing careers in...more

  • Shayan Gunawardena

    Shayan Gunawardena is a man who’s making the most of life in sunny Australia.  During the week he works in Adelaide as a graduate accountant in with the Adelaide Assurance Division team at of globa...more

  • Christina Lindroth

    On a fairly regular basis, Christina Lindroth holds the future of South Australia in her highly capable hands. She’s a registered midwife at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, caring for tiny ...more

  • Thuy Do

    A British arts and culture official encouraged Vietnam’s Thuy Do to study her Masters of Management (Arts and Cultural Management) in Adelaide – and she’s very glad she followed the advice.  A ...more

  • Nam Hoang

    Nam Hoang is so happy with life as an international student in Adelaide that he’s now helping to market the city as an education destination.  And he certainly has the personal experience to know w...more