Visiting WA

Major Sam Cochran from the Memphis Police Department in the US to speak at the UWA Extension’s Crisis Intervention seminar on mental illness, May 12 at the UWA Campus. William Paterson, ambassador at the Australian Embassy in Bangkok, Dr Kongkiat Kespechara, director at Bangkok Hospital in Phuket and Julia Houghton, emergency planning manager for the Hertfordshire County Council in the UK to speak at IFAP’s Crisis & Emergency Management Conference, June 1 and 2 at Arena Joondalup. Peter Singer, professor of bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (USA) to speak at an UWA Extension event titled ‘The ethics of what we eat’, June 6 at the UWA Campus. Ambassador Fernando Schmidt (Republic of Chile), ambassador Frederico Cezar de Araujo (Federative Republic of Brazil), ambassador Pedro Villagra-Delgado (Argentine Republic) and Vinod Kumar, deputy high commissioner to India to speak at the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies’ National Congress, June 7 to 9 at the Burswood Convention Centre and Resort. Other international speakers include Patricia Dillon, president PDAC and corporate relations manger of Teck Cominco in Canada and Kathryn McPhail, principal of the International Council of Mining and Metals in the UK. Professor Michael Yoshino from Harvard Business School (USA) and Professor Robert Goffee from London Business School (UK) to speak at the AIM UWA Business School Alliance’s Senior Executive Forum, July 12 to 15.