Alumni engagement: International Alumni Advisory Groups to the Dean

As part of the Faculty’s desire to deepen its engagement with the international alumni and legal industry community, the Dean travelled to Asia mid last year with Professor Edward Byrne (Vice-Chancellor and President), Mr Damien Farrell (Executive Director, External Relations, Development and Alumni) and Ms Nikkie Gazenbeek (Director, External Engagement). They met with a number of prominent legal and business leaders in the region and received an overwhelmingly warm and hospitable response from those with whom they met. They sensed a significant and genuine interest and enthusiasm to be involved with the Faculty from these representatives of the Monash Law alumni community in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.

As an outcome of this visit, the Dean set up several Chapters of International Alumni Advisory Groups to further develop the sense of community and collegiality between Monash Law alumni in the region, to provide support and guidance to the Faculty going forward and to take the lead with arrangements for upcoming 50th anniversary celebrations in the region this year. Plans are already underway for a 50th anniversary dinner with a prominent speaker in Hong Kong. We will keep you posted with developments.

We wish to thank those involved for their support to date and we look forward to working together to strengthen the Monash Law brand and network into the future. Of course we are also very excited to share our 50th anniversary celebrations this year with the broader international Monash Faculty of Law community.