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Keita Matsumoto (2011–2013)
Updated December 2025
Keita then completed a joint MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he was a John F. Kennedy Fellow and Ramsay Postgraduate Scholar.
Keita wrote his graduate thesis on leveraging employee share ownership in private equity transactions as a vehicle for wealth creation for blue collar workers. He also worked with faculty to develop a new course titled 'The Spiritual Lives of Leaders' at Harvard Business School.
Keita is now a Private Equity Operating Executive with Alpine Investors through their CEO-in-Training Program. He is deployed as Regional President of Lighthouse Service Partners where he is building Australia's leading residential trades business.
Abdullah Khan (2011)
Updated December 2025
I joined the Government of Balochistan in 2012 as Deputy Secretary. Having served in various positions in different departments, I was promoted to Grade 20 in 2020 and was posted as provincial Secretary Planning and Development Department for Balochistan. Then I served as the provincial Secretary of Population, Health and Sports. Since June 2025, I am serving as Chairperson for the Balochistan Revenue Authority.
In 2012, when I travelled back to Pakistan, I joined Save the Children International and implemented an AusAID funded project, i.e. Integrated Maternal Newborn and Child Health in Balochistan Province, which was a good opportunity for partnership between the Government of Pakistan and Australia for improving mother and child health in one of the backward areas of the country.
Philippa Venning (1993–1996)
Updated December 2025
Philippa Venning (1993–1996) was a C.A.S. Hawker Scholar from 1993–1996 and graduated with First Class Honours in Law and Arts from ANU. Her career has spanned corporate law with Allens in Sydney and Singapore, and international development with DFAT, AusAID, NGOs, United Nations Development Program and World Bank. She served in Indonesia and Solomon Islands and as Australia's Deputy Head of Mission in Timor-Leste.
Today, she serves as Vice President of Program Quality and Strategy at Abt Global Australia and as a Director on the Board of ChildFund Australia, continuing her commitment to development, governance and children's rights across the Asia Pacific region. She has a Masters in Law from Melbourne University and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Dr Bradley Gorham (1989)
Updated November 2025
Dr Bradley Gorham (1989) is an Associate Professor at Syracuse University in New York and Director of the Center for Global Engagement at the Newhouse School of Public Communications.
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