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Melbourne School of Land and Environment academic wins Victorian of the Year

[ Research Review 0809 ]

African-Australian community leader Dr Berhan Ahmed, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Forest Ecosystem Science at the University of Melbourne’s School of Land and Environment, has been named the Victoria Australian of the Year 2009.

Dr Ahmed is chairman of the African Think Tank, an organisation whose mission is ‘to act as the voice of refugee communities, mainly the African Australians in Victoria’. Dr Ahmed came to Australia as a refugee in 1987. He spoke little English at the time. He has since completed his PhD in forest industries and has been instrumental in building bridges between the African and the wider Australian communities in Victoria.

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