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Andrew began his career in the Commonwealth Public Service, reaching a senior management level before embarking on a career change that aligned with his natural interests in financial analysis, problem solving and training. After completing his Bachelor of Actuarial Studies, Andrew left the Public Service and moved into professional services, focusing on actuarial analysis and modelling at PwC, before having the opportunity to work for Fitch Ratings. He then moved into M&A, where he became a Vice President at J.P. Morgan and then CitiGroup. During this time, Andrew worked on a number of significant transactions, including the sale of Wizard Home Loans and its multibillion-dollar home loan book to CBA and the successful $12.2 billion dollar establishment of the Westfield Retail Trust.

Andrew then re-joined professional services, at PwC and then EY, before joining ClayMatter. His role with ClayMatter has enabled him to focus on providing models and analysis, to answer clients' pressing questions and provide them with training.

Andrew has built dozens of models spanning virtually all sectors, and has personally designed and delivered financial modelling training for hundreds of people around the world.

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Anne holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in German Studies with a focus on teaching German as a foreign and second language. She has several years of experience teaching German in group settings and private one-on-one tuition to students of all ages and levels. She has taught at many highly respected language institutions in Germany and Australia, including the Goethe-Institut, Sydney Community College and Berlitz Australia, and has experience in conducting examinations and level assessments. Anne is passionate about learning languages and has published a book for children to learn German.

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Yulia Berlin-Firer had a successful career as a Communication and Marketing consultant (B.A) in Israel before finding her passion as a Hebrew teacher. Yulia is developing a teaching career in Sydney, having trained at the Hebrew School “Discovering Hebrew” with Trainer and University Lecturer Galit Rieder-Ezra.

Her background as an account manager in a multi-cultural advertising agency, as well as her being trilingual – speaking Hebrew, Russian and English – have given her much experience with the acquisition of second languages. Having gone through the immigration process herself, she is very familiar with the language needs and linguistic choices that the Hebrew language entails.

Yulia teaches Russian and Hebrew in experiential ways and is the creator of a successful blog in Hebrew that offers parents creative ways of teaching their children.

Yulia is a passionate educator and loves sharing the Hebrew language and cultural heritage to students of all ages and backgrounds.

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Bachelor of Science (Physics and Chemistry). Graduate Diploma in Education (Science) - UNSW. Physics teacher at St Joseph’s College – Hunter’s Hill, Sydney.

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Albana Bertin. Tutor of CCE

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Judith Beveridge was born in England in 1956 and came to Australia in 1960. She has published three books of poetry, The Domesticity of Giraffes Black Lightning Press, 1987), Accidental Grace (University of Queensland Press, 1996) and Wolf Notes (Giramondo Publishing, 2003), and has also co-edited an anthology of Australian poetry A Parachute of Blue (Round Table Publications,1996). She has won the Dame Mary Gilmour Award, the NSW Premier’s Poetry Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Poetry Prize, the Wesley Michel Wright Award and, most recently, the Josephine Ulrick National Poetry Prize, one of Australia’s most prestigious poetry awards, for Between the Palace and the Bodhi Tree (later published as part of Wolf Notes).

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Lijun Bi holds a PhD (in Chinese studies) and a DipEd from the University of New England, as well as an MA (in Confucianism) and a BA from Chinese Universities. She has extensive language teaching and program development at school and university level with over 10 years' experience. Lijun has lectured at the University of New England and is currently teaching mandarin at various levels in CCE.

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Chen Bian. Tutor of CCE

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Professor Christine Bigby, is Leader of the Living with Disability Research Group, at La Trobe University. Christine has an established national and international reputation for her research on aging with a lifelong disability and the social inclusion of adults with intellectual disability. The focus of her work is policy issues, program effectiveness and the quality of front line practice to support engagement and inclusion.

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Yukari has a Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics) from Macquarie University and a Masters degree in Adult Education from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Together with her work at the Centre, Yukari also currently teaches Japanese at UTS, and has also taught at TAFE.