Winifred Kamit

Lady Winifred (Winnie) Tare Kamit CBE is a Papua New Guinean lawyer.[1][2][3] In the 2006 Birthday Honours she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for service to law, commerce and public administration.[2]

Life

Lady Kamit studied at the University of Papua New Guinea, graduating with a law and arts degree.[1] In 1998 she joined Gadens Lawyers in Port Moresby, becoming a partner in 1993 and a managing partner in 1999.[2]

Lady Kamit's industry and community roles include president of the Papua New Guinea Business Council, councilor of the Papua New Guinea Institute of National Affairs and chair of Coalition for Change Papua New Guinea, an initiative against violence against women and children.[1] She is also patron of the Papua New Guinea Business Coalition for Women.[3] Her director positions have included positions with Newcrest Mining (from 2011 to 2017), Interoil, Nautilus Minerals Niugini, South Pacific Post, Bunowen Services, Post-Courier, Allied Press, ANZ Banking Group, Steamships Trading Company, Lihir Gold (from 2004 to 2010) and New Britain Palm Oil.[1][2] In 2017 she was appointed chair of the board of ANZ Banking (Papua New Guinea).[4]

Lady Kamit has also held the position of commissioner of the Public Service Commission.[3]

gollark: I see.
gollark: Notably, English words do not actually mean the same thing as the roots might imply, in cases where there even are obvious ones.
gollark: Just because your language theoretically has words composed of subwords doesn't mean you can ignore the various problems I mentioned (except possibly the grammar one). And "convert the words to semantic expressions" hides a lot of the complexity this would involve.
gollark: I'm pretty sure I've seen diagrams of pronounceable things of some kind, but they're more complex than just permutations of "high tone, low tone" and do not conveniently map to concepts.
gollark: What do you mean "all of the possible forms of a square diagram with two or more sides"? There are infinitely many of those. And how do I just pronounce a diagram without a predetermined mapping?

References
  1. "Stocks". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  2. "Lady Winifred Kamit, CBE – Coalition for Change Papua New Guinea". cfcpng.org. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  3. "Lady Winifred Kamit, CBE, PNG - Pacific Women in Business". Pacific Women in Business. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  4. "Lady Kamit appointed as ANZ board chairman - The National". The National. 2017-02-21. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
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