style="font-size: larger;" | Cambridge University Commonwealth Society

Founded	1989
Home Page	http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/ccg/index.shtml
Officers of the society
President	Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
Vice Chair	Martin Atela, Kenya Kenya Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
Vice Chair	Anthony Andrews, Trinidad Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...
Secretary	Terry anne Barringe, Oxford University
Senior Treasurer	Tyrell Smith,
Assistant Treasurer	Bill Kirkman, Wolfson College Wolfson College Wolfson College may refer to:*Wolfson College, Cambridge*Wolfson College, Oxford...
Junior Treasurer	Sean McConnell, Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
Webmaster	David Eyers, Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
Assistant Webmaster	Sela Motshwane, Botswana Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...
Committee	Joana Sackeley Tagoe, Jesus College - Ghana Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...
Committee	Winsome Cheung, China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
Committee	Girija Godbole,
Ex Officio (Former Chairman)	Rohini Chaturvedi, India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Cambridge University Commonwealth Society is a registered university society

University society

In colleges and universities, societies are organizations founded and ran by students to practice and propagate a certain professional hobby or cause, or to promote professional development....

 with connections to Cambridge University.

History

Cambridge University Commonwealth Society was established in 1989 under the name Cambridge Commonwealth Group. The name was changed in October 2003 to emphasis its connections with Cambridge University. Since 1998 it has been a registered university society. It is open to all who support the aims of the Commonwealth.

Most of the members are students, but there is also a small group of permanent, locally based members, with wide experience of living and working in Commonwealth countries. The Group has close links with Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and with the British Council. It has few British student members but a number of other international, but non-Commonwealth, students.

Students make up the majority of the CUCS Committee and are fully involved in arranging the programme. A nucleus of local members provides continuity.

Activities

Activities include links with the international Royal Commonwealth Society and wider
Commonwealth networks and with the local community. A number of Cambridge students have been enabled to attend international conferences organised by the RCS in London and elsewhere in the Commonwealth.
The society supports coach trips, annual dinners with distinguished speakers, an Annual Lecture (as of 2006, school visit scheme and other events.

Alumni

Cambridge University Commonwealth Society has produced some notable alumi:

• Michael Johnson (politician)
  Michael Johnson (politician)
  Michael Andrew Johnson , an Australian federal politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Ryan, Queensland, from 2001 to 2010, representing the Liberal Party from November 2001 to May 2010 and then as an independent from May 2010 until he was defeated at the...
  
  MP for Ryan Queensland Australia
• Dr Yeoh Seng Guan http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/Staff/sgyeoh.html
• Dr Shishir Ngaraja http://www.iti.illinois.edu/people/researchers/shishir-nagaraja
• Dr Kizitus Mpoche http://www.britac.ac.uk/reports/nairobi/app-1.cfm