Tim McMinn
Tim McMinn is a structural engineer and a development and human rights advocate based in Perth. While studying at UWA he was a founding member of the Amnesty International and Engineers Without Borders campus groups. After graduating from engineering with a first class honours in Engineering in 2007, he commenced work as a consultant engineer.
In 2008 after traveling through the Middle East, he returned with renewed determination to contribute to the global cause to rid the world of poverty. Since then he has become the Chair of Oxfam Australia’s WA State Committee. In this role over three years he has coordinated a large number of fundraising and advocacy events and programs, and facilitated volunteer contributions to Oxfam. H
is current projects include organising a series of public events for Oxfam to encourage fundraising and active citizenship in Western Australia, and the introduction of a Corporate Social Responsibility policy and budget at BG&E Consulting Engineers.
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How our engineers can save the Third World
In the summer of 1858, the Great Stink overwhelmed London. The stench of raw sewerage festering in the Thames nearly…... Read more
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They must pay for one’s bitter disappointments
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