"Given it is as impossible today as it ever was to imagine a world at peace with nuclear weapons, it becomes vital to imagine - and act for - a world without them."

POSITION WITH ICAN: Campaign Director and Executive Officer, ICAN Australia

BACKGROUND:

Dimity Hawkins has worked for nearly two decades with non-government organisations (NGOs) in Australia and overseas on disarmament, nuclear chain and social justice issues. She is currently the Campaign Director for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in Australia.

After working on Australian nuclear issues for many years, Dimity played a role in establishing the Reaching Critical Will project with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom through their United Nations office in New York in 2000. She has been heavily involved in national and international activism around the NPT since that time.

Dimity first worked with the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) in 2002 as a consultant. From 2004 – 2007 Dimity was the Executive Officer for the MAPW, running the national office in Melbourne. MAPW is the Australian affiliate for the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).

Dimity was one of the founders of ICAN while working with MAPW. She actively served on the ICAN Australia Board for over two years before moving to the position of Campaign Director for ICAN Australia in July 2009.

In the years immediately before this, Dimity ran her own successful consultancy business offering project management and graphic design tailored to non-government, small business and academic institutions. She lives and works in Melbourne.  

CONTACT:

telephone: via ICAN Australia office: + 61 (0)3 9347 4795

email: dimity(at)icanw.org