Robin Dunster
Female, Person
1944 –
Who is Robin Dunster?
Robin Dunster was the chief of staff of the Salvation Army International. The first woman to hold the office, she has been described by then-General John Larsson as a "gifted and widely experienced internationalist."
Robin Dunster was a pupil at Sydney Girls' High School and later trained as a nurse in Sydney. She is a registered general nurse and midwife, with post-graduate qualifications in Mothercraft and psychiatry. She also holds qualifications in Tropical medicine, Under 5s' Health and Planned Parenthood.
Robin Dunster is a graduate of the Salvation Army's International Training College in London, England. She was commissioned as an officer of the Salvation Army in 1971 and was appointed to medical work in the then-Rhodesia Zimbabwe. She served as Matron and Nurse Educator at The Salvation Army's Tshelanyemba and Howard Hospitals from 1971 to 1985.
Subsequent service in Australia preceded a return to Zimbabwe as Chief Secretary. In 1998 she was appointed Territorial Commander in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and, in 2002, The Philippines.
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