University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia   (university)
Start	1908
Website	https://ubc.ca/
71 Rhodes scholars, 3 Canadian Prime Ministers

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, UBC is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top three universities in Canada. With an annual research budget of $600 million, UBC funds over 8,000 projects a year.

The Vancouver campus is situated on the unceded territory of the Musqueam people in the University Endowment Lands, about 10 km (6 mi) west of Downtown Vancouver. UBC is home to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, which houses the world's largest cyclotron. In addition to the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Stuart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC and the Max Planck Society collectively established the first Max Planck Institute in North America, specializing in quantum materials. One of the largest research libraries in Canada, the UBC Library system has over 9.9 million volumes among its 21 branches. The Okanagan campus, acquired in 2005, is located in Kelowna, British Columbia.

As of 2017, eight Nobel laureates, 71 Rhodes Scholarships scholars, 65 Olympians, ten fellows in both American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Royal Society, and 208 fellows to the Royal Society of Canada have been affiliated with UBC. Three Canadian prime ministers, including Canada's first female prime minister Kim Campbell and current prime minister Justin Trudeau have been educated at UBC.

Alumni

Nobel laureates

• Bertram Brockhouse, BA 1947 (math and physics), Nobel laureate (Physics, 1994) "for the development of neutron spectroscopy
• Robert Mundell, BA 1953, Nobel laureate (Economics, 1999) "for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas"
• Hans G. Dehmelt, Nobel laureate (Physics, 1989); visiting researcher in 1955.
• Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate (Economics, 2002); faculty member (1978–1986)
• Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate (Medicine, 1968); faculty member (1952–1960)
• Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 1993); professor of molecular biology (1966–2000)
• Richard Thaler, Nobel laureate (Economics, 2017); visiting associate professor (1984–1985)
• Carl E. Wieman, Nobel laureate (Physics, 2001); professor of physics (2007–2013)

Academia

• Kanti Bajpai, former headmaster of The Doon School
• Amit Chakma, President, University of Western Ontario
• Patricia Churchland, philosopher
• John J. Clague, Geological Survey of Canada scientist and SFU professor
• Thomas Martin Franck, international law scholar; NYU Law Professor Emeritus; former Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of International Law
• Rick Hansen, educator and Man in Motion
• Michiel Horn, historian, professor emeritus, Glendon College, York University
• Joy Johnson, Vice-President Research, Simon Fraser University
• Indira Samarasekera, President, University of Alberta
• Peter Todd, former dean of McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management, dean of HEC Paris
• David Turpin, President, University of Victoria and University of Alberta
• Arthur Erickson, AIA Gold Medal-winning architect of buildings including the Museum of Anthropology at UBC
• Bing Thom, architect of various urban design projects around Canada and the United States

Business

• David Cheriton, Google founding investor and computer science professor at Stanford University
• Dominic Barton, Global managing director of McKinsey & Co.
• Andrew Bibby, BCom 1980, President, Grosvenor Americas
• Dean Bosacki, businessman
• Yael Cohen, non-profit executive and philanthropist; founder of Fuck Cancer
• Herb Dhaliwal, businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist
• Lalith Gamage, CEO of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
• Martin Glynn, MBA 1972, President and CEO, HSBC Canada
• Lindsay Gordon, MBA 1976, CEO of HSBC Canada, Chancellor, University of British Columbia
• Darren Huston, former president and CEO of Priceline
• Frank Iacobucci, BCom 1961, former Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada; former Dean, University of Toronto's Faculty of Law
• David Ing, marketing scientist and senior consultant
• Paul Lee, former President of Electronic Arts
• Brandt C. Louie, President and CEO of H.Y. Louie Co. Limited, and Chairman of London Drugs Limited
• Kyle MacDonald, blogger and founder of the One red paperclip website
• John H. McArthur, BCom 1957, Dean Emeritus, Harvard Business School
• Henry McKinnell, CEO and chairman of the board, Pfizer
• Nadir Mohamed, BCom 1978, CEO, Rogers Communications
• Sarah Morgan-Silvester BCom 1982, former Chancellor, University of British Columbia
• Jim Pattison, chief executive officer, Chairman and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group, the second largest privately held company in Canada (did not graduate)
• Shahrzad Rafati, BSc Computer Science 2005, CEO, BroadbandTV Corp
• Ben Rutledge, BCom 2006, Canadian rower and '08 Olympic gold medalist
• Gregg Saretsky, MBA 1984, President & CEO, WestJet
• William Sauder, BCom 1948, Chairman of International Forest Products Ltd. and Sauder Industries; contributor to the Sauder School of Business; former Chancellor of UBC
• Patrick Soon-Shiong, South African-American surgeon and chairman of NantHealth
• Peter Wall, property developer in Vancouver; played a significant and controversial part in the city's real-estate boom in the 1992-2000s; established the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (did not graduate)
• Nolan Watson, co-founder of Sandstorm Resources Ltd.; known for his contribution to finance innovation in the mining industry; youngest CFO (age 26) of a New York Stock Exchange listed company; helped develop the silver streaming business model; raise over $1 billion in debt and equity to fund Silver Wheaton's growth into the largest streaming company in the world
• Brian Wong, internet entrepreneur; co-founded Kiip, a mobile app rewards platform; in 2010 surpassed Mark Zuckerberg to become youngest entrepreneur to raise venture capital funding
• Jacki Zehner, BCom 1987, President of Women Moving Millions; youngest woman to be made a partner in Goldman Sachs, in 1996

Government, politics, and law

• David Anderson, former Cabinet Minister, and former President of the Governing Council of the UN Environment Programme
• Jack Austin, former Cabinet Minister, and former Leader of the Government in the Senate
• John Alan Beesley, diplomat; former UN Ambassador
• Thomas Berger, First Nations' rights advocate; politician; former Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Gary Botting, leading authority on Canada's extradition law, entomologist, author and poet
• Donald Brenner, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Joan Brockman, lawyer, criminologist and professor
• Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Pat Carney, Canadian senator
• Arnold Chan, lawyer, former provincial Chief of Staff and aide (Ontario) and federal MP in Toronto
• Jim Chu, Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department
• Glen Clark, 31st Premier of British Columbia
• Elizabeth Denham, Information and Privacy Commissioner, British Columbia, 2010–6
• Ujjal Dosanjh, former B.C. premier
• Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia
• barbara findlay, Canadian lawyer
• John Fraser, former Speaker of the House of Commons and Progressive Conservative MP
• Garde Gardom, former Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
• Robert Hampton Gray, awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism during World War II
• Mike Harcourt, former B.C. premier
• Nancy Heppner, Member of the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly
• Russ Hiebert, Member of Parliament for South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale
• Frank Iacobucci, former Puisne Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada
• Ted Lee, former Head of the UN Economic and Social Affairs Section, former Ambassador to Israel, South Africa, Austria, former High Commissioner to Cypres, Lesotho, Swaziland, former Governor of Canada to the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Rob Marris, British Labour party MP
• Allan McEachern, former Chancellor of UBC and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Michael Omolewa, historian, diplomat and former President of UNESCO General Conference
• Wally Oppal, former Attorney General of British Columbia
• Stephen Owen, former Member of Parliament; former UBC V–P of External, Legal and Community Relations
• Richard Peck, Queen's Counsel and frequent Special Prosecutor
• Leslie Peterson, former Attorney General of BC and Chancellor of UBC
• Art Phillips, former mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1973–1977
• Steven Point, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, 2007–12
• Svend Robinson, former NDP MP
• Mark Satin, political activist and author
• Stanley Schumacher, Member of Parliament and Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly
• Alfred Scow, the first First Nations judge in BC
• Bud Smith, former Attorney General of BC
• Justin Trudeau, the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada; former schoolteacher; eldest son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
• John Turner, former Prime Minister of Canada
• Allan Williams, former Attorney General of BC
• John Yap, MBA 1983, former Minister of Advance Education and Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism, Province of BC
• Sherwood Lett, BA 1916, former Chief Justice of BC; former Chancellor of UBC

Journalism

• Ashleigh Banfield, CNN journalist
• Stevie Cameron, journalist
• Allan Fotheringham, journalist
• Tony Gallagher, journalist for The Province
• Robin Gill, anchor, Global News Toronto, Weekend Edition
• Nil Köksal, CBC Television journalist
• Duncan McCue, reporter for the CBC
• Lynne McNamara, journalist
• Laurence Meredith, United Press International reporter and later UPI's Portugal manager
• Blake Price, broadcaster
• Zafar Sobhan, Bangladeshi journalist and editor of the Dhaka Tribune

Literature

• Geoffrey Ashe, writer
• Earle Birney, poet
• Elizabeth Bachinsky, poet and writer
• Pierre Berton, author and historian
• Gary Botting, poet, playwright, lawyer and legal scholar
• Will Clarke, novelist
• Daniel Francis, historian and writer
• William Gibson, writer
• Genni Gunn, novelist and translator
• Valerie Haig-Brown, writer, editor, conservationist
• Hart Hanson, writer and show runner of Bones
• Anosh Irani, novelist and playwright
• Joan MacLeod, playwright
• Florence McNeil, poet, writer, and playwright
• Jane Munro, poet
• Angela Narth, children's author
• Gayla Reid, writer
• Renée Sarojini Saklikar, poet and writer
• Rita Wong, poet and writer

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Music

• Michael Conway Baker, composer
• Dan Mangan, musician
• Lance Ryan, tenor
• Alexander Gumuchian (bbno$), rapper
• Ben Heppner, tenor
• Hildegard Westerkamp, composer
• Anne Kang, BMus'99, Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Training of British Columbia
• Mark Takeshi McGregor, flutist

Entertainment

• Sonja Bennett, actress
• Andrea Brooks, actress
• Andrea Bang, actress, Kim's Convenience (TV series)
• Diana Bang, actress
• Nicola Cavendish, actor
• Linda Chung, actress
• Julian Clarke, film editor
• Danica d'Hondt, actress
• Judith Forst, mezzo-soprano
• Jason Gray-Stanford, actor
• Sturla Gunnarsson, Academy Award-nominated director
• Stephen Hegyes, film and television producer
• Ben Heppner, tenor
• Anne Heung, former Hong Kong actress
• Ed Hill, standup comedian
• Kris Holm, unicyclist
• Paul Johansson, actor
• Leanne Li, actress
• Evangeline Lilly, actress
• Bernice Liu, actress
• Evan Ma, actor
• Kenneth Ma, actor
• Grace Park, actress
• Eddie Peng, actor
• Manny Jacinto, actor
• Emily Perkins, actress
• John Ruskin, aka Nardwuar the Human Serviette, rock musician, radio, and television personality
• Michael Shanks, actor
• Hannah Simone, actress, New Girl
• Bruce Sweeney, filmmaker
• Clint Hocking, video game designer and director
• Svetlana Zylin, playwright and director

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Science and engineering

• Albert Bandura, psychologist
• Stewart Blusson, diamond hunter and philanthropist
• Peter Borwein, mathematician and pi researcher
• Charlotte Froese Fischer, mathematician and chemist
• Cecil Howard Green, geophysicist; co-founder of Texas Instruments; philanthropist who donated money for the Green College, University of British Columbia
• Robert Langlands, mathematician specializing in automorphic forms and representation theory, Wolf Prize Laureate
• Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, chemist
• Bjarni Tryggvason, astronaut

• Kimberly Phillips, educator and curator

Rhodes Scholars

• Dominic Barton (1984)

Other

• Richard J. Pearson, archaeologist and gardener
• Arthur Erickson, architect
• Brian Burke, former President and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs
• Rogemar Mamon, mathematician
• Laurel Schafer, Canada Research Chair in Catalyst Development, Full Professor (current)
• W. H. New, Professor of English Literature
• Daniel Heath Justice, professor and chair of the First Nations Studies Program
• Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene professor and political theorist
• Shahul Hasbullah, professor and researcher
• Timothy Brook, sinologist
• George F.G. Stanley, historian; designer of Canadian flag; Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
• David Rummel, Senior Producer of The New York Times; winner of Pulitzer Prize and the George Foster Peabody Awards
• Steve Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
• David Eby, Attorney-General of British Columbia, Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association from 2008 to 2012.
• Robert John Gregg, linguist and specialist in Ulster Scots dialects and Canadian English
• Dale Kinkade, linguist and specialist on Salishan languages
• Edwin G. Pulleyblank, linguist and specialist in Old Chinese
• Margaret Atwood, novelist, poet, and literary critic
• Earle Birney, poet
• Joseph Boyden, writer
• Charlotte Gill, writer
• Roy Kiyooka, artist and poet
• Larissa Lai, writer
• Nancy Lee, writer
• Annabel Lyon, writer
• Keith Maillard, writer
• Linda Svendsen, writer
• Timothy Taylor, writer
• Chia-ying Yeh, Chinese-Canadian poet and scholar of classical Chinese poetry
• Stephanie Nakagawa, vocal teacher, winner of the Voice Gold Medal from the Royal Conservatory of Music
• Carol Wong, pianist, senior examiner at the Royal Conservatory of Music, first pianist to receive the Laureate Award from the Music Academy of the West
• Julia Nolan, saxophonist
• Fred Stride, Senior Sessional Lecturer, Jazz Theory and Arranging
• Jose Franch-Ballester, Assistant Professor, Clarinet and Chamber Music
• Jonathan Girard, director, Orchestral Activities, Associate Professor, Conducting and Ensembles
• Nancy Hermiston, Chair, Voice and Opera Divisions, Director, UBC Opera Ensemble, Officer of the Order of Canada for her achievements as an opera singer, stage director, and educator
• Graeme Langager, Director of Choral Activities
• Andrew Dawes, Professor Emeritus of Music (2005), Violin, three-time Juno winner, Appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 1991
• T. Patrick Carrabré, Director of the School of Music, professor, Composition, former associate composer for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
• Krisztina Szabó, Assistant Professor, Voice and Opera
• Andrew Dawes, Professor Emeritus of Music (2005), Violin
• James Fankhauser, Professor Emeritus of Music (2000), Voice & Choral Conducting, Former Director, UBC University Singers
• Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister
• Catherine Dauvergne, holds the Canada Research Chair in Migration Law
• Michael Ignatieff, academic, politician, and former Leader of the Opposition
• Norman MacKenzie
• Beverley McLachlin, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; professor at the University of British Columbia (1974–1981)
• Joel Bakan, creator of The Corporation
• Sara Davis Buechner, pianist, recording artist, Koch International
• Meryn Cadell, writer and performance artist
• James Fankhauser, conductor
• Peter W. Klein, Emmy Award–winning journalist and filmmaker
• Barbara Pentland, composer
• Randy Raine-Reusch, composer and ethnomusicologist
• Lynne Stopkewich, film director
• Rachel Talalay, film and television director
• Patrick Walls, guitarist of Reverie Sound Revue
• Kenneth D. Craig, psychologist
• Catharine Winstanley, behavioural neuroscientist
• Catherine Anderson, Clinical Assistant Professor, researcher of pre-eclampsia
• Neil Bartlett, prepared the first known noble gas compound
• Vijay Bhargava, electrical engineer
• Frank E. Buck, Professor of Horticulture
• Nadine Caron, co-director of UBC's Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health
• Brian Christie, neuroscientist
• David Dolphin, biochemist
• John Friedmann, urban theorist
• J. B. Gunn, semiconductor device physicist; discoverer of the Gunn Effect
• Sara Harris, climate scientist
• William S. Hoar, zoologist and author, head of zoology department 1964–71
• C.S. Holling, ecologist and co-founder of adaptive management
• Judy Illes, Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics
• Ethel Johns, established first university degree program in nursing in Canada
• Patrick J. Keeling, protistologist
• Maja Krzic, soil scientist
• Kathy Martin, professor of ornithology
• Pat McGeer, neuroscientist and politician
• Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, chemist
• Peter Oberlander, Canada's first professor of urban and regional planning; founder of UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning
• Sarah Otto, evolutionary geneticist and MacArthur Fellow
• Daniel Pauly, fisheries scientist
• Reva Potashin, psychologist
• Rosemary Redfield, microbiologist
• William Rees, planning professor and originator of the ecological footprint
• Martin Schechter, epidemiologist awarded Order of British Columbia
• Gordon Walter Semenoff, physicist, Majorana Prize (2006)
• Gordon Shrum, physicist, head of the Physics Department; Dean of Graduate Studies (1957 to 1961)
• Gregor Kiczales, computer scientist, instructor of CPSC 110
• Linda Siegel, cognitive psychologist; holder of the Dorothy C. Lam Chair in Special Education, 1996–2015
• David Suzuki, biologist and environmental activist
• Bill Unruh, physicist, discoverer of the Unruh effect
• Erich Vogt, physicist, founder of TRIUMF
• Rudolf Vrba, Holocaust survivor and pharmacologist
• Wolfgang Bibel, one of the founders of the research area of Artificial Intelligence in Germany and Europe
• Dr. Christoph kranemann, first surgeon to introduce laser light transepithelial crosslinking to treat keratoconus and first to offer PiXL™
• Neil Guppy, former head of department
• Giselle O. Martin-Kniep, educator specializing in learning communities
• Ken Lum, artist; represented Canada at the Sydney Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Shanghai Biennale and at Documenta XI
• Art Spiegelman, comics artist and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Jeff Wall, photographer; Tate Gallery Retrospective; MOMA; Hasselblad Award; key figure in the photoconceptualist Vancouver School

Invested into the Order of Canada

• Father David Bauer OC (1967), Basilian priest, chaplain and ethics teacher at St. Mark's College (1961–1988)
• Basil Stuart-Stubbs, CM (2006), University Librarian (1964–1981)
• W.H. New OC (2007), Professor of English Literature (1965–2003)
• Jane Coop, CM (2013), Professor of Music (1980–2012)
• Clyde Hertzman, OC (2013), Professor of Population and Public Health (until 2013)
• Nassif Ghoussoub, OC (2016), FRSC, Professor of Mathematics (1979–present)
• Bob Hindmarch, CM (2019), Professor and director of physical education (1961–1992)

Recipients of honorary degrees

• Louise Arbour, justice
• Rosemary Brown, first black Canadian woman elected to a provincial legislature
• Emily Carr, artist
• Raffi Cavoukian, musician
• The 14th Dalai Lama
• Robertson Davies, author
• John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada
• David A. Dodge, economist
• Tommy Douglas, former Premier of Saskatchewan
• Shirin Ebadi, lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Atom Egoyan, filmmaker
• Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia
• Judith Forst, mezzo-soprano
• Michael J. Fox, actor
• Mike Harcourt, former Premier of British Columbia
• Ben Heppner, operatic tenor
• Clara Hughes, Olympic cyclist and speedskater
• Finn E. Kydland, economist
• Grace McCarthy, former premier of British Columbia
• Beverley McLachlin, first woman to be Chief Justice of Canada
• Lester B. Pearson, 14th Prime Minister of Canada and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist
• Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
• Bill Reid, artist
• Amartya Sen, Indian economist awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
• Carol Shields, author
• Adlai Stevenson II, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada
• John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• Peter Wall, real estate developer and philanthropist
• George Woodcock, anarchist philosopher and founding editor of Canadian Literature
• Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• The Aga Khan IV

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed
Allison Macfarlane	Director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affair	1 July 2020

 

Sponsor

Event	Description
Open Philanthropy	Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Ajay Agrawal			Canada	Economist	Canadian economist who has written several books on the economics of artificial intelligence. Attended 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Kevin Annett	1956			Author Whistleblower Activist	When he reported that the church of which he was a minister had been involved in genocide, Rev. Kevin Annett was told to shut up. He didn't. He researched the topic and wrote books and made a movie about it. His Wikipedia page has been deleted at least 4 times as "non-notable" because he has been blacklisted with dynamic silence by corporate media. He continues to expose institutional corruption and child abuse.
Amir Attaran			Canada Iran US	Lawyer Epidemiologist	Canadian "Dr. Doom" epidemiologist pushing for Trudeau's emergency rule, masks forever, and "accelerated" safety standards for jabs.
Dominic Barton	1962		Canada	Politician	Bilderberger, businessman
Kim Campbell	10 March 1947		Canada	Activist Politician	former Canadian prime minister
Robert Hare	1934		Canada	Author Academic Psychologist
Stephen Jolly	September 1960		UK	Propagandist Academic	Institute for Statecraft propagandist
Roy MacLaren	26 October 1934		Canada	Author Diplomat Politician Historian	Five Bilderberg visits spanning 27 years, Canadian politician
Irshad Manji	1968		Canada	Author	Bilderberg 2005. WEF/Young Global Leaders 2006, Muslim du jour in the 2000s.
Jim Mitchell			Canada		Canadian Foreign Policy Analyst who was "in attendance" at the 1983 Bilderberg.
Sophia Murphy
James Pattison	1 October 1928		Canada	Billionaire Businessperson	Billionaire Bilderberger Canadian businessman with fawning media coverage. Giving Pledge.
Ziad Ramley			Canada UK	Journalist	"ZINC Network’s Head of Digital" interested in "misinformation"
Norman Robertson	4 March 1904	16 July 1968	Canada	Diplomat Spook Civil servant Deep state actor	Canadian spook and later Ambassador to the UK and US, and "helped Canada become a part of the intelligence community". Attended the 1961 Bilderberg. Played a role in the overthrow of the John Diefenbaker.government in 1963.
Indira Samarasekera	11 April 1952		Canada	Bureaucracy	Canadian academic administrator, WEF, Bilderberg
Theresa Tam	1965		Canada	Civil servant Health official	Canadian health official implementing a range of government COVID-19 measures, from destructive and silly to medically highly unethical.
Justin Trudeau	25 December 1971			Politician Puppet leader Deep state actor	Puppet leader of Canada, YGL 2005, in early 2022 froze the bank accounts of Canadians who were protesting government overreach
Jody Wilson-Raybould	23 March 1971			Politician Lawyer	Canadian cabinet minister who was forced out by Justin Trudeau

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