Mary Quin

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Mary Quin is a business chief executive. She is the former^[2] chief executive at Callaghan Innovation,^[3] was an executive at Xerox in New York City, and a dual citizen of the United States and New Zealand. She was raised in Palmerston North, New Zealand and received her secondary education at St Peter's College.^[4] In 1998, while traveling in Yemen her tourist group was kidnapped and four tourists were killed. After surviving being a hostage, she provided the FBI with information that allowed British cleric, Abu Hamza, to be extradited to the United States to for his role in the kidnapping.^[5] She wrote a book about that affair: Kidnapped in Yemen: One Woman's Amazing Escape from Captivity (The Lyons Press, ISBN 978-1592287284).^[2][6]

The New Zealand Herald named her as one of two 2014 New Zealanders of the Year.^[6]