Graduation 2008
The 16th July 2008 Award Ceremony saw a total of seventeen GMI students graduate. The GMI staff were all pleased to see so many students returning for the ceremony and congratulate all of them on achieving their degrees. The GMI was also delighted to see its second two PhD graduates.
The academic procession included Professor Sarah Palmer, Professor Roger Knight, Professor Alastair Couper, Dr Minghua Zhao and Chris Ware. After the ceremony in the Old Royal Naval College Chapel and a reception in the Painted Hall, the GMI graduates and their guests gathered in Queen Anne Court for a final celebratory drink and group photographs.
The graduates were as follows:
| PhD Maritime Studies | MBA Maritime Management |
| Dr Sabirin Ja’afar | Paul Albert |
| Dr Peter Widd | Ashwin Date |
| David Khundadze | |
| Kashif Mehmood | |
| MA Maritime History | Mamoon Ur Rasheed |
| Jamie Buntin | |
| Martino Ferrari Bravo | MA Maritime Policy |
| Alison Parr | Abdulrahman Almansoori |
| Bill Paxton | Sofia Iliogrammenou |
| Fred Williams | Raja Maitra |
| Jonathan Wise | James Shaw |
