Mary Quin

Mary Quin is a business chief executive. She is the former chief executive at Callaghan Innovation, 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. 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. She wrote a book about that affair: Kidnapped in Yemen: One Woman's Amazing Escape from Captivity.
The New Zealand Herald named her as one of two 2014 New Zealanders of the Year.