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Proudly Human Student is a stand-alone service of Proudly Human, the international certification organization that verifies and labels human-created content, services and products.

Proudly Human was founded by Alan Finkel AC PhD, the former Chief Scientist of Australia and former Chancellor of Monash University, and founder of successful biotech and edtech companies Axon Instruments and Stile Education. In his book Powering Up, published June 2023, to the best of our knowledge, Alan became the first author in the world to make a declaration of human origin.

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Alan Finkel AC PhD

  • Founder, Proudly Human
  • Former Chief Scientist of Australia
  • Former Chancellor of Monash University
  • Founder, Axon Instruments & Stile Education
  • Author
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