Meet Dr Lis Kirkby, she is a 93-Year-Old Graduate... Amazing

This goes to show that no matter how old you are, its never too late to try.

Lis was the state leader of a major political party, she played a lead role in a primetime television drama, fought for social change and ran a radio station in a newly decolonised Malaysia. 

At 93 years of age, Dr Lis Kirkby is Australia's oldest PhD graduate.

Her PhD thesis, 'Will we ever learn from history: the impact of economic orthodoxy on unemployment during the Great Depression in Australia', was finalized at the end of  in 2013 through the University of Sydney Business School's Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies.

Dr Kirkby decided to pursue her PhD after watching conservative governments determined to reduce spending, repeat the same mistakes they made in the Great Depression after the GFC took hold.

Although she was aware that her age has set her apart from her fellow PhD candidates, she didnt see it as a disadvantage. In fact, she believed with her age and experience in life, she had an edge. "When Goldman Sachs was in trouble in 2007-2008 there was no corporate memory. There was nobody who had any real knowledge of what had happened to Goldman Sachs prior to 1980," she says.

"I believe that people should be judged in old age on their capacity, not on their chronological age. I think it is terribly wrong that as soon as a person reaches a certain age they are automatically written off as too old. It really is infuriating that people assume you can't do something because of your age." 

Its never to late to achieve.