Dorinda
Hafner

Speaker Profile

Dorinda Hafner is a breath of fresh air. Be in her company for more than a minute and you wonder what your life was like before you met her!

Dorinda is an international TV celebrity, actor, businesswoman and best-selling author with 5 TV series and 7 books to her credit. Her shows have reached over 40 countries and her books have been translated into Dutch & Portuguese.

For ten years Dorinda was a weekly food presenter with Bert Newton on Good Morning Australia, and she has much more to her list of credits than cooking and food anthropology.

She can regale you with tales of her life - born as an Ashanti Royal, her Colonial Methodist Ladies College “education” in Ghana and being the first black RN trained at St Georges Hospital London. She is spellbinding. You will need to supply tissues on the tables as she has been known to have everyone crying with laughter!

Dorinda sits at tables with paupers & princes alike and her popularity with most cultures is a credit to her outstanding communication skills.

Most recently, Dorinda, apart from being a very popular public speaker, has her own communications company where she heads up a team of PR, Marketing and Internet professionals utilizing the latest technology building businesses online.

Her innovative “Africa in Schools program” has now gone online and she webcasts her own talk and cooking shows with Dorinda’s WebTV.

And if that were not enough for one lifetime - Dorinda is now also a marriage celebrant – “you are not really married until you are married by Dorinda!”

Dorinda is a one-off - she inspires, motivates & infects people with her passion, energy and irreverent joie de vivre.

Dorinda instigated a charity – Australian Sponsorship 4 African Kids, and has worked tirelessly with many charities, non profit organisations & community organisations, to name a few:

- Bedford Industries
- The Royal Society for the Blind
- Variety Club
- Zonta Clubs
- Canteen
- World Vision
- Oxfam
- Anglicare
- Starlight Foundation
- Breast Cancer
- Hutt Street Homeless


Dorinda Hafner’s books;

- A Taste of Africa (an international best seller)
- Dorinda’s Taste of the Caribbean
- I Was Never Here and This Never Happened (also an international best seller)
- United Tastes of America
- Tastes of Britain
- A Taste of Africa (New Edition)
- Ethnodelicious - Eat, Travel, Collect (co-authored with William & Dorothy Hall)

Dorinda Hafner has also been painted 4 times for the Archibald prize. The latest being by Sue Flanagan.

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