| Mary Quin | |
| Birth Place: | U.S. |
| Occupation: | Former chief executive at Callaghan Innovation |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University (MBA) Northwestern University (PhD) [1] |
| Known For: | being kidnapped and being held hostage |
Mary Quin is the former[2] chief executive at Callaghan Innovation,[3] was an executive at Xerox in New York City, and a dual citizen of the United States and New Zealand. 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.[4] She wrote a book about that affair: Kidnapped in Yemen: One Woman's Amazing Escape from Captivity (The Lyons Press,).[5]
The New Zealand Herald named her as one of two 2014 New Zealanders of the Year.