Guest Speaker: Warren David Gatland CBE
Warren David Gatland CBE (born 17 September 1963) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player who is the head coach of the Wales natonal team. As head coach of Wales from 2007 to 2019, he won three Six Natons ttles, including three Grand Slams, and reached the semi-fnals of the 2011 and 2019 Rugby World Cups. Gatland was also head coach of the Britsh & Irish Lions on three tours, to Australia in 2013, when they won the Test series 2–1; New Zealand in 2017, when the series was drawn; and South Africa in 2021, losing the series 2–1. He has previously coached Connacht, Ireland, London Wasps, where he won three Premierships and the Heineken Cup, and Waikato, with whom he won the Air New Zealand Cup. He has also coached Chiefs between 2020 and 2022 before returning to Wales in December 2022. As a player, he played as a hooker and was one of Waikato's longest-serving players, playing 140 games for the province – a record at the tme.
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