Yale World Fellows Program
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The Yale World Fellows Program is a program run by Yale University
that seeks to build a network of emerging global leaders and broaden international understanding at Yale. Every year, the program selects approximately fifteen highly accomplished men and women representing a diverse set of countries from throughout the world and brings them to spend a semester at Yale University to explore critical global issues and contribute to international awareness and dialogue within Yale University.
World Fellows are typically selected at an early point mid-career, and come from a variety of sectors, including government, business, the media, nongovernmental organizations, education, religion, the military, and the arts. The program is designed to help the Fellows expand their professional and personal horizons and prepare for greater roles of leadership. They guest lecture in classes, meet with student groups, deliver campus-wide lectures, and contribute to informal dialogue and learning across the campus. The Program runs each Fall, from mid-August through Mid-December.
event TEDx Yale World Fellows.
The World Fellows Program also sponsors an annual Global Leadership Series conference. At these conferences held in cities around the world, World Fellows alumni, leaders in the region, prospective World Fellows nominees, and other experts debate selected international topics and provide input into solutions to critical problems. Past conferences have addressed issues such as the United Nations Global Compact's contribution for addressing corporate social responsibility.
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
that seeks to build a network of emerging global leaders and broaden international understanding at Yale. Every year, the program selects approximately fifteen highly accomplished men and women representing a diverse set of countries from throughout the world and brings them to spend a semester at Yale University to explore critical global issues and contribute to international awareness and dialogue within Yale University.
World Fellows are typically selected at an early point mid-career, and come from a variety of sectors, including government, business, the media, nongovernmental organizations, education, religion, the military, and the arts. The program is designed to help the Fellows expand their professional and personal horizons and prepare for greater roles of leadership. They guest lecture in classes, meet with student groups, deliver campus-wide lectures, and contribute to informal dialogue and learning across the campus. The Program runs each Fall, from mid-August through Mid-December.
History
On the occasion of Yale's tercentenary, in 2001, University President Richard C. Levin launched a number of internationalization initiatives aimed at enhancing Yale's global footprint. The Yale World Fellows Program was among these, and it has since emerged as the University's signature international leadership training program – with a steadily growing global reputation for excellence – as well as a popular, broadly participatory program for the entire Yale community. Yale welcomed the first class of World Fellows to New Haven in the fall of 2002, and now boasts more than 150 emerging leaders world wide, representing 74 countries. These include a diversity of committed innovators, from top government officials and members of parliament to on-the-ground activists and investigative journalists to ground-breaking artists and next-generation business executives.Core Goals
The Yale World Fellows Program has three core goals:- Broadening the knowledge foundations and strengthening the leadership skills of a set of emerging leaders from around the world
- Deepening the international dialogue across the Yale campus by having the World Fellows play a role as catalysts for conversations and as a source of perspectives, both formal and informal, on global issues and challenges
- Creating a network of international decision makers from a range of disciplines who are connected to Yale and to each other
Activities
The program sponsors a variety of events every year, including global conferences, multimedia exhibitions, and panel discussions on current events. World Fellows often initiate their own collaborative projects while at Yale, such as the Seven Billionth Person Project, an international multimedia effort that invites people to share through writings and art what they would say to the world’s seven billionth baby, expected to be born sometime in 2011. The Return to Yale Forum is held every other year, and brings together current and former World Fellows to meet and engage in debates about contemporary issues. The most recent Forum was held in October 2009 and included discussions on global governance, energy and environmental sustainability, development and poverty, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, human rights and civil society, as well as small-group breakout sessions by region and interest area. In 2011, the Yale World Fellows hosted Yale University's first TEDxTED (conference)
TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
event TEDx Yale World Fellows.
The World Fellows Program also sponsors an annual Global Leadership Series conference. At these conferences held in cities around the world, World Fellows alumni, leaders in the region, prospective World Fellows nominees, and other experts debate selected international topics and provide input into solutions to critical problems. Past conferences have addressed issues such as the United Nations Global Compact's contribution for addressing corporate social responsibility.
- 2010: The Global Compact at 10: Holding Ourselves Accountable, Istanbul, Turkey
- 2009: The Middle East in Transition: Leadership in Challenging Times, Cairo, Egypt
- 2008: Post-Modern News: Cacophony and Chaos in a 24/7 Multi-Media World, Paris, France
World Fellows in the Media
- In remarks delivered at the tercentennial of Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, former U.S. President Bill ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
acknowledged that, "I said I would like to be a world fellow, and I was informed that I no longer qualify as a young world leader. So today you are stuck with my opinions without the benefit of further Yale study." - 2010 World Fellow Alexey NavalnyAlexey NavalnyAlexei Anatolievich Navalny is a Russian political and social activist who in recent years gained great prominence amongst Russian bloggers and mass media due to his social campaigning activity...
a Moscow-based lawyer and a crusader against corruption in Russian state-owned companies, was profiled in The New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
and the New York Times for his web-based campaign against state corruption. - 2009 World Fellow Muna AbuSulayman was named one of the 100 most powerful Arab women of 2011, and ranked 113th out of the world's 500 most influential Arabs.
- 2009 World Fellow Maria Corina MachadoMaría Corina MachadoMaría Corina Machado Parisca is a founder, former vice president, and former president of the Venezuelan volunteer civil organization Súmate, along with Alejandro Plaz....
is a Venezuelan Congresswoman who has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate to challenge Venezuela's current President Hugo ChavezHugo ChávezHugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the 56th and current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...
in the 2012 election. - 2007 World Fellow Gidon Bromberg was named one of Time Magazine's Environmental Heroes of the Year in 2008, for his work on using environmental activism to foster peace processes in the Middle East.
- 2004 World Fellow Aboubakr Jamai, a journalist from Morocco, was featured in the New Yorker for his confrontational weekly newspaper, Le Journal Hebdomadaire.
- 2003 World Fellow Norbert MaoNorbert MaoNorbert Mao is a Ugandan lawyer and politician. He is the current president of the Democratic Party, and the Local Council 5 Chairman for Gulu District.-Background:He was born on March 12, 1967. His father was Acholi and his mother was a Munyankole...
is the leader and Presidential Candidate of the Democratic Party of Uganda. He came in third place in the February 2011 Presidential elections, ceding to the incumbent President Yoweri MuseveniYoweri MuseveniYoweri Kaguta Museveni is a Ugandan politician and statesman. He has been President of Uganda since 26 January 1986.Museveni was involved in the war that deposed Idi Amin Dada, ending his rule in 1979, and in the rebellion that subsequently led to the demise of the Milton Obote regime in 1985...
. Mao has said that he will focus on strengthening Uganda’s Democratic party to win the 2016 presidential elections.
List of World Fellows 2002-2010
The biographies of all fellows can be found on the Yale World Fellows website.| Name | Country | Year | Name | Country | Year | |
| Abovyan, Lusine | Armenia | 2005 | Kwengwere, Paul | Malawi | 2004 | |
| AbuSulayman, Muna | Saudi Arabia | 2009 | Lagodinsky, Sergey | Germany | 2010 | |
| Acosta, J.R. Nereus | Philippines | 2004 | Lapucci, Massimo | Italy | 2006 | |
| Akl, May Tony | Lebanon | 2010 | Lisitsyna, Maria | Kyrgyz Republic | 2007 | |
| Alemu, Getachew | Ethiopia | 2006 | Lopez, Claudia | Colombia | 2009 | |
| Ali, Imtiaz | Pakistan | 2008 | Low, Penny | Singapore | 2007 | |
| Al-Khalifa, Marwa | Bahrain | 2008 | Lunga, Precious | Zimbabwe | 2008 | |
| Altinay, Ali Hakan | Turkey | 2009 | Ma, Jun | China | 2004 | |
| Arthur, Emelia | Ghana | 2002 | Mabrouk, Fares | Tunisia | 2010 | |
| Ashraf Nemat, Orzala | Afghanistan | 2008 | Machado, Maria | Venezuela | 2009 | |
| Asiedu, Emmanuel | Ghana | 2008 | Malahoo Forte, Marlene | Jamaica | 2007 | |
| Avlonitis, Xenofon | Greece | 2006 | Mao, Norbert | Uganda | 2003 | |
| Baba, Mohamed | Netherlands | 2006 | Maradiaga, Felix | Nicaragua | 2008 | |
| Barakat, Saleh | Lebanon | 2006 | Mategwa, Beatrice | Kenya | 2009 | |
| Barja-Chamas, Cecilia | Bolivia | 2004 | Maung, Nay Win | Myanmar | 2004 | |
| Beblavá, Emilia Sicáková | Slovakia | 2003 | Mistry, Rozina | Pakistan | 2002 | |
| Boza, Beatriz | Peru | 2002 | Mizne, Denis | Brazil | 2007 | |
| Brahme, Unmesh | India | 2009 | Mor, Nachiket | India | 2004 | |
| Breka, Sandra | Germany | 2008 | Morrow, Hugh | Australia | 2003 | |
| Bromberg, Gidon | Israel | 2007 | Müller-Kraenner, Sascha | Germany | 2005 | |
| Cai, Yanmin | China | 2002 | Mulqueeny, Kala | Australia | 2010 | |
| Camerer, Marianne | South Africa | 2005 | Musa, Adamu | Cameroon | 2002 | |
| Carpentier, Chantal-Line | Canada | 2006 | Navalny, Alexey | Russia | 2010 | |
| Cattaneo, Olivier | France | 2004 | Nebhrajani, Sharmila | United Kingdom | 2007 | |
| Chandrakirana, Kamala | Indonesia | 2003 | Newton-King, Nicky | South Africa | 2006 | |
| Chandran, Subhashini | India | 2010 | Ngo, Tung | Vietnam | 2006 | |
| Chino, Mitsuru | Japan | 2007 | Njoroge, Henry | Kenya | 2005 | |
| Chkhatarashvili, Ketevan | Georgia | 2007 | Nyati, Mteto | South Africa | 2004 | |
| Daimagüler, Mehmet Gürcan | Germany | 2007 | Orozco-Gomez, Angela | Colombia | 2003 | |
| Damdelen, Mustafa | Cyprus | 2002 | Oyewole, Ibidapo | Nigeria | 2008 | |
| Dames, Marvin | Bahamas | 2005 | Perez, Vincent | Philippines | 2005 | |
| Dashko, Karina | Russia | 2004 | Perez-Kakabadse, Alonso | Ecuador | 2002 | |
| D\'Cruz, Celine | India | 2003 | Pinto da Costa, Henrique | Sao Tome and Principe | 2002 | |
| De Rynck, Stefaan | Belgium | 2006 | Piper, Robert | Australia | 2004 | |
| Di-Aping, Lumumba | Sudan | 2010 | Proissl, Wolfgang | Germany | 2010 | |
| Djoumataev, Taalaibek | Kyrgyz Republic | 2002 | Pundak-Mintz, Adi | Israel | 2008 | |
| Dominguez, Carmen | Chile | 2003 | Quennet-Thielen, Cornelia | Germany | 2003 | |
| Dong, Qian | China | 2007 | Razzaghi, Emran | Iran | 2004 | |
| Doumit, Gilbert | Lebanon | 2008 | Rees, Marvin | United Kingdom | 2010 | |
| Ducoté, Nicolas | Argentina | 2007 | Royesh, Azizullah | Afghanistan | 2010 | |
| Dugolli, Ilir | Kosovo | 2004 | Rtabi, Imane | Morocco | 2006 | |
| Elsadda, Hoda | Egypt | 2003 | Rui Chenggang | China | 2005 | |
| Evans, Alexander | United Kingdom | 2009 | Saggar, Shamit | United Kingdom | 2003 | |
| Faieta, Jessica | Ecuador | 2006 | Salas-Römer, Henrique F. | Venezuela | 2005 | |
| Frech, Sofia | Mexico | 2003 | Sandoval Ballesteros, Amilcar | Mexico | 2002 | |
| Fuentes-Montero, David | Costa Rica | 2006 | Sedlácek, Tomáš | Czech Republic | 2006 | |
| Gain, Philip | Bangladesh | 2002 | Shevchenko, Andriy | Ukraine | 2008 | |
| Gamboa-Rocabado, Jesús Franco | Bolivia | 2008 | Shevchenko, Igor | Ukraine | 2006 | |
| Ganiev, Bakhodir | Uzbekistan | 2005 | Shikongo, Sem | Namibia | 2006 | |
| Ganne, Emmanuelle | France | 2009 | Silva, Neide | Brazil | 2002 | |
| Goswami, Paromita | India | 2005 | Sindi, Ali Othman | Iraq | 2003 | |
| Gudelis, Darius | Lithuania | 2005 | Sinha, Chetna Gala | India | 2002 | |
| Gumede, Vusi | South Africa | 2009 | Sobhan, Zafar | Bangladesh | 2009 | |
| Haffner, John | Canada | 2008 | Stevens, Heather | Northern Ireland | 2004 | |
| Harrington, Nicola | United Kingdom | 2008 | Sulaiman, Huzir | Malaysia | 2007 | |
| Hendra, John | Canada | 2009 | Swelam, Ashraf | Egypt | 2007 | |
| Hernández, Ana Paula | Mexico | 2010 | Szekfu, Balázs László | Hungary | 2006 | |
| Hogan, Christine | Canada | 2002 | Taljaard, Raenette | South Africa | 2003 | |
| Hood, Gavin | United Kingdom | 2008 | Tanaka, Kazushige | Japan | 2005 | |
| Hors, Irène C. | France | 2005 | Tejan-Cole, Abdul | Sierra Leone | 2002 | |
| Houben, Hiddo | Netherlands | 2003 | Terán, Ricardo | Nicaragua | 2010 | |
| Hunegnaw, Muluemebet Chekol | Ethiopia | 2007 | Titanji, Ernest Duga | Cameroon | 2007 | |
| Ibrahim, Azeem | United Kingdom | 2009 | Trudolyubov, Maxim | Russia | 2009 | |
| Ibrahim, Hauwa | Nigeria | 2005 | Tsedevdamba, Oyungerel | Mongolia | 2006 | |
| Jabareen, Hassan | Israel | 2005 | Tsui, Diana | China | 2010 | |
| Jácome-Diez, Joaquín | Panama | 2005 | Ünlü Kizil, Oya | Turkey | 2008 | |
| Jamaï, Aboubakr | Morocco | 2004 | Uwandu, Philomena Chinwe | Nigeria | 2003 | |
| Jarvis, Tim | Australia & United Kingdom | 2009 | Wan, Yanhai | China | 2003 | |
| Jian, Yi | China | 2009 | Wanchoo, Amit | India | 2007 | |
| Kagoro, Brian | Zimbabwe | 2003 | Ward, Michael | Canada | 2003 | |
| Khidasheli, Tinatin | Georgia | 2004 | Wygnanski, Jan Jakub | Poland | 2002 | |
| Khuat, Oanh Thi Hai | Vietnam | 2005 | Xulu, Thembi | South Africa | 2010 | |
| Kim, Mi-Hyung | South Korea | 2005 | Yakobashvili, Temuri | Georgia | 2002 | |
| Kim, Sang-Jo | South Korea | 2004 | Youssef, Ezzat | Egypt | 2006 | |
| Kingman, John | United Kingdom | 2004 | Yuan, Victor Y. | China | 2007 | |
| Knaus, Verena | Austria | 2007 | Zamhari, Arif | Indonesia | 2010 | |
| Kondo, James | Japan | 2008 | Zhang, Jingjing | China | 2008 | |
| Kraja, Garentina | Kosovo | 2006 | ||||