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June 9, 2005
YALE UNIVERSITY: President Levin announces selection of 2005 Yale
World Fellows
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New Haven, Conn. – Yale University President Richard Levin announced
Tuesday the selection of the 2005 Yale World Fellows.
Building on Yale’s reputation for training leaders (including four of
the last six U.S. Presidents), and aiming to develop a global network
of emerging leaders and broaden international understanding at the
university, the Yale World Fellows Program brings 18 highly
accomplished men and women from a diverse set of countries around the
world to Yale each year for a 17-week leadership program.
“Now in its fourth year, the Yale World Fellows Program has created a
vibrant network of leaders spanning more than 50 countries around the
world,” said Levin. “With the selection of the 2005 World Fellows,
that network includes 10 new countries: Panama, Venezuela, the
Bahamas, Kenya, Armenia, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Israel, Vietnam and
Japan. I look forward to welcoming these future world leaders to Yale
this fall.”
Selected from outside the U.S. at an early mid-career point, World
Fellows come from a range of fields and disciplines, including
government, business, media, non-governmental organizations, the
military, religion and the arts. This year’s World Fellows include
the vice president of a leading South Korean conglomerate, the chief
of staff for the President of Lithuania, the Philippine Secretary of
Energy, the director of Israel’s first legal advocacy group for Arab
minority rights, the former Minister of Trade of Panama, the Chief
Superintendent of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, one of China’s most
influential television anchormen and the former governor of the third
largest state in Venezuela. A complete list of 2005 World Fellows
follows this release.
“The 2005 World Fellows have exceptional records of achievement and a
proven capacity for leadership,” said Yale World Fellows Program
Director Daniel Esty, a professor of environmental law and policy at
Yale. “Building on their access to Yale faculty, alumni, visitors and
students, these World Fellows will be prepared for even greater roles
of leadership when they return home. In fact, over half of the 2004
World Fellows have already experienced noteworthy career changes
since their program ended last December.”
This year, the Program selection process was intense-with hundreds of
top quality applications for only 18 positions.
Review committees representing six geographical regions around the
globe helped to narrow the field. The final selection was made by a
panel of Yale faculty. “I cannot adequately express my excitement
about the opportunity to take part in this prestigious fellowship as
a member of the World Fellows class of 2005,” said Nigerian human
rights lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim, upon hearing of her acceptance to the
Program. “I am looking forward to becoming a ‘world citizen’ after
sharing experiences with the other fellows this fall.”
>From September to December, the 2005 World Fellows will take part in
a specially designed World Fellows Seminar taught by some of Yale’s
most distinguished faculty; are able to take any of the 3,000 courses
offered at Yale (including courses in management, law, history,
economics and political science); and are provided with
individualized skill-building sessions on public speaking, media
training, conflict resolution and problem solving. The Program
provides the World Fellows with tuition fees, housing, travel, health
care coverage and a $30,000 living stipend.
Through a private weekly dinner speaker series and trips to New York
and Washington, D.C., World Fellows have access to U.S. government
officials, business leaders, international affairs experts, Yale
alumni and other American and foreign leaders. Past World Fellows
have met with Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, former CEO of Procter &
Gamble John Pepper, Washington Post White House Correspondent Dana
Milbank and UN Millennium Project Director Jeffrey Sachs, among
others.
While at Yale, World Fellows develop invaluable contacts with one
another and U.S. academic and professional communities.
World Fellows also have access to the extensive network of Yale
graduates around the world. In addition, all World Fellows are
invited to a biennial “Return to Yale” forum where current and alumni
fellows meet and build a global association of world leaders, as well
as renew their ties to Yale.
Reflecting on why he chose to take part in the Yale World Fellows
Program, South African IBM executive and 2004 World Fellow Mteto
Nyati said: “I decided to invest this time to take a step back from
all the things I am involved in, develop new strategies and close
knowledge gaps. At the end of the day, it was a very worthwhile
investment. I have never been on any program that offers what this
program offered.”
Other past World Fellows include a Ugandan member of parliament now
running for president of his country; a Canadian army officer,
subsequently promoted to brigadier general, now in charge of
strategic planning for the Canadian Army; a deputy director for the
German Environment Ministry, now chief of staff for the President of
Germany; a Philippine congressman, elected vice president of his
party; a councilwoman from La Paz, Bolivia, now the city’s director
of human development; and a former head of the UNDP in Kosovo, now
chief of staff for the UN’s Office of Special Envoy for Tsunami
Recovery headed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton (Yale Law
School ’73).
2005 Yale World Fellows
Lusine Abovyan – Armenia Title/Organization: Lawyer and former
journalist, currently serving as a constitutional law specialist for
the Armenia Legislative Strengthening Program charged with reforming
the Armenian constitution.
Age: 31
Marianne Camerer – South Africa Title/Organization: Director, Global
Integrity, a project of the Center for Public Integrity, an NGO that
tracks the state of corruption and accountability in twenty-five
countries and conducts investigative research on public policy issues
around the world.
Age: 35
Marvin H. Dames – Bahamas Title/Organization: Chief Superintendent of
Police and interim Assistant Commissioner of Crime, Royal Bahamas
Police Force.
Age: 41
Bakhodir Ganiev – Uzbekistan Title/Organization: National Coordinator
for Regional Development Strategy, UNDP Sustainable Income Generation
Program.
Age: 28
Paromita Goswami – India Title/Organization: Founder and President,
Shramik Elgar (Marching Army of Working People) for the indigenous
and rural poor of Chandrapur and Gadchiroli districts of Maharashtra,
India.
Age: 35
Darius Gudelis – Lithuania Title/Organization: Adviser and interim
Chief of Staff to the President of Lithuania.
Age: 31
Irne Hors – France Title/Field: China Governance Program Coordinator
at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
in Paris.
Age: 36
Hauwa Ibrahim – Nigeria Title/Organization: Lawyer specializing in
human rights and, in particular, defense counsel in cases involving
Islamic Sharia law.
Age: 38
Hassan Jabareen – Israel Title/Organization: General Director of
Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
Age: 41
Joaquin Jcome Diez – Panama Title/Organization: Partner, Jcome and
Jcome, and Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of Panama
from 1999 to 2004.
Age: 39
KHUAT Thi Hai Oanh – Vietnam Title/Organization: Director, Center for
Health and Social Development, focused on HIV/AIDS through the local
health development process-oriented NGO Institute for Social
Development Studies.
Age: 35
Mi-Hyung Kim – South Korea Title/Organization: Executive Vice
President and General Counsel, Kumho Asiana Business Group, one of
the largest conglomerates in South Korea.
Age: 41
Sascha Muller-Kraenner – Germany Title/Organization: Director for
Europe and North America at the Heinrich Bll Foundation, which works
with the German Green Party to develop policy.
Age: 42
Henry Njoroge – Kenya Title/Organization: Managing Director, UUNET
Kenya Ltd and proponent of the expansion and development of the
information technology sector in Kenya.
Age: 38
Vincent S. Perez – Philippines Title/Organization: Secretary of
Energy, Philippine Department of Energy (2001-2005).
Age: 47
RUI Chenggang – China Title/Organization: Anchor and Director at
China Central Television (CCTV), the national television network of
the People’s Republic of China.
Age: 28
Henrique Fernando Salas-Rmer – Venezuela Title/Organization: Vice
President, Unin de Partidos Latinoamericanos, a coalition of Latin
American political parties, and Governor of the State of Carabobo,
the third largest state in Venezuela (1996 to 2004).
Age: 45
Kazushige Tanaka – Japan Title/Organization: Deputy Director of the
Energy Efficiency Division, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry (METI).
Age: 35
CONTACT: Mia Reynolds, Yale World Fellows Program Tel: +1 203 432
1912 e-mail: [email protected] Dorie Baker Tel: +1 203 432 8555
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