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Official Fellows Muhammad Farid Ahmed has been elected to an Official Fellowship from December 2018. First coming to Cambridge in 2007 for his MPhil in economics, Farid’s life has repeatedly brought him back to Cambridge. He grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, the eldest of four siblings. Attending one of the few remaining missionary schools in Pakistan, Farid arrived in the UK immediately after his graduation. Initially starting a career in accounting, he soon realized that his real passion was economics, and he returned to Cambridge to study for a doctorate. He met his wife, Adeela, towards the end of his PhD; his dual love for Cambridge and his then wife to be, brought him back to Cambridge again after a year at a university in Pakistan. Farid enjoys teaching and interacting with budding economists. He also has a keen interest in photography and you may find him taking a stroll along the Cam with his camera in hand. Ali Meghji has been elected to an Official Fellowship from September 2019. Ali began his journey at Magdalene in 2011, when he studied as an undergraduate. Since then he has moved around the city, completing an MPhil at Homerton College, a PhD at Robinson, a research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, and even taking a short break to the other Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Harvard. He is delighted to be returning home to Magdalene as a Fellow in HSPS, and, while his knees are no longer capable of keeping up with the demands of College football, he is looking forward to contributing further to access and life at the College. Fittingly for an academic, Ali is a keen coffee enthusiast and he enjoys spending his weekends in his local café with his partner Emily, whom he met at Magdalene in 2011. Ali’s work focuses on social inequalities, and given his commitment to emancipatory sociology, he is also interested in bringing academic knowledge into the public domain.
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