120th Anniversary Reunion by Rhodes Trust

1 120th Anniversary Reunion 29 JUNE - 1 JULY, 2023

When unlikeminded people from different nations, professions and generations come together in a shared spirit, exciting new things begin. 2023 marks 120 years of bringing people together through the Rhodes Scholarships, 20 years of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation and five years of the Schmidt Science Fellows programme. We are so excited to have so many Scholars, guests and friends in Oxford to celebrate these tremendous milestones.

We are particularly delighted to mark this momentous occasion by welcoming attendees to Rhodes House as our major redevelopment project enters its last few weeks. We hope that you will enjoy exploring our new spaces. With an all-time record 1300 attendees, our 120th reunion events are spread throughout the wonderful city of Oxford. This handbook contains a map of the key locations, as well as comprehensive programme and speaker information. You will see that there really is something for everyone! Please remember to consult the ‘Rhodes Trust Events’ app for detailed information about the sessions you registered to attend.

Towards the back of this handbook there is also a section on important information, as well as some key FAQs. If you need any additional help or advice during the 120th, I know the staff team or one of the volunteers will be happy to assist.

I hope the next three days will be filled with stimulating ideas, lovely new friends and joyful reconnections!

Dr Elizabeth Kiss Warden & CEO of the Rhodes Trust

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5 Contents Rhodes Trust Strategy Update 6 Supporting Scholars in Residence 9 Transforming Rhodes House 10 Programme of Events 17 • Thursday 29th June 18 • Friday 30th June 26 • Saturday 1st July 34 Directory of Speakers 42 Useful information 57 • Key information 58 • Activities in Oxford 59 • Event Map 62 • Frequently Asked Questions 64 Reunion Stats 66 120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Strategic P

We have invested strongly in the parity of the application and created a new operating model for Scholar in Residence experience, ensuring the the National Secretaries. stipend is above the median Oxford rate and providing Our partnership programmes also go from strength to a housing subsidy for first year Scholars where needed. strength. This year the Mandela Rhodes Foundation

We now also fully cover all visa and health insurance celebrates its 20th Anniversary and the Schmidt Science costs. Other innovations include stronger mental health Fellows program its fifth. The Atlantic Institute will be support, the Warden’s Discretionary Fund which allows bringing its Global Fellows together at Rhodes House later small-scale grants and the introduction of Application Day in the summer, and Rise will also be running a residential for those considering the onward trajectory to the DPhil. programme in Oxford for their teenage winners. Our newest partnership is with Harris Manchester College to Within the field of selection and outreach, we create Oxford Next Horizons, a six-month experience for have produced new training materials for selectors, mid- to late-career participants with expertise in any field, re-formatted the personal statement aspect of the giving them time to think, explore and reinvent.

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The current ten-year strategic plan takes us to the 125th Anniversary, so at this halfway point impressive strides have already been taken.

Alumni have benefitted from the development of a lifelong fellowship model which has different forms of engagement for different stages of life. There is a strong programmatic element, most recently seen at the Rhodes Policy Summit: Creating a Positive Legacy from the Pandemic which took place earlier in the year. We will also welcome the inaugural cohort of the Oxford Next Horizons Programme in Hilary term in 2024.

The launch of the new convening centre at Rhodes House and other associated building projects will revolutionise the space and we hope you will enjoy reading the report about this journey in this handbook,

as well as exploring the new rooms and outside space whilst you are in Oxford. It has also allowed us to incorporate many of the recommendations of our Advisory Group ‘Re-inventing Rhodes House’ which is one of three groups supporting our Legacy, Equity and Inclusion journey.

Our fundraising efforts support the Scholars in Residence, our Lifelong Fellowship programming and the building works as well as our expansion efforts. We want to deepen our Scholarship in many parts of the world, including increasing the number of African Scholarships to 32. We want to introduce the Scholarship to areas of the globe which have not benefitted from this opportunity before.

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Existing constituencies Existing constituencies to expand Proposed new constituencies 7

“We want to deepen our Scholarship in many parts of the world, including increasing the number of African Scholarships.”

Legacy, Equity and Inclusion

Our reputation as the world’s most distinguished academic scholarship rests not on the controversial life of our founder but on the enormous contributions our Scholars have made to the world.

Today, all of us around the world are called to join the struggle for equality and inclusion of all peoples of diverse backgrounds and identities, to eradicate systemic racism and to confront legacies of slavery, imperialism and colonialism.

Our three Advisory Groups – Re-imagining Rhodes House, Responding to our History and The Trust and Africa in the 21st Century –are all taking part in our 120th Anniversary Reunion which offers a chance for the community to hear updates on progress so far and to be part of wide-ranging discussions.

Our Guiding Principles

In developing and continuing to refine and update our work, we are guided by several principles:

• Fidelity to the Trust’s Mission to develop compassionate, innovative and public-spirited people committed to solving humanity’s challenges;

• Alignment & Integration with the Trust’s 125th Anniversary Strategic Plan - Lifelong Fellowship for Global Impact;

• Humility and Radical Inclusion: a willingness to listen and learn from diverse perspectives across our global, cross-generational fellowship, and beyond it;

• Curiosity, Honesty and Intellectual Rigour about the past and the present; and

• A Spirit of Acknowledgement, Reconciliation and Reparation to shape priorities and guide actions.

To read more about our work, go to: www.rhodeshouse. ox.ac.uk/impact-legacy/legacy-equity-inclusion/

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Supporting Scholars in Residence

We are deeply grateful to members of the Rhodes community who so generously support the Trust and today’s Scholars in Residence. Each year, the Trust relies on contributions to the Scholars Fund to ensure excellence and parity of the Scholar experience. From assistance with visas and rent increases, to supporting essential wellness support, the Scholars Fund serves as a bridge for expenses that cannot be covered through endowment and directly enhances the journey of today’s Scholars. A generous donor has offered a $200,000 matching opportunity for Scholars making their first gift to The Rhodes Trust, as well as those renewing their support since the Campaign for the Second Century.

If you are considering making a gift to the Scholars Fund, we invite you to do so today and maximise your impact.

To learn more or to make a gift, please visit http://www.rhodeshouse. ox.ac.uk/potential or scan the QR code.

Thank you

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partnership in supporting today’s Scholars on their journey to stand up for the world.

The Transformation of Rhodes House

For many participants at the 120th Anniversary Reunion, Oxford might seem to have changed very little since they were here as students. The sun still causes the golden stone around the city centre to gleam, but over on South Parks Road there have been dramatic additions to Rhodes House.

Over the past 24 months, our historic building has undergone a sympathetic renovation and restoration process, and dramatic new spaces have been created. Notably, the basement is now a modern convening space, and there are new underground staff work spaces. A sunken courtyard provides accommodation to speakers and guests, and a stunning glass pavilion is situated on the lawn. Imaginative new planting across the gardens make it a haven for all visitors. Throughout the new scheme there are improved sustainability initiatives and greater accessibility for all.

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“It is exciting to welcome you as the very first people to experience the new, revitalised Rhodes House, as we transition from building site to operational facility.”

Elizabeth Kiss Warden and CEO, Rhodes Trust

How will Rhodes House become a more open space?

ACCESSIBILITY

Throughout the House and gardens with additional lifts and ramps

ARCHAEOLOGY

Making the Civil War Rampart in the garden a special feature and explaining its context with additional interpretation material

ARTS PROGRAMME

An annual cycle of temporary exhibitions open to the public LOCAL COMMUNITY ACCESS

Actively encourage community engagement through internships, apprenticeships and the use of Rhodes House facilities

OPEN GARDEN EVENTS

Guided tours throughout the spring and summer providing information on the landscape architecture, biodiversity and planting

PUBLIC ACCESS

Greater transparency and access to visitors, regular open days to include tours of the building and explanation of its architecture and the work of the Trust

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Exhibits that critically engage contested legacies, facilitate debate and dialogue about them and raise challenging questions about how we heal, reconcile and overcome the inequities of the past

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“At a time when many forces are driving communities and countries farther apart, we are more committed than ever to building a space that can develop and connect compassionate and public-spirited people committed to solving humanity’s challenges.

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Elizabeth Kiss

Programme of Events

17 As of 16 June 2023, please consult the 120th online platform and app for any changes and the most current information

All Day

8.30am – 5pm

REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENT

Wadham College, Fellows’ Garden Marquee

Join us in the beautiful Wadham Fellows’ Garden for registration, refreshments and a chance to reconnect and network with the Rhodes Community. Entrance is via the Fellows’ Garden Gate, please follow signage and volunteers. Also open from 1 - 8pm on Wednesday 28 June, 8.30am - 5pm on Friday 30 June and 8.30am3pm on Saturday 1 July

Suitability: All Drop-in session

Parallel Sessions 1 (from 9.30am)

9.30 – 10.30am

Parallel Sessions 1

9.30 – 10.30am

Parallel Sessions 1

11am – 4pm

FOOTPRINTS TOURS Outside the East Lodge on South

Parks Road

Footprints Tours aim to showcase the essential Oxford sights. In this 45-minute tour, designed to refamiliarise you with (or introduce you to!) the local highlights, you will be in the safe hands of one of their professional, knowledgeable and friendly guides, who will be happy to answer any questions you have. Meet the tour guides Outside the East Lodge on South Parks Road. Tours will depart regularly once a large enough group has gathered or on the hour with 3pm being the last departure.

Suitability: All

Registration not required – drop-in basis (Also on Friday)

WELCOMING

YOU BACK TO THE REIMAGINED

RHODES HOUSE

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

Warden Elizabeth Kiss will lead a warm welcome to the 120th Anniversary Reunion. Following this, Mat Davis, Director of Estates, will deliver a comprehensive talk on the redevelopments of the reimagined Rhodes house. Attendees are welcome to join early between 08.45- 09.15 to explore!

• Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983) Warden & CEO, The Rhodes Trust

• Mat Davis, Director of Estates, The Rhodes Trust

(Session is repeated throughout the day). Suitability: All Registration required. Available online

9.30 – 10.30am

Parallel Sessions 1

SECTOR CONNECT:

Education & Learning, Humanities, Arts & Culture, Global Affairs & Security

Oxford Town Hall

This session allows Rhodes Scholars to meet others within the community who either work within or have an interest in Education & Learning, Arts & Culture or Global Affairs and Security. Pick the topic that interests you the most and come along to informally chat and network with others who may be facing the challenges you are trying to solve in this sector, with the prospect of finding potential collaboration opportunities. These sessions will be facilitated by Alumni co-hosts.

Education & Learning:

• Christopher Eisgruber (Oregon & University 1983)

• Carolyn Evans (Victoria & Exeter 1995)

Humanities, Arts & Culture:

• Rachel Skokowski (California & University 2015)

• Robin Russin (Wyoming & Corpus Christi 1979)

Global Affairs & Security:

• Emelia Probasco (Maryland/DC & Wolfson 2002)

• David Rodin (New Zealand & Magdalen 1993)

Suitability: Rhodes Community only Registration required. Not available online

POWER TALKS

Rothermere American Institute

Join us for two 15-minute short talks on some of today’s most critical issues, followed by a Q&A. Mason Ji (Washington & St Antony's 2016)

New Age of International Sanctions and Diplomacy: Global Affairs are in Turmoil

The advent of Russia’s war in Ukraine saw new waves of international sanctions as the preferred means of advancing national interest. What are the limitations and lessons learned from the last wave of sanctions? What can we expect next and where is international diplomacy heading? These are questions we seek to explore.

Aaron Rasmussen, Co-founder, MasterClass and Outlier.org

Suitability: 12+.

Registration required. Available online

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9.30 – 10.30am

Parallel Sessions 1

EXPLORE THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE XR LAB

Rhodes House, XR Lab

The Atlantic Institute seeks to build a catalytic lifelong community of leaders who connect, learn and act to address the underlying causes of inequity. 800 Atlantic Fellows in 70 countries collaborate across diverse contexts for greater impact. The Institute has placed a strategic focus on XR (Extended Realities), or what some refer to as the embodied internet, web three or the metaverse. Just as those furthering equity throughout history have harnessed the power of traditional technologies to uplift communities and ideas, the movement toward equity will be strengthened using emerging technologies. The Institute is delighted to welcome you to the newly built XR Lab at Rhodes House. Like the technology itself, engagement in this area is emerging, so ask questions, dream with us and explore how Fellows and Scholars can use this resource to build fairer, healthier societies.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

Parallel Sessions 2 (from 11am)

11am – 12.30pm

UNCOMFORTABLE

OXFORD TOUR

Meet at base of Carfax Tower

Uncomfortable Oxford offer an expert-led and researched way to see the iconic city whilst learning about its complex history. “The perfect introductory tour of Oxford, this tour engages with the politics of memory in the city and university. It covers histories of empire, inequality, and race, class, and gender discrimination, highlighting how these legacies have an enduring impact on our modern lives.”

Suitability: All

Registration required. Not available online

11am – 4pm

LUNCH

Wadham College Fellows’ Garden

Food and drinks trucks in the garden.

Suitability: All Registration not required

11am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

UNCOMFORTABLE

OXFORD TOUR

Follow the Money

Meet outside Saïd Business School, Park End Street

Can money ever be 'clean'? This tour highlights the University of Oxford’s relationship with contentious sources of revenue. Learn about historic and modern wealth distribution networks within the University and engage with conversations of wealth inequality in a city experiencing a housing crisis. We ask why billionaires keep investing in the historic university, how massive philanthropic donations should be handled and what effects such income streams have on academic freedom and political neutrality.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

WELCOMING YOU BACK TO THE REIMAGINED RHODES HOUSE

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

See details on opposite page (9.30am listing)

(Session is repeated throughout the day).

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

SECTOR CONNECT: Science & Innovation, Journalism

& Authorship, Government & The

Public Sector

Oxford Town Hall

This session allows Rhodes Scholars to meet others within the community who either work within or have an interest in Science & Innovation, Journalism & Authorship, or Government & The Public Sector. Pick the topic that interests you the most and come along to informally chat and network with others who may be facing the challenges you are trying to solve in this sector, with the prospect of finding potential collaboration opportunities. These sessions will be facilitated by alumni co-hosts.

Science & Innovation:

• Sean Gourley (New Zealand & Balliol 2002)

• Farah Shamout

(United Arab Emirates & Balliol 2016)

Journalism & Authorship:

• Lissa Muscatine (California & Wadham 1977)

• Dylan Barry (South Africa-at-Large & Merton 2018)

Government & Public sector:

• Arthur Mutambara (Zimbabwe & Merton 1991)

• Bronte Adams (Western Australia & Balliol 1986)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

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Parallel Sessions 2 (from 11am)

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING ACCESSIBILITY EXCHANGE: A Conversation on Inclusive Futures

Blavatnik School of Government

An opportunity for Rhodes Scholars in Residence and Alumni guests working on addressing accessibility and who are passionate about creating inclusivity, to come together to share knowledge and strategies for the future of disability and accessibility.

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Not available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

THE LONG AND WINDING RHODES

Rothermere American Institute

A lively conversation looking back and forward, for all classes, fields and constituencies. Prompted by excerpts from Class Notes, the panel will consider how the Rhodes experience has been similar across time and constituencies, what has changed and is different, compare and contrast paths since leaving Oxford, and reflect on their hopes and expectations for the future. These stories will enable the audience to consider and comment on similarities and differences with their own Rhodes journey, and their own vision for the future.

• Tinashe Chandauka (South Africa-at-Large & Trinity 2015)

• Alisha Wade (Commonwealth Caribbean & Trinity 2000)

• Babar Sattar (Pakistan & Balliol 1999)

• Susan Karamanian (Alabama & Somerville 1980)

Moderator

• Nick Allard (New York & Merton 1974)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

AARDMAN MODEL MAKING WORKSHOP

Blavatnik School of Government

Get creative with clay in these model-making workshops led by the team from Aardman, the world-famous creators of Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Chicken Run and Morph. Learn how your favourite Aardman animations are made and get hands-on making your own model to take home. With plenty of time to ask questions and learn insider tips and tricks, this workshop offers a fun and fascinating look into the world of Aardman. There will be three sessions through the day.

Suitability: 6+ (Families)

Registration required. Not available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

EXPLORE THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE XR LAB

Rhodes House, XR Lab

Suitability: All

Registration required. Not available online

12 – 3.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

IDEA GALLERY

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING HUMANITIES & ARTS PICNIC

Port Meadow, meet in South Car Park

A picnic for Arts and Humanities Scholars (in Residence and Alumni guests) to gather round and socialise with one other, thus beginning a strong network of acquaintance (and hopefully) mentorship and collaborations amongst those working in the arts and humanities.

Suitability: All

Registration required. Not available online

Rhodes House, Glass Pavilion

Join Rhodes Scholars in Residence, recent Alumni, Schmidt Science Fellows, Rise Global Winners and Atlantic Fellows as they showcase their projects, ideas and research through an open poster gallery. Connect and network with the Rhodes Community through discussions, knowledge-sharing and intellectual debate surrounding their posters focusing on DPhil projects, Scholar-led projects, Service Year initiatives and our partnership programmes.

Suitability: All

Registration not required – drop-in basis

Not available online

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Parallel Sessions 3 (from 1pm)

1 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Oxford and Empire

Meet outside Natural History Museum

Uncomfortable Oxford offers an expert-led and researched way to see the city while learning about its complex history. This tour contextualises the historical ties between Oxford and the British Empire, exploring how Oxford University was shaped by the imperial project and how graduates went on to gain powerful positions in the Empire.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

1 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR Follow the Money

Meet outside Saïd Business School

This tour highlights the University of Oxford’s relationship with contentious sources of revenue. Learn about historic and modern wealth distribution networks within the University and engage with conversations of wealth inequality in a city experiencing a housing crisis. We ask why billionaires keep investing in the historic university, how massive philanthropic donations should be handled, and what effects such income streams have on academic freedom and political neutrality.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

1 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

UNCOMFORTABLE

OXFORD TOUR

Meet at base of Carfax Tower

See details p.19 (11am listing)

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

1.30 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

WELCOMING YOU BACK TO THE REIMAGINED RHODES HOUSE

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

Warden Elizabeth Kiss will lead a warm welcome to the 120th Anniversary Reunion. This will be followed by Mat Davis, Director of Estates, who will deliver a comprehensive talk on the redevelopments of the reimagined Rhodes house. Attendees are welcome to join early between 12.30 and 13.15 to explore!

• Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983), Warden & CEO, The Rhodes Trust

• Mat Davis, Director of Estates, The Rhodes Trust (Session is repeated throughout the day).

Suitability: 12+ Registration required. Available online

1.30 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

CELEBRATING ALAIN LOCKE

(Pennsylvania & Hertford 1907)

AND SUPPORTING FUTURE RESEARCH

Rothermere American Institute

Join us at the Rothermere American Institute as we discuss African American scholarship at Oxford University, focusing on the life and work of Oxford’s first African American Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke. We also celebrate the recent creation of the Alain Locke Collection at the Vere Harmsworth Library (VHL). Generously supported by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, the aim is for the VHL to become the leading centre for the study of African American history, politics and culture outside of the US.

• Jack Zoeller (New York & University 1972)

• Raymond Burse (Kentucky & St John’s 1973)

• Camille (Mimi) Borders (Ohio & Magdalen 2018)

• Olana Peters (India & New College 2020)

• James Basker (Oregon & Christ Church 1976) Moderator

• Adam Smith, Director, Rothermere American Institute

Suitability: 12+, By invitation only Registration required. Available online

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Parallel Sessions 3 (from 1pm)

1.30 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

SECTOR CONNECT: Not-for-Profit, Business & Entrepreneurship, Healthcare

Oxford Town Hall

This session allows Rhodes Scholars to meet others within the community who either work within or have an interest in Business & Entrepreneurship, Healthcare, or the Not-for-Profit Industry. Pick the topic that interests you the most and come along to informally chat and network with others who may be facing the challenges you are trying to solve in this sector, with the prospect of finding potential collaboration opportunities. These sessions will be facilitated by Alumni co-hosts.

Not-for-Profit:

• Desmond Koh (Singapore & Oriel 1995)

• Justine Munro (New Zealand & Balliol 1993)

Business & Entrepreneurship:

• Ugwechi Amadi

• Neeti Bhalla Johnson (Kenya & Templeton 1998)

Healthcare:

• Sara Khalid (Pakistan & Oriel 2008)

• Jonathan Broomberg (South Africa-at-Large & Balliol 1985)

Suitability: Rhodes Community only

Registration required. Not available online

1.30 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

EXPLORE THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE XR LAB

Rhodes House, XR Lab

See details on p. 20 (11.30am listing)

Suitability: All

Registration required. Not available online

1.30 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

AARDMAN MODEL MAKING WORKSHOP

Blavatnik School of Government

Suitability: 6+ (Families)

Registration required. Not available online

1.30 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING AUCTION OF PROMISES:

Celebrating 120 Years of Giving within the Rhodes Trust

Blavatnik School of Government

The Auction of Promises is a much-loved annual event organised by Scholars in Residence at Rhodes House. One of our Scholar-led groups, Africa IFI, has successfully run this event for the past two years, raising over £5,000 to support nonprofit organisations operating in Africa. In an Auction of Promises, rather than objects, it is ‘promises’ from members of the Rhodes community that are up for auction. It is a highly anticipated evening where the Rhodes community comes together to offer an array of promises, including unique experiences like tea with Mary Eaton, Dinner with the Warden, coding tuition, bird watching, tours of All Souls College, and much more!

In honour of the Rhodes Trust’s 120th Anniversary, we are organising a similar auction that will showcase promises contributed by both the Scholar in Residence and Alumni communities. The proceeds from this event will directly benefit Scholar-led groups engaged in grassroots work within their communities. We invite you to join us and participate in the auction, where you will have the opportunity to bid on promises generously offered by Alumni and Scholars in Residence. Your involvement will contribute towards supporting these Scholar-led initiatives and their meaningful impact.

Suitability: 18+

Registration required. Not available online

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Parallel Sessions 4 (from 3pm)

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Meet at base of Carfax Tower

See details on p.19 (11am listing)

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Uncomfortable Ashmolean

Meet in the Statue Gallery (just to the left when you enter the Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street)

Explore the ‘uncomfortable’ side of the Ashmolean Museum – the first public museum in England. This tour highlights the contentious histories inherent in museum spaces, bringing forward discussions about colonial origins, object transferral networks and requests for repatriation. Through the questioning of labels, displays and exhibits, this tour asks participants: What is the purpose of a museum?

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

3.30 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

WELCOMING YOU BACK TO THE REIMAGINED

RHODES HOUSE

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

Warden Elizabeth Kiss will lead a warm welcome to the 120th Anniversary Reunion. This will be followed by Mat Davis, Director of Estates, who will deliver a comprehensive talk on the redevelopments of the reimagined Rhodes House. Attendees are welcome to join early between 2.30pm and 3.15pm to explore!

• Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983), Warden & CEO, The Rhodes Trust

• Mat Davis, Director of Estates, The Rhodes Trust

(Session is repeated throughout the day).

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online.

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Follow the Money

Meet outside Saïd Business School, Park End Street

See details on p.21 (1pm listing)

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

3.30 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

AARDMAN MODEL MAKING WORKSHOP

Blavatnik School of Government

See details on p 22 (1.30am listing)

Suitability: 6+ (Families) Registration required. Not available online

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Parallel Sessions 4 (from 3pm)

3.30 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

SECTOR CONNECT: Environment & Sustainability, Finance & Investment, Law

Oxford Town Hall

This session allows Rhodes Scholars to meet others within the community who either work within or have an interest in Environment & Sustainability, Finance & Investment, or Law. Pick the topic that interests you the most and come along to informally chat and network with others who may be facing the challenges you are trying to solve in this sector, with the prospect of finding potential collaboration opportunities. These sessions will be facilitated by alumni co-hosts.

Environment & Sustainability:

• Claire Wang (Utah & Linacre 2019)

• Pierre Van Hoeylandt (Germany & Magdalen 1993)

Finance & Investment:

• Roy Bahat (New York & Lincoln 1998)

• Sanjay Chauhan (India & Worcester 1988)

Law:

• Delroy Chuck (Jamaica & St Catherine’s 1973)

• Chimène Keitner (Maritimes & New College 1996)

Suitability: Rhodes Community only Registration required. Not available online

3.30 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

EXPLORE THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE XR LAB

Rhodes House, XR Lab

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

3.30 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 4

POWER TALKS

Blavatnik School of Government

Join us for two 15-minute short talks on some of today’s most critical issues, followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Jory Fleming (South Carolina & Worcester 2017)

Thinking Differently: An Autistic View on the Spaces We Inhabit

Drawing on my book and life experiences; geography and autistic experience meld together when navigating different spaces. Join for a discussion of neurodiversity and how we can make spaces more inclusive.

Ngaire Woods (New Zealand & Balliol 1987) Over-stretched in a Crisis-ridden World? Balancing responsibility for ‘the world’, your family and yourself.

Suitability: 12+ Registration required. Available online

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Jory Fleming Ngaire Woods

Evening Session

9 – 11pm

Evening Parallel Sessions

NIGHT OWL:

MEGA MEET & MINGLE AND UNLIKEMINDED OPEN MIC

Rhodes House, Convening Centre and Milner Hall

Join us at our ‘Unlikeminded Open Mic’ and prepare to be impressed by the range of talents in our community! Alumni, Scholars in Residence, family and friends are welcome to take to the stage to demonstrate their creative talents, whether musical, poetic, comedic, or anything else suited to the art of performance. If you’re looking to make more personal connections, head over to our simultaneous ‘Mega Meet and Mingle’ which will offer a chance to get to know other members of the community.

Suitability: 18+

Registration required. Not available online

9 – 11pm

Evening Parallel Sessions

NIGHT OWL: QUIZ

Wadham College, Fellows’ Garden Marquee

Get your thinking caps on again and put your knowledge to the test at the Rhodes Night Owl Quiz! Come with a team or we’ll help you form one on the night. Will your team be crowned the ultimate quiz winner and get their hands on the coveted Rhodes Quiz Cup?

Suitability: 18+

Registration required. Not available online

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Parallel Sessions 1 (from 8am)

8 – 9.30am

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING RHODES RUNNERS TAKE ON CHRIST CHURCH MEADOW

Christ Church Meadows

Lace up your running shoes and join us for an invigorating morning session led by our Scholars in Residence, as we explore the picturesque running routes around Oxford. Whether you’re a seasoned runner or a novice, this event welcomes participants of all ability levels. Be prepared to embark on an energising run through Oxford’s scenic landscapes, guided by avid runners from the Scholars in Residence community. Starting from a central location in Oxford, and ending inevitably in a coffee shop, this session promises a wonderful start to Day Two of events.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

9 – 10am

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING EID CELEBRATIONS

George Street Social

As the 120th celebrations coincide with Eid, this special event aims to create a warm and inclusive atmosphere where Scholars and guests can come together to celebrate the festival over breakfast on Friday morning.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

9.30 – 11am

Parallel Sessions 1

REFLECTIONS ON THE SCHOLARSHIP’S

HISTORY AND FUTURE

Keble College Lecture Theatre

In this interactive session we will hear from members of the Legacy, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Groups and learn about their approach to engaging with the Rhodes Trust’s history, the re-imagining of Rhodes House, and the Trust’s relationship with Africa. There will be the opportunity to break out into groups to workshop exciting ideas with the Advisory Group members.

• Muloongo Muchelemba (Zambia & Harris Manchester 2002)

• Alison Van Rooy (Manitoba & Lincoln 1990)

• Shadreck Chirikure, Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Oxford

• Kurt Schmoke (Maryland & Balliol 1971)

• Helen Ghosh, Former Rhodes Trustee

• Janet Jobson (South Africa-at-Large & St Antony’s 2007)

Moderator

• Ndumiso Luthuli (KwaZulu-Natal & St Peter's 2000)

Suitability: 12+ Registration required. Available online

10 – 11.10am

Parallel Sessions 1

RHODES IMPACT: Geopolitics and Global Affairs

with Welcome Address from Vice Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey

Examination Schools

We are delighted to welcome you to this interactive panel session. An opportunity to hear from the expert panel who will be sharing their knowledge and experience on the ever-changing landscape of geopolitics and global affairs.

• Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford

• Trudi Makhaya (South Africa-at-Large & St Antony’s 2002)

• Eleanor Brown (Jamaica & Balliol 1995)

• Bob Rae (Ontario & Balliol 1969)

• Meg Whitman, US Ambassador to Kenya

Moderator

• Brian Wong (Hong Kong & Balliol 2020)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

10 – 11am

Parallel Sessions 1

RHODES IMPACT: Law and Human Rights

Mathematical Institute

Join Rhodes Scholars who are expert in their field for this captivating panel discussion. Gain valuable insights as they share personal experiences, knowledge and wisdom. An interactive session where questions from the audience are encouraged.

• Edwin Cameron (South Africa-at-Large & Keble 1976)

• Menaka Guruswamy (India & University 1998)

• Jennifer Robinson (Australia-at-Large & Balliol 2006)

Moderator

• June Ong (Malaysia & Lady Margaret Hall 2020)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Not available online

26 HODES TR S OF THE R 0 YEAR 12 30 FRIDAY, JUNE

Parallel Sessions 1 (from 8am)

10 – 11am

Parallel Sessions 1

PANEL DISCUSSION: Pivotal Moments in the Trust’s History

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

Join us to delve into the Trust’s history and examine four pivotal moments including the introduction of women to the Scholarship in 1977, the financial challenges the Trust faced after the global financial crisis of 2007, the establishment of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation and the global expansion of the Scholarship. This will be a fascinating discussion on the Trust’s history and how the Trust and Scholarship has developed.

• Don Gogel (New Jersey & Balliol 1971)

• Elleke Boehmer (South Africa-at-Large & St John’s 1985)

• Pamela Banks Premier of Bermuda (1997-1998)

• Nanette Fondas (West Virginia & Brasenose 1981)

Moderator

• Andrew Graham Acting Warden Rhodes House (2012-2013)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

10 – 11am

Parallel Sessions 1

EXPLORE THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE XR LAB

Rhodes House, XR Lab

See details on p 24 (3.30pm listing)

Suitability: All

Registration required. Not available online

10 – 11am

Parallel Sessions 1

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING

RHODES IN CUBATOR: Elevator Pitch Competition

Keble College Café

The Rhodes Incubator: Elevator Pitch Competition, is a platform where innovation, entrepreneurship and industry expertise converge! This dynamic event brings together aspiring entrepreneurs and experienced Rhodes Alumni for a session of collaboration and creative problem-solving. Participants will be divided into teams, each focusing on a specific challenge within various industries. Leading these teams will be Rhodes Alumni who are industry experts, bringing their wealth of knowledge and experience to guide their teams through the process of developing a pitch for their respective new start-ups. At the end of the session, each team will present their elevator pitch to our panel of judges with a variety of potential prizes to be awarded.

Suitability: Rhodes Scholar in Residence Community only

Registration required. Not available online

10am – 12pm

Parallel Sessions 1

NATTY MARK SAMUELS: African and Caribbean Folklore Family Workshop

Rhodes House, Nyatta Family Cafe

The Vanilla Legacy: Rootical Folklore

In this interactive workshop, we'll be looking at the wider Caribbean, not just the Greater and Lesser Antilles, the host countries of the Windrush Generation. So, as well as a tale from Jamaica about Ackee, Nutmeg from Grenada and Sugarcane from Trinidad, there will be Tobacco from Guyana, Plantain from Surinam and Vanilla from Mexico, amongst others. We'll be using participatory aids such as chant, dialogue, brain teasers and interactive cartography.

Suitability: Families Registration required. Not available online

10 – 10.45am

Parallel Sessions 1

MODERN ART OXFORD CURATORIAL TOUR

Modern Art Oxford

Join an insightful curator-led tour within Modern Art Oxford with a special welcome from Director Paul Hobson. Modern Art Oxford is one of the UK’s leading contemporary art spaces with programmes offering opportunities for all for inspirational exchange and creative participation, both in person and online. The spotlight exhibition, “Carey Young: Appearance” will be focusing on the artist’s multi-layered vision of female identity, offering timely new perspectives on power, gender, and justice.

Suitability: All

Registration required. Not available online

10 – 11.30am

Parallel Sessions 1

STORY MUSEUM TOUR

Story Museum

Start your visit to the Galleries in the Portal – a travel office that will equip you for your journey into the world of stories. Enjoy live storytelling in the Whispering Wood – a mysterious indoor forest where every tree has a tale to tell and a secret to reveal. Continue your story journey inside a giant, recycled carboard, insect-sized world and discover our temporary exhibit: “Brilli-ant! How someone small changed a big story”. Finally lose yourself in imaginary story worlds such as Wonderland, Narnia and Choose Your Own Adventure in the Enchanted Library. This is a self-guided tour, but it will be facilitated by a dedicated Story Guide.

Suitability: Families (age 5+)

Registration required. Not available online

27 FRIDAY, JUNE

120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Parallel Sessions 2 (from 11.30am)

11.30am – 12.45pm

Parallel Sessions 2

COMMUNITY DIALOGUES

Keble College Lecture Theatre

Community Dialogues are a chance for members of the Rhodes Alumni community to meet with colleagues from the Rhodes Trust, discuss its current areas of focus, ask any questions, and learn more about our new initiatives.

• Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

RHODES

IMPACT: Business & Entrepreneurship Examination Schools

Don't miss out on a captivating panel discussion on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Impact. Delve into the personal experiences and highlights of our esteemed speakers, gaining valuable insights as they share their journey, challenges, and lessons learned. Together we will explore the significance of entrepreneurial impact, and the ways in which we can leverage the Rhodes network to create meaningful change. Gain a fresh perspective on the future outlook of business and entrepreneurship, engage with visionaries and change-makers, broaden your network, and be inspired to make a lasting difference. Join us for a transformative conversation where the power of business, entrepreneurship, and impact converge.

• Vishal Gulati (India & Imperial College 1995)

• Shmona Simpson (Commonwealth Caribbean & Trinity 2012)

• John McCall MacBain (Quebec & Wadham 1980)

• Lisa Klein (South Africa-at-Large & St Antony’s 1994)

Moderator

• Amer Baroudi (Syria & Worcester 2019)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

RHODES SCHOLARSHIP ‘TRAILBLAZERS’

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

The aim of this panel is to celebrate, and hear from, members of the Rhodes Trust community who have led the way in a particular area. This may have been through being one of the first members of their community to attend Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, or someone who championed a new community or cause. These members of our community have been crucial in allowing the Scholarship to diversify and grow and we would therefore like the opportunity to celebrate them and hear their stories, especially as we look to the future of the Trust and how the Scholarship can continue to grow and welcome new communities.

• Eileen Lach, International Lawyer

• Loyiso Nongxa (South Africa-at-Large & Balliol 1978)

• Calvin Runnels (Georgia & Balliol 2018)

• Rick Morales (New York & Christ Church 1976)

Moderator

• Summia Tora (Afghanistan & Somerville 2020)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

28 FRIDAY, JUNE 30

120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Vishal Gulati Eileen Lach

Parallel Sessions 2 (from 11.30am)

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

EXPLORE THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE XR LAB

Rhodes House, XR Lab

Suitability: All

Registration required. Not available online

11.30am – 12.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING FROM THE BEDSIDE TO THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION

Keble College Café

This event will facilitate participants sharing their experiences and advice for how to most effectively use different mediums including written pieces, audiovisual formats and social media to advocate for their patients and the diseases that affect them. The session will take the form of breakout conversations around the Keble College Cafe with opportunities for Scholars in Residence to engage with Alumni working in health advocacy and related fields.

Suitability: Rhodes Community only Registration required. Not available online

12 – 1.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

UNCOMFORTBLE

OXFORD TOUR

Oxford and Empire

Meet outside Natural History Museum

Uncomfortable Oxford offers an expert-led and -researched way to see the city while learning about its complex history. This tour contextualises the historical ties between Oxford and the British Empire, exploring how Oxford University was shaped by the imperial project and how graduates went on to gain powerful positions in the Empire. It begins with visits to The Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, and finishes outside in the city centre.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

12 – 1.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Follow the Money Tour

Meet outside Saïd Business School, Park End Street

See details on p.21 (1pm listing)

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

12.00 – 1.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Meet at base of Carfax Tower

See details on p.21 (1pm listing)

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

Lunch 12.30 – 2.30pm

ALUMNI LUNCHES

ACROSS OXFORD

Oxford Town Hall

Keble College

St Hilda’s College

Oriel College

Check the agenda in your app for your assigned location

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

1 – 3pm

Parallel Sessions 2

IDEA GALLERY

Rhodes House, Milner Hall

Join Scholars in Residence, recent Alumni, Schmidt Science Fellows, Rise Global Winners, and Atlantic Fellows as they showcase their projects, ideas and research through an open poster gallery. Connect and network with the Rhodes Community through discussions, knowledge-sharing and intellectual debate surrounding their posters focusing on DPhil projects, Scholar-led projects, Service Year initiatives and our partnership programmes’. There will be two sessions on Thursday and one on Friday.

Suitability: All Registration not required – drop-in basis

Not available online

29 FRIDAY, JUNE

120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Parallel Sessions 3 (from 3pm)

3 – 4pm

Parallel Sessions 3

RHODES IMPACT: Education & Learning

Examination Schools

Join us for an insightful panel discussion on education and learning as we explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities that lie within. Engage in a nuanced conversation about education as a catalyst for transformation, critically examining its potential to foster critical thinking, drive innovation and address social inequalities. We will explore the pressing issues of access and affordability, as we unravel barriers and seek innovative solutions to ensure equitable education for all. We will explore the role of technology in enhancing learning outcomes while addressing potential risks and drawbacks. We will reflect on the exchange of knowledge and practices between the Global South and the Global North, highlighting the importance of mutual learning and collaboration. Together, let us delve into the complexities of education and learning, uncovering pathways to create a more inclusive and impactful educational landscape. Don’t miss this thoughtprovoking discussion as we navigate the realities and possibilities of education in today’s world.

• Aly Kassam-Remtulla (Prairies & Balliol 1999)

• Maxine Williams (Commonwealth Caribbean & St Catherine’s 1992)

• Chisanga Puta-Chekwe (Zambia & Exeter 1976)

• Abigail Seldin (Pennsylvania & St Antony's 2009) Moderator

• Sameer Bhat (India & Linacre 2018)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

3 – 4pm

Parallel Sessions 3

RHODES IMPACT: Healthcare

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

Globally, most countries have faced reductions in life expectancy as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic both directly due to the virus and in disruption to health services. It has exposed long-standing gaps in public health, but also fast-tracked important innovations that could strengthen routine care. This conversation between panellists will focus on exploring critical interventions needed to be put in place now, in order to respond to chronic health inequalities and the acute emergencies that exacerbate them.

• Prabhat Jha (Prairies & Magdalen 1987)

• Shehnaaz Suliman (South Africa-at-Large & Balliol 1997)

• Tariro Makadzange (Zimbabwe & Balliol 1999)

• Atul Gawande (Ohio & Balliol 1987) Moderator

• Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen (Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch & Green Templeton College 2018)

Suitability: 12+ Registration required. Available online

3 – 4pm

Parallel Sessions 3

RHODES IMPACT:

Climate Change

Mathematical Institute

Drawing together panellists from across the fields of policy, law and economics this panel will explore key areas in climate action, including mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage. It will consider where we are, both in terms of emissions and impacts, explore the tools and means we have to achieve necessary transformations and key questions and gaps in knowledge. Finally it will ask, what is the Rhodes Community’s role, both as a community and individuals?

• Cameron Hepburn (Australia-at-Large & Magdalen 2000)

• Zinta Zommers (Ontario & Wolfson 2003)

• Varun Sivaram (California & St John’s 2011)

• Harj Narulla (New South Wales & St John’s 2016) Moderator

• Janet Botha (Zambia & Keble 2022)

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Not available online

30 FRIDAY, JUNE 30

120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Zinta Zommers Harj Narulla Maxine Williams Atul Gawande

3 – 4pm

Parallel Sessions 3

THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE RHODES TRUST’S FELLOWSHIP OF FELLOWSHIPS

The Partner Programmes

Keble College Lecture Theatre

Join Rhodes Scholars, Mandela Rhodes Scholar Alumni, Schmidt Science Fellows, Rise Global Winners and Atlantic Fellows to explore how the partnership programmes of the Rhodes Trust come together with a shared goal to develop and support leaders with ambition to make a positive difference in the world. You will also learn about the vision of how these partner programmes are forming a ‘fellowship of fellowships’, how they strengthen the Rhodes community and increase positive impact in the world

• Atherton Mutombwera (Mandela Rhodes Scholar)

• Gladys Ngetich (Kenya & Oriel 2015)

• Mark German, Executive Director, Rise

• Aria Florant (Atlantic Fellow)

• Harsh Agrawal (Rise Global Winner)

• Judy Sikuza, CEO, Mandela Rhodes Foundation

• Eric Braverman, CEO, Schmidt Futures

• Christopher Oechsli, CEO, Atlantic Philanthropies

Moderator

• Glen James Rhodes Trustee

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

3 – 4pm

Parallel Sessions 3

EXPLORE THE ATLANTIC INSTITUTE XR LAB

Rhodes House, XR Lab

The Atlantic Institute seeks to build a catalytic lifelong community of leaders who connect, learn and act to address the underlying causes of inequity. There are 800 Atlantic Fellows in 70 countries collaborating across diverse contexts for greater impact. The Institute has placed a strategic focus on XR (Extended Realities), or what some refer to as the embodied internet, web three or the metaverse. Just as those furthering equity throughout history have harnessed the power of traditional technologies to uplift communities and ideas, the movement toward equity will be strengthened and celebrated using emerging technologies. The Institute is delighted to welcome you to the newly built XR Lab at Rhodes House. Like the technology itself, engagement in this area is emerging, so ask questions, dream with us and explore how Fellows and Scholars can use this resource to build fairer healthier societies.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

3 – 3.45pm

Parallel Sessions 3

MODERN ART OXFORD CURATORIAL TOUR

Modern Art Oxford

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING

DEMYSTIFYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

Debating its potential and limitations

Examination Schools

Join us for an afternoon of intellectual discourse as Scholars in Residence face off against Alumni to engage in a thought-provoking debate on the ethical, social and economic implications of Artificial Intelligence.

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Not available online

Gladys Ngetich

Join an insightful curator-led tour within Modern Art Oxford with a special welcome from Director Paul Hobson. Modern Art Oxford is one of the UK’s leading contemporary art spaces with programmes offering opportunities for all for inspirational exchange and creative participation, both in person and online. The spotlight exhibition, “Carey Young: Appearance” will focusing on the artist’s multilayered vision of female identity, offering timely new perspectives on power, gender, and justice.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

31 FRIDAY, JUNE 30

120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Mark German

Parallel Sessions 3 (from 3pm)

3 – 4pm

Parallel Sessions 3

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING

DIVERSITEA

Wadham Marquee

A forum for Scholars in Residence and Alumni interested in gender issues to meet over tea and snacks to discuss prompts developed by conveners of the Rhodes Women and Gender Minorities scholar group with an aim to build connections and solidarities across disciplines amongst femaleidentifying scholars.

Suitability: 18+

Registration required. Not available online

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

STORY MUSEUM TOUR

Story Museum

Suitability: Families (Age 5+) Registration required. Not available online

4.30 – 5.45pm

Parallel Sessions 3

COMMUNITY DIALOGUES

Keble College Lecture Theatre

Community Dialogues are a chance for members of the Rhodes Alumni community to meet with colleagues from the Rhodes Trust, discuss its current areas of focus, ask any questions and learn more about our new initiatives.

• Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983)

Suitability: 12+ Registration required. Available online

4.30 – 5.30pm

Parallel Sessions 3

PORTRAIT UNVEILING: BOB AND DAWN WYLLIE

Rhodes House, Milner Hall

Longstanding Head Porter Bob Wyllie and parttime Porter Dawn Wyllie are being celebrated with a permanent portrait at Rhodes House. Joint us to commemorate their years of service. This event will be followed by a drink with Bob and Dawn at the King’s Arms.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

FRIDAY, JUNE 30 120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Elizabeth Kiss

Evening (from 9pm)

9 – 11pm

NIGHT OWL: MUSIC WORKSHOP WITH MOHANNAD

NASSER

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

Join us for a music concert and interactive workshop by oudist and composer Mohannad Nasser. The event presents diverse musical concepts of Arabic music in a playful and interactive way. Participants can have a glimpse of the rich aspects of Arabic melodies and grooves, singing, grooving and listening to music together.

Suitability: 18+

Registration required. Not available online

9 – 11pm

NIGHT OWL: FAILFAIRE

Wadham College,

Fellows' Garden Marquee

Failure is inevitable. In fact, it’s essential – to learning, to persisting, to remembering that we are only human. In the Rhodes community it can be especially hard to be open about failure, which is exactly why being candid and celebrating risk-taking is so important! Come ready to hear straight-up tales of epic mistakes – and to celebrate your brave fellows taking the stage. You’ll feel so inspired that you might just get up to share your own tale during the session.

Facilitated by

• Faith Salie (Georgia & Magdalen 1993)

Suitability: 18+

Registration required. Not available online

30 120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST FRIDAY, JUNE

Faith Salie

Parallel Sessions 1 (from 8am)

8 – 9am

Parallel Sessions 1

MEMORIAL SERVICE

Harris Manchester College Chapel

A service honouring the alumni and members of the Rhodes Community whose deaths were recorded between 2013 and 2023. This non-denominational service will take place at Harris Manchester College Chapel, and we encourage attendees to practise their beliefs in any way they wish.

Suitability: All Registration required. Available online

9 - 10.30am

Parallel Sessions 1

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING RHODES RUNNERS PARKRUN University Parks

At the second Rhodes Runners instalment, don’t miss the chance to join a group of Scholars as they take part in the weekly Parkrun. In this iteration, Scholars will take on the 5k route, held in the breathtaking University Parks. The Parkrun is a much-loved Oxford weekly event and offers a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow participants and immerse yourself in the vibrant Oxford running community. This event welcomes participants of all ability levels.

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

10am – 12pm

Parallel Sessions 1

PLENARY:

CELEBRATING THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY

The Sheldonian

In this celebratory session, attendees will hear from the new Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, members of our Board of Trustees and some of the most notable members of the Alumni community, both in person and virtually. There will be a strategy update from the Warden, as well as a celebration of the work of our partnership programmes.

• Sir John Bell, GBE, (Alberta & Magdalen 1975)

• Dr Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983), t

• Professor Irene Tracey, CBE, FMedSci, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

• John McCall MacBain OC (Québec and Wadham 1980)

• Andrew Banks (Florida & St Edmund Hall 1976)

• Judy Sikuza, CEO, Mandela Rhodes Foundation

• Eric Braverman,CEO, Schmidt Futures

Suitability:12+ allocated by lottery Registration required. Available online

SATURDAY, JULY 1 120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Professor Irene Tracey, CBE Sir John Bell, GBE Judy Sikuza

10am – 12pm

Parallel Sessions 1

PLENARY:

12 – 1.30pm

Parallel Sessions 1

12.30 – 2.30pm

Parallel Sessions 1

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING

CELEBRATING

THE RHODES SCHOLARSHIP’S 120TH ANNIVERSARY (Overflow room)

Rhodes House, Convening Centre

A live streaming of sessions taking place in the Sheldonian.

Suitability: 12+ allocated by lottery

Registration required 10am – 12pm

Parallel Sessions 1

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING PATHS OF RESISTANCE: RHODES SCHOLARS CHALLENGING

INJUSTICE

Mathematical Institute

As a community of Scholars committed to challenging an ever-growing deeply unjust world, the 120th Anniversary provides an opportunity to engage with Scholars who have organised against injustice in the past and present. The aim is to facilitate a thought-provoking discussion about the legacy of our community, how we can stand against all forms of oppression, and how we can build solidarities across regions, identities, and temporalities. Engaging with the past and the present, with experiences from apartheid South Africa, Palestine, and more, featuring Scholars from diverse backgrounds, the event seeks to foster dialogue and uncover common ground in our collective pursuit of justice and equality. We hope that this session will serve as a catalyst for action and together, we can amplify our collective voice and take tangible steps towards creating a more just world.

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Available online

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Meet at base of Carfax Tower

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

12 – 1.30pm

Parallel Sessions 1

UNCOMFORTABLE OXFORD TOUR

Follow the Money

Meet outside Saïd Business School, Park End Street

See details on p.19 (11am listing)

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

12 – 1.30pm

Parallel Sessions 1

UNCOMFORTABLE

OXFORD TOUR

Uncomfortable Ashmolean

Meet in the Statue Gallery (just to the left when you enter the Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street)

See details on p.22 (3pm listing)

Suitability: All Registration required. Not available online

ALUMNI VS SCHOLARS IN RESIDENCE FOOTBALL MATCH

University Parks

At University Parks watch the most consequential intergenerational battle of our era unfold. Alumni and Scholars in Residence will go head-to-head in this friendly football game, with bragging rights for the next 120 years on the line. Will the youthful Scholars in Residence outpace their elders? Or will the seasoned experience and strategic brilliance of the Alumni prevail? Come along to find out. All are welcome to support, play, or picnic on the sidelines with a Pimm’s in hand.

Suitability: All (Scholars as team players) Registration required: only to play on the team Not available online

SATURDAY, JULY 1 120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Parallel Sessions 2 (from 3pm)

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

CLOSING PLENARY: DEBATING MERITOCRACY

Do the winners deserve the winnings? And the next 120 years, a vision for the Rhodes Scholarship

The Sheldonian

In the closing session of the official programme for the Reunion, Professor Michael Sandel will lead an interactive and intergenerational debate (including Rhodes Scholars in Residence) on Meritocracy. During the second half of the session, the Warden together with Rhodes Scholars in Residence and the audience, will outline a vision for the Rhodes Scholarship for the next 120 years.

• Michael Sandel (Massachusetts & Balliol 1975)

• Elizabeth Kiss (Virginia & Balliol 1983)

Suitability: 12+ allocated by lottery Registration required. Available online

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

CLOSING PLENARY: DEBATING MERITOCRACY

Do the winners deserve the winnings? And the next 120 years, a vision for the Rhodes Scholarship (Overflow room) Rhodes House, Convening Centre

A live streaming of sessions taking place in the Sheldonian.

Suitability: 12+ allocated by lottery Registration required

3 – 4.30pm

Parallel Sessions 2

SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE-LED PROGRAMMING

THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Mathematical Institute

Join us for an engaging panel discussion as we close out the Scholar-led programming by delving into the captivating world of storytelling. Our panellists will come together to share their invaluable insights behind crafting the powerful stories that capture hearts, stimulate minds and drive social change. Through their diverse backgrounds and expertise, we hope to spark both intergenerational and interdisciplinary conversations on the power of storytelling to shape perspectives, ignite imaginations, and inspire action. Whether you are an aspiring writer, a passionate advocate, a curious reader, or simply an individual who appreciates the beauty of narrative, this event is an opportunity to gain profound insights into the world of storytelling and its impact on our lives.

Suitability: 12+

Registration required. Not available online

SATURDAY, JULY 1 120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Michael Sandel

Evening (from 6pm)

6 – 7.30pm

ASHMOLEAN GALA RECEPTION

The Ashmolean Museum

Join us at the Ashmolean for a drinks reception with toasts from special guests. The dress code is formal, black tie optional.

• Lord Patten of Barnes Chancellor, University of Oxford

• Professor Irene Tracey CBE, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford’

Suitability: 18+ Registration required. Not available online

6 – 7.30pm

PITT RIVERS GALA RECEPTION

The Pitt Rivers Museum

Join us at the Pitt Rivers Museum for a family friendly drinks reception. This is suitable for under 18s and a creche is available for under 12s. The dress code is formal, black tie optional.

Suitability: All ages Registration required. Not available online

8pm – late GALA DINNERS

Various venues. Please consult your personal itinerary on the 120th app to find out which dinner venue you have been assigned to.

The Randolph Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LN

St Peter’s College

New Inn Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DL

Linacre College

St Cross Road, Oxford OX1 3JA

Rhodes House

South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3RG

St Edmunds Hall

Queen’s Lane, Oxford OX1 4AR

Wadham College

Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PN

Brasenose College

Radcliffe Square, Oxford OX1 4AJ

Museum of Natural History

Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW

SATURDAY, JULY 1 120 YEARS OF THE RHODES TRUST

Lord Patten

Alumni

Self-Organised Events

JUNE 29

5pm-midnight Rhodes Alumni Ice Hockey Match

The King's Arms (drinks)

Oxford Ice Rink (match)

To celebrate the Rhodes Scholars of Oxford ice hockey, OUIHC is hosting a drinks event (5pm, King's Arms) followed by an ice hockey match against OUIHC members (10.30pm). All welcome, even if not skating.

Open to: all Rhodes Alumni RSVP required; please register here: https://forms.gle/EqWnsHYwwsqxbW8K8

JUNE 30

10 – 11am

Tolkien Tour of Oxford Meet at Exeter College lodge

Spend a literary hour discovering sites in central Oxford that were key to the life and legacy of Professor J. R. R. Tolkien!

Open to: everyone RSVP required; please register: email Megan mc2engel@gmail.com

2 – 3pm Bhangra and Bollywood Workshop Christ Church College

Serene Singh (Colorado & Christ Church 2019) is the Founder of Oxford Bhangra. Bhangra is a Punjabi Indian folk dance that is the root of many Zumba, Bollywood and other high-energy workout classes. This class is open for all experience levels including and especially people who have never danced before. If you’d like to learn a new dance form, engage with Punjabi culture and community and have a GREAT time, please sign up ASAP!

Open to: everyone RSVP required; please contact Serene for room details and to RSVP: serene.singh@chch.ox.ac.uk

4 – 7pm

Pride Happy Hour for LGBTQIA+ Scholars and Allies

The King's Arms

Pride Happy Hour for LGBTQIA+ Scholars and Allies

Please join this informal, cross-generational gathering of LGBTQIA+ Rhodes Scholars. We have been connecting at Rhodes gatherings for three decades and we look forward to seeing you in Oxford. Significant others, children and allies are welcome.

Open to: everyone RSVP required; please register: Aly KassamRemtulla, aremtulla@stanfordalumni.org

4.30 – 6pm

Turf Tavern Takeover

Turf Tavern

Join Rhodes Scholars in Residence and recent Alumni for a summer afternoon of drinks, conversations and new and old connections at the historic Turf Tavern. We’re inviting all Scholars in Residence to the event – not just those attending the rest of the anniversary celebrations, so this is a great opportunity to learn more about current Scholars’ experiences, work and time at Oxford.

Suitability: Rhodes community only Registration required. Not available online

4.30 – 6.30pm

Southern African Association of Rhodes Scholars Social

The Oxford Retreat

1-2 Hythe Bridge St, OX1 2EW

Please join us for an opportunity to connect and catch up with fellow Rhodes Scholars from across Southern Africa.

Open to: Southern African Scholars in Residence and Alumni

RSVP required; please complete this form: https://forms.office.com/e/176rtb7wNy.

For questions, contact: Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen; helene.vdw@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk

5 – 8pm

The Culture Wars and the Rhodes Trust at 120 The Ursell Room, Pusey House

St Giles, Oxford

Distinguished writers and scholars will consider the purpose of the Rhodes Scholarship and its place in contemporary society.

Open to: everyone

RSVPs not required, you can contact Patrick Nash at psnash1@hotmail.com for further information.

6 – 7pm

1977 & 2017 Joint Class Gathering

Pembroke College's Hall Bar

A joint evening organised by Class Leaders from the Classes of 1977 and 2017.

Open to: Rhodes Scholars from Classes of 1977 and 2017

RSVP required; please contact Jamie at jamie.byrongeller@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk with dietary requirements ASAP (by 16 June).

As of 10 June 2023; please consult the 120th app and website for the most up to date information

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6 – 7pm Class of 1993 Drinks Warden’s Garden, New College

Join fellow classmates from 1993 for drinks in the Warden’s Garden at New College.

Open to: Class of 1993 and their partners/guests. RSVP required; please contact Erica at erica@radia.com

6 – 8pm Classes of 2010-2012 Drinks

The Head of the River. Folly Bridge St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 4LB

Informal drinks organised for the Rhodes classes of 2010, 2011 and 2012 (but open to others!).

Open to: Classes of 2010-12 and guests, but others are welcome, especially adjacent classes.

Registration not required, please contact Kamal Wood (woodkamal@gmail.com) if you would like to do so.

6 - 7.30pm Class of 2002 Pub Night Merton College Pub

Join 2002 classmates and families for a casual get-together at the Merton College Pub. Friends from other Rhodes classes welcome. We'll finish in time for dinner together or on your own.

Open to: Class of 2002 and friends. RSVP to neil@neilrobertbrown.com

7pm

Dinner with Class of 1980

Meet at Rhodes House

Transportation provided

Members of the Class of 1980 and their partners are invited to a dinner at a wonderful restaurant near Oxford.

Open to: Class of 1980 and their partners. RSVP to christiane.banmeyer@pamojacapital.com

7pm Rhodes Class of 1970 Drinks and Dinner

Exeter College, Turl Street

Senior Common Room and Old Bursary

An informal dinner at Exeter College for members and guests of the Rhodes Class of 1970; contribution to costs requested.

Open to: Members (and guests) of the Rhodes Class of 1970.

RSVP to Rick Trainor (Rhode Island & Merton 1970); rector@exeter.ox.ac.uk

9.30 – 11pm

Drinks Rhodes Class of 2015

The Royal Oak

Great catch up over great drinks with 2015 Rhodies!!

Open to: 2015 Rhodes Scholars and their guests. RSVP to joanna.x.klimczak@gmail.com

JULY 1

11am

Canadian Gathering

Salter’s Steamers

Folly Bridge, Oxford OX1 4LA

Scholars past and present are cordially invited to a Canada Day BBQ lunch on the Thames for a special sailing event and opportunity to mingle with fellow alums and connect with the Canadian Scholars currently undertaking their studies in Oxford. Spouses and Partners are welcome, however there is a capacity limit of 115 people. Boarding: 11am onwards, Sailing: 12.30pm

Open to: Canadian-elected Alumni, those living in Canada and the Canadian Scholars in Residence Ticket purchase: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/ charities/rhodes-scholarships-in-canada/events/ canada-event-120

For any questions, please reach out to pamela.chang@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk

11am

Greater China Rhodes Scholars Port Meadow Walk & Lunch

Port Meadow/The Perch

Binsey Lane, Binsey, Oxford OX2 0NG

A meet-up for Scholars and partners/family affiliated with the Greater China region. We’ve reserved a limited number of restaurant seats at the Perch which requires a £10 deposit payment from those who sign up. The Perch’s outdoor garden also has a kitchen, bar and first-come, first-serve picnic tables. 11am - 12pm: Port Meadow group walk 12 -1.30pm: lunch at the Perch.

Open to: Scholars and partners/family members with an affiliation to Greater China RSVP by 14 June to Yan Chen at yan.chen@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk

12 – 2pm

AARS Luncheon Garden Party at Oxford

Balliol College, Garden Quad

The Board Members of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars (AARS) are excited to host a gathering of our members at the Rhodes 120th Anniversary Reunion in Oxford. We hope to see you and your guests at this festive garden party!

Free to AARS dues-paying members (or those who have donated to AARS within the last 12 months);

$50 (+online ticket fee of $5.20) for all others.

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ invitation-aars-luncheon-garden-party-at-oxfordjuly-1-tickets-634746422637

12.30 – 2pm

Jamaican and Commonwealth Caribbean

Rhodes Scholar Gathering

Multifunction Room

Lincoln College EPA Science Centre, Lady Abraham House, Museum Rd, OX1 3PX

Time to (re)connect with current and former Scholars from Jamaica and the rest of the Commonwealth Caribbean!

Open to: Former and current Rhodes Scholars from Jamaica and the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Registration: Alisha Wade, alisha.n.wade@gmail.com

JULY 2

10am – 3pm

Reunion of the Association of German Rhodes Scholars

Balliol College Senior Common Room

The core of the reunion is a festive brunch at Balliol college from 10am-1pm. The Reunion will be completed by an (optional) social walk through Oxford from 1pm-3pm - an additional opportunity to connect.

Open to: Members of the AGRS + any Rhodes Scholar that feels a connection to Germany

Registration required, please contact Peter Holderrieth (peterholderrieth@gmail.com)

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Speakers

Bronte Adams

(Western Australia & Balliol 1986)

Bronte is a leading thinker and advisor in Australian public policy and strategy. She founded dandolopartners to apply the logic, discipline and approaches she learnt in top-level management consulting to achieve public impact.

A former CEO, McKinsey & Co consultant and senior government executive, Bronte was an advisor to a reformist state Treasurer and went on to lead the Victorian Government’s technology arm. Current and past appointments include: Museums Board of Victoria, Victorian Education and Research Network, Innovation and Science Australia, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australian Broadband Advisory Council, UNESCO High Commission, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne University Publishing , Australia Council’s New Media and Visual Arts Boards, Innovation Economy Advisory Board, Health Innovation and Reform Council, Rhodes Trust in Australia, Rhodes Selection Committee, John Monash Foundation National Selection Committee, Tertiary Education Expert Advisory Group and a range of other innovation, science and technology advisory and commercialisation bodies, ICT and Gov2.0 advisory bodies.

Harsh Agrawal Rise Winner

Harsh Agrawal is a 2021 Rise Global Winner from India and a freshman at Imperial College London. In high school, he conducted research on a potential salivary biomarker for early detection of Pancreatic Cancer earning recognition as the recipient of the highest civilian honour under 18 in his country by the President of India. Following this, Harsh served as the lead data scientist for Paraswap, one of the largest crypto exchange aggregators, for a year, developing critical infrastructure. Currently, Harsh’s focus lies in the realm of proteins, exploring their dynamism to develop a programming language for protein manipulation and exploring the creation of smart drugs. Alongside this scientific pursuit, Harsh finds joy in playing the guitar, singing and indulging in long-form podcasts.

Nick Allard’s activities as a Rhodes Alumnus include long service as the 1974 Class Secretary. Stories drawn from over 900 pages of his annual class letters published in The American Oxonian are forthcoming in a book titled The Long and Winding Rhodes. For the reunion he is sharing excerpts to prompt conversations among Scholars of all ages and backgrounds. Nick is the Founding Dean of Jacksonville University’s new College of Law in Florida. Previously, he served as President and Dean of Brooklyn Law School. In addition to significant government service and political experience, he was a senior partner in some of the world’s most respected law firms. A Bodley Fellow at Merton, he is President of the Merton College Charitable Corporation, AARS Secretary, Trustee of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., an adviser to Cambridge’s Lucy Cavendish College and chairs the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress.

Ugwechi Amadi

(North

Ugwechi Amadi is currently Vice President, Head of Strategy - Global Operations and Technology at NIKE Inc., where she partners with the COO to identify opportunities to disrupt inertia and drive outsized value across the portfolio. Prior to this, Ugwechi led NIKE’s Enterprise Strategy and Communications Strategy teams.

Prior to NIKE, Ugwechi was a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group where she partnered with global retail clients on their brand strategy, specialising in personalised marketing, digital analytics and consumer insight. She holds a DPhil in Clinical Neurology from the University of Oxford and bachelor’s degrees in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Literature from MIT.

(New York & Lincoln 1998)

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg LP that was the first venture capital fund to focus on the future of work, and also the first to focus on artificial intelligence.

Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission.

He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, has served in government, and led a non-profit in addition to his work at established corporations and day zero start-ups.

He serves on the board or as an advisor to several nonprofits including Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and the Economic Security Project. Roy graduated from Harvard College, where he ran the student public service non-profit, and Oxford University. He also serves on the faculty at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Pamela Banks

Premier

Dame Pamela is serving her fifth year as the Chair of the Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarship Global Constituency. She has previously chaired the US District 6 and Bermuda Rhodes Selection Committees. She was also a member of the Schmidt Science Fellows Selection Committee. She was particularly honoured to receive the George Parkin Service Award as well as a Distinguished Friend of Oxford recognition.

Knighted by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 for Service to her Country, Dame Pamela received this honour for being the first woman Premier of Bermuda. Inducted as a member of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, she was also a member at the Inaugural Summit of the Council of Women World Leaders.

Her MBA is from Queen’s University Canada and she serves on their Global Council Board.

Married to Rhodes Trustee, S. Andrew Banks (Florida & St Edmund Hall 1976), they have four children and four grandchildren.

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Amer Baroudi

(Syria & Worcester 2019)

Amer is an entrepreneur with a track record of award-winning companies. His most recent venture, a fast-growing fintech, is backed among companies like Google, Stripe and Airbnb by prominent investors such as Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator and SV Angel. He is a governance, policy and finance expert, holding two degrees from the University of Oxford where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

He built properties in Europe, served as the founding president of the Oxford Syria Society and advised clients ranging from government authorities to a Premier League FC. He is a tireless optimist, an expert problem solver and secretly, a music composer.

Dylan Barry

(South Africa-at-Large & Merton 2018)

Dylan Barry is a recovering physicist and economist who writes on physics, neuroscience and genetics for The Economist.

James Basker

(Oregon & Christ Church 1976)

James Basker is President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Richard Gilder Professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. At Gilder Lehrman, Basker has overseen the development of educational initiatives nationwide, including the National History Teacher of the Year, Hamilton Education Program, teacher seminars and travelling exhibitions serving 34,000 schools.

An elected member of the Society of American Historians, Basker serves on the boards of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and Marymount School in New York.

Basker was educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and (as a Rhodes Scholar) Oxford. He taught for seven years at Harvard before coming to Barnard, and since 1985 has directed summer programs for high school students at Oxford, currently 'Oxford Academia' at University and Worcester colleges.

His publications include Amazing Grace: Poems about Slavery 1660–1810 (2002), Early American Abolitionists (2005), and American Antislavery Writing: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012).

Sir John Bell GBE, FRS is Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University. President of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2006 to 2011); Chair, Office for the Strategic Coordination of Health Research until 2017; Chair, Rhodes Trust; UK Life Sciences Champion since 2011. Appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 2015 for services to medicine, medical research and the life science industry. Co-developed and wrote both 2017 UK Life Sciences Industrial Strategy and 2021 Life Sciences Vision providing recommendations to HM Government on ensuring the long-term success of the life sciences sector.

Neeti Bhalla Johnson

(Kenya & Templeton 1998)

Neeti Bhalla Johnson is President of Global Risk Solutions at Liberty Mutual Insurance, the sixth largest global property and casualty insurer. In this role since July 2021, she leads the company’s commercial and specialty insurance business unit, with operations in 24 countries producing $15 billion in net written premium. She joined the company in 2013, as President and Chief Investment Officer, Liberty Mutual Investments. Neeti is a member of the board of directors of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the International Council of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the board of trustees of the Rhodes Trust at the University of Oxford. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Neeti earned an MBA and an MSc in Social Anthropology. She also holds a BA in Economics from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sameer Bhat

(India & Linacre 2018)

Sameer Rashid Bhat is a DPhil candidate in Public Policy at the University of Oxford. His doctoral research focuses on the interaction of legal regimes in armed conflicts. Sameer read for the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy and for the Master of Public Policy and obtained an undergraduate degree in law from Gujarat National Law University. He is qualified to practise law in India.

At Oxford, Sameer has been involved with several research and student action groups, having served as the Chair of Oxford Pro Bono Publico (OPBP), Student Chairperson of Oxford Transitional Justice Research Network (OTJR) and President of Linacre College CR. Sameer is a co-founder of Project EduAccess, a nonprofit initiative aimed at increasing access to higher education and creating opportunities of personal and professional growth for learners from marginalised communities in South Asia.

Sameer is the first Rhodes Scholar from Kashmir.

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Elleke Boehmer

(South Africa-at-Large & St John’s 1985)

Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English and Director of the Oxford Centre for LifeWriting at the University of Oxford. Previously, she served as Director of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. A Rhodes Scholar from South Africa, she is a founding figure in the field of postcolonial studies and empire. She is a Fellow of the English Academy, of the Royal Society of Literature, and of the Royal Historical Society. Her books include: Postcolonial Poetics; Indian Arrivals 1870-1915; Nelson Mandela; Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890–1920; Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation; Resistance in Interaction; and Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors Her fiction includes To the Volcano, and other stories; The Shouting in the Dark; Sharmilla, and Other Portraits; Nile Baby; Bloodlines; and Screens against the Sky

Camille (Mimi) Borders

(Ohio & Magdalen 2018)

Camille is a historian, writer and poet invested in unearthing the lived experiences of African American women. She is a PhD Candidate in History and African American Studies at Princeton University. Camille graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 with a BA in History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. After graduation, she moved across the Atlantic, studying at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. There, she received her MPhil in US History with distinction. Last summer, she was the inaugural Program Director for the African American Heritage House at the Chautauqua Institution.

At Princeton, she is writing her dissertation on Black women’s embodied experience of pleasure in the 19th century. She contributed as a researcher to the Toni Morrison ‘Sites of Memory’ exhibition at Princeton University Library. Camille’s writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, USA Today, and the Chicago Review of Books

Janet Botha

(Zambia & Keble 2022)

Janet is a PhD student reading Engineering Science at Oxford. Her research aims to assess the impact of climate change on buildings prone to subsidence and heave damage by modelling the interaction of climate, soil and buildings. Janet is passionate about climate resilience and adaptation for buildings and hopes to increase knowledge on the threat climate change poses to buildings.

Prior to Oxford, Janet studied a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering at Edinburgh University as a MasterCard Foundation Scholar. She began working in climate change there as a research assistant on the RC3 project, which aims to evaluate the resilience of traditional buildings in Madagascar to cyclones and assess the adaptive capacity of Malagasy communities at risk. Janet supported the team with understanding building typologies and modelling building response to cyclone wind. In her spare time, Janet usually sings and plays guitar and has a newly found passion for fencing.

Eric Braverman

CEO, Schmidt Futures

Eric Braverman is the chief executive of Schmidt Futures. Eric previously served as CEO of the Clinton Foundation and was a partner and co-founder of McKinsey & Company’s government practice globally. Eric is also a senior fellow at Yale, where he teaches about ethics in public leadership, is a member of YPO and the New York State Bar. Eric also serves as co-chair of the Families and Workers Fund, and is a member of the boards of Ready and other organisations.

Jonathan Broomberg

(South Africa-at-Large & Balliol 1985)

Dr Jonny Broomberg is CEO of Vitality Health International and Global Head of Health Insurance for the Discovery Group. He has been with Discovery for 18 years, including serving as CEO of Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurance business, for 10 years. He is now responsible for Discovery’s global health operations outside South Africa and the UK.

He is deeply interested in improving public and private health systems, public health and global health policy issues. Prior to joining Discovery, he was a founding partner of a specialist healthcare private equity business. In his earlier career, he worked in health economics and policy research, serving as Special Advisor to the Minister of Health in South Africa’s first post-Apartheid government.

Jonny studied Medicine in South Africa, and then read PPE at Balliol College before completing MSc and PHD degrees in Health Economics at the University of London.

Eleanor Brown (Jamaica & Balliol 1995)

Eleanor Brown is a Co-Founder of DiversiBoard, a Techstars/JP Morgan company that uses AI to enable African and Caribbean technical talent to apply to universities overseas at a fraction of the typical cost. She is also a Professor of Law at Fordham University and an affiliated faculty member at the Rock Ethics Institute of Penn State where she was previously a Professor. She was previously a chair of the Jamaica Trade Board. Brown was appointed to the CARICOM Commission and has served on the boards of several publicly traded Caribbean companies. She was the youngest director of two subsidiaries of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Jamaica). and of JPSCo, the electric utility owned by Korea Electric Power Corp., Marubeni Corp. of Japan, and the government of Jamaica. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Brown University and a Master’s degree in politics from Balliol. She earned her JD from Yale Law School and was a Reginald Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School.

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Raymond Burse

(Kentucky & St John’s 1973)

Until his retirement in 2012, Raymond M. Burse served as Vice President & General Counsel, GE – Appliances & Lighting. He served as General Counsel, GE Consumer Products from 2002 to 2004 and General Counsel for GE Appliances from May 2002 to September 2002. Burse joined GE in 1995 as Senior Counsel –Commercial Law. Before joining GE, Burse was a partner in the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, Kentucky from July 1989 to August 1995, and President of Kentucky State University from 1982 to 1989.

Following his retirement from GE, Burse served as President of Kentucky State University for a second time from July 2014 until May 2016.

Burse received his JD from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and his BS in Chemistry/ Mathematics from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Burse is married to Kim Burse and they have three sons and five grandchildren.

Edwin Cameron

(South Africa-at-Large & Keble 1976)

Edwin Cameron served as a judge for 25 years, the last 11 in the Constitutional Court. Educated at Pretoria Boys’ High, Stellenbosch and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, he practised as a human rights lawyer under apartheid. He has fought for LGBTI equality, including the historic inclusion of sexual orientation in the SA Constitution. Living with HIV, he fiercely criticised President Mbeki’s AIDS denialism and fought for access to antiretroviral treatments. He has written two prize-winning memoirs, Witness to AIDS (2005) and Justice: A Personal Account (2014). He is involved in many charitable and public causes. After retiring as a judge, he was elected Chancellor of Stellenbosch University and appointed inspecting judge of prisons.

Tinashe Chandauka

(South Africa-at-Large & Trinity 2015)

Tinashe Chandauka is a Founder and CEO of Nandi Life Sciences LLC. Nandi is a rare disease, oncology and auto-immune biotechnology company allied to the Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics (ACT), backed by The Texas Medical Center (TMC). Tinashe is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence within ACT. Prior to this, he was the Director, Early Pipeline Development at Tarsus Pharmaceuticals. Prior to this, he was at Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) where he participated in early-stage venture capital investments, in 55 early-stage biotech companies, including the Series B financing and IPO of Vaccitech, inventor of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine. As a Rhodes Scholar, he read for a DPhil and he holds a medical degree from the University of Cape Town (distinction and honours). He holds medical licences in the UK and RSA. He is a Board member of AMREF UK, a global Africa-focused healthcare charity.

Sanjay Chauhan

(India & Worcester 1988)

Sanjay is Chief Financial Officer at Pan Am Equities, a New York City wealth management firm specialising in real estate and dedicated to generational growth by meeting future challenges with innovative, technology-driven solutions. In this role, he partners with the executive team to develop institutional processes for risk management, portfolio strategy, technology integration, asset management, financial planning, reporting and analysis.

In his previous positions as COO of A&E, CFO of Jonathan Rose Companies and CFO & Partner at Urban American, Sanjay helped launch multidisciplinary, green, transit-oriented acquisition and redevelopment funds focused on impact investing in the workforce and affordable segments of multifamily housing. Additional responsibilities included providing strategic and operational support, directing investment strategy, governance, portfolio management and investor relations. As part of his portfolio management, Sanjay managed capital for dozens of limited partners, including many prominent pension plans, endowments, family offices and highnet-worth individuals.

Shadreck Chirikure

Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Oxford’

Professor Shadreck Chirikure is the University of Oxford’s Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science, Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art and British Academy Global Professor. His research interests include archaeometallurgy, human material relations, archaeological science and globalisation, heritage science and sustainability.

Delroy Chuck

(Jamaica

The Honourable Delroy Chuck was first elected in Jamaica’s General Election of 1997, and re-elected five times, as Member of Parliament for the Constituency of North East St. Andrew.

In 2007-2011 he served as Speaker of the House of Representatives. In 2011, he served a short stint in Office as Minister of Justice. In 2016, after his party, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) returned to office, he was again assigned the ministerial portfolio of Justice. Mr Chuck won a scholarship to the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, where he gained an honours degree in Special Mathematics. He became a Rhodes Scholar in 1973 and went to St Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford, England, reading Law.

Minister Chuck is the husband of Gloria and father of four daughters; he and Gloria have two grandsons and four granddaughters. He enjoys tennis, reads extensively and likes to listen to music or hang out with friends.

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Speakers

Mat Davis

Director of Estates, The Rhodes Trust

Mat has worked for the past 23 years as a senior Estates professional in the higher education sector in Oxford, delivering a number of important University of Oxford building projects with a combined value of approximately £200m, which create educational spaces to support 21st-century learners. Having assisted the Rhodes Trust with the ‘Big Build’ business plan and consultant appointments in 2018, Mat joined the Rhodes Trust full time in 2019 as Director of Estates to oversee the design, planning, procurement and construction of the project which will transform Rhodes House and prepare it for another century of service to the Rhodes Trust. Mat is a recognised global expert on the subject of Next Generation Learning Spaces, with a particular focus on the impact of technology on pedagogy and self-led learning, and the consequent impact on educational architecture.

Christopher Eisgruber

(Oregon & University 1983)

Christopher Eisgruber has served as Princeton University’s 20th president since July 2013. He served previously as Princeton’s provost for nine years, beginning in 2004, after joining the Princeton faculty in 2001.

Eisgruber has led efforts to increase the representation of low-income and first-generation students at Princeton and other colleges and universities. These initiatives have attracted attention from the New York Times, the Washington Post, 60 Minutes and other news outlets. Eisgruber has also been a leading voice in Washington and elsewhere for the value of research and liberal arts education. He has emphasised the importance of both free speech and inclusivity to Princeton’s mission; championed the University’s commitment to service; and launched initiatives designed to fortify Princeton’s connections to the innovation ecosystem. His books include Constitutional Self-Government (2001); Religious Freedom and the Constitution (with Lawrence Sager, 2007); and The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process (2007).

Carolyn Evans

(Victoria & Exeter 1995)

Professor Carolyn Evans has been Vice-Chancellor and President of Griffith University, Queensland Australia since 2019. She was educated in Law and Arts at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford and held the roles of Dean of Law and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, President of the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association, former Chair of the Innovative Research Universities, former board member of Open Universities Australia from 2019-2023 and current Board member of Universities Australia. She researches in the areas of religious freedom and academic freedom and has published widely in these areas. She has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and a Fulbright Senior Scholarship.

(South

Jory Fleming works at the University of South Carolina as a climate scientist and education specialist. He holds an MPhil in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, an MBA from the Quantic School of Business & Technology and a BS in Geography and Marine Science with a minor in Geophysics from the University of South Carolina. Alongside his service dog Daisy, Jory is invested in children’s education and raising awareness about disabilities. He loves the ocean and hopes to keep the planet beautiful and alive for the next generation. Jory lives with several disabilities, including autism. In his spare time, Jory is an avid bird-watcher, board game enthusiast and Scottish country dancer.

Aria is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Liberation Ventures (LV), a field catalyst and intermediary accelerating the Black-led movement for racial repair in the US. Previously, she was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey & Company’s Washington, D.C. office, where she served clients on issues related to strategy, organisational design, racial equity and financial sustainability. Aria also helped develop the firm’s early thinking on how to support clients on topics of racial equity and inclusive growth, which has now evolved into the McKinsey Institute for Black Economic Mobility. She co-authored several research reports on the topic.

Prior to McKinsey, Aria helped launch the first-ever round of programs for civic leaders at the Obama Foundation, and was a nonprofit practitioner and organiser in East Palo Alto, California. Aria received a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from The Wharton School and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Nanette Fondas is an author, activist, mother and former professor of business administration. She writes about the work people do and the care they give. Her scholarship focuses on leadership, workfamily and the care economy; it has been published in scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines, including The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Ms., and Psychology Today. Her 2010 book, The Custom-Fit Workplace, argues that flexible work arrangements are prudent, practical, efficient and necessary. Currently, she is writing a book about early Rhodes women and a second book about lost World War II men.

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Jory Fleming Carolina & Worcester 2017) Aria Florant Atlantic Fellow Nanette Fondas (West Virginia & Brasenose 1981)

Elena Gallina (Idaho & Brasenose 2019)

Elena is a documentary photographer and feminist economic researcher. Her work focuses on capturing the still moments in often sensationalised environments and disrupting traditional power imbalances in art. Growing up in Kosovo in the aftermath of the conflict there, and having worked with various non-profits in refugee camps across MENA as a young adult, her exposure to the misuse of humanitarian aid underpins both her artistic practice and academic work. She specialises in co-creative portraiture and writes philosophically on the classism and power imbalances of art narrative. A Rhodes scholar, she holds an MSc in Economic and Social History and an MBA. Currently based back home in the Balkans, she is working on a intersectional intergenerational exploration of “feminisms” in Kosovo 20 years since the genocide (to be exhibited in Oxford and Prishtina in 2023).

Atul Gawande (Ohio & Balliol 1987)

Dr Atul Gawande is the Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID. He is a surgeon, writer and public health leader. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, he was a practising general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He was founder and chair of Ariadne Labs and of Lifeboxy. He also co-founded CIC Health and served as a member of the Biden transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. Atul was a longtime staff writer for the New Yorker magazine and has written four New York Times bestselling books: Complications; Better; The Checklist Manifesto; and Being Mortal. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the winner of two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science.

Mark German Executive Director, Rise

Mark German is the Executive Director, Rise. An initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, Rise will build a lifelong community of students, teachers and institutions across sectors who aim to serve others. In this role, Mark leads the Rise team and manages a wide array of partners and stakeholders in bringing the program from concept to reality. Formerly supporting initiatives for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, E-Line Media, Intel Education, XPRIZE, World Science Festival and other organisations, Mark has led the development of over 200 products and a dozen large-scale programmes that have enhanced the lives of more than 12 million students and educators in 75 countries. Mark has a Master of Arts in Communications Management from the University of Southern California, a Master of Arts in Teaching from National College of Education and a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University.

Helen Ghosh

Helen Ghosh recently stepped down as a Rhodes Trustee after 12 years. Following a career as a UK civil servant, Helen spent six years as head of Europe’s largest environmental and heritage charity, The National Trust. She is now Master of Balliol College. Both at Balliol and in her work at The National Trust, she had been engaged in the question of how historic institutions should come to terms with the legacy of the past and how these can be represented in buildings, installations and the history that is told. In particular, at Balliol, she commissioned a study of the proceeds of slavery in the College endowment and the College is in the process of taking forward reparative action. Many National Trust historic properties now tell the story of the origins of the wealth that built them.

Don Gogel

(New Jersey & Balliol 1971)

Don Gogel is Chairman of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a private equity investment firm that he joined in 1989. CD&R currently manages approximately $70 billion in capital and holds investments across 42 portfolio companies in Europe and the US that together generate more than $100 billion in revenues and employ approximately 600,000 people.

Prior to joining CD&R, Don was a partner at McKinsey & Company, as well as a founder of the merchant banking group at Kidder Peabody & Co, Inc. He is a member of the Business Council and the Trilateral Commission. He also serves as a Vice Chairman of Mount Sinai Medical System, Cancer Research Institute and SeriousFun Children’s Network. Don received a BA with highest honours from Harvard College in international relations and then studied politics on a Rhodes Scholarship at Balliol College where he received an MPhil He also received a JD from Harvard Law School.

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Sean Gourley is the founder and former CEO of Primer, a San Francisco based Artificial Intelligence company building mission critical defence and intelligence applications for those who protect our security and democracy. Previously, he was CTO of Quid, a data visualisation company he co-founded in 2009. Prior to Quid, Gourley worked on self-repairing nano circuits at NASA. He holds a PhD in physics from Oxford, where his research as a Rhodes Scholar focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war. This research was published on the cover of Nature and the findings were delivered to the United Nations in Vienna. He is a two-time New Zealand track and field champion. Gourley sits on the Atlantic Council commission on Defense Innovation Adoption and has served as a member of the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE: APC). He is an investor in deep technology startups and was an inaugural TED Fellow.

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Andrew Graham

Acting Warden Rhodes House (2012-2013) and Former Rhodes Trustee

Dr Andrew Graham is a political economist and the former Master of Balliol. He is now a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute, which he founded, and a Trustee of the Europaeum, where he created the Europaeum Scholars Programme, and, through this, has driven the expansion of the Europaeum from a network of ten of Europe’s top universities in 2016 to 19 today. For the latter achievement, Charles University (Prague) awarded him a Gold Medal. Earlier in his career, he was (twice) Economic Adviser to the UK Prime Minister, and Tutorial Fellow in Economics at Balliol. He held the Wardenship of Rhodes House, 2012-13, and was a Rhodes Trustee 2013-2016. He has been a Trustee of Reprieve, and a Director of the Scott Trust (which owns the Guardian and the Observer), and of Channel 4 Television. He remains a passionate windsurfer.

Vishal Gulati

(India & Imperial College 1995)

Dr Vishal Gulati is a specialist venture capital investor backing scientists and tech founders to bring their innovations to market. Vishal’s investment thesis is based around the convergence of healthcare, data and engineering.

Vishal has held roles at leading firms such as Atlas Venture, Oxford Science Enterprises and Molten Ventures, whilst making independent private investments in groundbreaking healthtech companies. He has served on the boards of over 15 public and private health and life sciences companies, from Horizon Discovery to the world’s most scalable DNA synthesis platform (Evonetix). His portfolio of over 30 VC and angel investments makes him one of the most active investors in this space.

Vishal chairs the investment committee of Cancer Research UK seed fund and holds similar roles at The Francis Crick Institute, (KQ Labs), British Heart Foundation, Medical Research Council and Innovate UK. Vishal also serves on the advisory board of Reuben College.

Menaka Guruswamy

(India & University 1998)

Dr Menaka Guruswamy is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India.

Through her litigation practice, she has successfully sought reform of the bureaucracy in the country through fixed tenure, defended federal legislation that mandates that all private schools admit disadvantaged children and overturned section 377 of the 150-yearold colonial-era law that criminalises consensual same-sex relations. She has also litigated the case for marriage-equality before the Supreme Court of India. In her private law practice she litigates in the areas of civil law, commercial law and white collar crime.

Dr Guruswamy has co-edited a volume of essays on Founding Moments in Constitutionalism (Hart/ Bloomsbury, 2019). She has written widely for publications including the New York Times, the New York Review of Books and the Indian Express

Cameron Hepburn (Australia-at-Large & Magdalen 2000)

Cameron Hepburn is Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He also serves as the Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme, based at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Cameron has published widely on energy, resources and environmental challenges across disciplines including engineering, biology, philosophy, economics, public policy and law, drawing on degrees in law and engineering (Melbourne University) and his Master’s and DPhil in economics (Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar). He has co-founded three successful businesses and provides advice on energy and environmental policy to government ministers (e.g. China, India, UK and Australia) and international institutions (e.g. OECD, UN).

Glen James studied law at Oxford as an undergraduate, before qualifying as a solicitor and following a career as a lawyer in the City of London with Slaughter and May, in which he was a partner for 29 years. Upon retiring in 2012, he continued his voluntary involvement in the field of education and began work with the Rhodes Trust, where he was appointed a Trustee in 2014, chairing the Audit and Risk Committee. He also chairs the Trust’s newly established Partnerships Committee, and participates as a member of some of the Trust’s other Committees.

(Prairies & Magdalen 1987)

Professor Prabhat Jha is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, Endowed Professor in Global Health and Epidemiology and Canada Research Chair at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Professor Jha is the lead investigator of the Million Death Study in India, which quantifies the causes of premature mortality in over 3 million homes from 1998 onwards. His publications on tobacco control have enabled a global treaty now signed by over 180 countries. He founded the Statistical Alliance for Vital Events, which focuses on the reliable measurement of premature mortality worldwide.

Earlier, Professor Jha served in senior roles at the World Health Organization and the World Bank. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012. He holds an MD from the University of Manitoba and a DPhil from Oxford University.

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Mason Ji

(Washington & St Antony’s 2016)

Mason Ji is an attorney practising international sanctions law, cross-border regulatory/trade law and complex litigation. He is also a lecturer of law at the University of Washington School of Law on international law. Mason is a former delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, where he negotiated nuclear disarmament, climate change and human rights treaties. He was also a White House Ambassador for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders under President Obama in 2015-2016. Mason recently founded several non-profit organisations to address racial inequality issues and hosts a monthly Chinese language radio show on civic engagement and international relations. He regularly publishes on international sanctions, climate change and international trade. Mason graduated from Harvard Law School and obtained a Master of Public Policy and an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.

Janet Jobson

(South Africa-at-Large & St Antony's 2007)

Janet Jobson joined the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation as its CEO in June 2022. She comes to the Foundation from a career in activism and in the development sector, both locally and globally. Most recently, Janet was the Deputy CEO (and Acting CEO for the period Feb 2021 to Feb 2022) at the DG Murray Trust (DGMT) – South Africa’s largest private foundation. At DGMT Janet worked to grow the organisation as a public innovator aiming to build a South Africa where all people can fulfil their potential. Alongside her overall organisational leadership, at DGMT Janet specifically led strategies focused on creating platforms for youth leadership networks, tackling school dropout and youth unemployment and growing an innovative and inclusive society. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Janet led the implementation of a national communications campaign on behalf of the National Department of Health, broadcasting daily on 15 national radio stations in 12 languages.

Susan Karamanian

(Alabama & Somerville 1980)

Susan L. Karamanian is Dean of the College of Law at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha. She was previously the Provost at the American University of Sharjah and the Associate Dean for International and Comparative Legal Studies and Burnett Family Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University Law School. Before joining GW Law, she was a Partner in Locke Lord LLP in Dallas. She serves on the governing bodies of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), the Center for American and International Law (CAIL) and Texas Appleseed. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Council on Germany and a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation. Susan is an avid golfer.

Aly Kassam-Remtulla

(Prairies

& Balliol 1999)

Dr Aly Kassam-Remtulla is a globally minded leader with a profound commitment to education, philanthropy and environmental and social justice.

As Vice Provost for International Affairs at Princeton University, Aly leads a team of 250 people on three continents. His portfolio includes oversight of a 48,000acre campus in Kenya, one of the leading research institutes on the African continent. Prior to Princeton, he worked at the MacArthur Foundation, where he awarded more than $60 million in grants across three portfolios. Aly has served on numerous non-profit boards. He currently chairs the board of the United World CollegeUSA and serves on the board of Allegheny College. He was recently a consultant to the Luce Foundation. Born in Kenya and raised in Canada, Aly is a graduate of Stanford and Oxford. His commentary has appeared in numerous publications, and he was recently inducted into Stanford’s Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame.

Professor Chimène Keitner is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California Davis. Her recent publications include a treatise (Internationa Law Frameworks, 5th ed. 2021) and a co-authored casebook (International Law, 8th ed. 2023). She is an active member of the American Society of Internationa Law, the American Branch of the International Law Association and the American Law Institute, and she serves as an Editorial Board Member of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law. After graduating from Yale Law School, she clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and spent several years in private practice before entering the academy. More recently, she served a term as the 27th Counselor on International Law in the US Department of State.

Sara leads the Planetary Health Informatics Group at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (Oxford) and the Machine Learning Team of the Health Data Sciences Section in NDORMS (Oxford) She is also affiliated with the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (Oxford) where she completed her doctoral and postdoctoral research in the Biomedical Signal Processing and Image Analysis Groups, and has been an Oxford Ambassador for Women in Data Science.

Her research applies artificial intelligence to international real-world health data in order to further our understanding of disease and fills the gaps in global health, leveraging common data models and federated network analytics. She works closely with clinicians, engineers, clinical and environmental epidemiologists, conservationists, data scientists and public and patient groups in the UK, Europe, Latin America, South Asia and Africa to co-create models for equitable and ethical solutions for planetary health problems.

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Chimène Keitner (Maritimes & New College 1996) Sara Khalid (Pakistan & Oriel 2008)

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Elizabeth Kiss

(Virginia & Balliol 1983)

Dr Elizabeth Kiss (pronounced ‘quiche’) became Warden of Rhodes House and CEO of the Rhodes Trust in August 2018, the first woman to hold this position. Before joining the Rhodes Trust, Dr Kiss served for twelve years as president of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1997 to 2006 Dr Kiss served as the founding director of Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics. She has also taught at Randolph-Macon College (Virginia), Deep Springs College (California) and at Princeton University for eight years. She is a scholar of moral and political philosophy and has published on moral education, human rights, ethnic conflict and nationalism, feminist theory and transitional justice.

Lisa Klein

(South Africa-at-Large & St Antony’s 1994)

Lisa is a founder and Director of the SA SME Fund, capitalised by 52 corporates to stimulate entrepreneurship in South Africa by providing catalytic capital to venture capital and debt funds, and supporting accelerators that scale high-impact entrepreneurs. She sits on the steering committee of Business for SA, a collective of business associations and companies set up to support the Government during the pandemic with vaccination roll out and, since 2022, with implementing priority national interventions in energy, logistics and crime and corruption via publicprivate partnerships.

Previously, Lisa was Head of M&A at Discovery Group and a consultant at McKinsey & Co.

She is a Trustee of the Discovery Fund, a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and African Leadership Initiative, President of the Southern African Association of Rhodes Scholars (SAARS), and co-chair of the Rhodes Trust’s Global Alumni Advisory Board. She obtained her DPhil in Politics from Oxford.

Desmond Koh

(Singapore & Oriel 1995)

Desmond is Founder and CEO of The Compassion Group and Compassion Capital. He brings 20+ years of professional and management experience across diverse areas of business and finance, and has also founded several businesses across different industries. An engineer by training, Desmond is an ex-Olympian and an entrepreneur at heart who identifies as a ‘recovering banker’ with ADHD. His greatest inspiration is the Dalai Lama. Desmond continues with his learning journey through trying and failing forward and embraces his journey of growth and impact.

Desmond enjoys giving his time to non-profit causes and charities, and serves on boards of non-profit organisations in the areas of sustainability, education and well-being.

Desmond aims to inspire and catalyse the movement of ‘Compassion Capital’ into the hearts and minds of investors and asset owners. The idea is that everyone may positively impact People and Planet by making compassionate decisions with their capital

Eileen Lach

Challenged the Exclusion of Women from the Rhodes Scholarship, 1972

In 1972 Eileen Lach challenged the exclusion of women from being Rhodes Scholars and became instrumental to the first women becoming eligible for Rhodes Scholarships in 1976. She is now an international lawyer and American senior business leader with 45 years of service in the technology and life sciences fields. She has experienced many additional ‘first female’ accolades in her career, including as a partner in a ‘Wall Street’ law firm, a senior executive in a Fortune 100 corporation and the lead lawyer in a premier global technology organisatio working in AI regulation. Ms Lach serves on the Board of Governors of the University of St. Thomas Law School USA, volunteers as an arbitrator in New York City Civil Court and works with victims of gender violence and international trafficking. She is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court and several US federal courts.

John McCall MacBain, OC

(Québec & Wadham 1980)

John McCall MacBain is the Founder and Chair of the McCall MacBain Foundation and President of Pamoja Capital SA, its investment arm.

From 1987 to 2006, he was the Founder, President and CEO of Trader Classified Media. In 2006, he sold Trader Classified Media and set up the McCall MacBain Foundation.

The McCall MacBain Foundation has committed over $500 million of charitable donations for scholarships and education, health and the environment, especially climate change, in Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.

John received an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA in Law from the University of Oxford and an Honours BA in Economics from McGill University. While at Oxford, he was Co-Captain of the Varsitywinning Oxford University Ice Hockey Club. He currently devotes a significant amount of his time to philanthropic activities. In addition to his role as Chair of the MMF, John is also the Second Century Founder of the Rhodes Trust and is currently the Chancellor of McGill University.

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Dr Richard Morales, Jr was selected as the first Hispanic Brigade Commander at United States Military Academy. After Oxford, he served in the United States Army, continuing his 12 years of military service as a US Army physician after graduating from the Yale School of Medicine. Richard was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco prior to private practice. He was appointed Chief of Staff of his hospital and was a key member of the Hospital Foundation Board. Richard and his wife, Penny, founded The Ricardo Fund in his large hospital system. The theme of this program was ‘Opening Doors’ which provided over 225 scholarships for entry level hospital workers of whom the majority were persons of colour. Richard’s father came to New York from Puerto Rico as a sixyear old orphan to be raised by his maternal aunt, exemplifying grace and courage in the face of barriers and indignities and inspiring Richard’s determination and awareness of others.

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Justine Munro

(New Zealand & Balliol 1993)

Justine is a social entrepreneur who has established non-profit organisations in the areas of education, diversity and social innovation. She works collaboratively to focus on the young people we care about rather than the silos we work within. She is passionate about enabling all young people to thrive and achieve their potential.

Currently, Justine is a Co-Founder of the Neurodiversity in Education Coalition and the CEO of the New Zealand Centre for Gifted Education. Other organisations she founded/ helped to establish are TupuToa, Global Women, Champions for Change, 21C Skills Lab, the New Zealand Centre for Social Innovation, the Springboard Trust and Starpath. Justine has worked as a lawyer serving indigenous clients in Australia and New Zealand, a McKinsey & Company management consultant, the Executive Director of Education at Social Ventures Australia, and as a director on the board of Z Energy, and a trustee of numerous non-profit organisations, including Teach First NZ.

Lissa Muscatine

(California & Wadham 1977)

Lissa’s career has spanned journalism, politics, government and business. Co-owner of Washington’s premier independent bookstore, Politics and Prose, she previously served as director of speechwriting for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, senior advisor on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, presidential speechwriter and chief speechwriter to the first lady in the Clinton White House and co-collaborator on Hillary Clinton’s White House memoir, Living History. Prior to working in government and politics, she spent 14 years as a journalist, first at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi, and then at the Washington Star and Washington Post She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude with a degree in history and was in the first class of women elected Rhodes Scholars. She is currently working on a book to be published by Penguin Press entitled, Hillaryland. Lissa and her husband have three adult children and reside in Bethesda, Maryland.

Tariro Makadzange

Tariro Makadzange is a medical social-entrepreneur, infectious disease physician and viral immunologist. Her career has spanned academia and industry in Africa and the United States. She is founder and CEO of CRMG and Mutala Trust in Zimbabwe. CRMG is a research organisation focused on diversifying research by including Africa and Africans in clinical trials and understanding immunogenetics in African populations including antibody discovery research for infectious diseases. Mutala Trust is a non-profit research organisation that conducts public health and implementation science research in communicable and non-communicable diseases. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine at Stanford University and Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Centre for Innovation in Global Health.

Trudi Makhaya

(South Africa-at-Large & St Antony’s 2002)

Trudi Makhaya was appointed in April 2018 as economic advisor in the office of His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa. In this role, she provided technical support to the President on economic policy. This included regular input on key issues and initiatives (such as the Investment Drive, Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan, just transition and green economy and Operation Vulindlela). She interfaced with relevant advisory councils and economic policy stakeholders and also served as South Africa’s G20 sherpa, representing the President in the drafting and negotiations ahead of Leaders’ summits and meetings.

Before taking up this role, Trudi was CEO of Makhaya Advisory, a niche consulting firm with a focus on helping business navigate economic policy, including competition policy (anti-trust), that she founded in 2015. She has held non-executive directorships at Vumelana Advisory Fund and MTN South Africa and is an early-stage investor in a data insights start-up.

Muloongo Muchelemba

(Zambia & Harris Manchester 2002)

Muloongo Muchelemba is the inaugural Director of Selection for Rise, an initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust to find promising young people and give them the opportunity for life as they work to serve others. She also serves the Rhodes Trust in a volunteer capacity in three roles: National Secretary for the Global Rhodes Scholarship; Co-Chair of the Rhodes Trust's Legacy, Equity and Inclusion advisory group on the Trust and Africa in the 21st Century; and penultimate judge for the Äänit Prize, which provides funding for social impact projects run by Rhodes or Mandela Rhodes Scholars.

Prior to Rise, Muloongo spent over 16 years working in oil and gas, management consulting and corporate banking in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. She is the author of The Millennials’ Gaido to Work, a mentoring guide for young professionals navigating the workplace. She is working on her next book: The Secret Lives of Gen Z: What Parents Need To Know

Arthur Mutambara

(Zimbabwe

Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara is the Director and Full Professor of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge (IFK) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in South Africa. He is a world-renowned roboticist, academic, author, Pan-Africanist and technology strategist. Professor Mutambara is also the Director of IFK’s Decentralised Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems (DAICS) Research Group and drives the African Agency in Public Health (AAPH) initiative within the Future of Health (FoH) Research Group. He teaches Control Systems in UJ’s Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering Departments.

Professor Mutambara is the Former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He was one of the three Principals who created and led the Government of National Unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013. Professor Mutambara is a distinguished public intellectual across the African continent and globally, where he has conducted presentations on leadership, management, business and engineering, in addition to motivational speeches and seminars.

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Atherton Mutombwera

(Mandela Rhodes Scholar)

Atherton Mutombwera is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar (Zimbabwe, 2014) and the Founder and CEO of Hutano Diagnostics Ltd, a start-up developing a quantitative, modular, configurable lateral flow device platform. The first application is a fever management diagnostic in children.

Hutano Diagnostics was named as one of the hottest start-ups in Oxford by WIRED (2021); named on the 2021 list of Game Changers in the Thames Valley, UK; and won the 2019 GE European Whatman Diagnostics Competition.

Atherton completed an MBA (2016-2017) at the University of Oxford as a Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann Saïd Scholar. He holds an MSc in Nanoscience (Nanobiomedicine) for which he was awarded the Coursework Master’s Award in the Science, Engineering and Technology fields by the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 2016 for his research developing a rapid diagnostic device for Ebola. He has an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy.

Harj Narulla

(New South Wales & St John’s 2016)

Harj is a barrister specialising in climate change law and litigation at Doughty Street Chambers in London. He appears in groundbreaking climate litigation before national, regional and international courts. Across his career, Harj has been involved in strategic climate litigation in more than 15 countries, including Vietnam, Chile, Brazil, Japan, the Philippines, Vanuatu and Indonesia. He was previously a climate negotiator for a Pacific nation and a policy advisor in the Australian Prime Minister’s Department. Alongside his court practice, Harj is also a fellow in climate law at leading universities. He is an Honorary Research Associate in climate law and litigation at the University of Oxford, a Visiting Senior Fellow in climate law and litigation at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, and also teaches a class on Indigenous rights and environmental law at the University of Cambridge.

Mohannad Nasser

Oudist and Composer

Syrian Oudist and composer Mohannad Nasser has emerged as an innovative and creative musician with years of experience in performing on the Middle East musical scenes and expertise in teaching oriental music His profound desire to share his conception of music led him to elaborate his educational project, ‘Contemporary today, Heritage tomorrow’, which achieved his Master’s degree at the prestigious Berklee College of Music.

His musical vision is based on Arabic traditional mus with a strong flavor of Oriental roots.

Mohannad’s journey with the Oud came from his rich period of studies at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus, where he perfected his knowledge in traditional oriental music and explored classical Western music. During his career, he was able to expand the Oud’s abilities by adapting it to different musical genres, like classical music, jazz music, Brazilian music or flamenco.

Dr Gladys Ngetich is a Schmidt Science Fellow, and Co-founder and CEO of Saidwa Rides. She recently worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT where her research focused on studying wax-based propellants for the launch and in-space propulsion of small satellites.

Gladys obtained her DPhil from the University of Oxford where, in close collaboration with Rolls Royce PLC, she researched advanced techniques for cooling jet engines. Before Oxford, she pursued a BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya.

In July 2022, Gladys was awarded an On Deck Founder Fellowship to build Saidiwa Rides; a reimagined ride-sharing platform that aims to meet the social, economic and infrastructural needs of the African market.

Gladys has been a recipient of many notable awards and recognitions, including: RMB Africa’s Fearless Thinker; Emerging Space Leader Award; UK Rare Rising Star; Kenya’s Top 40 Under 40 Women; and featured in Nature and BBC Science News.

(South Africa-at-Large & Balliol 1978)

Professor Loyiso G. Nongxa retired as Ad Hominem Professor of Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand in December 2018, having spent 18 years at the university. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and obtained his doctorate in Mathematics in 1982. He has taught at the National University of Lesotho, the former University of Natal in Durban, the University of the Western Cape and the University of the Witwatersrand. Prior to moving to university management, his research interests were in Group Theory and over the last few years his academic interests have been in the Mathematical Foundations of Data Science and Machine Learning. For the last few years he has been one of the champions of a National Graduate Academy for Mathematical and Statistical Sciences which focuses on the development of the next generation of mathematicians and statisticians in South Africa.

Christopher G. Oechsli is president and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies and serves on the Atlantic Institute Governing Board. He led Atlantic’s grantmaking through its four program areas and Founding Chairman grants. His responsibilities included working with The Atlantic Philanthropies Board to complete all of Atlantic’s active grant-making by 2016 and conclude all operations by 2020. Christopher has over 35 years of experience in international business, law, philanthropy and policy development in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe.

Gladys Ngetich (Kenya & Oriel 2015) Loyiso Nongxa Christopher G. Oechsli Rhodes Trustee

June Ong

(Malaysia & Lady Margaret Hall 2020)

June is currently an MPhil student at the Faculty of Law under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Herring, researching the potential of expanding the criminalisation of harassment and coercive control among housemates. She graduated from the University of Warwick in 2019 with First Class Honours and she was awarded Best Overall Performance across All Degree Programmes for two consecutive years. Thereafter, she completed the LLM and Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) in 2020 under the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn Jean Southworth Scholarship, attaining an Outstanding for the BPTC, a Distinction for the LLM and The City Law School Prize for Outstanding LLM dissertation. She read for the BCL (Distinction) in 2020-21.

She was Called to the Bar of England and Wales (Gray’s Inn) in 2021 and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor to the High Court of Malaya in 2022.

Lord Patten of Barnes

Chancellor, University of Oxford

Chris Patten was born in 1944 and educated at St Benedict’s School (Ealing) and Balliol College (Oxford). He was Director of the Conservative Research Department (1974-79), MP for Bath (1979-92), a Minister (1983-92) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1990-92).

From 1992-97 he was Governor of Hong Kong; and from 1998-99 Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland. He was European Commissioner for External Affairs (19992004); and Chairman of the BBC Trust (2011-2014). He was made a Companion of Honour in 1998, a Life Peer in 2005 and a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in 2023. He has written The Tory Case, East and West, Not Quite The Diplomat, What Next? – Surviving the 21st Century and First Confession: A Sort of Memoir His latest book, The Hong Kong Diaries was published at the end of June 2022. Chris Patten became Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003.

Olana Peters (India & New College 2020)

Olana Peters is a DPhil History candidate and Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Her doctoral thesis is on the experiences and political activism of overseas students from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean in 1960s Britain. Broadly, her research encompasses themes of empire, decolonisation, race and resistance. Olana is also interested in public spaces and contested histories and has worked variously with the Rhodes Trust and the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) in the Netherlands. When she isn’t reading, Olana enjoys taking long walks, playing the piano and chatting with friends over tea.

Emelia (Emmy) Probasco is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she works on the military applications of Artificial Intelligence. Prior to joining CSET, she was the Chief Communications Officer and Communications Department Head at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). Prior to APL, Emmy served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy, deploying twice to the Indo-Pacific. She also served in the Pentagon as the speechwriter to the Chief of Naval Operations and at the US Naval Academy as an instructor in political science. She has master’s degrees in Forced Migration and Economic and Social History from Oxford University and a degree in Political Science from the US Naval Academy. She currently serves as the Vice President of the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.

Chisanga Puta-Chekwe

Chisanga Puta-Chekwe is President of the Masomo Education Foundation, a Canadian charitable organisation providing scholarships to young men and women from low-income families. He is also a member of the Ontario Council of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, sitting on the Discipline Committee and the Fitness to Practice committee. Before that he served as Deputy Minister of the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, Women’s Issues, and Seniors’ Affairs, alongside being secretary general of the Order of Ontario.

In 1994 Chisanga served as a United Nations Observer and Adjudication Officer to the historic South African election that brought Nelson Mandela to power. Two years later he served as supervisor of the election in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Alongside his Oxford PPE degree, Chisanga has LLB and LLM degrees from the Universities of Birmingham and London. Chisanga is the author of five books on South Africa, Zambia and Investor Migration Programmes.

Bob Rae is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York. He served as Premier of Ontario from 1990-1995, interim Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011-2013 and was appointed as Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar (2017) and Canada’s Special Envoy on Humanitarian and Refugee Issues (2020). Mr Rae taught law and public policy at the University of Toronto and was a partner and senior counsel to the law firm OKT LLP, specialising in indigenous law and constitutional issues. Bob Rae is a Privy Councillor, a Companion of the Order of Canada and a member of the Order of Ontario.

Emelia Probasco (Maryland/DC & Wolfson 2002) (Zambia & Exeter 1976) Bob Rae (Ontario & Balliol 1969)

Co-Founder, MasterClass and Outlier.org

Aaron Rasmussen is an entrepreneur, inventor and game designer. He's best known as a founder of educational platforms MasterClass and Outlier.org, the latter known for creating impactful for-credit online college courses with the aim of promoting affordable, equitable education. Students at Outlier receive transcripted transferable credits from the University of Pittsburgh. Outlier recently launched associate degrees with Golden Gate University that cost less than the average Pell Grant award enabling students to receive an education at zero cost to them.

At MasterClass, Rasmussen was both Creative Director and CTO, creating courses taught by notable experts. The video game he co-wrote, BlindSide, has won multiple awards and is being adapted into a film.

Jennifer Robinson

(Australia-at-Large & Balliol 2006)

Jennifer Robinson is an award-winning international human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London. She has acted in key international human rights, free speech and climate change cases before international, regional and domestic courts. She currently acts for the Government of Vanuatu, which is leading the unprecedented effort to take climate change to the International Court of Justice. Other clients have included the BBC, the New York Times, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Amber Heard and Azeem Rafiq. She co-authored the book How Many More Women? (2022), which examines how the law restricts women from speaking about gender-based violence. In the book, Robinson explores the changes needed to ensure that women’s freedoms, including their freedom of speech, are not threatened by laws that are supposed to protect them.

(New Zealand & Magdalen 1993)

David is Founder & Chair of Principia Advisory and is one of the world’s foremost authorities on ethics and organisational culture. His work has helped to transform the fields of organisational and military ethics, and he advises some of the world’s largest private and public organisations.

A distinguished moral philosopher, David worked for almost two decades at the University of Oxford where he was Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and Co-Founder of the Oxford Changing Character of War programme.

A Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand, David began his career at Boston Consulting Group. In 2011 he was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’, recognising the most distinguished young leaders in all fields below the age of 40.

Calvin/Kelvin Runnels is a transmasculine PhD student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, US, investigating the mechanisms and evolution of sexual polymorphism in spiders. Kelvin’s interest in sex and gender is not limited to arachnids: while in Oxford, he received a BA in PPE with a focus on (human) gender, feminism and disability. Calvin is spending this summer in Louisiana, his home state, teaching at a summer programme for middle schoolers and advocating against the anti-trans bills currently being forced through his own and many other states’ legislatures. Though he was the first Rhodes Scholar to be openly transgender at the time of his election, Calvin is not the only or even the first trans Scholar, and he is excited to connect with others at the reunion. Kelvin’s greatest desires for the world are a free Palestine, the abolition of police and prisons and noncoercive gender joy for all.

Robin Russin

(Wyoming & Corpus Christi 1979)

Robin Uriel Russin is professor of screenwriting and playwriting at the University of California, Riverside. A WGA member, Robin has written, produced and directed for film, TV and theatre, including directing the multi-award winning features When I Sing, about a late in life Grammy nominee, and The Anxiety of Laughing, about the humour and challenges of disability, which premiered at the Dances With Films festival and is currently available on all VOD platforms. Another feature he co-wrote, 2 Hearts, received a wide theatrical release and is currently among the top 10 world-wide streams on Netflix. In theatre, his play, Painted Eggs, was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times as “ambitious, heart-felt and hypnotic,” and his play, The Face in the Reeds, had a sold-out four-month run at the Ruskin Group Theatre in LA. Robin is co-author of the books Naked Playwriting and Screenplay: Writing the Picture

Faith Salie

(Georgia & Magdalen 1993)

Faith Salie is an Emmy-winning journalist on CBS Sunday Morning and a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! She starred Off-Broadway in her solo show, Approval Junkie, based on her memoir of the same title, and her show was named one of Audible’s Best of 2022. Faith is a storyteller for The Moth, with her story viewed over 6 million times and also included in two of The Moth’s New York Times bestsellers. She’s proud to host the podcast Real Good, amplifying the voices of people who are making a difference in the world. She’s hosted over a dozen podcasts for NPR, Audible, Wondery and Stitcher. She’s written for the New York Times, Time, O, the Oprah Magazine and McSweeney’s Faith has a AB from Harvard and an MPhil from Oxford. She lives in Manhattan where she’s raising kids who say “y’all”.

Aaron Rasmussen Calvin Runnels David Rodin (Georgia & Balliol 2018)

Kurt Schmoke

(Maryland & Balliol 1971)

Kurt L. Schmoke was appointed the eighth president of the University of Baltimore in July, 2014. Prior to that appointment Mr Schmoke served as dean of the law school and interim provost at Howard University. Mr Schmoke earned his undergraduate degree in history from Yale University. While at Yale he co-founded a child care centre that has been in continuous operation as the Calvin Hill Day Care Center and Kindergarten since 1970. He pursued graduate studies on a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford University and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Mr Schmoke served as the mayor of Baltimore City for 12 years from 1987 to 1999 and was the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City from 1982 to 1987.

During his tenure as mayor, Mr Schmoke initiated a number of programs in the areas of housing, education, public health and economic development. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush awarded him the National Literacy Award for his efforts to promote adult literacy, and in 1994 President Bill Clinton praised his programmes to improve public housing and enhance community economic development.

Abigail Seldin

(Pennsylvania & St Antony's 2009)

Abigail Seldin is a public policy expert with a track record for high-impact grant making across multiple subject areas, including economic and social mobility, education, civil liberties and children’s welfare. Abigail’s work with federal and state agencies has generated regulatory changes for Head Start, SNAP and federal financial aid, and her work on public transit has inspired active federal bipartisan legislation. Her most recent grant - focused on scaling Head Start childcare at community colleges - earned the endorsement of The Washington Post’s Editorial Board in 2023. Abigail's experience beyond public policy includes co-founding and selling a tech startup, launching a DCbased corporate social responsibility lab and studying at Oxford. She currently serves on the boards of Open Campus Media, New DEAL Leaders and the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.

Farah Shamout

(United Arab Emirates & Balliol 2016)

Farah Shamout is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi, where she leads the Clinical Artificial Intelligence Lab. She is Associated Faculty at NYU Tandon (Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering) and Affiliated Faculty at NYU Langone Health (Radiology). She is interested in developing machine learning methods and systems for real-world multi-modal applications related to cancer, brain health and women’s health. Dr Shamout completed her DPhil in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where she focused on developing early warning models using electronic health records to predict clinical deterioration. She worked on global data commons and digital health policy during her time at Oxford, and was awarded the Campus Life Faculty Leadership Award in 2021 at NYU. Dr Shamout currently serves as the National Secretary for the Rhodes Scholarship for SJLP and regularly teaches in executive-level AI and data science courses.

Judy Sikuza

CEO, The Mandela Rhodes Foundation

Judy Sikuza is a mom, Mount Kilimanjaro Summiteer and Chief Executive Officer of The Mandela Rhodes Foundation. A leadership and organisation development specialist, she believes in the power of education and leadership to liberate and create more humane futures. Judy is a non-executive Board Director of Oxford University Press South Africa, and chairs the Board’s transformation and ethics committee. She is also a member of the 2030 Reading Panel convened by previous Executive Director of UN Women, Dr Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, which seeks to influence work being done across sectors to ensure that all children in South Africa learn to read for meaning by 2030. Some of Judy’s achievements include being an Abe Bailey Fellow, Mandela Rhodes Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, one of Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow and one of Sarie magazine’s top 10 women under 30.

Michael Sandel

(Massachusetts & Balliol 1975)

Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books on justice, democracy, ethics and markets have been translated into more than 30 languages. He has been described as “a rock star moralist” (Newsweek) and “the world’s most influential living philosopher” (New Statesman). Sandel’s books include The Tyranny of Merit; What Money Can’t Buy; Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?; The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering; and Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times Sandel’s free online course ‘Justice’ has been viewed by tens of millions. His BBC series ‘The Global Philosopher’ explores the ethical issues lying behind the headlines with participants from around the world. His lectures have packed such venues as St Paul’s Cathedral, the Sydney Opera House and an outdoor stadium in Seoul (S. Korea), where 14,000 people came to hear him speak.

Babar Sattar

(Pakistan & Balliol 1999)

Justice Babar Sattar is a judge at Islamabad High Court. Prior to his elevation in 2020, he was partner at an Islamabad-based law firm with a focus on commercial and constitutional law. At the beginning of his legal career, he was based in New York where he worked for a Wall Street corporate law firm. For 15 years Babar wrote a weekly op-ed column for Pakistan’s largest English daily newspaper on issues related to constitutionalism, governance and politics. He was an analyst for electronic media on legal and constitutional issues. He taught intellectual property law at Lahore University of Management Sciences and military sociology, international law, politics of Pakistan and law and gender at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

Babar read Jurisprudence at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar after getting an MSc in International Relations from Quaid-e-Azam University. He also has an LLM from Harvard Law School.

Shehnaaz Suliman

(South Africa-at-Large & Balliol 1997)

Dr Suliman has played a leading role for 25 years in the growth of sector leaders such as Gilead and Genentech. She has championed creative business models enabling widespread access to novel therapie for HIV in the developing world.

She is a champion for a programme that has enabled >200 women to be recruited to Corporate Boards. Sh is at the forefront of leading the biopharma industry’s response to support women’s reproductive health car rights in the United States.

Dr Suliman was recognised as a 2017 Fiercest Wome in Life Sciences, a Power 50 leader (2021) and a top 100 nationally recognised female business leader. She received her MD (MB, ChB) at the University of Cape Town Medical School, South Africa, and holds a MBA, with distinction, and MPhil degrees from Oxfor University. Dr Suliman serves on the Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE) and 10x Genomics (NASDAQ: TXG) Boards

Summia Tora

(Afghanistan & Somerville 2020)

Summia Tora is the founder of Dosti Network, an organisation dedicated to empowering persecuted Afghans. In the aftermath of the fall of the Afghan government in 2021, Dosti Network initiated a global effort to connect Afghans with resources for resettlement and support within Afghanistan through their funding initiatives in immigration, housing, healthcare and education.

Having experienced life as an Afghan refugee, Summia Tora has been actively involved in refugee resettlement and promoting global education accessibility. She has worked with renowned organisations including the World Bank, Malala Fund, United Nations and Schmidt Futures. As the first Rhodes scholar from Afghanistan, Summia holds a Master’s in Public Policy and is currently pursuing a Master’s in International Human Rights Law. Her achievements include being recognised as an Echoing Green fellow, recipient of the Open Society Prize and a notable inclusion in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Shmona Simpson

(Commonwealth Caribbean & Trinity 2012)

Shmona Simpson is a scientist, strategist and activist who is the Founder & CEO of Paritii - a social enterprise focused on making technology more just. As CEO, Shmona leads a team of strategists and product developers who work with medtech, edtech and fintech partners to drive the development of equity-aligned technologies and promote the equitable access to, and use of, technology.

Prior to founding Paritii, she was a strategist at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a Vaccine Immunologist and an Infectious Disease specialist serving low-and middle-income countries. Shmona holds a DPhil in Clinical Medicine from Oxford University. Shmona considers herself a global citizen and has had the privilege of using technology to improve outcomes for the most marginalised populations in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Europe and the United States.

(California & St John’s 2013)

Dr Varun Sivaram is Group Senior Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, for Ørsted, a $40B renewable energy producer. He previously served in the US Biden-Harris administration as managing director for clean energy and senior advisor to John Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, where he spearheaded the First Movers Coalition. Previously, he has served as CTO of ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable company; on the faculty of Columbia and Georgetown Universities; as energy director at the Council on Foreign Relations; and as senior advisor to the Los Angeles Mayor and New York Governor. He’s been named to the TIME 100 Next, an MIT Technology Review top 35 innovator, and a WEF Young Global Leader. His books include Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (MIT Press). He holds a DPhil in condensed matter physics from Oxford University and undergraduate degrees from Stanford

Rachel Skokowski is currently Curator of the Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University, Chico. She is passionate about the power of museums to ignite the imagination and inspire action. Rachel has worked with museum collections in the US and abroad, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University of Sydney and the Ashmolean Museum. She completed her DPhil and MSt in Modern Languages at Oxford, where her research focused on 19th-century French literature and print culture. She is an advocate for using technology to bring the arts to new audiences and served as a 2022 Innovation Fellow at JSTOR Labs.

Adam Smith is the Director of the Rothermere American Institute. He is the Edward Orsborn Professor of United States Politics & Political History and a Fellow of University College. His specialism is the political history of the United States in the nineteenth century. In 2017, the University of North Carolina Press published his latest book, The Stormy Present: Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846-1865, which won the Jefferson Davis Award and was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize. His previous books include No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). In 2019 he joined the board of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission, which awards scholarships to US students wishing to study in the UK.

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Varun Sivaram Rachel Skokowski (California & University 2015) Adam Smith Director of the Rothermere American Institute

Irene Tracey

Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford

Vice-Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey CBE, FRS, FMedSci, led Merton College from 2019-22 and is also Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, a department she led for several years. She was tenured in 2001 to the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics with Tutorial Fellowship in Medicine at Christ Church. Additionally, she held the Nuffield Chair in Anaesthetic Sciences for 12 years with a Fellowship at Pembroke College.

She is also President of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS).

Professor Tracey’s research on the neuroscience of pain has contributed to a better understanding of pain perception and its relief in the human brain. She has also used neuroimaging to better understand anaesthesia-induced altered states of consciousness.

Irene has served and continues to serve academia through her election to the Councils of the International Association for the Study of Pain, British Neuroscience Association and Medical Research Council.

Pierre Van Hoeylandt

(Germany & Magdalen 1993)

Pierre is the Founder & CEO of Natural Heritage Capital. After obligatory stints at Goldman and McKinsey following his DPhil in International Relations, Pierre spent two decades in and around CDC (now BII), the UK’s development finance organisation (interrupted by periods setting up a private equity fund in Afghanistan in 2006-8 and running a logistics business in Nigeria in 2011-13).

In 2019, he founded Natural Heritage Capital, a specialist investment firm dedicated to scaling nature-positive enterprises in Africa. In that role he was a catalyst for the establishment of the largest forestry fund in Africa, the $200m African Forestry Impact Platform managed by New Forests, and guided BII, Norfund and DFC into a $90m investment into AgDevCo, a leading agribusiness investment platform in Africa. He is now busy raising a new Nature Ventures Fund, focused on investing in responsible agriculture, nature-based solutions and other naturepositive enterprises on the continent.

During COVID-19, he and his wife Jasmine moved from London to Cape Town, got two dogs and, somewhat belatedly, an incredibly smiley baby boy. Time permitting, they pack everything into a 4x4 and head into the Southern African bush.

Dr Van Rooy is a former senior researcher at Canada's North-South Institute, senior policy advisor at Global Affairs Canada and special advisor at Vancouver Island University, including work on the university’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Plan. She earned a DPhil in International Relations and devoted most of her career to policy research on international development and good governance.

Professor Alisha Wade is a Clinician Scientist at the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand and a specialist physician and endocrinologist at the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, both in Johannesburg, South Africa. A native of Barbados, she graduated from the University of the West Indies in 2000 as the Clinical Gold Medalist and with a MBBS (Honours) degree. She subsequently attended the University of Oxford, graduating with a DPhil in Clinical Medicine. She then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Centre and a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently holds an Emerging Global Leader career development award from the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health (USA) to investigate endocrine and metabolic disorders in rural South Africa.

Claire Wang is a Rhodes Scholar, 2018 Truman Scholar, and 2018 Udall Scholar focused on climate change and energy policy. While at Oxford, Claire received an MSc in Environmental Change and Management and an MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies. She is currently a Senior Policy Advisor to US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.

Claire received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences & Policy from Duke University, where she led a successful two-year grassroots campaign to stop a series of natural gas plants from being constructed across North and South Carolina. She has previously worked for Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Evergreen Action and the Sierra Club.

Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen

(Paul

Dr Helene-Mari van der Westhuizen is doing a Fellowship in Global Health with the Rhodes Trust and Global Health Security Consortium. She co-convenes postgraduate global health teaching and supervises students at Oxford University in Translational Health Sciences. After training as a medical doctor in South Africa and working in the rural Eastern Cape, HeleneMari completed her doctoral research at Oxford University focusing on TB prevention in rural, lowresource contexts. Her research on Tuberculosis and COVID-19 prevention have been relied on for national and international policy and she has led evidence syntheses for the World Health Organization on infection control and TB diagnostics. She is co-founder and vice-chair of the Board of the award-winning Tuberculosis non-governmental organisation, TB Proof, which aims to improve TB prevention and care globally. Helene-Mari enjoys science communication and has presented her research on live television interviews and podcasts including with the BBC and South African news.

Alison Van Rooy (Manitoba and Lincoln 1990) Alisha Wade (Commonwealth Caribbean & Trinity 2000) Claire Wang (Utah & Linacre 2019) Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch & Green Templeton College 2018)

Meg Whitman

US Ambassador to Kenya

Meg Whitman was confirmed in a unanimous vote by the US Senate as the eighteenth United States Ambassador to Kenya on July 14, 2022. She presente her credentials to then President Uhuru Kenyatta, on August 5, 2022.

Ambassador Whitman has significant experience leading business organisations, from startups to large multinational companies in Silicon Valley. She has served as the President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Hewlett-Packard Company. She als served as President and CEO of eBay Inc.

Ambassador Whitman has also been a member of a number of corporate boards of directors, including Procter & Gamble and General Motors. Committed to equality in education and protection of the environment, Ambassador Whitman has been National Board Chair of Teach For America and has been a Member of the Board of Trustees of The Natur Conservancy. Ambassador Whitman is married to Dr Griffith Harsh, a neurosurgeon. They have two grown sons and two grandchildren.

Maxine Williams

(Commonwealth Caribbean & St Catherine’s 1992)

Maxine Williams is the Chief Diversity Officer at Meta, formerly Facebook, and she serves as a member of Meta’s most senior executive leadership team under the CEO. Maxine’s team works to increase the cognitive diversity of all Meta teams to integrate diverse perspectives into people, policy and product development. Prior to Meta, Maxine served as the director of diversity for a global law firm. She has worked as an attorney in criminal, civil and industrial courts in her native Trinidad and Tobago and has appeared at the UK Privy Council. Maxine has also worked with multiple international organisations on development and human rights issues and had a career as a broadcast journalist, actress and on-air presenter. Maxine is a director on the board of Doma Holdings, Inc. She graduated from Yale University before receiving her law degree with First Class honours from Oxford University.

Brian Wong

(Hong Kong & Balliol 2020)

Brian Wong is a geopolitical strategist and advisor working at the intersection of nascent technologies, political philosophy and public policy. They are completing a DPhil in Politics at Balliol College, and have taught political sciences to Oxford and Stanford undergraduates. As the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review and Advisor on Strategy to the Oxford Global Society, Brian works extensively with large MNCs and hedge funds in navigating the complexities of international relations, and writes extensively on Chinese foreign policy and the agency of small and medium powers for publications including TIME, Nikkei, Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, The China Project, and the US-China Perception Monitor. Brian has authored two Chinese compendiums of works (Metamorphosis and The Era of Geopolitics), and their comments have been featured on Al-Jazeera, the UK National Committee on China, the South China Morning Post and The Atlantic. Brian also co-curates the Rhodes Conversations on China series.

Ngaire Woods

(New Zealand & Balliol 1987)

Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organisations, the challenges of globalisation, global development, and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. She has served as an advisor to the African Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Center for Global Development, the International Monetary Fund and the European Union. She is an independent non-executive director of Rio Tinto, Board member of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation and Trustee of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and Van Leer Foundation, and a member of the Conseil d’administration of the Institut National Du Service Public.

Jack

(New York & University 1972)

Jack Zoeller has founded seven companies in 40 years. Currently he manages Purefy, an award-winning loan comparison site, and a nonprofit, The Aunt Betty Fund, launched to channel funding to assist borrowers burdened by education debt.

Jack is a Visiting Research Professor at George Washington University specialising in 16th- and 17thcentury Anglo-American history. Devoting a year of research into the early life of the first African American Rhodes Scholar, Jack’s article, ‘Alain Locke at Oxford: Race and the Rhodes Scholarship’, received broad acclaim. He graduated first in his class at West Point and served as an infantry company commander in the 82nd Airborne and analyst in the Pentagon, on a team credited with preserving the all-volunteer Army.

Jack holds a Bachelor of Science from the US Military Academy, a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard and an MLitt in Politics from Oxford. He resides with his wife Kathryn in Washington, D.C.

(Ontario & Wolfson 2003)

Zinta Zommers is the Climate Science Lead for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, where she works to reduce the impacts of climate shocks on vulnerable communities. An expert in risk management and climate change adaptation, she was an author of the 2023 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Synthesis Report. Zinta has worked with the United Nations in a variety of capacities – in Kenya with the Chief Scientist’s Office of UN Environment, in Germany with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and in Sierra Leone with the Food and Agriculture Organization. In 2015 she joined the UN Secretary General’s Climate Change Support Team, supporting the negotiation of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Zinta has a MPhil in Development Studies and a DPhil in Zoology from the University of Oxford. She has authored two books on early warning systems and adaptation to climate change and is a visiting Fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoeller Zinta Zommers

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Sorina is currently overseeing the design and delivery of the Alumni programmes portfolio for the Rhodes Trust. Sorina’s career is based on building purpose-led global communities and channelling their energy towards delivering impactful initiatives, through mission-inspired programming. She joined the Rhodes Trust from the Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre, where she was leading on partnerships and stakeholder engagement, and was instrumental in creating initiatives that increased opportunities for alumni engagement and growth in the Oxford ecosystem and beyond. Previously, Sorina served as Leadership Programs Director for The Aspen Institute office in Bucharest, where she managed one of the most prestigious leadership fellowships in CEE and the Caucasus. Sorina is a founding member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Bucharest Hub. She holds a BSc in international relations from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and a Master of Research in political and social sciences from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Pema (pronounced peh-ma) is the team’s Lifelong Programmes Assistant. She manages the Alumni@ RhodesHouse inbox, the Rhodes120 inbox, writes the monthly Alumni Updates newsletter and works closely with the rest of the team to deliver their objectives, particularly in event delivery. She has previously worked at the University of Manchester Students’ Union, engaging students to be active co-creators of their educational experiences, and with Critical Engagement CIC as a facilitator for workshops aimed at teenagers focusing on issues of identity, diversity and social responsibility. She particularly enjoys meeting members of diverse communities and finding the threads that connect them. Pema is a graduate of the University of St Andrews (2020) and United World Colleges (2016).

Helen works to connect and bring value to diverse networks and communities; supporting volunteers, creating impactful communications and facilitating and running engagement events. With over eight years’ experience in Alumni Relations, she has worked with a huge range of stakeholders across many different organisations. Before working at the Rhodes Trust, Hele was based at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, where she facilitated key reunion events such as the Oxford Alumni Weekend. She also helped to navigate the College through the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a new series of online content and events. Previously, Helen held a number of roles within the University of Exeter; building alumni volunteering within the Careers Service, developing a recent alumni group and women’s alumnae network, and connecting the alumni community within the Business School. Helen holds a BA in History and Ancient History from the University of Exeter.

Misbah is a Scholar in Residence and currently working as a part-time projects officer with the Rhodes 120th team for the anniversary celebrations. She, along with Kenza, curated the Scholar-led programmes, to ensure Scholars in Residence are actively involved in the 120th celebrations, and have an opportunity to engage with the Alumni community. She is a DPhil candidate in Law at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focuses on the intersection of right to equality and right to religion. She completed her MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oxford in 2022. Prior to this, she graduated with an LLB from University of Delhi and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from St. Stephen's College.

Georgie Thurston

Dougie Scott is the Senior Events Manager of the 120th Anniversary Reunion and has been responsible for leading the Rhodes Trust team in the planning, coordination and delivery of the Reunion. Dougie joined the Rhodes Trust in October 2022, having spent the last nine years managing events in a diverse range of industries including; museums, academic programmes, literary events and music festivals. He joined from his previous role managing and developing a high-quality programme of event, festivals and national initiatives for the City of Perth. In a voluntary capacity, Dougie was a founding member and Chair Person for the charity Perthshire Pride, where he managed the charity’s activities and saw it grow from a concept to an annual 8,500 attendee event. He holds a BA (Hons) in Event Management from Robert Gordon University and represented Scotland at Global Pride 2020

Georgie joined the Trust in 2019 and currently works as the Lifelong Programmes Manager. She collaborates closely with the rest of the team to foster a sense of community and curate a diverse range of events encompassing digital, hybrid and physical formats. These events, including conferences, cater to Alumni, Scholars in Residence, and the wider general public. Georgie is also responsible for our ‘Scholars’ Library series’ where each month, we invite an Alum to talk about their literary works to those within the Rhodes community and beyond. Contact her if you are interested in getting involved with any of our programmes or conferences. Prior to the Rhodes Trust, Georgie worked on telephone fundraising campaigns at colleges and universities across the UK. She holds a BA in English from the University of Leicester.

Rodolfo is the Director of Global Engagement and Programmes at the Rhodes Trust, having joined in January 2016 as Director for Programmes and Alumni Relations. During his time with the Trust, Rodolfo also helped to shape and launch the Atlantic Institute in 2016, and was a member of its Joint Committee between 2016 and 2019. Rodolfo currently serves as an inaugural Board Member of the Latin American Leadership Academy. Previously, Rodolfo held several positions at the World Economic Forum (WEF) including leading its Technology Pioneers Programme and managing the development and relationship of the WEF’s corporate partners in Europe and Latin America. He has also worked for Siemens, Germany in various roles including strategic planning and category management. Rodolfo holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico), an MBA/MA in International Studies from the Wharton School/Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania and a Masters in Global Leadership / Global Leadership Fellow of the WEF.

Kenza Wilks (Bermuda & Balliol 2021)

Kenza is a writer and researcher currently pursuing an MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies at Oxford with a research focus on migration, labour and Chinese overseas investment. His research uses ethnographic methods to document the experiences and motivations of Chinese migrants to West Africa. In his role as one half of the Scholar-led programming team he has worked to facilitate intergenerational exchange between Scholars in Residence and the Alumni attending the 120th event. Kenza holds a BSc in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from King’s College London, previously studied Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University and has spent periods studying abroad at NTNU in Taipei. A keen competitive debater, Kenza continues to provide public speaking and communications training through his social enterprise CodeBlue, which has facilitated debate programmes, seminars and workshops for over 1,000 students in eight countries.

We would also like to recognise the tremendous work of the following Rhodes Trust staff members in enabling this event to be a success:

We also recognise the tremendous contributions of Scholars who are speaking, volunteering or who had so many wonderful ideas and insights into the programme.

While the 120th Reunion is an organisation-wide endeavour and we are grateful for all the support received from colleagues, we particularly want to recognise the efforts of the 120th Core Team.

Sorina Campean Pema I'Anson Helen Nicholson Misbah Reshi (India & Somerville 2021) Dougie Scott

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EMERGENCY NUMBERS

Emergency services (ambulance, police, fire): 999

Emergency medical treatment can be obtained at the Emergency Department (A&E) of the John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington OX3 9DU, 24 hours a day.

T: 0300 304 7777.

VOLUNTEERS AND RHODES HOUSE STAFF

If you need assistance please note staff and volunteers are wearing 120th Anniversary branded t-shirts and will also have badges in different colours.

WIFI CODE

Sign into the Rhodes-Guest network using the password: Rhodesw1f1!

Other venues will have their own log in details.

LANYARD AND BADGE

Please wear your lanyard and badge at all times.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILMING

There will be photography taking place during the weekend – if you would prefer not be included in this, please speak to a member of staff.

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Activities in Oxford

PUNTING

Magdalen Bridge Boathouse / your own college

A classic Oxford activity! Some colleges have their own punts, so do enquire with your college whether that is available to you. Otherwise, the Magdalen Bridge Boathouse is open to the public, with punts, rowboats and pedalos available to rent. You can try your hand at punting (basic training available!) or hire the services of one of their resident chauffeurs.

https://www.oxfordpunting.co.uk/

Price: £30 for 1 hour un-chauffeured punting. Advance booking required: during peak times, advance booking is recommended.

OXFORD ARTISAN DISTILLERY TOUR

Old Depot, South Park, Cheney Lane, OX3 7QJ

Book onto a behind-the-scenes-experience where you will learn how The Oxford Artisan Distillery makes their award-winning Vodka, Gin and Rye whisky, following every step of the journey from seed to still – and into the bottle. Tours can be of the spirit distillery, or specifically of whiskies; both include tastings. They have been voted the number one thing to do in Oxford on Trip Advisor! www.theoxfordartisandistillery.com/ shop/tours

Suitability: Adult only

Price: £20-40pp ; 20% discount if at scheduled time, 10% discount outside Advance booking required: Yes.

OXFORD RIVER CRUISES

The Folly, 1 Folly Bridge, OX1 4JU

This Oxford Experience river tour provides you with a window into the stunning natural beauty of the area, peppered with vibrant bursts of activity as we explore the day-to-

day life of the river. Setting out on this small group cruise aboard our elegant electric river boats, your knowledgeable skipper will be on hand to answer any questions throughout your journey. You can also explore options for afternoon tea cruises, picnic cruises, or cocktail cruises at different price points.

www.oxfordrivercruises.com/river-cruises/ oxford-experience-tour/

Suitability: All

Price: £18 Adults (12+); £12 Children (up to 11 years)

Advance booking required: Yes

TREASURE HUNT OXFORD

Treasure Hunt Oxford will take you on a fab route around the city, spotting clues and following treasure maps, all at your own pace.

www.treasurehuntoxford.com/

Suitability: All ages.

Price: £9.99 per person

Advance booking required: Yes

THAMES PATH WALK

Enter and leave at various points

OXFORD PLAYHOUSE

Beaumont Street, OX1 2LW

Bringing live performance, drama, dance, comedy to our stage in the heart of Oxford.

Currently Showing: The Hobbit

An MCS Drama production

By Alex Thomas & John Mann

Dates: Thu 29 Jun – Sat 1 Jul

This new adaptation of Tolkien’s much-loved story brings to life the extraordinary world of Middle Earth against the backdrop of World War II. Tolkien’s own songs inspire the rich musical score, and it is fitting that this world premiere should take place on the 50th anniversary of Tolkien’s death in the city where he lived, taught and wrote.

Tickets: £11.00-16.00

Times: Thu 29 & Friday 30 at 7.300pm, Sat 1st at 2.30 and 7.00pm

Box Office: +44 (0) 1865 305305 www.oxfordplayhouse.com

An easy route alongside the Thames you can follow for as long as you like. Many parts are accessible via wheelchair or with pram/stroller. Enjoy a quiet walk away from the bustle of the city and surrounded by nature. Swans, ducks, herons and kingfishers are regular sightings. Take a picnic, feed the ducks, enjoy a stroll. The route is paved for much of its route, with a good quality path from Osney all the way downstream to Kennington. The path from Osney out of the city heading upstream to Wolvercote in the north is more rural, has a number of bridges and steps and can be muddy.

www.oxford.gov.uk/info/20319/go_active_ outdoors_-_waterways/1382/walking_and_ cycling_routes_-_river_and_canal/2

TURRILL SCULPTURE GARDEN

Summertown Library, South Parade, OX2 7JN

Contemporary sculpture in a peaceful garden setting.

www.turrillsculpturegarden.org.uk/

Price: Free

Advance booking: Not required

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OXFORD BOTANIC GARDENS

Rose Lane, Oxford OX1 4AZ

Oxford Botanic Gardens are home to over 5,000 different plant species. Visit inspiring herbaceous borders, walk through glasshouses that take you around the world or simply relax in the oldest Botanic Garden in Britain. Audio guides are available or borrow a family friendly ‘Big Botanic Backpack’ filled with activities to encourage exploration.

www.obga.ox.ac.uk/visit-garden

Suitability: All

Price: £6.30 per person; £5.00 for University of Oxford alumni (proof of status required). Children under 16 free with accompanying paid adult. Oxford current students and staff access free. Advance booking: Not required but recommended in busy periods (summer, weekends)

MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Location: Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW

Oxford University Museum of Natural History holds an internationally-significant collection of natural history specimens and archives.

www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/visit-us

Suitability: All ages

Price: Free

Advance booking required: No

STORY MUSEUM

42 Pembroke St, Oxford OX1 1BP

Through immersive exhibitions and gallery spaces, events and outreach work, we celebrate stories in all forms and explore their enduring power to teach and delight.

www.storymuseum.org.uk/

Suitability: All ages

Price: £12 per person

Advance booking required: Yes

PITT RIVERS MUSEUM

Parks Road, OX1 3PW

The much-loved Pitt Rivers Museum is unlike any other. Founded in 1884, it houses within an atmospheric building more than 500,000 archaeological and ethnographic objects objects from all over the world, and from all periods of human existence.

Current Exhibition:

Unmasked: Spirit in the City (free)

HISTORY OF SCIENCE MUSEUM

Broad Street OX1 3AZ

A collection of scientific inventions, devices and instruments from different cultures, places, and times in human history. www.hsm.ox.ac.uk/

Suitability: All

Price: Free

Advance booking required: Recommended but not necessary.

Dates: Open until 7 January 2024

A collaboration between Port Harcourt-born British-Nigerian artist Zina Saro-Wiwa and Oxford anthropologist David Pratten, who tell a very different story about the meaning of the cultural practice known as masquerade.

www.prm.ox.ac.uk/

Suitability: All

Price: Free

Advance booking required: No

ARTS AT THE OLD FIRE STATION

Location: 40 George Street, OX1 2AQ

Description: A community arts centre with exhibitions, theatre, music, a café and more. www.oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/

Suitability: All ages

Price: Varying (incl. free)

Advance booking required: No

BATE COLLECTION OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Location: Bate Collection, University of Oxford, St Aldate’s, OX1 1DB

The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards. It is housed in Oxford University’s Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St Aldate’s. Only open at certain times – see the website for more information.

www.bate.ox.ac.uk/home

Suitability: All ages

Price: Free

Advance booking required: For tours.

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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM

Beaumont St, OX1 2PH

The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford’s museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683. Their world famous collections range from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art, telling human stories across cultures and across time.

https://www.ashmolean.org/

Price: Free

Advance booking: only for major exhibitions.

Current Exhibition:

Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality (entry fee)

Dates: Open until 30 July 2023

According to legend, an elaborate labyrinth was built at Knossos on the island of Crete to hold a ferocious Minotaur. Discover the palac of Knossos, and the search for the labyrinth, i this major exhibition in Oxford.

OXFORD CASTLE & PRISON

Location: 44-46 Oxford Castle, OX1 1AY

Oxford Castle & Prison explores the 1000 years of Oxford’s history. Led by one of their costumed characters, the rich history of the castle with a prison at its heart will be revealed to you. Climb St George’s Tower and take in the stunning views before descending into the atmospheric crypt, along the eighteenth-century prison wing and into the archaic man-made mound.

www.oxfordcastleandprison.co.uk

Suitability: Some aspects suitable for children.

Price: Children under 5 free; children over 5 from £9.95 ; adults from £15.50 Advance booking: Recommended but not necessary; discounts if booked in advance.

RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY

Location: Green Templeton College, 44 Woodstock Rd, OX2 6HG

The beautiful eighteenth-century Radcliffe Observatory is the central focus of the three-acre Green Templeton College site. Construction began in 1772 and the building functioned as a working observatory from 1773 until 1934. These days the iconic Observatory houses Green Templeton’s Common Room, dining hall and kitchens. www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/history/radcliffeobservatory/

Suitability: All ages

Price: Free.

BODLEIAN LIBRARY

Location: Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG

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The world-famous Bodleian Libraries is a must-see cultural destination in the heart o Oxford. Founded by Sir Thomas Bodley an opened in 1602, the Bodleian Libraries has grown to be the largest academic library system in the UK. Explore historic spaces th you might recognise from films and TV, suc as Harry Potter and A Discovery of Witches

f d at h visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Current Exhibition:

Gifts and Books (free)

Dates: Open until 29 October 2023

Drawing on material from ancient Sumerian writing tablets to contemporary fiction for children, this exhibition explores the importance of gift-giving of books across time, and how this apparently simple act reveals wider interactions, relationships and belief systems.

Suitability: All ages

Price: Free to look around. Divinity School

£2.50 per person, Bodleian Library & Radcliffe Camera tour £9 per person

Advance booking required: Yes for Divinity School, and tours

Advance booking required: Only accessible to Green Templeton College students and alumni. Please liaise with GTC porters for more information.

COLLEGES

Alumni may visit their own colleges, usually bringing in a guest or family with them. Other colleges often have opening hours which are open to the public; they may charge a small fee for entry. Check each college’s website for more information.

WESTGATE SHOPPING CENTRE

Location: Queen St, Oxford OX1 1PE

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Asked Questions

How do I download the event app?

Scan the QR code to access the App and download.

Where can I pick up my lanyard?

The Wadham Marquee Registration desks are open 1 - 8pm on Wednesday 28 June, 8.30am - 5pm on both Thursday 29 June and Friday 30 June, and 8.30am - 3pm on Saturday 1 July.

An event is fully booked, how can I get a place?

Please sign up for the waiting list of your desired event on your Rhodes Trust Event App. If a place becomes available you will receive an email.

What Accessibility Support can you offer?

For those who have highlighted additional mobility support needs, The Rhodes Trust has put on a shuttle bus to assist with transport between venues. The timetable is:

Thursday June 29th

Route: Rhodes House, Blavatnik School, Oxford Town Hall

Shuttle times: 10.30am – 11.30am, 12.30pm –13.30pm, 2.30pm - 3.30pm, 4.30pm.

Friday June 30th

Route: Rhodes House, Keble College, Mathematical Institute, Examination School Shuttle times: 11am – 11.30am, 4.30pm.

Friday Lunch June 30th

Route: Rhodes House, Keble College, Mathematical Institute, Examination School, St Hilda, Oriel College

Shuttle Times: 12.30 – 14.30

Saturday Evening:

Pick up at Ashmolean from 7pm

Route: St Edmunds Hall, Natural History Museum, Brasenose, Wadham College, Milner Hall, St Peter’s College, Linacre College

You can visit https://www.accessguide.ox.ac. uk/ to see venue accessibility before visiting.

Will there be filming and photography at the events?

Yes, there will be photographers and videographers present at the 120th Anniversary Reunion. If you do not wish to be photographed, please alert a staff member who will give you a lanyard to clearly communicate to the photographer that you do not wish to be photographed.

What time should I arrive at events? Where possible, please try to turn up at least 15 minutes prior to the event start time. This will allow the event to run without disruption.

When will Rhodes House be open?

If you have registered for an event at Rhodes House, the house will be open to explore the hour prior to your event. Rhodes House will be open for everyone to explore on Friday, June 30th between 12pm and 2pm.

If I lose my lanyard, where can I get a replacement?

Please return to the Wadham Marquee where you picked up your lanyard and the team will print you off a replacement.

How can I connect with someone from my class?

Our 120th online platform will have a list of participants and is a good way to reach out to fellow attending Scholars. Rhodes Connect is also a useful way to contact someone from your class.

What is the dress code?

The dress code for the weekend is smart casual, however, the dress code for Gala dinners and Receptions is Formal, Black Tie Optional. We would love for attendees to express themselves through national dress and other smart attire.

Lost and Found?...

Please first check with the venue. Go to the 120th Anniversary Reunion Information Desk located within the Wadham Marquee. The Rhodes Trust accepts no responsibility for lost or stolen property.

Can I log in to the Rhodes House Wi-Fi?

Within Rhodes House, please select 'RhodesGuest' and enter the following password: Rhodesw1f1!

Where can I buy an umbrella?

Boots Pharmacy, 8-10 Cornmarket St, Oxford OX1 3HL

TK Maxx, Unit 20, The Clarendon Centre, Cornmarket St, Oxford OX1 3JE

Is childcare available?

Childcare is available for younger children (0-12 years) for those attending the Pitt Rivers Museum reception and Natural History Museum Gala Dinner.

Saturday 6pm-10pm: Natural History Museum

Can I get a list of all attendees?

The full list of attendees is available on Rhodes Connect.

Can you recommend a taxi service?

Royal Cars - 01865 777 333 001 Taxis - 01865 240000

Oxford Blue Taxis - 01865 238888

In case of a medical emergency?...

In the case of a medical emergency please alert the event manager. If the emergency is urgent please contact 999.

In case of an emergency?...

In the event of an emergency, please call 999 for Police, Ambulance or Fire Department.

Can I bring pets?

No, for health and safety reasons we do not permit animals into the Reunion.

Are guide dogs allowed?

Yes

What if I lose my child at the Reunion?

Make contact with the nearest steward. The Trust has a child protection procedure and one of our designated safeguarding leads will assist.

The nearest Pharmacy?...

Boots Pharmacy, 8-10 Cornmarket St, Oxford OX1 3HL

The nearest Post office?...

102-104 St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1ZZ

How can I make a gift to the Rhodes Trust?

Please see page 9 where you can read about supporting our Scholars and find a QR code to access our giving web pages.

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Reunion stats

8 Rhodes Scholar attendees by country of election

Rhodes Scholar attendees by year of election

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Election Attending Total in Percentage Country Renunion community attending Afghanistan 1 1 100% Australia 57 497 11% Belize 1 1 100% Bermuda 7 61 11% British Caribbean/ 8 47 17% Commonwealth Caribbean Canada 122 705 17% China 11 28 39% Germany 37 128 29% Ghana 1 5 20% Hong Kong 4 38 11% Election Attending Total in Percentage Country Renunion community attending India 28 230 12% Ireland 1 11 9% Israel 4 11 36% Jamaica 14 64 22% Kenya 8 70 11% Lebanon 1 3 33% Malaysia 6 34 18% Namibia 2 3 67% New Zealand 23 169 14% Nigeria 1 16 6% Pakistan 10 72 14% Rhodesia 2 58 3% Saudi Arabia 5 8 63% Election Attending Total in Percentage Country Renunion community attending Singapore 4 25 16% South Africa 93 536 17% Sudan 1 1 100% Syria 3 5 60% Trinidad & Tobago 3 5 60% Turkey 1 1 100% Uganda 1 10 10% United Arab 5 18 28% Emirates USA 319 2037 16% Zambia 6 71 8% Zimbabwe 15 78 19%

Scholars

in person 319 93 122 57 37 15 11 28 23 10 14

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