Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust Annual Report 2021-22

“It’s been heart-warming to see how much this programme has developed over the past 15 years - from a good idea to an important and substantial scholarships and leadership programme recognised for its unique contribution both to the academic and cultural life of the University. For this, I want to thank our donors especially our co-founder André Hoffmann and the indefatigable Alexandra Henderson and her wonderful colleagues at the Trust who work tirelessly to give every cohort a special and lifechanging experience. This is an important opportunity for our alums to show leadership in their chosen fields.”

“Oxford University has been welcoming international students at least as far back as the 12th century. Today the WeidenfeldHoffmann Trust annually brings to Oxford a group of talented young people committed to improving the world around them. Our entire community is enriched by their presence. ”

“Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. The WHT was created to provide an opportunity and to empower the talented and hard-working students of today to create the world of tomorrow. The Leadership Programme goes over and above what the University teaches, it creates a community, a sense of cohort, of people who can talk to each other and share solutions.”

André Hoffmann Co-founder and Trustee, Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust

Michael Lewis Chairman, WHT Trustees

Prof. Louise Richardson Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford

Boafa

Celebrating 15 years of WHT

“ It has been an absolute pleasure to witness the incredible journey the Weidenfeld Hoffmann Trust has had over the last 15 years, not least in relation to the evolution of the Leadership Programme, which impressively has nurtured and supported around 400 scholars from 100 countries in becoming young leaders who are passionate about social change. I look forward to watching these scholars continue to grow into the leaders of tomorrow.”

Ben Barnett

In 2014, Lord Weidenfeld’s friends marked his 95th birthday by raising funds to endow the scholarships he set up in 2007. Through the instrumental contributions of its first Chairman, André Hoffmann, Trustee and current Chairman, Michael Lewis, family members, Alina and Ben Barnett, a very active and generous Advisory Board and the support of our partners like the Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, the Programme marks its 15th Anniversary in 2022 and is now poised to help solve the world’s most pressing problems. By empowering the brightest and best from across the globe to receive a world-class education at Oxford - the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust is more than a Scholarship. The tailor-made Leadership Programme jump-starts the ambitions of young leaders, equipping them to return to their regions and countries of origin to shine a light of hope and make meaningful contributions to the fields of Sustainability, Business, Law, Education, and Digital Technologies, Governance, Diplomacy and Health.

Grandson of Lord Weidenfeld, WHT Advisory Board Member

Ben Barnett, Advisory Board member and grandson of Lord Weidenfeld with his wife Alina Barnett, WHT Trustee.

Celebrating 10 years in partnership with Louis Dreyfus Foundation

“Over the past 10 years, the Louis Dreyfus Foundation has funded more than 90 postgraduate students from 40 developing and emerging economies across the globe. We thoroughly selected the most talented candidates predominantly from the Global South with the potential to have impactful careers and contribute to the sustainable development of their countries. The students’ academic experience was also combined with the professional experience at Louis Dreyfus Company and Foundation, both welcoming some of Oxford’s graduates for temporary placement. We are very happy to see that this partnership also contributed to the creation of the Louis-Dreyfus-WeidenfeldHoffmann scholarship alumni network - a space where students can exchange their ideas and discuss topics of common interest.”

Robert Serpollet General Manager, Louis Dreyfus Foundation

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I hope to work in the water sector to ensure that the management of available water resources is done in a manner that benefits more people, in addition to creating resilience in societies, not only in Kenya, my home country but also in Africa. This is the change I hope to make in this world.

Having pursued the MSc in Water Science, Policy, and Management, thanks to the Louis Dreyfus Foundation and the WHT, I am well on the path to contributing to this much-needed change. ”

Faith Atieno Odero

Kenya, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management, Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann, Worcester

Robert Serpollet with Louis Dreyfus-WeidenfeldHoffmann Scholars 2018 from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil and India.

“ June 16th, 2020 will forever remain on my mind. On this date, the world was informed of the first effective treatment for hospitalised patients with COVID19, dexamethasone. An effective and accessible COVID19 vaccine soon followed, both led by outstanding teams at the University of Oxford. It was indeed an honour to listen and learn from Professor Sir Peter Horby and Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, leaders of these efforts from the RECOVERY Trial and Oxford Vaccine, during seminar sessions on my MSc course. The only reason I was able to do so is thanks to Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust (WHT), my college and their generous donors. ”

Giri Rajahram Malaysia, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Oxford-Hoffmann and GRoW @ Annenberg, Keble College

Giri delayed his scholarship by a year to fight the pandemic on the front line in Malaysia.

DIRECTOR’S OVERVIEW

The Oxford Experience 2021-2022

If I try to characterise this year’s cohort, the words that spring to mind are warmth, enthusiasm, and determination - warmth in terms of the scholars’ attitude to each other, enthusiasm to squeeze as much as they could from their one-year ‘Oxford experience’ and determination on many fronts including pushing forward with their various plans for the future. Isn’t that always the case, I hear you say- well yes, but it hasn’t been all that easy.

First off more than twenty of this year’s cohort of 35 from 25 different countries had to face the obligatory hotel quarantine which was no picnic and certainly a hard start for those who had not left home before, let alone found themselves in these restricted circumstances.

The introductory days held in the beautiful surroundings of Worcester College helped to disperse those early memories and it was clear that this cohort wanted to join in on all aspects of the Leadership Programme.

Hardly had they found their feet than a dozen of them were asking to attend COP26 being held in Glasgow. Some such as our Sudanese scholar, Lina Yassin, had a ringside seat helping to represent her country since she had a visa unlike some of her compatriots; all came back wanting in different ways to contribute to the all-important

climate change issue (see what the scholars say about COP26 on pages 29 -30).

The rest of the term passed by as the students accustomed themselves to the colder, greyer weather without the comforts of home cookinghere we saw their resilience such as Maya Sherman’s tropical party -just the photo of it is heartwarming!

Then came the first blow to our plans when we had to cancel an end-of-term day of workshops and meetings with friends and supporters as

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Covid came back to haunt us. It was a hard judgement call though when half the cohort came down with Omicron, we felt we had taken the right decision. The venue pursued us for the full cost of the event- this was only mitigated later by a Knight in shining armour, Sir John Ritblat, who generously contributed half of the sum involved- we thank him enormously and look forward to raising a glass with him in person when we do eventually bring the scholars.

We went back to zoom life and ended the term with a very inspiring talk from a member of the Change Please team who have turned takeaway coffees into a successful business helping former prisoners with funds and work.

The Spring or Hilary Term came and went in a flash as we promised the scholars that there would be light at the end of the winter tunnel. The scholars organised an exceptional debate at the Oxford Union – the topic was chosen by a vote through MURAL. Once again, the scholars showed how much they had honed their debating skills again swaying opinions in the Chamber and then coming together at the end to give each other a hug! (See pg. 27 for the scholar blog)

This year, for the first time we also had a scholar-led Sports Day instigated by Ishaan Sethi; from specially made tee-shirts to particular team names, every detail was thought through to make it both a special and very much a WHT event. And the sun even made an appearance to cheer everyone along. (See pg. 33 for Ishaan’s perspective)

The Summer or Trinity term is always one of panics- about exams, time running out, too much to fit in, too little time to do it and what next. But this is where the cohort showed their qualities- helping each other through the stressful times and coming together in a joyous group for the end-of-year away time at Cumberland Lodge. Once more covid tried to interfere with our plans, but we were mostly able to keep it at bay. The scholars showed how much they had opened up and developed through their Business Challenge projects, and such was the enthusiasm for the Talent Show that a much-reduced group joined me and Jane for the obligatory walk to the Copper Horse the following morning. (See Lucia’s blog on page 28)

We were able to round off the year with a showcase of projects in front of our business panel followed by a traditional Oxford dinner at Exeter College- it felt as though the roof of the dining hall might lift off with the warmth and applause of that evening. Many of those involved in the programme in one way or another from members of the Advisory Board to professors of courses attended by the students, from donors to those who

make the wheels turn for this scholarship programme- all those who had made the time and effort to join us could see how much the whole programme had meant to this cohort.

Every year we try and institute changes – this year it was to try and create more opportunities for internships to give our scholars more of a taste of what they might find after leaving. I want to thank members of our Advisory Board, Ben Barnett, Pamela Dow, Justin Gayner and Nadja Skaljic and André Hoffmann for their help over this - it is fair to say it is a work in progress, but this was a good and exciting addition to the Business Enterprise Challenge.

Sadly, I have just heard that Robin Hambro, a former member of our Advisory Board and an early supporter, has very sadly died of cancer. She generously helped us with our introductory sessions over several years, enjoyed listening in on the moral philosophy sessions and always came away saying how much she loved meeting “all those brilliant young people”. She will be much missed.

Our seven partner colleges have continued to provide very important home from home spaces for our cohort for which we are so grateful. This year, they were also able to help us very closely with the selection process for the next cohort. I know this added to a heavy workload, but I hope it will also deepen our partnership!

This year also saw the University induct the WHT into the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors for their generosity to Oxford. It is an indication that as we celebrate fifteen years of this programme, the WHT is becoming more and more woven into the fabric of the University. A particular thanks to Martin Williams, Liesl Elder and their teams.

One other anniversary we are celebrating this year is the tenth year of our partnership with the Louis Dreyfus Foundation. It was one of George Weidenfeld’s close friends, Sir Ronnie Grierson who first persuaded Margarita Louis-Dreyfus to support the programme in 2012. Over these years the Foundation has generously supported 92 students. I can honestly say that there is no way that these scholars would have had this life-changing opportunity without Margarita’s unwavering generosity. More recently in addition to supporting their time in Oxford, the Foundation has encouraged the scholars to take up internships with the Company. The Pandemic made this harder but thanks to Robert Serpollet and Ekaterina Naymark’s help, those that have been able to complete an internship have found these to be invaluable. The WHT are really indebted to Margarita and the Foundation for their incredible help, and we hope we will be able to bring all the scholars together with Foundation members to celebrate before the year is out.

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We at the Trust really enjoy hearing news about our alumni. It is invidious to pick out any one as the list of what they get up to is impressive. But this year our thoughts have been very much with our alums from Afghanistan and Ukraine. One, in particular, kept hitting the headlines across the world. Shabana BasijRasikh had opened a boarding school for girls in Kabul. In August last year, she flew 250 of the girls, and others involved with her to Rwanda where they have been given a safe haven. She has found schools in America for her girls, and she has worked tirelessly to keep up the pressure to get education back into her country for girls. She has done Ted Talks, she writes for the Washington Post, she travels the world to attend conferences and over this year she has become a mother to a little girl called Songa.

From this, I want to mention something we are working on now for the next years of the programme. At the end-of-year dinner, we launched the Scholarships of Hope - these will be for young people who, for reasons of conflict in their country, have become refugees. We cannot put the world to rights, but we have shown over these years that we can offer a space for young people to come and meet like-minded students, spend a year studying and above all a safe space to pause and work out plans for the next steps. In the incoming cohort, we have made room for two Russians, two Ukrainians, one Afghan and one stateless African. But we need to raise funds so that these in future can be in addition to the 35 students we would be taking in. I would call on anyone who can help us or knows someone who could help us with this to do so. Applications for the next round begin again in September and close at Christmas- there is no time to lose.

On behalf of everyone at WHT, we thank you for your interest in what we do and your support, may you have a peaceful and good summer.

Best wishes,

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The WHT Hope Scholarships

“ Since the Taliban have seized my country (Afghanistan), I have understood what it means to be an exile: to have everything yet it means nothing; to have a home yet to feel homeless; and live a life of statelessness, homelessness, and hopelessness. The WHT Refugee scholarship & Leadership Programme will give a stateless person like me a home at magical Oxford, a chance to study and critically reflect on their experience, peace of mind, and hope. ”

Tabasum Wolyat

WHT YEAR IN PICTURES

Nadia, from Sudan, tells us her story

Sara, who escaped Kabul, joins in our Moral Philosophy sessions

The team without which none of this would happen

...and the WHT team

Welcomed by David Isaac, Provost of Worcester College

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PICTURES

The debate begins with these trainers...

Scholars take to the streets about Ukraine

Innovation – First scholars’ sports day competing in their specially designed T-shirts

summer, Cumberland Lodge and croquet lessons...

Alumni bridge the gap between the academic and

world...

...plus Moral Philosophy Learning to breath...

scholars practice their Enterprise Challenge pitches

Reward for the innovator, Ishaan

Spring begins with a trip to Blenheim Palace

And are mentored to think beyond Oxford with Larisa

Participate as jurors for the ‘Green Recovery on Trial’

...is chaired by Tom Fletcher from Hertford

Fierce debate ends in smiles

Abraham/Rausing

Thank you Saïd Business School Thank you GRoW @ Annenberg

Last Day – Thank you André Hoffmann

Thank you Louis Dreyfus Foundation

scholars believe the Leadership Programme has helped them a great deal to shape their future plans and equip them with the skills to achieve them.

Global Scholarship:

Celebrating 15 years

“ As Head of the AGNIi Mission, under the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory CouncilI am restructuring a government emerging technologies programme to focus more aggressively on India’s battle against climate change, and for ecological sustainability. The opportunity to study public policy at Oxford, helped me access an arsenal of ideas, thinking, and strategies to advance this. To the WeidenfeldHoffmann Trust and the Louis Dreyfus Foundation, I owe a debt of gratitude and a lifetime’s commitment to making that difference.

Rahul Nayer

Policy (MPP), India, 2014

Moral Philosophy

Guiding the next generation of leaders

Stephen Wright

Scholars joined us pre-term for a series of seminars discussing some of the important themes in moral philosophy. Academic moderators led scholars through questions around what rights people have and whether they are inalienable, what equality is and why it might be good, and what responsibilities global citizens have to each other. Throughout the year, we met again to discuss themes around justice, democracy, conflict, and social media.

Against a complicated and evolving geopolitical backdrop, the Moral Philosophy Seminar feels like it has taken on special importance this year. Whilst the topics have been familiar – rights, democracy, globalisation, and so on – the discussions that we’ve had have been closely focused on what’s going on in the world right now.

We are proud of the way that the scholars have applied themselves to the Moral Philosophy Seminars this year. From the word ‘go’, they’ve set about thinking, discussing, and questioning philosophical ideas about leadership. More than ever,

it’s been fascinating, valuable, and rewarding to see them getting stuck into the material.

Some things about the Moral Philosophy Seminar never change, though. The diversity of the scholars’ backgrounds, the respect with which they treat each other’s ideas, and the care and attention they put into preparing gives the seminars a unique value.

“ One of the lessons that I am taking home from Oxford is that if you want a bunch of very different people to get to know each other well and bond; let them have a philosophical debate. This is how you make people talk about their beliefs, passions and doubts and allow them to connect on a much deeper level after just a few hours. The diversity of our backgrounds and experience made these conversations lively and exciting. ”

Zuzana Vargova Slovakia, MPP, Oxford-Hoffmann, Keble

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Towards mutual understanding

Adriana Osaguera Mexico, MSc Comparative Social Policy, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Sackler, Lincoln

I got to know my fellow scholars through an icebreaker that any political scientist could wish for: discussing topics such as power, democracy, and equality. We were straight out of hotel quarantine and had to discuss highly controversial –but equally relevant– topics with total strangers. We were given key readings to start the conversation, but it quickly became evident that it was the critical mind and the experiences of the scholars that truly enriched the conversation. What a first impression they made! I soon realised I was surrounded by people that are not only brilliant (and incredibly eloquent) but also committed to solving some of the most pressing issues in our countries and across the globe.

The discussions we had throughout the year were enhanced by a diversity that stemmed from multiple sources: our different backgrounds, academic fields, and ideological views. Although philosophical topics can get very abstract, an example from one of our communities or classes was always present to ground our discussions and to make us realise that there are multiple and equally important ways of approaching these topics. The scholars from the School of Geography and the Environment always made sure we included notions of sustainability and intergenerational justice in our arguments while the MPPs always questioned the feasibility of our often-utopian views.

I am still amazed by how easily I connected with this cohort despite our different views.

There’s not a doubt in me that the Moral Philosophy seminars were the grounding stone of this long-lasting bond we’ve created between ourselves. It is precisely these types of conversations in which people engage openly and respectfully with others that can make a great difference in the way we interact with each other. In a world full of biases and polarisation, we need to be reminded that we don’t possess the absolute truth and that we might be surprised by how much we can learn if we truly listen to others and if we question our most ingrained beliefs.

One of the topics of the last seminar –deliberation– sums up the discussions we had throughout the year. As Francisco, the scholar from Chile, wisely said: the objective of deliberation is not to reach a consensus but to better understand others. There will always be worries that we all share, and it is through engaging in respectful and honest dialogue that we can find that common ground to start building bridges to solve the problems we care about. The Moral Philosophy seminars not only provided a safe space to exchange points of view about the normative underpinnings of our master’s programmes but also a platform for personal growth and for strengthening friendships that will remain even after we all head back home.

Moral Philosophy

Enterprise Challenge

Scholar Empowerment Through Sustainable Enterprises

Irina Fedorenko

Now in its fifth year, the WHT Enterprise Challenge is an opportunity for scholars to enhance their business skills This year the scholars kicked off their Enterprise journey during their welcome week. After identifying a problem they were passionate about, the scholars focused on developing solutions. They benefitted from workshops over the year, culminating in a final pitch presentation at the Oxford Union.

Team Enterprises 2021-2022

Dost (Do Good)

Dost is a matching platform that directs volunteers to causes where they can have the most impact.

The DROP

The project aims to deliver water to hard-to-reach coastal areas of Bangladesh using low-carbon methods of transportation. As of July 2022, The Drop has received over £250,000 in investments.

Empact

This project aims to reduce the funding gap in rural education in Asian and Latin American countries, by providing a platform that connects rural teachers with donors.

Mothers Matter

An App providing accessible and affordable on and offline training, support materials and communication platform for medical practitioners to reduce maternal mortality rates in Cameroon. They already have significant interest from the US.

Skill It Up

Skill It Up is an AI-driven platform to promote skills and combat youth unemployment in India.

Sustainversity

A Student-led enterprise that supports scholars, university staff and alumni in reducing, re-using belongings. This project has a website and is now live.

Proofing Against Climate Shocks (PACS)

A platform that increases smallholder farmers’ access to localized weather information to improve agricultural resilience to climate-related shocks in Kenya and Sub-Sahara Africa.

Meri Democracy

The team is launching a board game in India to teach young people decision-making and to promote democracy.

Seed Fund Success

Below are the updates on three recent alumni enterprise projects, which they shared with us and scholars at the Oxford Union.

NUTRIENDO EL FUTURO (NEF)

Samuel Diaz Pulgar (Venezuela, Master of Public Policy)

This project contributes to the future of Venezuela through the creation of community dining rooms. With the Seed Fund, Samuel was able to buy equipment to improve kitchen training and help more community members into employment

Enterprise Challenge

ARCUA Melissa Penagos (Colombia, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation & Management)

Maria Mercedes Kuri (Argentina, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management)

Fieldwork for Arcua project

This enterprise seeks to conserve forests and biodiversity in Colombia while increasing income for the communities that protect it. With the Seed Fund, the project was able to grow, Melissa and Maria identified the first users and found an area of forest to carry out the pilot.

REFILLERY

Tamarie Rocke

(Belize, MSc in International Health & Tropical Medicine)

Tamarie recognized in the media

“ Since completing the leadership programme alongside my master’s degree, I’ve accessed many more opportunities to enhance my career prospects but one of the most meaningful and beautiful experiences I’ve had has been to grow my small business Refillery Co. right here in Belize. ”

Tamarie Rocke

This is Belize’s first household cleaning refill and sustainability service. It allows access to essentials, cutting the cost of travel and reducing plastic packaging waste. With the Seed Fund, Tamarie began selling at local markets and caught the attention of the media and local stakeholders.

Samuel shares his enterprise updates

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LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME

Enterprise Challenge

“Businesses can operate for good if they hold the right values at their core” Ayan Kanhai Aman India; MSc Nature, Society & Environmental Governance Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann; Hertford

Coming from a social science background, I was conditioned to be very critical of the market economy and especially its ability to mitigate social and ecological issues. Convinced that political action was the only way to deal with issues like climate change, I did not recognize the power of business: its power to solve problems in a rapid, scalable, and efficient manner. However, my experiences through WHT and Oxford over the past year have demonstrated to me that businesses can operate for good if they hold the right values at their core. Accordingly, this exposure has been an incredible moment of learning and growth for me.

While it is hard to pin this ‘moment of growth’ down to one day, it began during WHT’s introductory Enterprise Challenge workshops, where the cohort spent three days ideating, conceptualising, and designing social enterprises. It was inspiring to see how the cohort’s social enterprises sought to address a wide set of problems that ranged in their focus from issues of migration and healthcare to agriculture. If I were to pick one moment of cumulation that cemented this shift in my worldview, it would certainly be the final pitching session where we all presented our enterprise ideas as this really proved to me that with the right values, a business can be used to do good.

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This experience initiated a change in my mindset that has carried through my time at Oxford; the openness has allowed me to study more about businessand economy-based solutions to climate change. Through my course, I made it a point to engage with various fields like Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, Degrowth Economics, and the Circular Economy. And while I remain critical, I have learned to be more open to alternative approaches to resolving planetary issues.

The Enterprise Challenge has genuinely been a thought-provoking exercise. Coming up with an idea to tackle pressing social needs and developing it has been an exciting adventure. It has led to the Mothers Matter Initiative, which my team and I are willing to push through. This educational app will provide accessible and affordable on and offline training to maternity care teams to assist to handle obstetric emergencies.”

Brenda Tanyi Mpeh Efeti Cameroon, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Oxford-Hoffmann and GRoW @ Annenberg, Lincoln College

Ayan (standing) with team members.

Internships

This year WHT introduced the Internship Scheme to help scholars make the transition from Oxford by providing invaluable opportunities to gain professional experience in their chosen fields or further exposure to the world of business and social enterprises. Nine Scholars secured placements including a Sustainability & Innovation Internship with Roche and a Future of Conservation NGOS with the Luc Hoffmann Institute (both thanks to our Trustee, André Hoffmann) and a placement in the International Biodiversity and Climate Directorate at DEFRA (thanks to Advisory Board member Pamela Dow).

“ The International Biodiversity and Climate Directorate within DEFRA focuses on the development and implementation of policy and overseas development assistance programming in the natural environment. I thoroughly enjoyed working for an impactful organisation in this crucial area. I am delighted to have had an opportunity to get hands-on experience in the process of using evidence and data to develop policies within the context of international agreements, while still focussing on the needs on the ground. Finally, getting to present on transboundary water management and bottom-up approaches to climate resilience was exceptional fun and I look forward to engaging in international environmental development after completing my master’s at Oxford. Many thanks to the WeidenfeldHoffmann Trust, for their ongoing support, and Defra!”

Nalin Singh

South Africa, MSc Water Science Policy & Management, Oxford-Hoffmann Scholar, Worcester

This is the fourth year for the internships which form a compulsory part of the Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann scholarships

During her internship, Maria joined LDC’s Safety, Health and Environment team in General Lagos, Argentina, helping to measure the environmental footprint of their Grains & Oilseeds facilities across South & West Latin America.

“ I found the LDF/LDC internship the perfect step in the transition towards the new career path that I wanted to take after Oxford. It gave me security in a moment of great uncertainty and allowed me to enrich my profile and gain experience in development project management. The teams from both LDF and LDC had been very welcoming, gave me the space to share everything that I learnt throughout my year at Oxford.”

Maria Mercedes Kuri Argentina, MSc Water Sci, Policy & Management, 2021

Impactful

Becoming Impactful Communicators

Throughout the year scholars get the practical skills needed to make a difference in their chosen careers, particularly how to communicate effectively and with impact. Sessions included storytelling, writing for social media and the web, pitching, debating, negotiating, presenting, and the day-long ‘Communicating Impact’ - on-camera coaching session during the Leadership Forum at Cumberland Lodge. The scholars’ annual debate is a chance for the cohort to work together on all aspects of a public event from choosing the subject to creating the poster and encouraging good attendance.

“I used to think that negotiation was about compromise - an exchange between ultimately winners and losers. What I have learnt instead is that negotiation is about identifying mutual interest and optimizing outcomes. The best negotiators are those that know their own values and positions, and better yet that of the other parties entering the negotiations. Put simply - be prepared, know your worth!”

Tsionawit Gebre-Yohannes Ethiopia, Master of Public Policy, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Abraham/ Rausing, Mansfield College

“The WHT debate allowed me to push my boundaries of critical thinking and engage in meaningful conversation with my peers. Not only did we debate each other but were also met with challenging questions from the audience. The theme “individual versus community welfare” required each one of us to rethink our personal freedoms and what changes we would make for the sake of our community be it in covid response or climate change mitigation. Overall, I am glad for the opportunity to be a part of this debate and thankful for WHT and my peers for organizing it.”

Sara Rahim

Afghanistan, MSc Economics for Development, OxfordWeidenfeld and Hoffmann, Hertford College

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“Welfare of the community v. freedom of choice”

Scholar’s Annual Debate

Varun Goel India, MBA, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Sackler, Lincoln

Many of us have grown up watching extraordinary speakers and world icons debate at the legendary Oxford Union – the leading debating society in the world. It is the cradle of free speech in the United Kingdom. Although many of us dreamed it, we all found it hard to believe that we would be standing in the hallowed Union chambers and giving a speech ourselves! These are the kind of unique offerings of the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarship and Leadership Programme.

Signing up for the debate felt like that moment when you were about to take the most daring ride in an amusement park. You know you are in for the thrill of your life, but you are equally scared too. But we told ourselves not to worry too much.

The two of us and eight other brave scholars volunteered to take up the challenge. Together we represented a host of countries including Afghanistan, China, India, Mexico, Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

Our debate preparation, guided by our brilliant trainers Dennis and Lisha, was one of the highlights of our time in Oxford. One of the most helpful, and simultaneously funny, workshops tested our various tones, emotions and intensities of speech – all to the lyrics of ‘Jingle Bells’!

Finally, the big day arrived, and all of us made our way to the Union wearing our ‘formals’. The chamber was packed, and anticipations were high - since the pandemic, this was the first-time members of the public were able to attend the Annual Scholars’

Yawar Abbas Pakistan, MSt Diplomatic Studies, Sloane Robinson Foundation Scholarship, Keble

Debate in person. First-time debaters were busy frantically making last-minute changes to their speeches, while the few seasoned debaters amongst us were posing for the camera!

An informal pre-debate vote was conducted, and the public opinion seemed almost evenly split (slightly in favour of the proposition). To say, what followed was a hotly contested debate, would be an understatement. Some speakers gave a strictly rational breakdown of their argument, while others relied on rousing public emotions through personal anecdotes. In the end, the opposition was able to narrowly sway the public vote in their favour and won the debate by a razorthin margin.

However, in the end, everyone was a winner as we were treated to a delicious dinner at our favourite restaurant, the Nosebag – perfectly concluding what was, without doubt, one of our best nights in Oxford!

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Impactful Communication

Finding our voiceson camera training

Lucía Artavia Guzmán Costa Rica, MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management, Oxford-Hoffmann, Mansfield College

Myself and my 34 fellow Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust scholars met for a stimulating retreat at the beautiful Cumberland Lodge for our final week of the Leadership Programme. On our first day, we had the opportunity to participate in an Impactful Communications workshop with a team of coaches from AGL Communications. It immediately became a substantial and multilayered lesson on getting the right agency and delivery skills to move our multiple projects forward.

The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust is a global scholarship program whose main objective is to empower young leaders that are passionate about social change. As such, becoming persuasive and effective spokespeople is key for us. I have known my fellow scholars for over 10 months, during which we exchanged our ideas and actions on how to create impact and change for the different communities and publics in our 25 countries of origin in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. However, did we know how to communicate our proposals in impactful ways to convince others about their value and lead towards action? AGL’s workshop laid before us a set of tools, resources and guidelines to polish our stories, as well as our delivery of them.

Within seven intense –yet enriching and gratify ing– hours, we worked as groups to listen to each other’s value propositions and improve them to become impactful messages that were clear and clean yet inspiring and unique. This followed three main principles: distilling the right information to

communicate, structur ing the message to con nect with the audience, and employing the cor rect body and spoken language to reflect au thenticity and simplicity while engaging with the audience. The exercises of camera training related to speech, gestures, and even breathing and sitting the right way to control our nerves and own our contents took us out of our confort zones. They exposed our small quirks and flaws at the time of communi cating, while also revealing our unique strengths and potentials. Getting individualized feedback revealed skills that some of us did not know we had, informed us about what was most compel ling and attractive from our projects or proposals, and detailed our areas for improvement for com municating better.

By the end of the workshop, we were amazed to hear the stories and proposals of our fellow scholars in deliveries that were full of the right energy and authenticity, reminding us of the importance of connecting and talking to people in the right ways. Expanding this potential will involve more practice and exposure to diverse audiences for all of us. After the workshop, we have a set of tools to grow and become better, more impactful communicators in every chance we get.

LEADERSHIP

COP26 - Glasgow

“ The 72 hours I spent in Glasgow, was totally a life-changing experience for me. I was protesting on the street, being part of the green zone events, meeting some of the most inspiring global leaders, and having the chance to have a oneon-one conversation with them. I was able to deliver my message “Bangladesh needs help”. What’s more was that I met people like me, who were there to bear witness, to make an impact, to amplify youth voice, and to join the cause of saving the earth. ”

Zahid Shashoto Bangladesh, MSc Environmental Change and Management, Oxford-Hoffmann, Hertford College

“ As a follow-up to COP26, the WHT organised an ‘in-conversation’ session with Charlie Ogilvie, the Director of Strategy for COP26 in the cabinet office. We had the opportunity to discuss how to navigate the difficulties of multilateralism in addressing an urgent complex challenge like climate change which involves many actors, conflicting interests and power asymmetries. One of the key points raised with Charlie was the issue of climate finance and the failure of developed countries to deliver the “100 billion” climate finance for developing countries. We also touched on the issue of loss and damage and how this was incorporated into COP26 negotiations and outcomes. We all agreed this, along with financing resilience and adaptation strategies for developing countries, should be an even bigger focus at COP27. Thank you to WHT for facilitating such a fantastic and informative conversation. ”

Leadership in Action

The Max Weidenfeld Travel Grant set up in the name of George Weidenfeld’s father, enables scholars to engage in Leadership Development opportunities like conferences and professional networking forums. This year the fund supported 8 Scholars to attend COP26 in Glasgow, as well as others to attend World Water Week in Sweden, the World Conference on Soil, Water, Energy and Air (EUWCSWEA) in Kenya, a Foreign Office Commonwealth and Development conference at Wilton House and the Paris Education Conference (see opposite)

Katherine Polkinghorne South Africa, MSc Sustain., Enterprise & the Environ. Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann, St Edmund Hall

BLOG: SCHOLARS EXPERIENCE IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Leadership in Action

COP26:

A climate hackathon?

Maya Sherman Israel, MSc Social Science of the Internet Sloane Robinson Foundation Scholarship, Keble College

As an Israeli tech ethicist and practitioner and someone used to living in the start-up nation, I was amazed to see the pioneering technologies showcased at the summit. We were able to attend inspiring and innovative sessions, highlighting the next generation of technologies that will foster climate justice and community adaptation; from drones and satellites used by the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat Pakistan to support indigenous communities, to the research grants and open-source tools developed by Microsoft’s funding programme AI for Earth, aimed at tackling environmental challenges.

The green zone was a feast of innovation, hope and good intentions. Notably, one of the recurring themes in the sessions was the need to invest in climate adaptation and not just in mitigation, since people need to “thrive and not just survive”. Seeing this technological abundance at COP26 is critical, it means greater scrutiny, awareness, and acknowledgement of Tech for Good to foster climate justice. However, much more can and should be done to protect our planet and vulnerable communities in all parts of the globe. Currently, access to these technologies is not equal, and especially not accessable where needed most.

Digitisation processes have tremendous potential in promoting social good and climate solutions through data-driven decision making. However, they cannot revolutionise the environment and fix injustice when digital representation does not exist. Climate technologies cannot serve their developers only, as they are aimed at promoting a global social cause, which requires digital infrastructure, education, and access at the community level.

As the years have gone by, the magic of COP has relatively diminished. Listening to the utopian numbers and promises governments will probably

not fulfil, feels repetitive and disappointing. An event that has become a reminder to us all that the strongest countries are unable to provide solutions to solve climate change, and vulnerable communities will not get their justice. Various critical voices have raised the inability of governments to enforce the climate vision, which requires the decolonization of climate-based solutions. Is it enough to think about COP as an awareness multiplier and educational tool for the younger generation? As a networking event for all those who are trying to fundraise for their next climate venture?

It is perhaps easier to be optimistic when you belong to the technological side of the world and study at the University of Oxford, but I came out of this summit with a different hope. It is not the formal government delegations that kept declaring faultering promises. Not the civilian protests in the streets of Glasgowcrucial but also stating the obvious. But because of the people in the Green Zone - the entrepreneurs, researchers, activists, and educators, who showed the power of cultural and tech innovation and social entrepreneurship. Those who truly care and understand that even if we cannot commit to future radical shifts, we can make a better present for us all, including those on the margins who are usually forgotten.

I wish we could all address COP26 as a climate hackathon, rather than a government summit. A hackathon in which brilliant environmental experts and young enthusiasts are required to gather and plan the next solution that will help people thrive in all conditions. In 2021, half-hearted committments to ending coal are simply not enough.

Ditchley Conference

Every year the prestigious Ditchley Conference ask the WHT to put forward scholars to participate in their sessions. This year five scholars took part.

Making the future work for all workers

Wilsona Jalloh Sierra Leone, Master of Public Policy, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Hambro, St Edmund Hall

This was a two-day session that explored the role of technology and globalization in delivering a better future for all workers with emphasis on the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Coming from developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin American, the conference was an opportunity to hear examples of how countries with good governance systems work in providing for the welfare of their citizens as well as their challenges encountered.

The fourth industrial revolution has been mystifying for many workers who lack the skills needed to thrive in the technology markets. The deliberations highlighted mid-career workers who have difficulties finding jobs where employers are willing to invest

The Indo-Pacific: promoting stability, economic growth and the rule of law

The conference covered three main themes, with plenty of group discussion time in between the plenary sessions. 1. Promotion of the rule of law, human rights, and stability. 2. Promotion of innovation, development and economic growth, and climate change. 3. Promotion of strategic stability and management of flashpoints.

The whole conference was thought-provoking, insightful and informative. It was convened in timely fashion considering the recent ongoing events such as the Myanmar coup and the China-Taiwan divide. I commend them for conducting such a

resources to equip them with the skills needed to do their work. In developing countries, however, such as those in Latin America or Africa, discussions are less about how to satisfy the job vacancies but about how to create them.

The government and private sector role that was highlighted was understanding the relationship between technology, people and the workplace and exploring ways of facilitating this three-way relationship to get the best out of it. The need for diverse voices and continuous dialogue that are worker driven was identified as key to creating a future that accommodates all workers.

crucial conference that is relevant to urgent issues that the world is facing, as well as bringing together field experts, policymakers and analysts. The conversations were not censored as the conference operated under Chatham House rules, and everyone was honest and candid in their opinions. I strongly believe that the ideas shared, and networks built during the conference will contribute significantly toward promoting strategic stability, economic growth and the rule of law in Indo-pacific region.

Su Zun Mon Myanmar, MBA, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Saïd/ Lewis, Keble College

Cesar Sánchez Casares Argentina, Master of Public Policy, OxfordHoffmann, Mansfield College

Leadership in Action Max Weidenfeld Travel Grant

“ I have been so inspired by this experience that I plan to do it more frequently now. These conferences also offer you an opportunity to publish with their proceedings or journals, which is fundamentally two birds with one stone scenario. I believe it is also integral to meet other individuals in your domain and expand your community, even if it is at one’s own pace. It is not only intellectually nourishing but is mentally enriching as you share the struggles and joy of working in an industry together. In summary, I am glad I chose this experience, and I was supported substantially by the WHT Max Weidenfeld Travel Grant

This was undoubtedly THE highlight of my semester. Thank You! ”

Deepta Valliyil India MSc Education (Comparative and International), OxfordWeidenfeld and Hoffmann/Sackler

BLOG: SCHOLARS EXPERIENCE IN THEIR OWN

Forging relationships through sport

It is of no doubt that some of life’s most important lessons and most cheerful moments can be traced back to sports pitches. Sports forge relationships, improve health and provide avenues for leadership development. Among the many other things Oxford offers to students and professionals alike, sports forms an important element of a wholesome ‘Oxford experience’. This was the underlying thought when a few of us at WHT conceived the idea of organising an Annual Sports Day for the cohort.

Preparations were underway from February, while a suitable date in late April was earmarked for the occasion - with the hope that the weather Gods would be in our favour on the day. The preparations entailed deciding the criteria on the basis of which teams would be made, designing jerseys, finalising the sports/ games and their respective venues, and arranging the necessary equipment/material required for a smooth conduct. Upon several rounds of deliberation, members of the cohort were divided on geographical lines, forming three teams - EurAsia, Africa and America. Crests and jerseys for each team were carefully crafted. A tri-series involving several rounds of sports/games was on the cards!

In order for it to be a success, the occasion had to achieve a balance between competitiveness and fun. Sports/games were finalised to make sure players from

Ishaan Sethi India,MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann, Mansfield College

all pursuits and abilities felt included. From football to treasure hunt and quiz, table tennis to pictionary, and foosball to an eccentric relay race, each member from the organising committee was accorded responsibility for the smooth and healthy conduct of each sport/game. Over a series of emails and meetings, bookings were made for the venues - UniParks for the outdoors events and Keble College common rooms for the indoor ones. Each team was assigned a captain - to rally the troops, encourage the reluctant ones to participate and propel the spirit of sportsmanship.

On the day, the Gods indeed blessed us with an uncomplainable sunny day, perfect for the occasion. And barring a few understandably heated exchanges during the quiz, the day was ripe with warm embraces and palatable refreshments.

Deservingly, Team Africa emerged with the highest tally of points, performing consistently well across all events and were declared Winners of the WHT Annual Sports Day 2022.

The occasion turned out to be a great respite from academic commitments and provided yet another opportunity to add to the cohort’s ever-growing camaraderie. We look forward to having this day as an annual calendar event for future cohorts.

Creating Community

What the scholars say about each other....

In deciding this year’s awardees for the annual WHT scholar awards, the scholars were asked to vote for those they felt most deserving of the award. This is what they had to say about some of our award recipients:

Ishaan has not only genuinely supported all the WHT events but also innovated and taken the initiative in many other activities. During all these activities, he was a good listener of new ideas and always kind to people.

Francisco was a rock throughout the year. He never faltered and his competency in all aspects of life, from personal to professional, made him someone you could always rely on. He would go out of his way to assist others.

Sara is truly inspiring. Her passion for helping create positive change and overcome oppression in Afghanistan is evident in everything she does. She is fierce, fun, kind, smart, independent and a force by herself.

When I think of a WHT scholar, an Oxford student and a true change maker I think of Rai. Her level of dedication and achievement is rare, even at Oxford. She is clearly making the most of the opportunity with the purpose of making real change through leadership.

Fashion in Action

The WHT scholars blow everyone’s socks off with their fashion style - this year was no exception - Wilsona was able to show off her look at the opening of the Victoria and Albert Fashion Show which was sponsored by one of our supporters GRoW @ Annenberg.

Shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Muyi, one of WHT’s 2021-2022 scholars suggested setting up a webinar to discuss how diplomacy, sanctions and social media impact current conflicts across the world.

Muyi Yang China, Master of Public Policy, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann, St Edmund Hall

Since the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, there have been lots of discussion about it on the media. Coming from many countries with diverse professional backgrounds, we, the current WHT scholars, also had many exchanges of opinions regarding this tragedy. Understandably, many provided an avenue for emotional outlet. However, sometimes the current discussion and news coverage can reinforce sentimental catharsis without elucidating more diverse perspectives from people living on the ground in both Ukraine and Russia. It is these people’s lives that are affected by the conflict.

Moreover, as the conflict is still going on at a rapid, daily changing pace, it is too early and thus exceedingly difficult to conclude something definitive for our learning. What could be illuminating, instead, is the insights and experiences from other conflicts, and how those insights can better guide us to understand what might happen later between Ukraine and Russia.

This online seminar expanded the focus of discussion to cover conflicts that happened in other parts of the world, such as those in Colombia, Yemen, Ethiopia, and Afghanistan. I arranged the discussion into three sections: Diplomacy, Sanctions, and social media/Youth Empowerment. Besides the current WHT scholars, we invited over 20 alumni, many of them with diplomatic experiences working in fragile societies or conflict-ridden regions. They shared how both formal and informal diplomacies have been used to mediate between the warring parties during the wars in Colombia and Yemen.

Apart from traditional diplomatic operations, our alumni also explained how digital diplomacy is being used increasingly by the governments to complement the negotiations behind the closed doors. Our alumni provided first-hand knowledge about the plight the

military actions have been inflicting on civilians, and how the histories between Russia and Ukraine failed to serve as a force to establish regional peace and harmony.

As someone who has a background in peace and conflict studies and who has worked in this field, I wholeheartedly sympathize with people who have been sadly impacted by the conflict in Ukraine. However, my experiences also taught me the importance of keeping the conversations open for mutual understanding. Name-calling, unfortunately, would not help much in bringing peace. Nor would excluding one relevant side from the dialogue and shutting doors of communication. Therefore, two alumni from Russia were invited to speak, one of whom just went there for a family visit and the other still working there. They shared with the participants what they, two common Russian citizens, have been experiencing and observing on the ground since the start of the conflict.

This session acknowledged the emotional impact of the events but went beyond the sentimental discourses and allowed us to hear personal reflections on issues that were neglected by the news coverage, such as the detrimental effect of sanctions which added to the burden of civilians and played in favour of the regimes these sanctions were designed to oppose or overthrow.

Without the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarship, I would not have met so many amazing people. Let alone host such an informative and collaborative discussion session on a pressing topic. I have learned a lot from organizing it and listening to the participants. These valuable experiences will stay with me and carry me forward in my future career wherever I will be.

“This session... allowed us to hear personal reflections on issues neglected by the news coverage”

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Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Former Minister for Youth Digital diplomacy expert

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Deputy Consul at the Colombia Consulate in Bilbao, Spain

Associate at Thompson & Skrabanek, USA

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Living the Leadership Programme values

300+ alumni from 90 countries have benefited from the Leadership Programme to tackle major problems affecting the World. Over 80% currently work to benefit emerging economies, in national or multilateral organisations at the forefront of the fight against injustice, poverty, climate change and biodiversity loss, or leading social, transformative, and empowering enterprises.

Sustainability and Development

Over a third of alums are professionally engaged in sustainability and development. They are all committed to finding better ways for society to interface with natural resources and empower rural and marginalised communities through economic development, social intervention and technological innovation.

Lydia Ngonzi Uganda, Water Scientist

Lydia is a Technical Advisor, for GIZ NatuReS, working on the role of stewardship to water-secure and economic resilient cities most recently on The Greater Kampala Water Security Action and Investment Plan. She has worked with Healthy Child Uganda, the Nile Basin Capacity Building Network, and Water Resources and Energy Management International Inc. She has been awarded the Fulbright exchange Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program 2022-23 at Cornell.

Olatunji is a Senior Climate Change Specialist in the Global Practice Directorate of the Islamic Development Bank Group. He supports the Bank’s 57 member countries to implement their low carbon and climate resilient development plans as well as transition to green economy and leads on the Joint Multilateral Development Banks (jMDB) climate change working groups. Previously, he served as a project and program evaluator for development interventions, programs and country strategies financed and implemented by the Bank.

Asaf Tzachor Israel, Global Food Security Specialist

Asaf’s work explores dependen cies distortions and risks in our food systems and global agricul ture. His recent research papers are essential in reshaping the glob al food system and covered ex tensively by leading international newspapers and magazines. Asaf is the Lead Researcher for Food Security and Research Associate, at the University of Cambridge and Associate Professor at the School of Sustainability in Israel. He is a World Economic Forum Expert. In 2022 he is one of TheMarker’s 40 most influential people under 40 in Israel.

Olatunji Yusuf Nigeria, Climate Change Specialist

Making a Visible Difference across the Globe

“I am so grateful for the support of my scholarship it completely changed the direction of my career. I am now working in the not-for-profit sector and I am using the skills gained through the Leadership Programme to support the transparency and accountability needed to achieve net zero targets especially in the Indian agricultural sector so that it is equitable and fair.”

Srilekha Sridhar, India, MPP, 2014

Policy & Governance

Nearly 20% of alums are committed to inspiring and supporting better government and public policy around the world whatever their specialist field.

Quratulain Fatima Pakistan, Civil Servant & Peace builder

Recently appointed a Pakistan Trade Diplomat Quaratulain has committed herself to long-term public service leading on the im plementation of governance and development projects in a fragile country context. She has worked extensively on those that benefit women including the creation of safe spaces and computer train ing facilities for the low income and vulnerable women and on development policies including strengthening the database for governmental water resource. She is Co-Founder for Women4PeaceTech in Pakistan.

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

South Africa, Political Commentor

Sizwe’s DPhil thesis became his first book, “Democracy and Delusion”, which won the City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award. His second book “The New Apartheid” was one of the best-selling books in SA in 2021. The popular SMWX podcast he set up in 2019 offers a journey into the heart of South Africa politics, through interviews and analysis. He is also a Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), Johannesburg.

Kristina Mikulova Slovakia, Policy Impact Advisor

Kristina is a Policy Advisor at the European Investment Bank. She has worked for the World Bank Group and as Head of Unit at the Ministry of Finance of Slovakia in charge of development cooperation. She joined the family of EU institutions, to advises on various policy challenges, including additionality, impact and digitalization. Her objective is to ensure that investments by public institutions always generate a positive impact for society.

Health & Education

Over 20% of alums are dedicated to addressing the global inequalities of access to health and education. WHT alumni medical professionals have worked on the front line coordinating the response to Ebola in Liberia and to Covid in South Africa as well as led significant research projects.

Grace Mzumara

Malawi, Child Health Policy Researcher for the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust

Grace is passionate about improving health service delivery to women in her region and the management of and survival rates for Paediatric Non – Communicable Diseases and the Double Burden of diseases affecting Malawian children. She was recognised as a Women in Africa, Young Leader class of 2022 for her work.

Manisha Nair

India, Associate Professor/Senior Epidemiologist, University of Oxford

Manisha’s research project MaatHRI is a UK-India collaboration to translate new scientific discoveries to help prevent the c 40,000 deaths from pregnancy and childbirth related complications and the life-threatening complications suffered by 5 million pregnant women in India each year. Manisha also leads a project in Uganda to reduce mortality and improve health of preterm babies.

Simon Wanda

Kenya, Education Programme Specialist, UNESCO

Simon works on the global efforts to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change by supporting countries in the implementation of the Education for Sustainable Development for 2030 Framework increasing the contribution of education to building a more just and sustainable world.

Business & Innovation

WHT alumni believe that business can be a force for good and – more than 15% of alumni work in business and innovation. Our scholars are encouraged to work up their own business enterprise ideas to learn essential problem-solving skills. Many of them go on to develop their own business or social enterprise.

Idris Bello Nigeria, ‘Afropreneur’ (entrepreneur with an African focus)

Idris is committed to supporting social enterprises that can transform lives in Africa. He is a Founding Partner at Loftyinc Capital Management, Afropreneurs Fund (I&II), and co-founder of The Wennovation Hub, an innovation platform based in Nigeria, and launched technology start-ups.

Laura Aristizabal Colombia, Digital Skills Entrepreneur

Laura is co-founder of ProTalento, a career accelerator in the technology space and Jobtips through which she has helped more than 3K people in South America connect with the formal labor market, providing them with tools for better employability and democratizing job opportunities and study.

Law and Human Rights

Alumni use their law training as practitioners and policy-makers in a range of fields, especially human rights and help refugees and those displaced by conflict. Some alumni have themselves been forced to leave their countries most recently from Venezuela, Ukraine and Afghanistan - like Shaharzad Akbar Chairperson, for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.

Nidhi Singh India, MSc Law & Finance, 2016

Nidhi is making a significant impact on Law in India, with a focus on Anti-Trust and Competition laws. Nidhi used her voice and experience most recently at the World Economic Forum on “Why the planet needs legally binding obligations to limit climatemitigation ‘free-riders’”. In 2022 Nidhi was featured by Forbes India, as one of India’s top 100 lawyers.

Kubo Mačák Slovakia, Law DPhil, 2013

Kubo Mačák is a Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva He is the author of “Internationalized Armed Conflicts in International Law” (OUP 2018) and the General Editor of the “Cyber Law Toolkit”, an interactive online resource on the international law of cyber operations and is a core expert on the “Woomera Manual” on the International Law of Military Space Operations project. He is also Associate Professor at Exeter University Law School (on leave).

Lucia Berro Pizzarossa Uruguay, International Human Rights Lawyer

Lucia is a researcher at the University of Georgetown developing a Strategic Litigation Programme to increase human rights literacy and redress violations with a specific focus on access to sexual and reproductive health services. She works for Women Help Women, where she previously coordinated the MAMA Project Mobilizing Activists Around Medical Abortion.

FUNDING

Scholarships

Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann & OxfordHoffmann Scholarships

A fund of c £30m for these endowed scholarships was generously provided by Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust donors and André Hoffmann/Fondation Hoffmann respectively, matched 60/40 by University of Oxford funds.

The capital is held in the Oxford Endowment Fund (OEF), a unitised investment vehicle managed by Oxford University Endowment Management (OUEM). Part of the return on this fund is used to support all tuition and living expenses of these scholarships each year.

Direct Donor Scholars

The Trust also benefits from the generous support of other institutional and individual donors and partners both at Oxford and within the broader WHT network enabling us to support the brightest and best students from developing and emerging economies.

In 2022 this amounted to £196k to support:

3 Scholars thanks to the Louis Dreyfus Foundation 1 scholar thanks to the Hualan Education Group range of courses.

“ To say the WHT scholarship was the highlight of my 2021 and 2022 is an understatement: thanks to the generosity of the WeidenfeldHoffmann Trust and the Hualan Education Group. I am honoured to join this family of WHT scholars and alumni, who care about societal issues in our communities, who love and support each other through difficulties, and who aspire to change the world through their leadership and knowledge. ”

Yifan Ping China, MSc Education (Comparative and International Education), HualanWeidenfeld and Hoffmann, Worcester College

Celebrating 10 years in partnership

Since 2012 the Louis Dreyfus Foundation has generously funded 92 Scholarships for aspiring leaders from 40 emerging and developing economies. The partnership has grown to reflect a close alignment of regions and sectors of interestlike food security and sustainable solutions for the communities where the Foundation is active. Innovation in the form of compulsory internships has brought greater engagement and connection for mutual benefit.

Yifan Ping & Hualan Education Group Chairman, Karl Yin

Leadership Programme

In 2021-22, 35 Scholars were welcomed to the seven core Colleges:

College Partnerships

Set up in 2019 the College partnerships enhance the scholars’ Oxford experience and their contributions to their college communities whilst supporting access to the Leadership Programme through the generosity of individual College donors.

“ Worcester was the first Oxford College to be involved in the WHT College Partnership in 2019 and since then our WHT scholars have contributed hugely to college life. They have taken advantage of the many opportunities that Worcester offers but brought new perspectives and insights into how we tackle important issues like the climate emergency and global education. ”

David Isaac David Isaac, Provost, Worcester College

Leadership Programme Endowment Fund

Thanks to the generous donations of our co-founder and first chairman André Hoffmann and current chairman Michael Lewis and other WHT support the Trust has raised £1,600,000 in the last two years towards securing the long-term future of the Trust’s unique programme.

Institutional Partnerships

The generosity of our institutional and individual donors enables the Leadership Programme to grow.

Saïd Business School supported 3 Scholars

Blavatnik School of Government supported 5 Scholars

GRoW @ Annenberg contributed to the support of 3 scholars

New fundraising campaign The WHT Hope Scholarships

The WHT funding campaing - the Hope Scholarship aims to increase the overall number of scholars. For more information on how to support this scheme, please see page 9.

We are grateful to an anonymous alum donor who supports the Welcome/Farewell Dinner.

Hertford College Keble College Lincoln College Mansfield College

St Edmund Hall College Worcester College Trinity College

• André Hoffmann / Fondation Hoffmann

• Arcadia Foundation

• Blavatnik Family Foundation

• Chevening

• Clore Duffield Foundation

• Eranda Rothschild Foundation

• Hualan Education Group

• Grow @ Annenberg

• Louis Dreyfus Fondation d‘Entreprise

• McCall MacBain Foundation

• Sackler Trust

• Stanley and Zea Lewis Family Foundation

• Mr Eric Abraham & Dr Sigrid Rausing

• Mr Ben Barnett

• Prof Roland Berger

• Mrs Angelika Diekmann

• Mrs Robin Hambro

• Dr Pierre Keller

• Mr Michael Lewis

• Mr Jaqui Safra

• Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

•Mr Lawrence and Mrs Carol Saper

•Mrs Barbara Walters

•Hertford College

•Keble College

Sloane Robinson Foundation

Mr Martin Robinson

Mr Alan Chesters

•Lincoln College

Sloane Robinson Foundation Elman Poole

•Mansfield College

Mr Jan Fischer (for the Kofi Annan Scholars)

•St Edmund Hall

Julius Baer Foundation

• Trinity College

•Worcester College

“ Spending a year conversing with such a fantastic group of diverse, dynamic, passionate friends from all corners of this big, beautiful world has pushed me out of my comfort zone in every way. I have learnt to form opinions and argue them against contrasting views whilst all the time listening to others and respecting their positions. At the end of the day, it is the compassion and resilience of my WHT friends that will forever inspire me to be a better person and strive for positive change.”

Katie Polkinghorne

MSc Sustainability, Enterprise, & the Environment; Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann; St Edmund Hall

We are grateful for the generous support of all our donors over the past 15 years, including:

SUPPORTER APPRECIATION

We are grateful to the following for their support in 2021-2022

TRUSTEES

• Mr André Hoffmann

• Mr Michael Lewis (Chairman)

• Dr Alina Barnett

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

• Mr Eric Abraham

• Mr Ben Barnett

• Sir Andrew Dilnot

• Ms Pamela Dow

• Mr Justin Gayner

• Mrs Margarita Louis-Dreyfus

• Dr Precious Lunga

• Sir Trevor McDonald

• Lady Elizabeth Roberts

• Dame Theresa Sackler

• Mr Robert Serpollet

• Ms Nadja Skaljic

• Mr Karl Yin

ACADEMIC FELLOW

• Dr Stephen Wright (Moral Philosophy)

MORAL PHILOSOPHY

SEMINAR MODERATORS

• Dr Alice Baderin

• Prof Sarah von Billerbeck

• Dr Matthew Johnson

• Assoc Prof Jody LaPorte

• Dr Tom Sinclair

• Dr Jeremy Fix

• Ms Nicola Kemp

COMMUNICATION PRACTICAL SKILLS

• Mr Jon Bernstein

• Mr Phillip Brooks

• Ms Saadia Gardezi

• Ms Larisa Halilovic

• Ms Jennifer MacDonald & AGL Team

ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE

• Advisor Dr Lauren Fletcher

ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE

MENTORS & PANELS

• Mr Ben Barnett

• Mr Justin Gayner

• Mr Matthew De La Hey

• Ms Edit Kiss

• Mrs Eileen Modral

• Dr Rasha Khawaja Saïd

• Mr Karl Yin

SPECIAL THANKS

• Prof Emily Jones

• Prof Thomas Hellmann OXFORD SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT SELECTION PANEL 2022

• Professor David Bannerman (St Edmund Hall)

• Dr Rebecca Bullard (Trinity College

• Prof Colin Please (Mansfield College)

• Prof Daniel Neyland (Worcester College)

• Ms Alexandra Henderson (WHT Director)

• Dr Stephen Wright (WHT Academic Fellow)

• Assoc Prof Manisha Nair (WHT alum)

• Lady Elizabeth Roberts (WHT Advisory Board)

• Assoc Prof Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)

• Dr Laurence Wainwright (Worcester College)

We are also grateful to the Saïd Business School and the Blavatnik School of Government for their contributions and of course our partner the University of Oxford.

“ It has been the honour of a lifetime to be a WHT Scholar. The Leadership Programme and associated activities have made me a more well-rounded professional and person. Little did I expect some time back that I would come to Oxford, let alone find a community of support in this incredibly diverse group of people. But I did and now feel that there are no limits to what I can achieve. I am grateful beyond words for this opportunity. ”

Matías Carpio Argentina, MPP, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann, Lincoln College

Hertford College Scholars

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Nalin Singh, South Africa, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management, Sara Rahim, Afghanistan, MSc Economics for Development, Ayan Kanhai Aman, India, MSc Nature, Society & Environmental Governance, (not in the photo) Zahid Shashoto, Bangladesh, MSc Environmental Change & Management.

“I believe by being a voice of the grassroots people, I will be able to contribute the most towards my community. I am not a careerist; rather, I am on a mission. A mission to support Bangladesh’s coastal people in adapting to climate change. The Oxford experience remains a dream to me; the opportunities provided by Hertford College, the School of Geography and Environment and the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust were beyond my wildest dreams. I’m determined to utilize the opportunities for my community, where millions face forced migration due to climate change. Change takes a lifetime, and I am currently moving in the direction of that change.”

Zahid Shashoto

Keble College Scholars

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Micaela Flores Lanza, Bolivia, MSc Energy Systems, Su Zun Mon, Myanmar, MBA, Zuzana Vargova, Slovakia, MPP, Maya Sherman, Israel, MSc Social Science of the Internet, Giri Rajahram, Malaysia, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Yawar Abbas, Pakistan, MSt Diplomatic Studies.

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We often call for rapid measures and actions to mitigate climate change; however, my master’s programme made me realize that this can only be achieved by equally considering political, economic, social, and technical aspects of the energy systems that would help nations reach Net-Zero. Therefore, this is the great challenge we face: to find this ideal combination as quickly as possible. Surrounded by inspiring academics, brilliant students and friends, and a stimulating environment, Oxford and the WHT provided me with a top academic experience and the opportunity to meet incredible people whom I am now proud to call lifetime friends.”

Micaela Flores Lanza

Lincoln College Scholars

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Matías Carpio, Argentina, MPP, Ankita Nawalakha, India, MPP, Brenda Tanyi Mpeh Efeti, Cameroon, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Adriana Oseguera Gamba, Mexico, MSc Comparative Social Policy, Varun Goel, India, MBA. “

The one word that can describe my experience at Oxford is- LifeChanging. I came in hoping to find answers to some of the biggest policy challenges across the world, but I am walking out with something better - I am walking out with tough questions about the status quo about the political, economic, legal, and moral dimensions of any policy decision. This magical year would not have been possible without WHT: the support, the community and WHT’s relentless effort to do whatever it takes to support the scholars!”

Ankita Nawalakha

Mansfield College Scholars

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Cesar Sanchez Casares, Argentina, MPP, Olivia Tienen, Burkina Faso, MSc African Studies, Ishaan Sethi, India, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation, Lucía Artavia Guzmán, Costa Rica, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation & Management, Ebenezer Dariye, Nigeria, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, (not in the photo) Tsionawit Gebre-Yohannes, Ethiopia, MPP, Marcela Arias, Honduras, MPP

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Pursuing the MSc in African Studies at Oxford as a WHT scholar at Mansfield has been nothing less than a truly transformative experience. As a social entrepreneur and a development enthusiast, I embarked on my journey to Oxford with the hope of better understanding the complex structural issues that have made development efforts in SubSaharan Africa stagnant. Thus, while my rigorous MSc has taught me resilience and courage to tackle my region’s challenges, being part of a genuinely caring community like Mansfield helped me grow into a more compassionate and empathetic individual. I am forever grateful to WHT for making my time in Oxford possible, and complete.

Olivia Tienen

St Edmund Hall Scholars

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Lina Yassin, Sudan, MSc Environmental Change & Management, Wilsona Jalloh, Sierra Leone, MPP, Muyi Yang, China, MPP, Deepta Valliyil, India, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation, Katherine Polkinghorne, South Africa, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise & the Environment, Guillermo Miranda Garcia, Mexico, MSc Law and Finance.

“The intersections of law with other disciplines, such as technology and finance, are the new trends for understanding and practising the law. Studying this in Oxford, and more so in Teddy Hall (St. Edmund Hall), has been a dream. Teddy’s ethos of friendliness, openness, and community has given me the necessary tools to overcome the stressful times but also to value and cherish the happy times. I am grateful to the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and to my college, of which I will always be proud. HALL HALL HALL!”

Guillermo Miranda Garcia

Worcester College Scholars

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Francisco Fuenzalida Concha, Chile, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management, Nadia Abdalla, Sudan, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management, Faith Atieno Odero, Kenya, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management, Yifan Ping, China, MSc Education.

“I like to think that I am just a girl from Nairobi, who dared to take a shot at what was at that time my wildest dream and somehow, thanks to all the hands that have held me and the people who dared to believe in me, I found myself at Oxford. While I have gotten an education and I can confidently say I know more about water than I did a year ago, I am a changed person, better if I may say so, because of the dreamers, believers, creators, and future leaders that I have met at Oxford, in WHT, in Worcester College and in the School of Geography. Because of this experience, I know myself much better, and the world is bigger than it was before.”

Faith Atieno Odero

COLLEGE

Trinity College Scholars

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Rai Sengupta, India, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation, Enoch Boafa Amponsah, Ghana, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation, (not in the photo) Abishkar Thapa, Nepal, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine.

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WHT Oxford-Hoffmann, Trinity College scholarship provided me with a nurturing environment that enabled me to explore myself deeply and find out what is that I want to do in the world along with the courage to pursue it. This fast-paced world sometimes feels like it has forgotten to stop. I want to share with the world a way to stop the conflicts in our minds and put them in order which hopefully will decrease the conflicts in the outside world and make it a peaceful place to be. I am very grateful for the scholarship to have provided me with all the enriching experiences and opportunity to meet with extraordinary people.” Abishkar Thapa

Trinity glittering guest

Rai Sengupta

India, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Barnett, Trinity College

When I got my WHT scholarship letter to study at Oxford, I had imagined a million things that would happen in the upcoming year – incredible classes, formal hall dinners, study sessions in the most breathtaking of libraries, and making lifelong friends from across the world. What I could not predict was, that in the one year I would spend at Oxford, I would also get to meet HRH The Prince of Wales!

Over the last year, I have loved my time as a WHT Scholar at Trinity College. The college has been welcoming in every way and has provided support and community in times when I needed it the most. I have always looked for ways to give back to the college – and in May 2022, I got my chance.

Trinity College was unveiling a new building – the Levine Building – on its campus. To mark this opening, a beautiful ceremony was envisioned by the College President Dame Hilary Boulding. At this ceremony, I was one of eight students invited to discuss my experiences at Trinity College and Oxford, and my future career ambitions, in an artistic presentation. The Chief Guest, as we learnt in hushed whispers, was HRH Prince Charles.

The weeks before the ceremony was a flurry of activity. We, the ‘performers’, met regularly at the Presidential Lodgings and developed a script along with an immensely talented Theatre Director Andy. We collated the experiences at Oxford that mattered the most to us: for some of us, it was the day exams ended with a party on Merton Street, for others it was pausing at the Bridge of Sighs on the way to Matriculation in our black gowns.

For me, my favourite memory (which I eventually related to Prince Charles and the audience) was arriving from India after a gruelling 9-hour flight at the gates of Trinity College. The street lamps were glinting gold on the walls of my 400-year-old college, as I stood at the gates of a university that had been a dream since childhood. That moment, thousands of miles away from home, was truly golden. We practised our lines repeatedly – later, on

stage with music and technical support. An oboe player’s lilting notes were interspersed with our lines, adding a wistful touch to our experience sharing.

And soon the day of the ceremony arrived! I chose to wear a maroon salwar kameez to the ceremony and was so proud to represent my country at this event. I had also worn a pair of heels which the Director found too noisy for a wooden stage. As I looked around for alternatives, my College President Dame Hilary offered me her own shoes to wear for the event. It was an incredibly warm gesture! Soon we settled into the green rooms with sandwiches and waited for the audience to arrive. After a while, a hush fell over the audience, and we realised that our Chief Guest had made his way in.

It was an unforgettable feeling being on stage under the spotlight, speaking about the experiences that I held so close to my heart, bringing my country and my culture to this prestigious event. I spoke of my future ambitions to work in India’s women and child development space – to lead programmes that provide women with the necessary skills and resources to find employment and drive their own enterprises, to deliver large scale projects ensuring quality nutrition and education for millions of vulnerable children in my country.

After the performance, Prince Charles came on stage and delivered a speech on the importance of Trinity’s academic and research community, and congratulated us on the opening of the Levine Building. Next, he came and shook hands with all of us on stage. When it was my turn, I was proud to speak of my experience as a WHT Scholar, part of a fantastic network of scholars doing pathbreaking research from across the world. Prince Charles showed a keen interest in my work in policy evaluation and discussed potential areas of future research exploration –in impact investing and educational research. All of this in the brief moments we got to speak! It was truly, a wonderful (and once in a lifetime) experience.

Scholar Cohort 2021-22

HUALAN-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN

• Yifan Ping, China, MSc Education (Comparative & International Education)

LOUIS DREYFUS-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN

• Ayan Kanhai Aman, India, MSc Nature, Society & Environmental Governance

• Katherine Polkinghorne, South Africa, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise & the oEnnmvirent

• Faith Atieno Odero, Kenya, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management

OXFORD-HOFFMANN

• Nalin Singh, South Africa, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management

• Zahid Shashoto, Bangladesh, MSc Environmental Change & Management

• Micaela Flores Lanza, Bolivia, MSc Energy Systems

• Adriana Oseguera Gamba, Mexico, MSc Comparative Social Policy

• Ankita Nawalakha, India, Master of Public Policy

• Lucía Artavia Guzmán, Costa Rica, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation & Management

• Ebenezer Dariye, Nigeria, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation & Management

• Cesar Sanchez Casares, Argentina, Master of Public Policy

• Abishkar Thapa, Nepal, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine

• Rai Sengupta, India, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation

• Nadia Abdalla, Sudan, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management

• Francisco Fuenzalida Concha, Chile, MSc Water Science, Policy & Management

OXFORD-HOFFMANN

AND GROW @ ANNENBERG

• Giri Rajahram, Malaysia, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine

• Brenda Tanyi Mpeh Efeti, Cameroon, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine

• Olivia (Eli) Tienin, Burkina Faso, MSc African Studies

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN

• Sara Rahim, Afghanistan, MSc Economics for Development

• Yawar Abbas, Pakistan, MSt Diplomatic Studies

• Ishaan Sethi, India, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation

• Jia (Muyi) Yang, China, Master of Public Policy

• Guillermo Miranda Garcia, Mexico, MSc Law & Finance

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN/ CHEVENING

• Matías Carpio, Argentina, Master of Public Policy

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN/GRIERSON

• Enoch Boafo Amponsah, Ghana, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention & Policy Evaluation

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN/HAMBRO

• Wilsona Jalloh, Sierra Leone, Master of Public Policy

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN ABRAHAM/ RAUSING

• Tsionawit Gebre-Yohannes, Ethiopia, Master of Public Policy

• Marcela Arias, Honduras, Master of Public Policy

• Lina Yassin, Sudan, MSc Environmental Change & Management

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN/ BARNETT SCHOLARS

• Zuzana Vargová, Slovakia, Master of Public Policy

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN LEWIS SCHOLARS

• Maya Sherman, Israel, MSc Social Science of the Internet

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN SACKLER

• Deepta Valliyil, India, MSc Education (Comparative & International Education)

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN SAÏD/LEWIS

• Su Zun Mon, Burma (Myanmar), MBA

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN SAÏD/BARNETT

• Varun Goel, India, MBA

2022 -23 SCHOLARS

Scholar Cohort 2022-23

CHEVENING-OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN

• Annelisse Escobar, Master of Public Policy, Guatemala

• Luisa Ibarra, Master of Public Policy, Colombia

• Lamiya Khudoyarova, MJur, Uzbekistan

• Irene Nampewo, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Uganda

HUALAN-OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN

• Ling Qiao, MSc Education (Higher Education), China

• Yiyuan (Kate) Qin, MBA, China

LOUIS DREYFUS-OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN

• Kimberley Kudwoli, MSc Evidence-Based Soc Int and Pol Eva, Kenya

• Farai Mzungu, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, South Africa

• Ammu Nair, MSc Environmental Change and Management, India

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN

• Sophia Adhikari, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Nepal

• Camila Arretche, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management, Argentina

• Dhol Samuel Ayuen, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, South Sudan

• Melissa Cadillo, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management, Peru

• Irina Gribanenkova, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management, Russia

• Aristide Kambale, MSc Environmental Change and Management, Congo

• Denys Karlovskyi, Master of Public Policy, Ukraine

• Amal Mohamed, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Sudan

• Jose Portocarrero, MSc Latin American Studies, Peru

OXFORD-HOFFMANN

• Obaid Ashraf Shah, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment, India

• Jing Ang, MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy, Singapore

• Valeria Lozano, MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy, Mexico

• Max Zhurilo, Master of Public Policy, Russia

• Samia Mehraj, Master of Public Policy, India

• Danilo Molina, MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy, Colombia

• Yitong Zhou, MJur, China

• Fatima Airan, MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Afghanistan

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN-ABRAHAM/ RAUSING

• Rimma Joueidi, Master of Public Policy, Ukraine

• Natasha Treunen, MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Kenya

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN-BARNETT

• Meyrav Weiss, MSc Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Israel

• Julian Żelaznowski, Master of Public Policy, Poland

OXFORD-WEIDENFELD AND HOFFMANN-SAÏD/LEWIS

• Annatu Abdulai, MBA, Ghana

• Fariha Anwar, MBA, Pakistan

• Tanisha Gupta, MBA, India

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The WHT is not like traditional scholarships which focus on meeting your financial needs. The programme is well thought out and provides a well-rounded experience including academic, social, and practical life skills. The cohort was a close family unit, and my Oxford experience would not have been the same without it. I plan on paying it forward by working on implementing policies in developing countries that will help the most disadvantaged in those communities ”

Wilsona Jalloh

Sierra Leone, MPP, Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann, St Edmund Hall

College Partnerships 2022-23

HERTFORD COLLEGE

•Rimma El Joueidi, Master of Public Policy, Ukraine, Hertford College Scholar

•Aristide Kambale, MSc Environmental Change and Management, Congo, Hertford College Scholar

•Lamiya Khudoyarova, Mjur, Uzbekistan, Hertford College Scholar

•Yiyuan Qin, MBA, China, Hertford College Scholar

KEBLE COLLEGE

• Camila Arretche, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management, Argentina, Sloane Robinson Foundation Scholarship

• Luisa Ibarra, Master of Public Policy, Colombia, Sloane Robinson Foundation Scholarship

• Amal Mohamed, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Sudan, Sloane Robinson Foundation Scholarship

• Max Zhurilo, Master of Public Policy, Russia, Sloane Robinson Foundation Scholarship

LINCOLN COLLEGE

• Sophia Adhikari, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, Nepal, Elman Poole /Lincoln College Graduate Scholarship

• Jing Ang, MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy, Singapore, Sloane Robinson/Lincoln College Graduate Scholarship

• Tanisha Gupta, MBA, India, Sloane Robinson/Lincoln College Graduate Scholarship

• Denys Karlovskyi, Master of Public Policy, Ukraine, Sloane Robinson/Lincoln College Graduate Scholarship

• Julian Żelaznowski, Master of Public Policy, Poland, Sloane Robinson/Lincoln College Graduate Scholarship

MANSFIELD COLLEGE

•Annatu Abdulai, MBA, Ghana, Kofi Annan Scholarship

•Melissa Cadillo, MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Mgt, Peru, Kofi Annan Scholarship

•Kimberley Kudwoli, MSc Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Kenya, Kofi Annan Scholarship

•Samia Mehrai, Master of Public Policy, India, Kofi Annan Scholarship

•Obaid Ashraf Shah, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment, India, Kofi Annan Scholarship

•Meyrav Weiss, MSc Modern Middle Eastern Studies, Israel, Kofi Annan Scholarship

•Yitong Zhou, MJur, China, Kofi Annan Scholarship

ST EDMUND HALL

•Dhol Samuel Ayuen, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine, South Sudan, Julius Baer Scholarship

•Annelisse Escobar, MPP, Guatemala, Julius Baer Scholarship,

•Ammu Nair, MSc Environmental Change and Management, India, Mitchell Scholarship

•Jose Portocarrero, MSc Latin American Studies, Peru, Julius Baer Scholarship

•Fatima Airan, MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Afghanistan, Julius Baer Scholarship

TRINITY COLLEGE

• Danilo Molina, MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy, Colombia

• Farai Mzungu, MSc Evidence-Based Society Intervention and Policy Evaluation, South Africa

• Irene Nampewo, MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine Uganda

WORCESTER COLLEGE

• Irina Gribanenkova, MSc Water Science, Policy and Management, Russia

• Valeria Lozano MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy Mexico

• Ling Qiao, MSc Education (Higher Education), China

• Natasha Treunen, MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Kenya