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Learning leadership skills for positive change
In 2013, Tara Cookson had just returned from fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes where she had been studying conditional cash transfer programmes. She had identified various problems with the programmes […]
Ultrabilitation: a partnership approach to enhancing human possibility
The human endeavour is driven by dreams, for to dream is to exist boundlessly in ways both triumphant and terrible. So fundamental are dreams that, from first breath, we are […]
Giving Gates Cambridge Alumni a voice
“There was a sense of urgency and optimism,” recalls Andy Robertson [2001] talking about how the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association first began to take shape. While the seeds of the […]
Scholar wins $5m award for maths non-profit
Gates Cambridge Scholar Ilana Walder-Biesanz is one of five recipients of a $5 million Bezos Courage & Civility Award for her work to encourage outstanding budding mathematicians to reach their […]
Building the Gates Cambridge community
“I cannot emphasise enough how much of a jazz performance it all was, how we were making it up as we went along,” says Rob Perrons, Class of 2001, about […]
