Gates Scholars moving on

  • August 20, 2010

Gates Scholars are moving on to varied opportunities around the world.

Each year we are delighted by the variety of destinations chosen by our Scholars when they depart Cambridge. Some continue with their studies, extending their research as post-docs, and sharing their knowledge and experience as lecturers and tutors. Others take their expertise into the fields of government advice, not-for-profit organisations, manufacturing and commerce.

Arun Jacob has completed an MPhil in Economics this year, and has been offered a fellowship with the Overseas Development Institute, the leading UK development think tank. He is posted to the President’s Office – Planning Commission in Tanzania, where he will work as economic adviser.

Kathelijne Koops will soon complete her PhD at the Department of Biological Anthropology and Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, and will be staying on in Cambridge to extend her research, as she has been offered a Junior Research Fellowship at Homerton College. However, her work will very shortly take her back to the Nimba Mountains in Guinea, where she studies elementary technology amongst wild chimpanzees.

If you are a Gates Scholar moving on to greater things, please make sure that you keep your member’s page of the website updated!

Latest News

The power of adaptive engagement

Public engagement is a vital part of the Scholar’s Council work at Gates Cambridge and the challenges and opportunities of engagement shift according to global events. When Emma Soneson [2018] […]

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 […]