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Before coming to Cambridge, I spent several years working on issues of climate migration, land tenure governance, reforestation, and community rights across multiple continents. Therein, I worked with forest communities, environmental defenders, women’s groups, farmers, pastoralist communities, fishers, and environmental organisations in Asia, North America, and Africa, which shaped my research and advocacy interests in land rights, and social and environmental justice. During my PhD, I examined how environmental defenders negotiate ecosystem and community protection and fight for the rights of nature and people under restricted civic space. Through my research, I wish to centre creative practices of land stewardship and regeneration often ignored in scholarship, and centre the land as a critical site for sovereignty and liberation movements. I am interested in participatory research methods, which work with communities to shape and inform the research agenda and outcomes. Through my time at Cambridge and beyond, I hope to share my research through public-facing means and flatten the power hierarchies between how research is credited and produced, and to translate scholarship in ways that are accessible and useful within and outside the academy.

Gates Cambridge Scholar 2012-2013 MPhil MedicineCochair Gates Cambridge Alumni Association 2016-currentDirector of Membership Gates Cambridge Alumni Association 2014-2016Consultant dermatologist: Prince of Wales Hospital & Royal North Shore Hospital Cofounder Consentic

I was born in Kiev, Ukraine, lived in Japan as a kid, and grew up in Gainesville, Florida, where I went to school at the University of Florida. Since childhood I have been fascinated by history. As an undergraduate student, I began studying Chinese, which quickly became a lifelong pursuit. During my college years, I studied abroad in China, Russia, and Taiwan. After college, I worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a Junior Fellow in the Russia-Eurasia and Energy and Climate Change Programs. I then went back to school to get an M.A. at the University of Chicago in International Relations. This past year I was in Taiwan again as a Boren Fellow studying Chinese and doing research. At Cambridge I will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History, researching Manchuria in the early post-war period. At the time Manchuria was a fiercely contested space both geopolitically and in terms of its identity. The topic has been understudied by historians and will allow me to wrestle with bigger questions about the balance of power in East Asia, the determination of borders, and the impact of the early Cold War period on modern China. When not working I love running, being a foodie, and globetrotting.

Previous Education

University of Chicago
University of Florida

Paulo holds a joint appointment between the Department of Engineering Science and Saïd Business School. His primary fields of expertise are entrepreneurship, sustainable development, systems change, and innovation management.

The emphasis of his work is on transforming unjust systems through entrepreneurship. He formerly served as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Skoll Centre and as an Assistant Professor at Durham University. Outside academia, he worked as an entrepreneur and as a consultant to large companies, governments, and intergovernmental organisations. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, as a Gates Scholar.

He has been granted the IBM Business of Government Award, the Green Talents Award from the German Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Oldham Award from the University of Sussex, and has received multiple scholarships for his studies, such as from the Gates Trust, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Brazilian Council for Science and Technology.

Previous Education

University of Sussex
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Born in Sydney, Jaya Savige is an award-winning poet and critic and is currently the Poetry Editor for The Australian newspaper. From 2013-2021 he was Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at the New College of the Humanities in London, where he founded the Creative Writing degree. He read for his PhD on James Joyce at Christ’s College, Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Trust (2009-13). Savige's first collection of poetry, Latecomers (UQP 2005), won the NSW Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was highly commended for the Dame Mary Gilmore Prize and was shortlisted for several other awards. His second volume, Surface to Air (UQP 2011), was shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year and the West Australian Premier’s Prize. His most recent collection, Change Machine (UQP 2020), was shortlisted for the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry and several other awards. His work appears in The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, Thirty Australian Poets, Contemporary Australian Poetry and elsewhere. He has given readings by invitation in London, New York, Berlin, Prague, Verona, Bali and throughout Australia, and he has held Australia Council writing residencies in Rome (B.R. Whiting Studio) and Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts).

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In my Economics PhD endeavor, I am interested in understanding the social and economic causes and consequences of the so-called medical brain drain phenomenon, with which a lot of countries, especially developing ones, are confronted. Doing so will hopefully allow us to better understand to what extent local policies targeted at limiting brain drain can prove either beneficial or detrimental and, thus, act accordingly in the future. This has always been a topic of great interest for me. In my home country of Romania, medical brain drain has long been a key issue of political and intellectual debate, particularly since the country's ascension to the European Union in 2007. In the future, using the knowledge and expertise that I will develop in my doctoral studies, I wish to take initiative in this domain and hopefully make a difference for the better!It is a great honor to join the prestigious Gates Cambridge community of scholars. Having already pursued a Master's Degree in Cambridge, I have become accustomed with the great energy and passion with which academics here conduct their research. I am extremely grateful to be able to continue this journey!

Previous Education

University of Amsterdam
University of Cambridge

I conducted the field-work for my PhD thesis in Tropical Ecology in Panama, Central America, and was awarded two postdoctoral fellowships to continue my work on carbon cycling in tropical forest for another 4 years. I then moved to CEH Wallingford, to train in molecular methods in microbial soil ecology to further investigate soil processes. In 2012, I started my current post as Lecturer in Environmental Sciences at the Open University and I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for a 5-year research project on forest carbon dynamics under climate change.

Currently completing my MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennyslvania

After having studied 2 1/2 years in Germany and 2 1/2 years in France, I am excited about the upcoming time in England. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship will allow me to study in one of the world's most famous physics departments. Being part of the Gates Scholars community will give me the possibility to meet interesting and diverse people from all around the world.

I'm at Cambridge to do an Mphil in Culture and Criticism in the English Department having spent the past two years working for a magazine in Washington, DC.

Managing Director at Honeypot.io

I am so honored to be pursuing my PhD in chemical engineering at Cambridge! I will be studying biopharmaceutical development and drug delivery in the lab of Dr. Nigel Slater. Although therapeutic development is necessary globally, the world is in desperate need of affordable, optimized therapies and diagnostics for resource-limited environments. Millions of people do not have access to the electricity and refrigeration required for many current medical treatments. I hope to use my experience in polymeric drug delivery from The University of Texas, microfluidic diagnostics from U.C. Berkeley, vaccine commercialization from Merck Sharp and Dohme, and antibody purification development from Genentech to support me in my graduate studies. I plan on using the skills I acquire at Cambridge in a future career developing biotechnology-based solutions to world health problems.

Previous Education

University of Texas Austin BSc Chemical Engineering 2013

I am Associate Professor in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. I specialise in the comparative morphosyntax of the Romance languages, with a particular focus on the documentation of non-standard and endangered varieties, phenomena of language contact and microvariation.

I grew up in Portland, OR and attended MIT where I earned an S.B. in Engineering, concentrating in Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Devices. When I entered college in the Fall of 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, I wanted to help in whatever way I could, so I began volunteering as an Emergency Medical Technician with MIT Emergency Medical Services. I provided treatment and transport for people who called 911 throughout the Boston area. My experiences on the ambulance revealed to me many of the systemic issues in the emergency medical system, and I began pursuing opportunities to try and fix these issues. I researched novel drug delivery devices for areas with limited surgical capabilities and I started an organization, LifeSaveHer, that seeks to eliminate the gender disparity in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates. At Cambridge, I’ll be studying health care systems engineering, focusing on pre-hospital trauma systems in low and middle income countries. My goal is to make more equitable and efficient pre-hospital systems that can improve community safety and wellbeing.

Previous Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineering