Former vice president of the World Bank (African Region) and former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili and five other global figures have joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs as senior fellows.
This was stated by Mr Peter Salovey, President of Yale University in the United States of America, in a statement issued on Sunday, August 29, 2021
Salovey also extended a warm welcome to the institution’s 19 returning fellows. Staffan de Mistura (Italy & Sweden), Jessica Faieta (Ecuador), Anne Patterson, David Brooks, and Jessica Seddon are the school’s other 2021 senior fellows, according to Salovey (United States).
According to Ezekwesili’s spokesperson, Mr Ozioma Ubabukoh, Jackson’s senior fellows are leading practitioners in various fields of international affairs, and will spend a year or semester at Yale teaching postgraduate courses and mentoring students.
“Ezekwesili will teach two postgraduate courses on Democracy and Africa’s Political Distortions, and Resolving Africa’s Economic Philosophy Dilemma, respectively, during the 2021 fall semester,” he said.
“Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs applies evidence-based scholarship to challenges of maximum global importance, such as climate change, war and peace, ethnic conflict, inequality, and migration,” Ubabukoh added.
Jackson’s senior fellows are leading practitioners in various fields of international affairs and will spend a year or semester at Yale teaching post-graduate courses and mentoring students.
Ezekwesili will teach two post-graduate courses on Democracy and Africa’s Political Distortions and Resolving Africa’s Economic Philosophy Dilemma, respectively, during the 2021 fall semester.
According to Salovey, the world needs creative ideas and leadership to help end global conflicts and solve intractable problems.
“By establishing the Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, we will create an intimate community of outstanding faculty, practitioners and students to conduct research of great relevance to the development and adoption of international policy.
“Yale will continue to fulfil its longstanding mission to educate passionate public servants, who confront the day’s most daunting challenges with wisdom, facts, insight and courage,” said Salovey.
The new fellows include economic experts, astute commentators, publishers, bestselling authors, ambassadors, and academics.
An economic policy expert, Ezekwesili is Senior Economic Adviser to the Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative. She is a co-founder and pioneer director of Transparency International.
She is also the Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Human Capital Africa, which is working in the education sector across Africa; Chairperson, School of Politics, Policy and Governance; and Chairperson of research-based citizens-led #FixPolitics Initiative.
