2014-2016 Global Leaders Fellows Announced

We are delighted to introduce the 2014-2016 cohort of Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellows (GLFs). The new fellows, selected amongst an extremely competitive field of hundreds of well-qualified applicants, demonstrated particular potential to produce cutting-edge academic research which contributes to enhancing the value of global economic institutions to the people of developing countries.

We are excited to welcome them into the programme, and look forward to seeing their research develop over the next two years.

The new GLFs are:

CAMILA DURAN (Brazil)

Camila Villard Duran is a Brazilian legal scholar and an associate professor at the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP). Her research aims to advance an interdisciplinary critical reflection on the International Monetary Fund’s institutional design. Camila received her Ph.D. in sociology of law from the USP and in international economic law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (double degree).

ALI HASANAIN (Pakistan)

Ali Hasanain is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. His research studies how Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can be applied in underdeveloped countries to improve governance and market outcomes. He also studies how individuals’ personal characteristics mediate the success of this process. Ali received his PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 2010.

NEMATULLAH BIZHAN (Afghanistan)

Dr Nematullah Bizhan is a research associate at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Development Policy Centre, at the Australian National University. His research explores the relationships between recipients and donors in the state building process. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University, where his thesis examined the impacts of foreign aid on state building and in particular looked the case of Afghanistan between 2001 and 2009.

Camila, Ali and Zakhele will arrive in Oxford later this summer, while Nematullah will spend the first year of his Fellowship in Princeton before traveling to Oxford. Look out for upcoming panel discussions in Michaelmas Term 2014 presenting the research of the GLFs.

More information on the Global Leaders Fellowship programme can be found here.