The Graduate Global Leadership Fellowships enable promising leaders from developing countries to pursue doctoral studies at UBC. The fellowships are to support international students showing outstanding leadership in humanitarian and development work in their home country. Two fellowships will be offered; each fellowship provides an $18,000 stipend plus tuition each year for four years.
Applicants must:
– Hold a student visa at the beginning of the fellowship funding period
– Be a citizen of a developing country (see list of eligible countries on website link below)
– Be starting a PhD or DMA program at the UBC Vancouver campus in May 2013, Sep 2013, or Jan 2014
Deadline for graduate programs to submit nominations to the Faculty of Graduate Studies: 4:00pm Friday 21 March 2014 (check with your program for your departmental deadline)
Please see the Graduate Awards website for more information: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/graduate-global-leadership-fellowship
The contact at the Faculty of Graduate Studies for this award is Anne Brozensky, anne.brozensky@ubc.ca