International education and travel related links, photos, quotes and pieces of interest.
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People Who Studied Abroad #620:
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
From:
South Africa
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She received her BA and LLB from the University of Natal in South Africa, then went on to receive an LLM and Doctor of Juridical Science degree from Harvard Law School (United States).
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People Who Studied Abroad #617:
Mary Robinson, President of Ireland (1990-97) and member of The Elders
From:
Ireland
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She won a fellowship in 1967 which allowed her to study at Harvard Law School (United States).
People Who Studied Abroad #609:
Jacques Derrida, philosopher
From:
Algeria (then French Algeria)
Studied:
He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, then received a grant to study at Harvard University (United States) during the 1956-57 school year.
People Who Studied Abroad #578:
Ory Okolloh, lawyer, blogger and Google’s Policy Manager for Africa
From:
Kenya
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She received her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Pittsburgh (United States), then graduated from Harvard Law School.
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People Who Studied Abroad #572:
Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
From:
Australia
Studied:
She won the Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, which allowed her to complete a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University (United States) in 1983. She was also awarded a fellowship at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2006.
People Who Studied Abroad #498:
Charles Krauthammer, political commentator and columnist
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Born in the United States, raised in Canada
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He received his BA degree in political science and economics from McGill University (Canada) in 1970. He received a Commonwealth Scholarship to study politics at Balliol College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) then enrolled at Harvard Medical School (United States), where he received his MD in 1975.
People Who Studied Abroad #492:
Peter Sands, CEO of Standard Chartered plc
From:
Born in the UK, raised mostly in Malaysia and Singapore
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He attended United World College of the Pacific (Canada) before receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford. He received a Harkness Fellowship to earn a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (United States).
People Who Studied Abroad #474:
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, astronomer and astrophysicist
From:
United Kingdom
Studied:
She received a fellowship to study at the Harvard College Observatory (United States) and became the first person to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College.
People Who Studied Abroad #463:
Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (1968-1979)
From:
Canada
Studied:
He earned a master’s degree in political economy at Harvard University (United States), then in 1947 he studied at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris, France. He pursued a doctorate at the London School of Economics (United Kingdom) but did not complete his thesis.
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People Who Studied Abroad #415:
Margaret Atwood, author
From:
Canada
Studied:
She received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study in the United States. She received a master’s degree from Radcliffe College in 1962 and did further coursework at Harvard University, although she did not complete her dissertation.
People Who Studied Abroad #387:
Gro Harlem Brundtland, first female Prime Minister of Norway, former Director General of the World Health Organization and current Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations
From:
Norway
Studied:
After receiving her medical degree from the University of Oslo in Norway, she earned a Master of Public Health at Harvard University in 1965.
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People Who Studied Abroad #372:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia
From:
Liberia
Studied:
She studied economics and accounting at the College of West Africa in Liberia, then in 1961 she traveled to the United States and earned a degree in accounting from Madison Business College in Madison, Wisconsin. In the summer of 1970 she studied at the University of Colorado’s summer Economics Institute. She received a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard in 1971.
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People Who Studied Abroad #360:
Hiram Bingham III, explorer and U.S. Senator
From:
Kingdom of Hawai’i
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In his teens, he was sent to the United States to study at Phillips Academy. He also received his B.A. from Yale University in 1898, another degree at University of California, Berkeley in 1900, and a PhD at Harvard University in 1905.
He is recognized as one of the people who brought the Incan city of Machu Picchu to the world’s attention, although it is also recognized that his “archaeology” could also be interpreted as looting. He may have been an inspiration for the character of Indiana Jones.
People Who Studied Abroad #351:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, political scientist and former United States National Security Advisor
From:
Born in Poland to a diplomat father, raised in Poland, Germany, the Soviet Union and Canada
Studied:
He received his high school diploma in Canada and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees there, at McGill University. He planned to continue his studies in Great Britain but instead attended Harvard University (United States), where he earned his doctorate in 1953.
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![People Who Studied Abroad #345:Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla and Sangwan Talabhat, the Princess Mother
From:
Thailand
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Prince Mahidol was the 69th child of King Chulalongkorn. In 1905, he was sent to England, where he enrolled at Harrow School for a year and a half. He then moved to Germany, where he attended the Royal Prussian Military Preparatory College at Potsdam, the Imperial Military Academy at Gross Lichterfelde in Berlin and the Mürwik Imperial German Naval Academy at Flensburg, where he won a competition in submarine design. He returned to Thailand in 1914 when WWI started.
Around 1917, Prince Mahidol decided to study Public Health at Harvard University and asked his older half-brother, Prince Rangsit, to select four Thai students to receive a scholarship to join him in Cambridge, MA: two male students to study medicine and two female nursing students. One of the nursing students selected was Sangwal Talabhat. She travelled first to Berkeley, California, where she studied for a year at Emerson School and lived with a local family. Then in 1918, she travelled to Massachusetts, where Prince Mahidol met the Thai students at the train station. Sangwal did not know who he was, but his first impression, which he woke up his roommate to share, was “The two girls have arrived. Sangwal is really very pretty, you know.” Sangwal was enrolled at North Western Grammar School in Hartford, Connecticut, where she lived with a local family again. In 1919, Mahidol proposed to Sangwal and she moved to Cambridge, where she lived with another family and received tutoring in algebra, Latin, French, English and art history. They were married in 1920 and Mahidol received his Certificate in Public Health in 1921, while Sangwal studied nursing at Simmons College and school health at MIT.
The couple lived in the United Kingdom, Thailand and Germany before returning to Massachusetts. Mahidol received his medical degree (with honors) from Harvard in 1927 or 1928. He practiced medicine in a missionary hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he was known as “Doctor Prince”, but died at age 37. Sangwal survived until the age of 94. Two of their sons went on to become King of Thailand, and Sangwal served for a time as Regent to their son Bhumibol. She also supported education and public health projects and was a very popular public figure.
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People Who Studied Abroad #345:
Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla and Sangwan Talabhat, the Princess Mother
From:
Thailand
Studied:
Prince Mahidol was the 69th child of King Chulalongkorn. In 1905, he was sent to England, where he enrolled at Harrow School for a year and a half. He then moved to Germany, where he attended the Royal Prussian Military Preparatory College at Potsdam, the Imperial Military Academy at Gross Lichterfelde in Berlin and the Mürwik Imperial German Naval Academy at Flensburg, where he won a competition in submarine design. He returned to Thailand in 1914 when WWI started.
Around 1917, Prince Mahidol decided to study Public Health at Harvard University and asked his older half-brother, Prince Rangsit, to select four Thai students to receive a scholarship to join him in Cambridge, MA: two male students to study medicine and two female nursing students. One of the nursing students selected was Sangwal Talabhat. She travelled first to Berkeley, California, where she studied for a year at Emerson School and lived with a local family. Then in 1918, she travelled to Massachusetts, where Prince Mahidol met the Thai students at the train station. Sangwal did not know who he was, but his first impression, which he woke up his roommate to share, was “The two girls have arrived. Sangwal is really very pretty, you know.” Sangwal was enrolled at North Western Grammar School in Hartford, Connecticut, where she lived with a local family again. In 1919, Mahidol proposed to Sangwal and she moved to Cambridge, where she lived with another family and received tutoring in algebra, Latin, French, English and art history. They were married in 1920 and Mahidol received his Certificate in Public Health in 1921, while Sangwal studied nursing at Simmons College and school health at MIT.
The couple lived in the United Kingdom, Thailand and Germany before returning to Massachusetts. Mahidol received his medical degree (with honors) from Harvard in 1927 or 1928. He practiced medicine in a missionary hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he was known as “Doctor Prince”, but died at age 37. Sangwal survived until the age of 94. Two of their sons went on to become King of Thailand, and Sangwal served for a time as Regent to their son Bhumibol. She also supported education and public health projects and was a very popular public figure.
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