A former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, and five other global figures have joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs as senior fellows.
Mr Peter Salovey, President of Yale University, United States of America, said this in a statement on Sunday.
Salovey also welcomed the institution’s 19 returning fellows.
Salovey listed the school’s other 2021 senior fellows as Staffan de Mistura (Italy & Sweden), Jessica Faieta (Ecuador), Anne Patterson, David Brooks and Jessica Seddon(United States),
“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.
“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,” he said.
According to Salovey, the world needs creative ideas and leadership to help end global conflicts and solve intractable problems.
An economic policy expert, Ezekwesili is Senior Economic Adviser to the Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative.
She has co-founded a number of organisations, including Transparency International, Human Capital Africa, which is working in the education sector across Africa, School of Politics, Policy and Governance, and #FixPolitics Initiative.
Ezekwesili and her colleagues would join a cast of global leaders who are returning as senior Jackson fellows.
Senior Jackson fellows include global leaders like former US Secretary of State, John Kerry; former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton; former United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development, Rory Stewart.
The former presidential aspirant expressed appreciation and delight to accept the globally prestigious fellowship from Yale University and the opportunity to teach its distinguished post-graduate students.