The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford,United Kingdom.
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011,and as the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. He also served as the executive chairman of parent company Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017,and Technical Advisor at Alphabet from 2017 to 2020. In April 2022,the Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth to be US$25.1 billion.
Sir Colin Renshaw Lucas,is a British historian and university administrator. From 1997 to 2004,he was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. In May 2006,he was appointed Chair of the Board of the British Library for a four-year term ending 2010.
Sir Richard Hughes Trainor,,is an academic administrator and historian who served as the Principal of King's College London from 2004 to 2014. He was previously the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich from 2000 to 2004. He is currently Rector (head) of Exeter College,Oxford.
Beth Alison Shapiro is an American evolutionary molecular biologist,associate director for conservation genomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute,and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. In March 2024,Shapiro became chief scientific officer of Colossal Biosciences. She also taught in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California,Santa Cruz.
Citysearch is an online city guide that provides information about businesses in the categories of dining,entertainment,retail,travel,and professional services in cities throughout the United States. Visitors to each of Citysearch's local city guides will find contact information,maps,driving directions,editorial,and user reviews for the businesses listed. Citysearch is headquartered in West Hollywood,California and is an owned and operated web site of CityGrid Media,which is an operating business of eLocal. The original office was in Pasadena,California.
John H. McCall MacBain is a Swiss-based,Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who is the founder of the McCall MacBain Foundation and Pamoja Capital SA,its investment arm. Prior to establishing the McCall MacBain Foundation,in the late 1980s he bought Auto Hebdo magazine in Montréal,Canada and bought and consolidated several other existing Auto Traders and Buy and Sell classified papers to form Trader Classified Media with operations in 23 countries.
Thomas Archibald Barron is an American writer of fantasy literature,books for children and young adults,and nature books.
Elizabeth Kiss is an American philosopher and academic administrator,specialising in moral and political philosophy. Since 2018,she has been the Warden of Rhodes House,Oxford University,and CEO of the Rhodes Trust. She is responsible for administering the Rhodes Scholarship,providing pastoral support to existing Rhodes Scholars and coordinating the Rhodes Trust. She is the first woman to hold this role. Previously she served as president of Agnes Scott College.
Donald John Markwell is an Australian social scientist,who has been described as a "renowned Australian educational reformer". He was appointed Head of St Mark's College,Adelaide,from November 2019. He was Senior Adviser to the Leader of the Government in the Australian Senate from October 2015 to December 2017,and was previously Senior Adviser on Higher Education to the Australian Minister for Education.
Rhodes House is a building part of the University of Oxford in England. It is located on South Parks Road in central Oxford,and was built in memory of Cecil Rhodes,an alumnus of the university and a major benefactor. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England.
Schwarzman Scholars,founded by American financier and philanthropist Stephen A. Schwarzman,is a one-year fully-funded master's degree leadership program at Tsinghua University in Beijing,China. The program selects 100–200 scholars per year based on their leadership ability,academic achievement,and commitment to advancing mutual cultural understanding and global progress. Selected scholars pursue a one-year master's degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University,residing at Schwarzman College.
John Rowett is a British historian,academic,and academic administrator.
Elliot Francis Gerson is an American nonprofit executive,lawyer,business executive,state and federal government official,American Secretary of The Rhodes Trust,currently serving as the executive vice president of The Aspen Institute.
Peter A. Seligmann is an American conservationist and nonprofit founder. Seligmann is chairman of Conservation International,an Arlington,Virginia-based environmental nonprofit organization,and from 1987 to 2017 served as its founding chief executive officer. He is also the founding CEO of Nia Tero,a global collaborative whose name translates in Esperanto to "our Earth."
Schmidt Science Fellows is a STEM postdoctoral fellowship awarded annually since 2018 by Schmidt Futures,in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. Former Google chairman and chief executive officer Eric Schmidt,and his wife Wendy Schmidt,fund the fellowship award.
Rise is a training,funding and mentorship network created by Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s Schmidt Futures initiative and the Rhodes Trust. Its founders created the programme to identify talented students aged 15-17 who come from any geography around the world and are interested in service and leadership. The scheme aims to develop these young people through scholarships,mentoring,funding and a residential programme.
Maryana Iskander is an Egyptian-born American social entrepreneur and lawyer. In 2022,she became the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wikimedia Foundation,succeeding Katherine Maher. Prior to her position,Iskander was the CEO of the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator and a former chief operating officer of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York.
James M. Manyika is a Zimbabwean-American academic,consultant,and business executive. He is known for his research and scholarship into the intersection of technology and the economy,including artificial intelligence,robotics automation,and the future of work. He is Google's first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society,reporting directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. He focuses on "shaping and sharing" the company's view on the way tech affects society,the economy,and the planet. In April 2023,his role was expanded to Senior Vice President for Research,Technology &Society and includes overseeing Google Research and Google Labs and focusing more broadly on helping advance Google’s most ambitious innovations in AI,Computing and Science responsibly. He is also Chairman Emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute.
