The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford,in the United Kingdom.
Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college in Memphis,Tennessee. Historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA),it is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Rhodes enrolls about 2,000 students,and its Collegiate Gothic campus sits on a 123-acre wooded site in Memphis' historic Midtown neighborhood.
Philippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educationalist. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College,Cambridge,and at the normal school in Johannesburg,and she became an administrator for the London County Council.
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.
Saïd Business School is the business school of the University of Oxford. The School is a provider of management education and is consistently ranked as one of the world's top business schools.
The United States Presidential Scholars Program is a program of the United States Department of Education. It is described as "one of the Nation's highest honors for students" in the United States of America and the globe.
Nannerl "Nan" Overholser Keohane is an American political theorist and former president of Wellesley College and Duke University. Until September 2014,Keohane was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She is now a professor in social sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton,where she is researching the theory and practice of leadership in democratic societies.
Sir John Clifford Valentine Behan,the first Rhodes Scholar from the state of Victoria,was an Australian educationalist and lawyer,the second warden of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne,and "beyond the college life [at Trinity,] he was a sound and far-seeing secretary in Australia of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust for 30 years from 1922 to 1952".
Andrew Graham is a British political economist. He is currently Executive Chair of the Europaeum and Chair of the Academic Council of the Europaeum,Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute,Trustee of Reprieve,and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College,Oxford and of St Edmund Hall,Oxford.
Thomas Archibald Barron is an American writer of fantasy literature,books for children and young adults,and nature books.
Wendy Louisa Piatt is chief executive officer of Gresham College.
The Thouron Award is a prestigious postgraduate scholarship established in 1960 by Sir John R.H. Thouron,K.B.E.,and Esther du Pont Thouron. It was created to strengthen the "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom through educational exchange between British universities and the University of Pennsylvania. Through the programme the Thourons sought to nourish and develop Anglo-American friendship by ensuring that,in the years to come,a growing number of the leading citizens of these two countries would have a thorough understanding of their trans-Atlantic neighbours. In the years since its founding,the Thouron Award has sponsored programs of graduate study for more than 650 fellows,known as Thouron Scholars.
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.
John David Alexander CBE was an American academic who served as president of Pomona College during a period of time where he led a major expansion of the school,and served as US National Secretary for the Rhodes Trust,overseeing the selection process for recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship from the United States.
Charles R. Conn is a Canadian and American CEO,conservationist and author. In 2021 he co-founded and is partner of Monograph,a life sciences venture firm. In 2019 he was the CEO of Oxford Sciences Innovation. Previously,he was the warden and global CEO of Rhodes House and the Rhodes Trust,the organization responsible for administering the Rhodes Scholarship from 2013 to 2018.
Dr John Rowett OBE is a British historian and academic administrator. He has served as Fellow and Tutor in History at Brasenose College,Oxford;as Warden of Rhodes House,Oxford (1999–2004);and as Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (2004–07).)
Elliot Francis Gerson is an American nonprofit executive,formerly a lawyer,business executive and state and federal government official. He is executive vice president of The Aspen Institute,and the American Secretary of The Rhodes Trust.
Partha Sarathi Gupta was an Indian professor of British and European history at Delhi University and president of the Indian History Congress. He was firstborn son of Ashoka Gupta and Saibal Gupta,an Indian Civil Services officer in Bengal state of British India. His childhood memory of watching Mahatma Gandhi's walk through riot-torn Noakhali in 1946 where his mother joined in the walk had a long-lasting impact. He was awarded Eshan scholarship for the highest marks in West Bengal in Presidency College,Calcutta. Fellow students included Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Amartya Sen and member of planning commission Sukhamoy Chakravarty in 1953.
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. 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.
