The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford,United Kingdom. The scholarship is open to people from all backgrounds around the world.
Philippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educator. 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.
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 high school students" in the United States of America.
Sir Richard Hughes Trainor,,is a retired academic administrator and historian. He served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich from 2000 to 2004,the Principal and latterly also president of King's College London from 2004 to 2014,and the Rector of Exeter College,University of Oxford between 2014 and 2024.
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.
Andrew Graham is a British political economist. He was Master of Balliol College,Oxford from 2001 to 2011,having been Acting Master for four years before that. He is currently Chair of the Trustees of the Europaeum,an association of 17 leading European universities,based at Oxford University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute,a Trustee of Reprieve,and an Honorary Fellow of both Balliol College,Oxford and of St Edmund Hall,Oxford.
Laura Skandera Trombley is an American academic administrator and scholar of Mark Twain. She is the Chair Emerita of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and was the fifth President of Pitzer College in Claremont,California,and the eighth President of the Huntington Library,Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino,California. In March 2018,she was named as the tenth president of University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport,Connecticut. On April 2,2020,Skandera Trombley was named the 16th president of Southwestern University.
Wendy Louisa Piatt is chief executive officer of Gresham College.
Charlotte Angas Scott was a British mathematician who made her career in the United States;she was influential in the development of American mathematics,including the mathematical education of women. Scott played an important role in Cambridge changing the rules for its famous Mathematical Tripos exam.
Cathy N. Davidson is an American scholar and university professor. Beginning July 1,2014,she is a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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.
The Edmond &Lily Safra Center for Ethics is a research center at Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The center's mission is to "advance teaching and research on ethical issues in public life." It is named for Edmond J. Safra and Lily Safra and is supported by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation. The Center for Ethics was the first interfaculty initiative at Harvard University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
