Ex-Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, and five other global figures have joined the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs as senior fellows. The Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs is a department in the prestigious Yale University that specializes in education, research, and scholarships on global affairs.
The President of Yale University, Mr. Peter Salovey made the announcement in a statement on Sunday, disclosing that the new fellow includes economic experts, publishers, academics, ambassadors, astute commentators, and bestselling authors.
The 2021 senior fellows include Ezekwesili, 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.
The Institution’s president further noted the need for more creative ideas and leadership in solving global conflicts.
“By establishing the Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs, we will create an intimate community of outstanding faculty, practitioners and students to conduct research of great relevance to the development and adoption of international policy.
“Yale will continue to fulfil its longstanding mission to educate passionate public servants, who confront the day’s most daunting challenges with wisdom, facts, insight and courage,” said Salovey.
