Six Harvard students have been selected to attend Tsinghua University in Beijing as part of the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars.
The new, one-year master’s degree program is designed to assist future leaders who are now pursuing public policy, economics and business, or international studies and who wish to tackle the many challenges facing China’s rapidly changing political, economic, and social landscape and ultimately build greater understanding and closer relationships between 21st-century China and the world.
Rahim Mawji, 23, graduated from Harvard College in 2015 with an applied mathematics concentration and a secondary concentration in sociology. While here, Mawji, who is from Kenya and Tanzania, served as president of the African Students Association, taught in China, worked with an energy developer in Ghana, did research in South Africa and studied with mystics in Indonesia. He hopes to forge stronger economic and educational ties between Africa and both the Eastern and Western worlds.
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