TWO NIGERIANS Among Those Selected as Yale’s World Fellows For 2013

Lai Yahaya

Kiyo: Tokunboh Ishmael and Lai Yahaya, were yesterday named as Yale World Fellows by the Yale World Fellows Program. “Ishmael is an impact investment pioneer while Yahaya is an oil sector transparency advocate,” the President of Yale University, Richard C. Levin, said as he announced them as the 2013 Yale World Fellows.

The mission of the Yale World Fellows Program is to cultivate and empower a community of globally engaged leaders committed to positive change through cross-disciplinary dialogue and action. It has at its core three main goals: to provide advanced training to emerging leaders from diverse disciplines and countries, to expand and deepen international understanding, and to link this network of world leaders to each other and to Yale.

With the addition of this year’s class, the total number of Yale World Fellows rises to 238, representing 81 countries. There were 2,500 candidates in this year’s applicant pool.

Filo: Congrats to them; biographies of this year's World Fellows, and more information about the program, can be found at yale.edu 

Tokunboh Ishmael