The Global Fellowship Program was launched for young people to gain an understanding of what it will take to compete in, and contribute to the new global economy. We interviewed four young students who visited Brazil, India and China as a part of this programme, wherein they went to a local school, lived with local host parents and worked with a multinational organisation.
As a Global Fellow, Simon visited Shanghai for six weeks. A student at Cambridge now, Simon, though stricken with the obvious difference between the rich and the poor, illustrates how they are all underpinned by one value system. Having worked with Virgin Atlantic, he talks about the world becoming a smaller place, where globalisation is here to stay, and Britain need to rise up and see it as an opportunity, and not a threat.