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.  

Issue(s): Tomorrow's Global Talent , Sustainability

Tag(s): Sustainability

Bill Becker is the Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP) who have been tasked with creating a 100 day action plan that sets the agenda for President Obama focussing on what the administration can do under its own authority in its days in office to combat climate change. Furthermore he speaks of his hope for what Obama and his team can do in combatting climate change, where America is currently as a carbon emitter, what it needs to do in terms of creating a new green economy. You can download the presentation Bill gave at a Tomorrow's Company event here. 

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Issue(s): Creating Frameworks , Climate Change , Sustainability , Tomorrow's Green Economy

Region(s): North America

Tag(s): ClimateChange , NewGreenEconomy , Obama , PCAP

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.  A current student of Kings College London, Nadia visited India as a Global Fellow. What struck her the most was the dedication of the Indian students toward education and the support from their parents and families for the same. She feels that British students are not only competing among each other, but with students all over the world. During her placement with Ernst and Young, she realised it is important for graduates to be prepared for the globalised world of work.

Issue(s): Tomorrow's Global Talent , Sustainability

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. Salim visited Brazil as a Global Fellow. While living, studying and working there he realised how one must be a global citizen of the world. Having worked with Cadbury’s in Brazil, he reemphasised the importance of competing with a global world, and how one must possess the social skills to live in this globalised world.

Issue(s): Tomorrow's Global Talent , Sustainability

Muhammad Yunus meets UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and describes the activities and success of microfincance provided by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. He suggests that Africa would benefit from this model and he also goes on to explain ‘Social Business’ - business with social rather than purely financial objectives

Issue(s): Social Business

Region(s): West Europe , Africa , South Asia

Tag(s): Africa , Bangladesh , Microfinance , SocialBusiness