The Global Economic Governance (GEG) research programme has welcomed the first two new Global Leader Fellows for the 2015-16 academic year: Kako Nubukpo, a former Minister of Planning from Togo, and Peace Medie, an international relations lecturer from Ghana.

They will be joined by Nemat Bizhan, a former Minister of Youth from Afghanistan, and Seydou Ouedraogo an economics lecturer from Burkina Faso when they also arrive in Oxford later this month. 

The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship (GLF) brings exceptional scholar-practitioners from developing countries to Princeton and Oxford. The scheme offers exceptional early-career researchers a unique opportunity to work on global governance, allowing them to develop and test their ideas at two of the world’s leading research universities. At GEG, which is co-hosted by the Blavatnik School of Government and University College, the Fellows will support the programme's aim of fostering research and debate on how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries. 

Find out more about Peace, Kako, Nemat and Seydou and their backgrounds on the GEG website.