Yifan Hou (MPP 2018) has become the youngest ever full professor at Shenzhen University, China. At 26 years old, Yifan is a four-time women's world chess champion and currently the highest rated female player in the world. She takes up her professorship at the university's School of Physical Education, where she will be heading the institution’s chess programme.
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MPP and MSc alumnus Carlos Santiago Guzmán wins the inaugural Michael Cichon Graduate Award
Carlos Santiago Guzmán Gutiérrez, an alumnus of the Master of Public Policy and the MSc in Public Policy Research, has received the inaugural Michael Cichon Graduate Award for outstanding master’s thesis in Social Protection. The award recognises his MSc thesis, “Universal Social Protection Schemes in Forced Displacement Settings: Evidence from Colombia.”