We are delighted to announce the arrival of the three 2016 Global Leaders Fellows, Dr. Nghia Pham, Dr Natalya Naqvi and Dr Chen Zheng, who join the Blavatnik School of Government’s Global Economic Governance (GEG) research programme.
The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship (GLF) Programme is an initiative which brings exceptional early-career researchers from non-OECD countries to both Princeton and Oxford, and provides a unique opportunity for them to work on global governance and the role of developing and emerging countries in the world political economy.
Dr Pham, who was appointed Deputy Director General of the Legal Department at the Ministry of Labour in Vietnam is one of the youngest Deputy Directors to date. His work and concerns include human rights, labour rights, and trade negotiations. He has recently published a manuscript with Kluwer Law International on Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Vietnam.
Dr Naqvi’s research interests are centred on the role of the state and finance sector in economic development; she is currently investigating the political economy factors behind why, despite external constraints due to financial globalisation, some countries manage to retain public control over their financial sectors in order to support industrial policy, while others are left with a financial sector that at best does not channel resources to the real economy, and at worst results in financial instability.
Dr Zheng is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and plans to use his time on the programme to develop his project on China and other major developing countries’ influences on the rapidly developing Responsibility to Protect (R2P) concept.
Emily Jones, Director of GEG said, “I am delighted to welcome these three exceptional scholar-practitioners to the Blavatnik School of Government. The presence of the Global Leaders Fellows greatly enriches our academic life. It provides a precious opportunity for us all to learn about the ways in which global governance affects different countries across the world, and to look for practical ways to improve it.”
Find out more about the programme, and GEG’s wider research, on their website.
Applications for the 2017 programme are accepted until the 28 November.
