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The Yale World Fellows Program is the University's signature international leadership training program as well as a popular, broadly participatory program for the entire Yale community. Yale welcomed the first class of World Fellows to New Haven in the fall of 2002, and now boasts more than 100 emerging leaders world wide. These include a diversity of committed innovators, from top government officials and members of parliament to on-the-ground activists and investigative journalists to ground-breaking artists and next-generation business executives.
This collection of ever-growing Yale World Fellows interviews covers the topic of business and the world.
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Corporate Social Responsibility in China
Diana Tsui is the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility in China for the global powerhouse audit and tax firm KPMG. She also runs the KPMG Foundation and is the architect of the firm’s initiatives on poverty, diversity, and climate change in China. Before taking on these challenges, she was the Managing Director of Mercy Corps in East Asia and the Head of Community Affairs for Nike in Asia.
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Tea & Sympathy: A Plantation in India
Subhashini Chandran owns and runs the Woodbriar Group, a company with business interests in insurance, real estate, and tea. Its flagship operation, Tea Estates India, is the largest privately owned tea plantation in all of India. She is also engaged in social entrepreneurship, regional biodiversity councils, and ecotourism.
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Corporate Sustainability: View from India
An interview with 2009 Yale World Fellow Unmesh Brahme. Since 2004, Unmesh Brahme has been Senior Vice President for Corporate Sustainability at HSBC India, where he formulates the bank’s corporate responsibility and sustainability framework. He has worked directly on the launch of HSBC India’s microfinance initiative and on Future First, a program for street children, as well as on significant climate change initiatives.
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Scotland's Prodigy
An interview with 2009 Yale World Fellow Azeem Ibrahim. 33-year-old Azeem Ibrahim is an entrepreneur, financier, philanthropist, advisor to the UK government, and commentator on international affairs.
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Building Civil Society Through Philanthropy
As head of office in Berlin for the Robert Bosch Foundation, World Fellow Sandra Breka was instrumental in expanding the foundation's philanthropy to the Balkans when many other organizations were pulling out of the troubled region.
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