News & Media

Selected Press 2001-2008

"I said I would like to be a World Fellow, and I was informed that I no longer qualify as a young world leader. So today you are stuck with my opinions without the benefit of further Yale study."

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, on the occasion of Yale University's Tercentennial,
October 6, 2001 (Read full speech)

Selected Media Coverage of Program

• The Yale Herald, "World Fellows," November 3, 2006 (click here to read)
• Yale Alumni Magazine, "World Class," May|June 2005 (PDF file)

Selected Media Coverage of World Fellows

• Young & Restless in China, PBS Frontline documentary, June 2008. Featuring Zhang Jingjing (class of 2008).
• Architecture students helping to design Mideast Peace Park, Yale Bulletin, May 16, 2008. Featuring Gidon Bromberg (class of 2007).
• Eco-warrior for peace, The Age (Australia), April 12, 2008. Featuring Gidon Bromberg (class of 2007).
• Michael Cappello interviewed on China Daily, March 2008.
• New UN Resident Coordinator for Nepal joins office, The Rising Nepal, March 12, 2008. Featuring Robert Piper (class of 2004).
• Lost Generation Now Found, The Moscow Times, January 17, 2008. Featuring Karina Dashko (class of 2004).
• Taking Stock of Brand Malaysia, The Star Online, January 13, 2008. By Huzir Sulaiman (class of 2007).
• "Top Executive Says New Technology Is Key To African Prosperity," VOA News, November 28, 2007. Featured Mteto Nyati, class of 2004.
• "Respected Human Rights Advocate Reflects On Zimbabwe Crisis," VOA News, November 27, 2007. Featured Brian Kagoro, class of 2003.
• "Nigerian Legal Advisor Says Law Must Lead African Progress," VOA News, November 26, 2007. Featured Chinwe Uwandu, class of 2003.
• "Leading African Lawyer Wants Human Rights Culture for his Home Continent," VOA News, November 26, 2007. Featured Duga Titanji, class of 2007.
• "Top African Aid Official Appeals For Children To Be Center of Development Efforts," VOA News, November 26, 2007. Featured Muluemebet Hunegnaw, class of 2007.
• "Make Music Not War," Newsline (Pakistan), November 2007. Featured Amit Wanchoo, class of 2007.
• "La ONU deposito su confianza en ella," El Comercio (Ecuador), October 15, 2007. Featured Jessica Faieta, class of 2006.
• "Rural B-School Empowers Indian Women," Business Week, July 16, 2007. Featured Chetna Gala Sinha, class of 2002.
• "The man making the world's worst polluter clean up its act," The Observer, July 8, 2007. Featured Ma Jun, class of 2004.
• "Microfinance MBAs," Salon.com, June 12, 2007. Featured Chetna Gala Sinha, class of 2002.
• "Le Monde de Chantal Line Carpentier," Commerce, May 2007. Featured Chantal Line Carpentier, class of 2006.
• "Vertus Capitalistes," L'Actualité, February 2007. Featured Chantal Line Carpentier, class of 2006.
• "Starbucks vs. Ethiopia," Fortune, February 26, 2007. Featured Getachew Alemu, class of 2006.
• "Young Guns: 5 Hot Minds in Economics," Yale Economic Review, Fall 2006. Featured Tomas Sedlacek, class of 2006. Click here for PDF.
• "The Crusader," The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. Featured Aboubakr Jamai, class of 2004.
• "Dos prominentes hispanos entre los 'Yale World Fellows' de 2006," Registro, September 26, 2006. Featured David Fuentes Montero and Jessica Faieta, both of the class of 2006.
• "Aboubakr Jamai: Journalist," TIME Europe, May 14, 2006. Featured Aboubakr Jamai, class of 2004.
• "Ma Jun: The Man Who Would Save the People's Water," TIME, May 8, 2006. Featured Ma Jun, class of 2004.
• "Diplomatic TV anchor brings modern China to the world," The Australian, May 4, 2006. Featured Rui Chenggang, class of 2005.