Deadline: March 22, 2021.

The Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence is the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s flagship fellowship for India and has run for more than 20 years. The fellowship is aimed at young high-flyers and mid-career professionals from diverse backgrounds with strong and demonstrable leadership potential. The fellowship addresses issues faced by leaders in all fields and explores changing ideas and practices of leadership, looking at the implications of globalisation for Indian leaders.

Gurukul Fellows will be exposed to current issues and themes impacting global leadership, including:

• The economics of global integration: growth, trade, regulation and deregulation
• The role of science and technology: climate change, the internet, technological inter-connectedness, cyber security
• International governance and government of the nation-state: the UN, WTO and trade agreements, the European Union and Brexit
• Social challenges of and to global integration: migration, refugees, inequality and intolerance
• The new politics of support and opposition to global integration: nationalism and internationalism, security and conflict
• Personal development and leadership skills

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence you must:

• Be a citizen of India and currently live in the country
• Return to your country of citizenship at the end of the period of the fellowship
• Have a postgraduate level qualification or equivalent professional training or work experience in a relevant area at the time of application
• Have at least ten years’ work experience prior to applying
• Be a mid-career professional with strong leadership potential in a wide range of sectors including state or central government, private sector, media, and civil society and have a good working knowledge of English (which may be assessed by a qualified English language assessor)
• Not hold British or dual-British citizenship
• Agree to adhere to all relevant guidelines, requirements and expectations of the programme

BENEFITS

Each fellowship includes:

• Full programme fees
• Living expenses for the duration of the fellowship
• Return economy airfare from India to the UK

OFFICIAL LINK: https://www.chevening.org/fellowship/gurukul/