Deadline: November 5, 2024.

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.

The 12-week Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence at the University of Oxford starts from the premise that as an economic powerhouse of the global economy, a growing leader in science and technology, and the world’s largest democracy, India is in a pivotal position to drive forward an effective and legitimate institutional international order to meet the emerging challenges to global integration.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

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
• Have a good working knowledge of English to be assessed in your application form and if you are invited to interview
• Not hold British or dual-British citizenship
• Agree to adhere to all relevant guidelines, requirements, and expectations of the programme
• Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

BENEFITS

Each fellowship includes:

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

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