Eunice Ajambo is currently (November 2008) a graduate student at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she is pursuing a Master in Public Policy degree on a Public Policy and International Affairs’ Fellowship.  She is also an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow for Africa.

Eunice has...

Avi is from the United States, and graduated with an A.B. from Columbia University. His interest in reconstructing the debate around globalization "as a process that must be confronted and transformed in our daily lives" was provoked by his travels and his interactions with activists, artists, intellectuals, religious leaders,...

David is from South Ossetia, an autonomous region in the former Soviet Union, where he earned a BA in English from South Ossetian State University, and a law degree from North Ossetian State University. Subsequently, for his Masters degree at Sweden's University of Lund, David specialized in human rights law. In the aftermath of the war...

Özlem is from Turkey. She graduated cum laude with a BA from Smith College, in Massachusetts. As an undergraduate at Smith, she received the Ruth Dietrich Tuttle Prize and the Catherine K. Wilder Award to attend the International Symposium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in The Netherlands. She also spent a semester in...

Laila is from Pakistan, where she received a BA from Lahore College, and an MA in Sociology from the University of Peshawar. She also holds an M.Sc in Development Studies from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. Recently, Laila got promoted to head the department for government relations, advocacy and...

"Human rights is Masha's life's work," writes a colleague, "In the truest sense of the term."

After the Sauvé Scholarship Masha started to work as a consultant with Human Rights Watch, based in Bishkek for the summer before starting a four-month Yale World Fellows program. She is now a researcher with...

Sarah received a BA(Hons) in Politics from Monash University. A Rhodes Scholar, she received an MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford University. Her thesis research,- carried out while she worked as a research associate for the Refugee Law Project-, focused on the well-being of Sudanese refugees in refugee settlements in remote parts...

The people I met and interacted with at McGill were always very helpful … my Mentor and I unfailingly compared notes on a range of issues concerning the state of the environment on a weekly basis. The centerpiece of my life in Montreal was of course the Sauvé program. I enjoyed the company, friendship and collegiality of my...

The Sauvé Program ended up being much more than what I expected. The freedom and support to dedicate myself to causes that really interest me was precious and it took me a while to realize that. While here, I was able to exercise, 24 hours a day, the right to explore personal and global challenges. Thus, my social consciousness...

Gilli is an honours graduate of the Academy of Commercial Communications, the largest copywriting school in Israel. Gilli worked for several advertising agencies including Glickman Netler Samsonov, where he wrote ads, radio spots and TV commercials for dozens of Israeli and international companies. He then moved to work as a...

Manish Thapa is regional coordinator of the South Asian Regional Cooperation Academic Network and co-chair of the Internal Conflicts Commission of the International Peace Research Association. He is on the faculty of the Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies at Tribhuvan University in Nepal and a doctoral research...

Malinda is from Australia, where she earned a BA/BCom (Hons) from the University of New South Wales, Sydney with first class honours. Her expertise straddles the worlds of banking, parliamentary democracy, international development and corporate responsibility. "Malinda has demonstrated her passion for social justice and for the...