75 Scholars have now been selected to form the Gates Cambridge Class of 2024, and we are delighted to announce that 12 of them will be joining us at King’s next Michaelmas Term.
This will be the largest cohort King’s has welcomed since this international postgraduate scholarship programme was established more than 20 years ago.
Marie, Michael, Jose Ignacio, Katerina, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Victoria, Carla, Tomás, Arjan, Sara and Kathy will be studying subjects ranging from Biological Anthropology to Engineering for Sustainable Development, and come from the United States, Mauritius, Spain and Brazil, among other countries.
Professor Eilís Ferran, Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust, said
We know that our new Scholars will flourish in the rich, international community at Cambridge and we trust that they will go on to have a significant impact in their various fields and more broadly, tackling the complex global challenges we face today.
Kamiar Mohaddes, Co-Director of the King's Entrepreneurship Lab and Gates Scholar Class of 2005, added
One of the highlights of the year for me is to interview Gates Cambridge candidates, and I am thrilled to see that 12 out of the 75 new scholars will be joining us at King's this year, absolutely wonderful to see our Gates-King's family growing bigger and bigger. The brilliant Bill Gates Sr, during an interview at the Commonwealth Club of California, said of the time he spent with Gates Scholars in Cambridge “it is something that I cherish greatly”. I couldn't agree more!
Read about the journeys of some of the Gates Cambridge Class of 2024 scholars here.
And listen to Kamiar Mohaddes on the first episode of the Gates podcast series.
About the Gates Cambridge programme
The Gates Cambridge programme was established through a US$210 million donation to the University of Cambridge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000; this remains the largest single donation to a UK university. Since the first cohort in 2001, Gates Cambridge has awarded 2,183 scholarships to scholars from 114 countries who represent nearly 800 universities globally.
