We are delighted to announce that 9 of next year’s Gates Cambridge Scholars Class of 2025 will be joining us at King’s – the second largest cohort we have welcomed since the programme was established 25 years ago.
Reham Aboud, Naina Agrawal-Harding, Asja Campara, Muaz Chaudhry, Joshua Heihre, Yu Huang, Ifeyinwa Nnakenyi, Abigail Schipper and Sam Shelton will be studying MPhil and PhD courses in subjects ranging from Stem Cell Medicine to Anthropocene Studies. They come from Egypt, Australia, China, the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina, among other countries.
Professor Deborah Prentice, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Chair of the Board of the Gates Cambridge Trust, said:
“We are incredibly proud of all that Gates Cambridge has achieved. This exceptional programme is successfully producing the leaders that will address many of the common challenges facing humanity. As we celebrate 25 years of impact, we look forward with excitement to what the next 25 years will bring.”
Read about the journeys of the Gates Cambridge Class of 2024 scholars here.
About Gates Cambridge
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship 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 class in 2001, Gates Cambridge has awarded 2,218 scholarships to scholars from 112 countries who represent nearly 800 universities globally (more than 200 in the USA) and around 90 academic departments and all 31 Colleges at Cambridge.
