Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme

The Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme cultivates the leaders of tomorrow by providing outstanding university graduates and professionals from developing and emerging economies with the opportunity to pursue fully-funded graduate studies at the University of Oxford, combined with a comprehensive programme of leadership development, long-term mentoring and networking.

 

Nurturing Talent, Creating Opportunity for Future Leaders

We are a global scholarship for young leaders from emerging countries who are passionate about social change in their home countries. Running alongside scholars’ degrees, the Leadership Programme equips scholars to tackle the questions asked of leaders in today’s world and connects them with a 400-strong global alumni network.

 

The WHT

HOPE SCHOLARSHIPS

Sometimes your life flashes through your eyes- I still have to pinch myself and say I’m not dreaming because if I look back to 20 years ago when a lot of things changed in my and my mother’s lives, I never would have imagined that so much could have changed by now. My love for education is why I’m here now, why I’m at Oxford. I think education for me was always the hope. 

Natasha Treunen (2022-23),
Kenya (Stateless before coming to Oxford),
MSc Refugee and Forced Migration Studies,
Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Abraham/ Rausing

My year in Oxford as a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann scholar enriched me greatly as well as stretched my abilities and limitations. Over this year, the warmth and support that the WHT family brought helped me stay afloat and keep going in times of hardship and strain. My ambition is to make more gifted people who lack opportunity come to Oxford and get this opportunity to thrive personally and make their communities thrive globally.

Denys Karlovskyi  (2022-23),
Ukraine, 
Master of Public Policy,  
Oxford-Hoffmann 

Articles from our Scholars

A Driving Force For Change

“Does it really matter that 30 people go to a top University? Does it really make a difference in the world? Can we contend that we have fulfilled our duty and responsibility of making the world a better place if we give 30 young people the opportunity to do this? I believe it matters a great deal . . . The Leadership Programme goes over and above what the University teaches, it creates a community, a sense of cohort, of people who can talk to each other and share solutions.”

André Hoffmann, Trustee Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust

 

 A Vision of Unity

“George Weidenfeld reflected and represented things that are really important. And in practical terms, the consequence of that was the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships and Leadership Programme. We should reflect on his vision, a vision in which he comprehended that of course people’s individual identities, their religion, their ethnicity, matter. But what matters most, by far, is their sense of common humanity. We should remember him and also acknowledge André Hoffmann and other benefactors, including the University of Oxford, who ensured that his vision could be turned into reality.”

– Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Speaking at the WHT 15th Anniversary Dinner

 

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