2010s, All Harkness Stories, Health & Social Care
was a 2015 Dutch Harkness Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she worked on value-based care and cost-reduction strategies. Following her fellowship, Marthe helped pharma start-up companies develop their novel therapeutic products. Since...
1990s, All Harkness Stories, Health & Social Care
had been working as a full-time NHS general practitioner in Bristol for ten years before he applied for a Harkness Fellowship. A friend who worked at Cumberland Lodge, where Harkness Fellows met for conferences, encouraged him to apply, as it matched his interests in...
1960s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, International Affairs, Politics & Public Services
enjoyed a Harkness Fellowship from 1966 to 1968, first in Washington DC at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Affairs (SAIS) and then in New York at Columbia University (department of Economics). He had initially planned to go into the Foreign Office, but...
1970s, All Harkness Stories, Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths
got a BS and MS in E.E. from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). During his Harkness Fellowship (1972-1974) he earned a MS and subsequently a PhD in IT security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1976 to 1996 he taught Operating Systems at the...
2024 Event Reports, Event Reports
After a brief introduction on the role of the Health Foundation of which she is Chief Executive, see https://www.health.org.uk for further information, Dame Jennifer shared information from an IPSOS survey in August 2022 about what makes people proud to be British....
1970s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, Environment, Health & Social Care
OBE DL found the transformative effect of his fellowship at Harvard Business School invaluable, not least in his 20 years as a bin man. Born in Belfast, he read Classics at Oxford and then worked at the Bank of England in the early days of monetary policy. After...
1970s, All Harkness Stories, International Affairs, Law & Criminal Justice, Politics & Public Services
regarded his Fellowship as an opportunity to develop his understanding of the law into the international field. It also developed his understanding of diplomatic relations, and gave him a firm sense of a common cultural and political identity with the United States....
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The Harkness Fellows Association were delighted to hear Katrina Porteous, Harkness Fellow in 1983/84 share her approach to her poetry and read some of her inspiring poems to us. Her talk was in three parts, with questions between each part. Her latest book, Rhizodont,...
1960s, All Harkness Stories
FRCS.FRColOphth. My expected route after qualifying in Medicine would have been house man, registrar, consultant but a visiting neurologist advised working in USA first. I applied for and gained a HF for my wife and 2 children aged 3 1/2 years and just 1 year old to...
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John started his presentation by noting that Alexis de Tocqueville, in his book Democracy in America published in 1835 said… “From time to time indeed, enterprising and ambitious men will arise in democratic communities whose unbounded aspirations cannot be contented...
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(A) Generally Even before Ms Gina Miller first brought her case in 2016 against the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union[1], the Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson, had in the UK expressed concern regarding criticism of the judiciary. In his Bailii Lecture...
