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Overview

The Global Leaders’ Alliance (GLA) is the flagship (postgraduate diploma) programme in Liberal Arts at Alliance University. It is a multidisciplinary fellowship programme designed to train the brightest young thinkers in the world to be citizens, stateswomen and men, and leaders in all fields of thought and action. The aim of this programme is to prepare fellows for the unique challenges posed by the 21st century, from environmental disasters to unprecedented invasions on privacy to extreme wealth inequality to novel challenges to democracy, and a post-factual political landscape.

The purpose of the programme is only to provide the best possible international education for the most promising minds in Asia and the world. Multidisciplinarity forms the structure and foundation of the programme. Each course is interdisciplinary in nature – they range from ‘chaos theory in politics’ to ‘abuses of psychometry in the marketplace’ to ‘ethics of artificial intelligence’ – and will be taught by the world’s best academics from ivy league or equivalent institutions. The courses are in turn designed to complement each other to build a comprehensive knowledgebase that will allow fellows to approach any problem with insight, subtlety, and balance.

By the end of the fellowship, students will be well versed in the areas of:

With both a taught and work experience dimension, students will be ready to join the upper echelons of political, academic, media, policy, corporate, and most other fields. For a rich academic and extra-curricular learning experience in a fully transdisciplinary conception of the liberal arts, apply to the GLA now!

Oxford-Alliance Faculty

Adam Husain

Clarendon Scholar
University of Oxford

Adam Husain is currently a Clarendon Scholar at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. He specialises in the French writer Marcel Proust, as well as contemporary French philosophy. Previous to this, he took a undergraduate degree at Brasenose College, where he graduated with a Congratulatory First Class mark, and then an MSt in Modern Languages at Wadham College. He has many years of experience in teaching, and particularly enjoys working with students on philosophical problems.

Adam Jones

D.Phil., Mathematics
University of Oxford

Dr. Adam Jones completed DPhil from University of Oxford after a four years undergraduate master’s programme in Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Jones is primarily involved in research on non-commutative algebra, often with application to representation theory. He has taught and supervised groups for a variety of subjects such as linear algebra, commutative algebra, representation theory and lie algebras.

GLA Course Title: The history and role of algebra in the development of mathematics

Bernhard Kasberger

Postdoctoral Researcher, DICE
Junior Research Fellow, Economics
University of Oxford
Ph.D., Economics, University of Vienna

Dr. Kasberger is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dusseldorf Institute of Competition Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Vienna, M.Sc. In Economics from Institute for Advanced Studies and TU Wien and a B.Sc. In Economics from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Teaching and research areas of Dr. Kasberger include Game Theory, Auction and Market Design and Industrial Organization.

Dr. Kasberger is a recipient of multiple awards and honors such as NOeG Young Economists Award and Heinz-König-Young-Scholar-Award from ZEW Mannheim. He is an Austrian citizen and actively publishes in renowned journals.

GLA Course Title: Strategic thinking in practice

Bojana Vitanova

D.Phil.
Brasenose college

Bojana is a DPhil candidate at Brasenose college. She is writing her thesis on the challenges which the digital economy presents to European contract law and on how to complete a Digital Single Market. She previously completed the First Bavarian State Exam at the LMU Munich, a Diploma in Legal Studies at Oxford (Prize for the Best overall performance), and the MJur at Oxford as a Peter Carter Scholar and Law Faculty MJur Scholar (winning the Law Faculty’s Clifford Chance Prize, Proxime Accessit and a Wadham College Results Prize). Her current research is supported by the Winter Williams Studentship and a Graduate Assistance Fund Scholarship.

Bojana has also collaborated with Oxford Pro Bono Publico on numerous occasions and currently serves as a member of the OPBP executive committee. She was also an associate editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog. Currently she is one of the convenors of the EU Law Discussion Group.

Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek

D.Phil., University of Oxford

Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek is a Clarendon Scholar and DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is researching the political economy of multi-stakeholder extraction projects. Previously, she earned her MPhil in Russian and East European Studies; she was awarded a distinction and the Michael Kaser Prize for her thesis on EU minority laws.

In addition to her DPhil studies, Cordelia is currently a research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, where she is writing on geoeconomics and US and EU climate policy. She is also a fellow with the environmental group in the Kazakhstan Futures Program. Cordelia serves as an associate editor at the forthcoming Law & Geoeconomics Journal.

Cordelia’s research interests include the political economy of climate policy; institutional change; energy resource projects, including low-carbon and rare-earth element extraction; and geoeconomics, specifically trade, regulation, and supply chain dependencies.

Davide Morassi

D.Phil.
University of Oxford

Davide Morassi is an ancient historian, specialised in Greek and Roman military history. His DPhil (Oxon) discusses the role and responsibilities of the Classical Athenian strategoi, arguing that they had substantial independence on the field. More recently, he won a Marie Sklodowska Curie Action Fellowship, financing his study of the emotional experience of Greek warfare though the modern concept of morale. His other research interests include Athenian institutions, theories of leadership, archaic tyrannies, and gender and sexuality in Classical Athens. He taught Greek history at the universities of Oxford, Vreje Universitat of Amsterdam, and Southampton.

Derek Attridge

Professor, English
University of York
Ph.D., English
Cambridge University

Prof. Attridge holds a Ph.D. and BA in English from Cambridge University. He has also done his B.A. Hons. in English and B.A. in English and Psychology from University of Natal, South Africa.

Prof. Attridge has received multiple awards and fellowships through his career such as Marie Curie Fellowship from Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies; M.H. Abrams Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina; A.W. Mellon Visiting Fellowship, University of Cape Town; Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle; to name a few.

Prof. Attridge publishes extensively in the areas of literature and literary history.

GLA Course Title: The Experience of the Arts

Diego Delas

D.Phil.
University of Oxford

As both architect, artist and researcher, his work spins around the studio practice and into the making, with regards to reconstruction, repetition and re-interpretation of an European pre-modern culture in regression. Diego Delas looks at certain vernacular architectural motifs –those related to storytelling and magical thinking- functioning as or embodying notions of a certain modernist drive. Delas studied Architecture and Fine Arts in Madrid before moving to London to obtain a MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and a PhD at the Ruskin College of Art, University of Oxford while being honored to be beneficiary of prestigious grants and prizes such as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford. He was also shortlisted by Cervezas Alhambra Emergent Art Award, Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize, Generación, Award by Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid, Spain; Feria BARCU, Bogotá, Colombia, Lucy Halford Bursary, Windfall Bursary or RCA (HEFCE) for Royal College of Art, London.Being exhibited internationally with solo and group shows, his work has also been acquisitioned by art collections like those of MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León, Montemadrid Foundation, DKV Collection, Kells Collection or Cervezas Alhambra Collection.

Fearghus Tomas Horan

Ph.D. (Pursuing)
Johns Hopkins University

Fearghus Tomas Horan is currently a PhD student at the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His research is focussed on the German tradition in philosophy from Kant to Heidegger. In particular, he is concerned with how thinkers in this tradition carve out a specific role for philosophy in contrast to the empirical sciences.

Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Fearghus completed a BSc in Physics and Philosophy at King’s College London, and has taught in a wide variety of settings, including at the art@CMS project at CERN.

Ilona Lahdelma

D.Phil.
University of Oxford

Ilona Lahdelma is a political scientist with a research interest in the formation of political attitudes, especially immigration attitudes. Ilona is interested in finding explanations for political preferences in historical legacies or in regional differences between people. Ilona has also a keen research interest in political methodology and public policies, and teaches methods and impact evaluation at Carlos III University in Madrid. Ilona received her DPhil (Phd) from the University of Oxford in 2020 and her thesis was about the local political repercussions of asylum seeker arrivals in Finland.

Liam Saddington

ESRC, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Oxford
D.Phil., Geography, and the Environment
University of Oxford

Dr. Liam completed his DPhil in Geography and the Environment at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, with his thesis "Rising Seas and Sinking Island: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in Tuvalu and Kiribati". Dr. Liam Saddington is currently an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Liam first entered the department to read for a BA in Geography before completing his MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance in 2017. Dr. Liam was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of the South Pacific.

GLA Course Title: The Geopolitics of Climate Change: Small Island States in a Warming World.

Linqing Zhu

D.Phil.
University of Oxford

Linqing Zhu is a DPhil candidate of Oxford university. She pursued a B.A. in English literature in Tsinghua University and a MSt in Oriental Studies at Oxford, funded by Ertegun Scholarship. Her current project, funded by Clarendon Scholarship, is entitled “Landscape of the Heart: Literary, Calligraphic and Pictorial Traditions in Contemporary Chinese Cinema”. Apart from her research, she taught various classes of Chinese art in Oxford, and is interested in literature and art from different cultural traditions.

Luke Davies

Fellow in Political Theory
Department of Government, LSE
D.Phil., Philosophy
University of Oxford

Dr. Luke Davies is a fellow in political theory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining the LSE, he completed a PhD and MA in philosophy at the University of Oxford and a BA in philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work to date has focused primarily on the political philosophy of Kant, particularly Kant's account of citizenship and rights.

GLA Course Title: The Philosophy of Rights: historical and contemporary perspectives

Maximilian Kiener

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Philosophy
University of Oxford
D.Phil., Philosophy
University of Oxford

Dr. Maximilian Kiener received a DPhil and BPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford as well as a BA in Philosophy and Public Law from the University of Regensburg in Germany. Dr. Kiener’s work has been published, for instance, in The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and The Journal of Medical Ethics, and was also awarded the international prizes SOPHIA in 2016 and the CEPE IACAP Best Paper Award in 2021.

Dr. Kiener is a philosopher at the University of Oxford and specialises in moral and legal philosophy. His research, which is supported by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, focuses on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence.

GLA Course Title: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Meghanne Barker

LSE Fellow
Department of Media and Communications
Ph.D., Linguistic Anthropology
University of Michigan

Dr Barker works on animation, childhood, and film culture in post socialist Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She has been especially keen to foster greater dialogue between linguistic anthropologists and interdisciplinary scholars of visual culture. Dr Barker has published her research in Anthropological Quarterly and Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. She has been a guest co-editor for two special issues in Semiotic Review, one on “Blank Faces” (2019) and another, in preparation, on the “Semiotics of the Image.” Ongoing research projects include transmediality in early Soviet children’s culture, World Expositions as media events, generic conventions of online personals ads, and the politics of amateurism among postsocialist film clubs. Before arriving at the LSE, Dr Barker was a Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences and Harper-Schmidt Fellow, with an affiliation in the Department of Anthropology, at the University of Chicago. She finished her PhD in linguistic anthropology at the University of Michigan.
GLA Course Title: Eastern European film culture

Merve Emre

Associate Professor of American Literature
University of Oxford
Ph.D., English Literature
Yale University

Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She earned a BA from Harvard and a PhD from Yale. She is the author of Para literary: The Making of Bad Readers in Post-war America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Ferrante Letters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Personality Brokers (Doubleday: New York, 2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, the Economist, NPR, CBC, and the Spectator, and has been adapted for CNN/HBO Max as the documentary feature film Persona. She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (Cambridge: MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (New York: Norton, 2021).

GLA Course Title: Abuses of psychometry in the marketplace

Michal Krenz

D.Phil. candidate in Architectural History
University of Oxford

Michał Krenz holds degrees in Creative Writing from Oxford, and Architecture and Urban Design from Gdańsk and Berlin. His doctoral research at Oxford University focuses on the relationship between cinema and the image of a modernist city. With Oxford TORCH, Environmental Humanities, he researched architecture and the spatial imaginary in postmodern literature, he also wrote on the juxtaposition of urban grids and waterway patterns. He teaches creative writing at the Oxford Academia summer school. A published author and an awarded filmmaker, he works in the film industry as script consultant and assistant director. His project Sketchy News (with Anina Takeff; supported by the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, of Brandenburg) followed the connection between the media, politics and national identity. His latest projects involve the use of AI in visual storytelling, from story structure to cinematic grammar.

Peter McDonald

Professor of English
University of Oxford
D.Phil., English
University of Oxford

For most of his professional life Peter has been thinking about the idea of culture as it has been shaped and reshaped over the past two hundred years, and about the processes and perils of literary guardianship, especially in the complex, mobile, and interconnected world that emerged in the course of the long twentieth century. This guiding preoccupation has informed his work on censorship, the rise of mass culture, media history and questions of the book, the public value of literature, critical theory, and interculturalism. It has also led Peter to write on an eclectic range of authors, including Arnold, Beckett, Bennett, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Brink, Breytenbach, Amit Chaudhuri, Coetzee, Conan Doyle, Conrad, Derrida, T.S. Eliot, Gordimer, Kirsty Gunn, Sarah Howe, Jensma, Joyce, Krog, Lawrence, Matthews, Mehrotra, Mphahlele, Ndebele, Pound, Rushdie, Serote, Tagore, Woolf, and Yeats. Peter teaches literatures in English from around 1830 to the present and critical theory.
Professor, University of Oxford

Samuel Day

Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford

Dr. Samuel is a researcher in the Emotion and Social Relations lab at University of Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology. His work focuses on how the interpretation and perception of facial expressions depends upon a combination of various contextual factors, and how these interpretations be affected in clinical conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

GLA Course Title: Faces and Places: Rethinking Emotion and Social Interaction

Tedd Moya

Oxford Martin Fellow
University of Oxford
Ph.D., Energy and Natural Resources
Queen Mary University of London

Dr. Tedd is a qualified lawyer, academic, and consultant in energy, environment, climate change, technology, sustainable development and finance. Dr. Tedd holds a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London. He is also a board member and strategist in conservation, education, philanthropy, and technology ventures in sub-Saharan Africa, the UK, and the Middle East. He is currently an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Oxford University Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy.

Dr. Tedd has research affiliations with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London and has also taught and held various multi-disciplinary positions at the Universities of St. Andrews, Cape Town, Michigan, Dundee, and LSE.

GLA Course Title: A Just Energy Transition: Global & Legal Perspectives

Théo LEBRET

Msci, Astrophysics
University College London
D.Phil., Astrophysics
University of Oxford

Dr. Théo holds a Dphil from University of Oxford. Prior to his doctoral work, Dr. Théo studied for an Msci in Astrophysics at University College London and has a Baccalaureate in France. His research work has been on areas such as ‘the dynamics of Dark Matter halos in galaxies like the Milky Way’ or ‘comparing numerical methods to simulate the formation of stellar halos’.

Dr. Théo is currently in France working towards obtaining the Agregation de Physique, a French higher education teaching certification.

GLA Course Title: From Chaos to Complexity: studying dynamical systems in physics and elsewhere

GLA Fellows 2022-23

Anastasia Sergeeva

Anastasia got her undergraduate degree in social sciences from Russia in 2022. She is interested in foreign languages and sees GLA as “a great opportunity to boost her language skills” as she opines that at Alliance the professors are from different countries work. For her GLA implies diversity and progressiveness. Through GLA Anastasia seeks to acquire knowledge by transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries that exist in humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences.

Anastasia Sergeeva

Anubhav Krishna

Anubhav Krishna hails from a migrant weaver’s community in Madurai, Taminadu. He holds degrees in film & media productions and communications. As a member of Screen Writers Association (SWA) of India, he is trained by international media professionals from NHK Japan, SKBC South Korea, and ABC Australia at the Satyajit Ray Film and TV Institute, Kolkata. His interests lie in social & community building, theatre, arts and politics. After working as a journalist in a Chennai based news channel, he worked as the youngest Assistant Professor in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam University. He enjoys learning various languages and believes to be a global citizen. Being a first-generation graduate, he wants to draft better cultural and educational policies. He aspires to specialize his PhD in Policy Education / Public Administration in future from world's best institutions.

Anubhav Krishna

Godbless Mawunyo Asigbee

Godbless Mawunyo Asigbee is from Ghana in West Africa. He is a graduate with a BSc. in Environmental Science from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana (2017-2021). His love for science earned him a place at the University of Cape Coast as a Teaching Assistant. Godbless looks forward to studying for a postgraduate degree that will enable him to contribute to the world’s desire to curb the single use of plastics and toxic waste. He loves listening to music, playing badminton, and participating in environmental events that helps his country to mitigate pollution and waste. He looks forward to contributing to making the world a plastic free one.

Godbless Mawunyo Asigbee

Hasti Chandresa

Hasti Chandresa is from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. She did her Bachelor’s in Journalism and Mass Communication from Sage University, Indore, where she held the position of Documentation Head, under the Student Activity Cell. She is professionally trained in Hindustani Classical music and has received numerous accolades for her scriptwriting. Hasti aspires to be a Filmmaker and a musician. Her social contribution and volunteer work for Cancer Care Foundation and other NGOs is considered extraordinary by all. With a great interest in literature and filmmaking, she finds herself the youngest amongst the fellows and intends to make the most out of her time at Alliance.

Hasti Chandresa

Hyma Balakrishnan

Hyma has completed her Bachelors in Humanities from Manipal Center for Humanities (MAHE, Manipal, Karnataka), and Masters (M.A Society and Culture) from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat. She works with Gender and Visual Media from Sociological/Anthropological lenses. She wants to understand the treatment of Indian women in the Indian media.

Hyma Balakrishnan

Maria Abramovich

Maria Abramovich hails from Russia. She has a bachelor’s in international relations and entrepreneurship from Siberian Federal University. She is interested in global studies, economic, social, and political development in Asia-Pacific region, including work with NGO and international movement. While in India, she inspires to groom and develop her skills while experiencing another culture.

Maria Abramovich

Mekdes Addisu

Mekdes Addisu is from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She has graduated from Ashoka University with a B.A (Honors) in Political Science and a minor in Sociology & Anthropology. She is interested in cultural studies, identity politics and philosophy. Mekdes is passionate about art and loves expressing herself through creative writing. She has been a founder of special education, women’s empowerment, and culture clubs in my high school years. She also has research and professional working experience by being a resident assistant and student mentor in her university. She aims to understand the complexity of politics and society to help the community provide its own solutions for the prevalent problems like poverty and inequality.

Mekdes Addisu

Pavel Ivliev

Pavel Ivliev was born into a simple Russian family. For the last 4 years he has studied international economics and management at the Samara State University of Economics. But his life is not limited to this. In his spare time, he studies history, art, international relations. He participated in educational and professional events with international colleagues, studied for six months in Europe. Also, he has conducted research on various topics including international marketing and foreign direct investments. Pavel aspires to work on a global scale and believes that achievement of real sustainability for companies and governments require interdisciplinary attitude of liberal arts.

Pavel Ivliev

Pranjul Khatri

Pranjul Khatri hails from Rohtak, Haryana but grew up in Pitampura, Delhi. Apart from being a national level player in Badminton and Ball Badminton, he has deep interest in International Affairs and Foreign policy. He has been awarded a Masters in International Relations from Durham University, England. Previously, he has attained his bachelor’s degree from S.G.T.B Khalsa College, University of Delhi, with concentrations in Economics and Political Science. He currently envisions developing a profound understanding of the diverse range of subjects offered in the fellowship. He believes that his strong interdisciplinary knowledge is the differentiating factor that would help him in securing a place in any international organisation and bring about a real change in the world.

Pranjul Khatri

Prerana Das

Prerana Das is an arts professional, visiting assistant professor and researcher in the field of cultural heritage. She has a BA (Honours) in history from Hindu College, University of Delhi and an MA in History of Art from National Museum Institute, Ministry of Culture. Her interest in tangible and intangible heritage of eastern India and their interplay with various factors such as environment, gender and religion are the impetus for pursuing a PhD in South Asian Art in the future. In her free time, she enjoys exploring music, literature and cinema.

Prerana Das

Remya P K

Remya P K hails from Kerala, the southernmost state in India has a B.A. in English Language and Literature and an M.A. in Society and Culture from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences - IIT Gandhinagar. Her Masters' thesis was on Incomplete Communism: Unaddressed Aspects of Caste in Kerala, India. She believes an interdisciplinary approach to academic discourses can produce more rigorous dialogues; therefore, her research interests extensively lies in the fields of Gender studies, Caste Politics in India, Political Science, Film Studies, Anthropology, Feminist Literature, and Public Policy. As a football player and an athlete, she aims to explore the anthropology of gender and sports culture in South Asia.

Remya P K

Ritika Kapoor

Ritika V Kapoor is a South Asia geopolitical analyst from New Delhi, specialising in matters related to India, Sri Lanka and Maldives. As an author, she comes with an extensive academic research background having contributed to several publications in the form of book chapters, journal articles and online op-eds. She has also led editorial teams and formulated guidance documents for organisations focused on academic publishing in the field of international relations and public policy. She has been part of several national and international conferences and cherishes the experience of having closely worked with the armed forces of India and Sri Lanka. Furthermore, her corporate security risk industry experience speaks volumes about her expertise and wide-ranging focus on the subject, having been recently associated with a firm which caters to 87% of Fortune Global 500 companies. Ritika holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy, and wishes to pursue a doctorate focused on maritime studies and gender politics in the near future.

Ritika Kapoor

Samartha Bhat

Samartha Bhat was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra and grew up in Dubai. He has completed his graduation at Birmingham City University with a B.Sc Honours in Film Production Technology. He has also gained work experience in Germany, while working at SAP and Allianz SE. He is an avid movie and TV show fan to the point that where he couldn't possibly pick a single favourite movie or show. Samartha loves photography in his free time and prefer his subjects to be cities or urban settings.

Samartha Bhat

Sergei Torokov

Sergei graduated from the Siberian Federal University. His profession is related to environmental protection. Sergei also graduated from the SibFU Honors College program, where he studied leadership and soft skills. Sergei likes to communicate with people and learn new things. He is currently learning how to create content for social media and running a YouTube channel. In addition, he plays sports and love to travel. In Russia, Sergei was a member of the national team of the Republic of Khakassia in cross-country skiing.

Sergei Torokov

Srishti Pandey

Srishti Pandey is from New Delhi, India with a bachelor’s degree in psychology (Hons) from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She enjoys watching sports, reading, and travelling. She briefly worked as a junior career counsellor and aims to build a comprehensive knowledge base through the multidisciplinary course structure and interdisciplinary approach of the Global Leader’s Alliance Fellowship.

Srishti Pandey

Trinayan Baruah

Trinayan Baruah is a student leader from Assam belonging to Asom Chatra Parishad, the student wing of Asom Gana Parishad. Asom Chatra Parishad was founded on 21st November 2019 and Baruah was appointed the first President of Asom Chatra Parishad. Trinayan joined Asom Gana Parishad on 21st November 2019 and was appointed as the President of newly formed Asom Chatra Parishad, the student wing of AGP. He is a national medalist in Grappling. He was conferred the 'Best Youth Social Leader' award by Byatikram Masdo in 2018.

Trinayan Baruah

Key Features

Oxford Faculty

Fully Waived Tuition Fees

Interdisciplinary courses

Cultural heritage tour

Internships

International study exchange

Application assistance to ivy leagues

Modern and ancient languages

Podcasts, conferences, magazines

COURSE STRUCTURE

The one-year fellowship will be structured as:

A Nine-month in-campus academic program.
A Three-month Internship/foreign exchange.
Those who successfully complete this One-year program will be awarded a Postgraduate degree/diploma in Liberal Arts.

The nine-month in-campus academic program would include:

Nine taught modules covering the key themes of the program.
Each module will be led by one or more module tutors.
Each module will comprise four weeks of learning, which would include both theoretical classes and research work.

List of GLA Courses 2022-23

S. No.	Name of the course	Semester	Faculty
1	The Experience of the Arts	I	Prof. Derek Attridge and Dr. Anthony Archdeacon
2	The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence	I	Dr. Maxmilian Kiener and Dr. Shamik Chakravarti
3	The Story of Mathematics	I	Dr. Adam Jones and Dr. Ravi Chakraborty
4	Art vs Science: Ways of Worldmaking	I	Dr. Anirudh Sridhar
5	Public Art	I	Dr. Andrea Baldini
6	History of Political Thought	I	Dr. Julien Paret
7	Strategic Thinking in Practice	I	Dr. Kasberger Bernhard and Dr. Shamim S. Mondal
8	Creative Writing	I	Mr. Victor Mallet, Mr. Mihir Vatsa and Dr. Shamik Chakravarti
9	Language (French, German, Spanish, Hindi and Kannada)	I	Dr. Julien Paret, Miss Prachi Joshi, Mr. Suryamani Kumar, Dr. Anupama Tiwari, Dr Vivekanand Sajjan respectively.
10	From Chaos to Complexity: Studying Dynamical Systems in Physics and Elsewhere	II	Dr. Theo LeBret and Dr. Ravi Chakraborty
11	Craft of Writing	II	Dr. Anthony Archdeacon
12	Law and its Moral Limits: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Law	II	Dr. Crescente Molina and Dr. Anirudh Sridhar
13	Eastern European Film Culture	II	Dr. Meghanne Barker and Dr. Puja Raj
14	Faces and Places: Rethinking Emotion and Social Interaction	II	Mr. Samuel Day and Dr. Shamik Chakravarti
15	A Just Energy Transition: Global & Legal Perspectives	II	Dr. Tedd Moya and Dr. Anirudh Sridhar
16	The Philosophy of Rights: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives	II	Dr. Luke Davies and Dr. Anirudh Sridhar
18	Language (Russian, French, German, Spanish, Hindi and Kannada)	II	Dr. Julien Paret, Miss Prachi Joshi, Mr. Suryamani Kumar, Dr. Anupama Tiwari, Dr Vivekanand Sajjan respectively.

Cultural Heritage Tour

A traveling boot-camp will be organized for the fellows and faculty as they crisscross the state of Karnataka, interspersing and enhancing their continuous intellectual exchange with visits to the most memorable architectural, cultural, and natural marvels of South India. This is a great opportunity to spend time informally with the Ivy league faculty while learning about the rich heritage of South India, having unforgettable culinary experiences, and staying comfortably at the coziest of resorts.

All expenses and organizational hassle will be borne by Alliance.

GLA CULTURAL TOUR 2024

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Three-Month Internship Program

The GLA Fellows will spend three months gaining exposure and experience working with:

Media

Print and Electronic
NGOs and Societies/Trusts

International Universities

Projects
Academic Internships

International Organizations and Countries

UN
UNICEF
WEF
WHO and other International Bodies
Political Offices
State and National Ministries
Fortune-500 Companies

Experiential Learning

International Literary Festival

Be a part of the movement to make Alliance the nerve center of all things literary in India. Organize and participate in what will become one of Asia’s most significant literary festivals where academics, writers, publishers, translators, journalists, and other public intellectuals come together for a confluence of conversations that take stock of the newest literary currents while also reviving forgotten and obscure literatures.

Film Club and Festival

Experience the collective ecstasy of watching and analyzing world cinema. Expand your artistic vision and sharpen your critical eye as we watch films throughout the year, culminating in a film festival that congregates filmmakers and curates the most exciting collection of old and new films to be screened.

Media Lab

Use the excellent facilities of the media lab to get hands-on experience in filmmaking and editing, camera-handling and production. Along with the film club, the media lab is a place for tinkering and experimentation through various media as well as the hub generating content for the Alliance public sphere.

Cosmopolis: The Podcast Channel

Steer the fastest-growing YouTube channel to new heights. Set up podcasts with luminaries from different fields and be part of the movement to make Alliance the hub of Bengaluru's intellectual public sphere. Be it history, politics, science, policy or technology, Cosmopolis is Alliance’s window to the world.

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Magazines

To inculcate literary values and aesthetic sensibility, the department of language and literature envisions to promote academic discourses and literary compositions through its various publications. At present, the department publishes a multi-lingual literary magazine titled Anukarsh. As one among the very few multilingual literary magazines in the country, Anukarsh works to explore the multitudinous ways in which India’s diverse languages and cultures have worked to form a rich and composite literary oeuvre.

Distinguished Speaker Series

Be enthralled and inspired by distinguished speakers including scientists, filmmakers, writers, Nobel Laureates, parliamentarians, media personalities-all invited from the world over in occasional lecture series. Well-known pioneers from different fields shall be called upon to share their infectious wisdom with the budding thought-leaders of tomorrow.

Annual Conference

Organize and participate in an annual conference where the leading academic luminaries are called upon to deliberate on the state of the humanities with focus on a special theme.

Career Opportunities

The Global Leaders’ Alliance fellowship will broaden the horizons of the fellows in a manner that they are fast-tracked into positions of leadership and influence across a variety of sectors. This will happen through mentorship by world-class faculty, exposure through prestigious internships and the cultivation of a nurturing alumni network.

The fellowship is structured around thematic areas that make the students polymathic individuals as well as informed world citizens. This aspect, along with a strong orientation in argument and articulation makes the fellows suited for an eclectic set of professions in corporate, governmental, and non-governmental spheres. Most significantly, the fellowship mandates participation in organizational activities at Alliance, making them ideally poised for the kind of institution-building smarts necessary for entrepreneurship and community service.

A brief glimpse of the many possible careers that await a GLA fellow:

Corporate Governance
Scientists and Technical Consultants
Market Research and Advertising
Public Administration and Policymaking
Think Tanks and Lobbying Organizations
Media and Publishing
Social Work and Philanthropy
Urban Planning and Rural Management

Higher Education and Research
Politics and Political Management
Legislation and Legislative Assistance
Legal Consultancy and Judicial Clerkship
Public Relations and Communications Strategy
Archivist and Curators
Diplomats, Interpreters and Translators

Admissions

Eligibility

A Bachelor’s Degree from Any Recognized National/International University
Good Verbal and Written Ability in English
Aged Below 35
Academic And Extra-Curricular Excellence

Selection Process

An Application & Written/ Videotaped Expression of Interest
Written Test
Personal Interview

Key Dates

Commencement: September 1, 2023

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FAQs

Who can Apply?

Students from around the world, under the age of 35,with an undergraduate degree in any discipline, and with a demonstrated record in academics or extracurricular activities are encouraged to apply for the fellowship.

How much does it cost?

Being a genuine fellowship in the true spirit of the term, tuition cost is waived and borne by Alliance.

Who teaches?

A selection of the world’s best faculty drawn from Ivy-league Universities, especially Oxford.

Duration of the Fellowship

The fellowship programme is divided into two phases:

Phase I: A Nine-month in-campus academic program.
Phase II: A Three-month Internship/foreign exchange.