Word: masons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exceptional number of Mason alumni are national bank presidents and ministers of state. Harris Mule, for example, was a very junior official in Kenya when he came to Harvard. Today he is the country's secretary of finance...
...School officials in recent years has brought the number of foreign students at the school to more than 100. Many are graduate students and public servants seeking masters in public policy or public administration. In addition, about 50 mid-career officials from developing nations are enrolled in the Mason Program. Drawn from 42 countries, most of the students already hold or will attain key positions of leadership in their native countries...
Equally impressive are the graduates from the Mason Program, which is administered jointly by the K-School and the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Established in 1957 as an effort to train third world officials in economic development, the program has expanded to include public servants in fields as diverse as health and rural development...
...Some Mason graduate have had turbulent careers. Belai Abai, former minister of land reform in Ethiopia, was jailed when President Haile Selassie was overthrown in the mid-1970s. Abai's services were so valuable, however, that the new government sent a car and driver to take him from prison to his office every day. A. M. A. Mulith became minister of finance in Bangladesh after last month's coup. Sergio Bitar lost his job as minister of mines in Chile when the government of Salvadore Allende was toppled...
...current class of foreign students at the school includes a former foreign minister of Nigeria, the director of EgyptAir and a commander in the Malaysian navy. The Mason Program has several dozen students who may soon become important government functionaries in their native countries...