Allan Gray Orbis FoundationFellow
Jan. 2011Cape Town Area, South AfricaThe Foundation offers the exceptional Allan Gray Fellowship to Southern Africa’s pioneering bright young students. This initiative aims to develop students, known as Allan Gray Candidate Fellows, into Southern Africa’s future high impact entrepreneurial leaders. Every year, the Foundation selects the best and most ambitious Grade 12 and first year university students from Southern Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland to join its vibrant community of Allan Gray Candidate Fellows. The Fellowship’s vision is to create and support a vibrant community of emerging high impact entrepreneurial leaders so that Candidate Fellows become individuals who will significantly impact and positively change the world around them. The Fellowship aims to support Candidate Fellows in their academic, personal and entrepreneurial leadership development whilst they are at university. The Fellowship further encourages embracing diverse world views in order for Candidate Fellows to understand what contribution they will make in the future, whether on an economic, social or political platform. It is the Fellowship team’s desire that Candidate Fellows graduate from the Fellowship and university with excellence.