2003
Shamit Saggar
Professor of Public Policy
University of Western Australia
Shamit Saggar is the Director of the Public Policy Institute and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Western Australia. He was previously a Senior Policy Advisor in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, an ESRC Knowledge Exchange Fellow with HM Government, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Essex, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Sussex.
In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, and in 2017 became Chair of the Campaign for Social Science. In 2017 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to social science and public policy.
The 2003 World Fellows
Top political advisors to British Primer Minister Tony Blair and Mexican President Vicente Fox, two African members of parliament, and an Australian Internet entrepreneur are among the 2003 Yale World Fellows. “The Yale World Fellows Program is building a global network of individuals who are poised to assume leadership roles in their own countries and on the global stage,” said President Richard C. Levin. “The accomplishments and experiences of the 2003 World Fellows made them stand out in a pool of hundreds of impressive applicants to the program.” The Fellows selected for the 2003 program from more than 500 applications representing more than 100 countries also include NGO leaders from...Read More
