{"id":6290,"date":"2019-03-11T16:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2019-03-11T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:21:38","slug":"mansoor-rathore-lums-student-selected-as-knight-hennessy-scholar-at-stanford-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/mansoor-rathore-lums-student-selected-as-knight-hennessy-scholar-at-stanford-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Mansoor Rathore \u2013 LUMS Student, Selected as Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mansoor\nAslam Rathore, a Politics and Economics Major from Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School\nof Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS has been selected as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/knight-hennessy.stanford.edu\/program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University<\/a>,\nthe largest fully endowed scholars programme in the world. He is one of 69\nstudents from 20 countries selected for the 2019 cohort and is pursuing an MA\nin International Education Policy Analysis at Stanford Graduate School of\nEducation. While at LUMS, Rathore was a recipient of the National Management\nFoundation Gold Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\nam extremely humbled, grateful and thrilled about the privilege of joining the\nKnight-Hennessy community at Stanford. Without a doubt, the intellectual\ncuriosity that LUMS helped me develop has been instrumental in this\nachievement. Perhaps even more importantly, the resilience and perseverance\nthat my time at LUMS has taught me have been extremely helpful in all aspects\nof my personal, professional and academic life,\u201d said Rathore on his\nachievement.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knight-Hennessy\nScholars address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.\nRathore aspires to develop an innovative classroom teaching model to transform\neducation in Pakistan in line with the rapidly changing needs of the 21st\ncentury. Rathore worked at Delivery Associates on system-wide transformation of\npublic health and education systems across Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Saint\nLucia. Before that, he was a business analyst at McKinsey &amp; Company,\nfocusing on public education, banking and consumer retail sectors in Pakistan\nand Saudi Arabia. He also worked as a research analyst at the Centre for\nEconomic Research in Pakistan. A passionate writer, Rathore has published in\nThe News International, one of Pakistan\u2019s major national English newspapers on\ntopics ranging from religious intolerance to Pakistan\u2019s world-class football\nmanufacturing industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.\nArshad Ahmad, the Vice Chancellor of LUMS contacted Rathore to say, \u201cMy\nheartfelt congratulations to be LUMS and Pakistan\u2019s first recipient to be\nselected for the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University.\nYou have made all of us at LUMS very proud and have set the bar high. You are a\ntrailblazer and a role model for so many \u2013 we join you to celebrate this\nimportant milestone in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mansoor Aslam Rathore, a Politics and Economics Major from Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS has been selected as a&nbsp;Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University, the largest fully endowed scholars&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digitaldips.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}