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Sir Salman Rushdie could become the first author to win both the Baillie Gifford and Booker Prizes. The author, 77, has been revealed as one of 12 nominees longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction writing for his memoir Knife.
The UK’s premier non-fiction book prize, the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, today, Thursday 18 July, announces the 2024 prize cycle dates. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to Harvard University.
One of the Blavatnik School’s first Political Leadership Scholars, Keir Mather and former Chief Operating Officer and Senior Fellow in Public Management, Calum Miller, were sworn into the UK Parliament last week, after winning seats for the Labour Party in Selby and Ainsty and the Liberal Democrats in Bicester and Woodstock respectively. They join almost 350 Blavatnik School faculty and alumni working in governments or intergovernmental organisations across 74 different countries around the world.
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