In this inspiring conversation in CURF's Fireside Lounge, Malaysian Rhodes Scholarship recipient Adnan Zikri Jaafar speaks about economic development, equal access to opportunity, and what leadership means to him.
At Oxford, Jaafar will pursue an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, along with an MSc in Financial Economics.
Video produced by Emily Eckardt and Kathryn R. Morgan, CURF Graduate Fellows, 2018.
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