Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan

De **Commonwealth Scholarship den Fellowship Plan** (**CSFP**) be sam international programme wey Commonwealth governments dey offer scholarships den fellowships give citizens of oda Commonwealth countries.

## Ein History
De plan originally dey cam from Canadian statesman Sidney Earle Smith for one speech wey he give for Montreal for 1 September 1958, wey dem establish am for 1959, for de first Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) wey dem hold for Oxford, Great Britain. Since then, ova 25,000 menners get de awards, wey ova twenty countries host am. De CSFP be one of de main ways wey de Commonwealth countries dey do exchange programs. 

## Ein Organisation
No central body dey manage de CSFP. Instead, participation dey base for sam series of bilateral arrangements between home den host countries. Sam national nominating agency dey organize each country participation, wey ebe responsible say ego advertise awards wey be applicable give demma own country wey edey make nominations give host countries.

## Notable past Commonwealth Scholars den Fellows dey include

### Politics

* Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of St. Lucia
* George Brandis QC, 36th Attorney-General of Australia
* Ross Cranston, Member of Parliament for Dudley North, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
* Bill English, Prime Minister of New Zealand
* Babalola Borishade, Former Minister of Education, Aviation Nigeria
* John Alexander Forrest, Member for Mallee, Australia
* Leslie Gunawardana, Former Minister of Science, Sri Lanka
* Hala Hameed, Maldivian Minister of State
* Juma Athuman Kapuya, Minister of Labour, Employment and Youth Development
* Kalombo Mwansa, Home Affairs Minister of Zambia
* Satendra Nandan, Minister of Health den Social Welfare, Fiji
* Rolph Payet, Seychellois Cabinet Minister
* Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
* Carlos Simons, Member, Interim Advisory Council, Turks and Caicos Islands
* Abdullah Tarmugi, Singaporean politician den MP
* Michael Tate, Minister for Justice, Australia

### Judiciary

* Shirani Bandaranayake, 43rd Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
* Patrick Keane, Judge of de High Court of Australia
* Ross Cranston, Former Solicitor General of de United Kingdom of Great Britain den Northern Ireland
* George W. Kanyeihamba, Judge of de Supreme Court of Uganda
* Professor Vijender Kumar, Professor of Family Law, NALSAR University of Law
* Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

### Government

* Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England
* Michael Omolewa, Permanent Delegate and Ambassador to UNESCO, Nigeria
* Carolyn McMaster, Canadian Deputy High Commissioner to New Zealand
* Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen, Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency

### Academia

* B. K. Misra, Neurosurgeon
* U. R. Ananthamurthy, Professor den writer, University of Mysore, Karnataka
* Gunapala Amarasinghe, Professor of Ayurvedic Pediatrics, Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo
* Anisuzzaman, Emeritus Professor of Bengali, University of Dhaka
* Richard Alexander Arnold, Professor of English, Alfaisal University wey dey Riyadh
* Ishbel Campbell,  British chemist researcher den lecturer. Hold one of de first Commonwealth fellowships wey dem dey take award shoddie.
* Robert M. Carter, Director of Australia ein Secretariat for ce Ocean Drilling Program
* Warrick Couch, astronomer, Director of de Australian Astronomical Observatory den Presido of de Australian Institute of Physics.
* John Gallas, poet den educator
* Professor Alan Robertson Gemmell Professor of Biology for Keele University (1950–1977)
* Germaine Greer, Australian feminist author; former professor of English Literature den Comparative Studies for University of Warwick
* Robert Gavin Hampson, Professor of English, Royal Holloway, University of London.
* Charles Jago, Presido of de University of Northern British Columbia
* Karuppannan Jaishankar, Founder / Principal Director & Professor of Criminology, International Institute of Justice den Police Sciences, India
* Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, poet, songwriter & professor at University of Dhaka
* Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University at Kingston
* Nissim Mannathukkaren, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University Department of International Development Studies
* Angus McIntosh, Forbes Professor of English Language and General Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
* Lynette Mitchell, Professor in Greek History and Politics, University of Exeter
* Bridget Ogilvie, Director of de Wellcome Trust
* Pratapaditya Pal, Curator-Emeritus den formerly, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
* Peng Tsu Ann, Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
* Raja Ramanna, chairmo, Atomic Energy Commission of India
* B. N. Suresh, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
* Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh, Professor of Art, Baroda University
* Lalji Singh, Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
* Sheung-Wai Tam, Presido Emeritus of De Open University of Hong Kong
* Stephen Toope, Presido den Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia
* Sunil Kumar Verma, Principal Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
* Jeremy Waldron, Professor of law den philosophy, New York University School of Law
* Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
* Fiona Williams, Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds
* Kamta Prasad, former professor of economics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
* Najma Akhtar, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia

### Journalists

* Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief, *The Globe and Mail*, Canada
* Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
* Chandan Mitra, Editor den managing director of *The Pioneer*, New Delhi

### Performing Arts

* Walter Learning, Founder of Theatre New Brunswick
* Shyamaprasad, Leading Indian (Malayalam) film Director, President, Amrita Television

### Social Entrepreneurs

* Kirthi Jayakumar, Gender den Peace activist, Founder of The Red Elephant Foundation

## References



## External links

* Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
* Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom website