Call for Proposals: Chevening Financial Fellowship Programme
Source: gov.uk (2025-10-10)

British Embassy Beijing is pleased to open a call for proposals for our Chevening China Financial Fellowship Programme running for three years from 2026-2029.

Deadline extended to 23:59 (GMT) on Friday 31 October 2025.

The Chevening China Financial Fellowship Programme is a new initiative designed to engage mid-career and senior Chinese financial professionals. It aims to strengthen UK-China financial cooperation through structured academic and professional exchanges.

We welcome bids from eligible UK Universities and Institutions with academic and professional expertise in the following areas:
- Financial Regulation
- Financial Policymaking
- Banking; Capital Markets; Investment Management
- Sustainable Finance
- Insurance; Risk Management
This bidding round will seek to identify a UK University or Institution to design, implement, and deliver a bespoke curriculum for between 9-12 research fellows, mid-career Chinese Professionals who are leaders within the financial sector over a three-year period.

Selection Criteria

Bids will be assessed against the following criteria:
- Innovation and Design: An integrated and innovative training approach to encourage real engagement for Fellows in the UK.
- Professional experience, delivery plans and monitoring: Previous experience of providing such programmes for mid-career highflyers with capacity to deliver the training and provide mechanisms for effective monitoring and evaluation.
- Accommodation & training infrastructure: Convenient location and adequate accommodation for executive level course participants with good quality extra-curricular facilities.
- Financial Aspects: Competitive fee rates in relation to the market, explaining methodology and benchmarking and demonstrating value for money.
We draw your attention to the below key points:
- Proposals should be for the provision of a 3 month research fellowship for 3-4 fellows annually.
- We anticipate that tuition/research fees for this programme would be in the region of £7,000-£12,000 per fellow pa.
- All funding must be activity-based.
Process
- Project proposals must be submitted by 23:59 (GMT) on Friday 31 October 2025. Late proposals will not be considered.
- Proposals must include an Activity Based Budget (template included), which must be completed in English.
- Proposals must be submitted to: xxx@xxx.xx (mailto:xxx@xxx.xx)
Important Information to Note
- Project payments will be paid in arrears in three instalments, on a annual basis. Implementers must have enough resourcing to fund one third of the project costs at a time.
- Bidders should send the Activity based budget in GBP sterling.
- If the project is approved, implementers will be expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British Embassy Beijing.
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