Helping educate tomorrow’s leaders: Cargill announces first class of Cargill Global Scholars

Through the Cargill Global Scholars program, selected college students from Brazil, China, Russia, India and the United States will receive funds to help cover educational expenses and participate in leadership development and enrichment activities with Cargill leaders.

MINNEAPOLIS, July 23, 2013 – How can today’s industry experts influence the development of tomorrow’s leaders? Cargill and its executives have signed up to mentor and support select undergraduate students around the world as part of the Cargill Global Scholars program. Fifty-six undergraduate college students were recently notified that their university experience will be transformed by becoming members of the first class of Cargill Global Scholars.

Through this new scholarship program, selected college students from Brazil, China, Russia, India and the United States will receive funds to help cover their educational expenses and will participate in leadership development and enrichment activities with Cargill leaders. These activities have been designed to enhance critical thinking skills and equip students with tools to help them become leaders and decision makers in their chosen fields.

“At Cargill, we work with higher education institutions to ensure that we have access to the best people, faculty and ideas relevant to our business’ future,” said Pat Bowe, corporate vice president of Cargill. “The Cargill Global Scholars program was developed to further improve this access by allowing us to support high potential college students who are likely to hold leadership positions in a variety of industries in their home countries.”

Over the next five years, the Cargill Global Scholars program will identify approximately 200 talented and high-performing undergraduate students to join the global network. Currently in its first year, Cargill worked with the Institute of International Education (IIE) to target universities in each country to identify the Cargill Global Scholars candidates and scholarship recipients. Cargill committed approximately $6 million to fund the scholarships and administration of the program.

“Cargill executives have demonstrated a strong commitment to serve as mentors,” said Allan E. Goodman, president of IIE. “In working directly with leaders in business today, the students will develop relationships, learn about real-world experiences and gain insight into the qualities they will need in the future.”

In their first year as Cargill Global Scholars, each student will participate in leadership training sessions. They will also be assigned a Cargill employee who will serve as a mentor over the next several years. These mentors, which include company executives, will help students identify and realize short- and long-term academic and professional goals.

In addition, the five top-performing students from each country who are in the second year of their program will be selected to take part in a week-long Global Leadership Program at Cargill’s global headquarters in Minnesota or at another Cargill-related facility. As part of their time in the Cargill Global Scholars program, the students will participate in individual and group leadership experiential learning opportunities led by non-governmental organizations that specialize in youth leadership development. The students will also have the opportunity to learn from and network with Cargill executives. Finally, as the Cargill Global Scholars complete their leadership and enrichment activities under this program and graduate from selected universities, they will join a global alumni network of participants, allowing enrichment and networking opportunities to continue.

A complete list of scholarship recipients for each of the selected countries is included below.

 

Contacts
Sharon Witherell, Director, Public Affairs , +1.212.984.5380; [email protected] Kirsten Norman, Cargill Communications Specialist, +1.952.742.0302; [email protected]

 

2013 Cargill Global Scholars

 

Brazil
1	Italo	Cegatta	Universidade de Sao Paulo
2	Laís	Silva	Universidade Federal de Uberlndia
3	Reginaldo Jose	Gomes Neto	Universidade de Estadual de Campinas
4	Juliana	Hirono	Universidade de Sao Paulo
5	Marcella	Alves dos Santos	Universidade de Sao Paulo
6	Felippe	Caso	Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos
7	Livington Francisco	Silva	Universidade Federal de Goias
8	Anna Paula	Silva	Universidade de Sao Paulo in Piracicaba
9	Renato	Guimarães	Universidade de Sao Paulo in Sao Carlos
10	Mariana	Beloni Vieira	Universidade de Sao Paulo

 

China
1	Xuan	Yang	University of International Business and Economics
2	Yinan	Wen	China Agricultural University
3	Yi	Sun	University of International Business and Economics
4	Zhuxuezi	Zhao	China Agricultural University
5	Qi	You	China Agricultural University
6	Xinrui	Yao	China Agricultural University
7	Xiangyu	Zeng	University of International Business and Economics
8	Yunhong	Wei	University of International Business and Economics
9	Yeye	Lu	China Agricultural University
10	Jingnan	Zhang	China Agricultural University
11	Pengwei	Zhao	University of International Business and Economics
12	Qipeng	Zhang	China Agricultural University
13	Xi	Yang	University of International Business and Economics
14	Qi	Xiu	China Agricultural University
15	Liu	Liu	China Agricultural University
16	Yiwen	Sun	University of International Business and Economics

India
1	Ayush	Kanodia	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai
2	Sarang	Nath	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
3	Abhay	Shankar	Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra
4	Astha	Agarwal	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai
5	Deepali	Kansal	Delhi Technological University (DTU)
6	Jash	Banker	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai
7	Mohd	Samrah	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai
8	Anupama	Sharan	Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra
9	Nishita	Tanwar	Delhi Technological University (DTU)
10	Kalki	Kukreja	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi

 

 

Russia
1	Viktoriya	Elmanova	Volgograd State Agrarian University
2	Anastasiya	Goloborodko	Kuban State Agrarian University
3	Tatiana	Isaeva	Kuban State Agrarian University
4	Vladislav	Izmailov	Voronezh State Agrarian University
5	Yuliya	Lebedeva	Volgograd State Agrarian University
6	Nikita	Shamray	Kuban State Agrarian University
7	Kseniya	Shishkina	Tula State University
8	Marina	Shutilova	Kuban State Technology University
9	Stepan	Olenchuk	Voronezh State Agrarian University
10	Vladislav	Tkachuk	South Federal University

United States
1	Gabrielle "Bria"	Abeles-Allison	University of Minnesota
2	Morgan	Bakies	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3	Rebecca	Clay	Iowa State University
4	Maria	Filsinger Interrante	Stanford University
5	Hillary	Kletscher	Iowa State University
6	Katie	Legenski	Pennsylvania State University
7	Emma	Likens	University of Nebraska Lincoln
8	Ronnie	Sullivan	Kansas State University
9	Adam	Wilkerson	Kansas State University
10	Wenshi	Zhang	University of Minnesota

About Cargill

Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the privately held company employs 142,000 people in 65 countries. Cargill helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges wherever it does business. For more information, visit Cargill.com and its news center.

About Cargill Community Giving and Education

Cargill gives back to communities by contributing 2 percent of its global consolidated pre-tax earnings (based on a three-year trailing average). Cargill donated $69.9 million in 57 countries during its 2012 fiscal year. We provide support to organizations, projects and programs that fall in three focus areas: nutrition and health; education; and environmental stewardship. In the education area, we support innovative programs that improve academic achievement and increase access to education for socio-economically disadvantaged children. Our commitment to education also includes grant making to selected higher education institutions, a higher education employee-matching-gifts program, and post-secondary educational scholarships. In fiscal 2012, Cargill donated more than $18 million to support education programs.

About IIE

The Cargill Global Scholars Program is administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) on behalf of Cargill. Founded in 1919, IIE is one of the most experienced not-for-profit organizations in the field of international education and scholarship management, and has worked extensively in areas of leadership development. IIE currently administers over 250 programs benefiting over 29,000 men and women from 175 nations.