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OURS National Scholarships

Scholarship: Schwarzman Scholars Program

Tafadzwa Marombedza

Tafadzwa Marombedza (’20, Political Economy) was a MasterCard Scholar from Zimbabwe who has served as the President of the Organization of African Students. Currently, he is an Emerging Markets Analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York. He is passionate about the African growth story and envisions a world where global capital can be redirected to finance capital projects in Africa. He hopes to build long-lasting relationships in China and understand the drive behind the success of Africa’s largest trading partner.

Zhengfan Pan

Zhengfan Pan (B.A. Legal Studies, ’20; MIDS, ’21) anticipates that the friendships he will make as a Schwarzman Scholar will outlive the program itself, along with the benefits of gaining rare access to Chinese business and political leaders. Zhangfan was educated in New Zealand before coming to California and is excited to learn more about China, his parents’ homeland, especially its current entrepreneurial landscape and political system. Building on interests developed as a legislative intern in the California State Senate, he hopes to explore the philosophy of property law for […]

James Tayali

James Tayali (Public Health, ’17) came to Cal from Malawi as a Mastercard Scholar and soon connected with Professor Sam Mchombo, who encouraged him to study Swahili and connect with the African student community on campus. This experience led James to doing health work in Kenya and, ultimately, to founding three social ventures in his home country: ICI Africa, a mentorship program for high school students; Deal Malawi, an e-commerce and online shopping site; and Keki Mawe Incorporated, which manufactures and distributes iron-fortified products to women and children. He has […]

Alexander Zhao : Schwarzman Scholars Program

Alexander Zhao (’21, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) has published research on biased algorithms and recommender systems and served as an editor for the data projects team for The Daily Californian. Alexander hopes to improve our ability to assess fairness in algorithms through his experiences in graduate school.

Zeliang Cai

Zeliang Cai (Economics, ’22), an international student from China, is passionate about finance, particularly welfare foundation and venture capital investment. As an undergraduate, he helped redesign an investment portfolio at a welfare foundation in China, for which he received the 2020 Project HOPE Outstanding Contribution Award. Zeliang also served as research team captain for Cal’s Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics and was the portfolio manager of a student start-up that supports college entrepreneurs and has more than $1 million assets and 70 members from universities around the […]

Gurchit Chatha

Gurchit Chatha (’16, Political Science) is passionate about problem-solving and hopes to spend his Schwarzman year exploring Chinese technological innovation in the wake of rapid urbanization and power transition theory.