Program Spotlight
Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program
The Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship gives early-career researchers the chance to continue their academic journeys when crisis forces them off course.
Nairobi
At the heart of African innovation and creative production.
The Columbia Global Center Nairobi brings Columbia to Eastern and Southern Africa, creating a vibrant hub for collaboration, research, and impact.
Operating since 2011, the Nairobi Center is focused on serving as a regional engine for research, global curriculum, and high-impact partnerships with local governments, NGOs, universities, and private sector partners.
The Center is a place where scholars, students, scientists, and changemakers come together to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges, from sustainable development and public health to education and entrepreneurship.
Whether you are a Columbia student seeking to engage with a young and vibrant continent, a researcher digging into fieldwork, or a policymaker looking for data-driven insight, the Nairobi Center offers a launchpad for discovery deeply rooted in Sub-Saharan Africa and wide open to the world.
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Center Director
Dr. Murugi Ndirangu
Dr. Murugi Ndirangu joined the newly-constituted Columbia Global Center Nairobi in January 2017. Dr. Ndirangu spearheads the Center's education, research, and public programming activities through the provision of strategic and administrative leadership to the Center and serves as a liaison to academic divisions, professional schools, and administrative units of Columbia University for both regional and local partners. As a researcher and educationalist, Dr. Ndirangu is passionate about improving the quality of higher education in the region and seeking to advance research activities to advance the quality of life and enhance economic development in the region.
