SCMP financial editor George Chen joins prestigious Yale fellowship

Chen, 34, will join 15 other candidates in August for an intensive leadership training and academic enrichment programme at the prestigious American university.

"I’m glad that George was accepted for Yale’s prestigious global fellowship programme,” said Wang Xiangwei, editor-in-chief of the Post.

"I hope the fellowship programme could help George broaden his horizons and hone his expertise in international affairs, and in turn contribute to the Post’s coverage of China and the world," said Wang.

Chen was chosen from a pool of more than 4,000 applicants and is the sole fellow from the Greater China region this year.

He will join his peers in mid-August for a four-month stay at Yale’s New Haven campus.

“Like prior cohorts, the 2014 Yale World Fellows are dynamic, high-impact practitioners committed to effecting positive change," said Yale World Fellows director Michael Cappello, a professor of paediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine.