Liberian Wins Prestigious Academic Award

Monrovia — A young Liberia researcher and activist has been admitted into the revered Adam Smith Fellowship program that seeks to encourage doctoral students to critically engage key thinkers in political economy. Mr. Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei will spend the next academic year 2018/19 as a research fellow at the Virginia-based Mercatus Center located at George Mason University. He will be joining a dozen others from around the world.

The Mercatus Center's Adam Smith Fellowships are exceedingly competitive and merit-based. They are awarded to graduate students pursuing doctorates in a variety of fields including economics, philosophy, political science and sociology, among many others. The Fellowship serve as excellent academic tools and are a co-sponsored program of the Mercatus Center and Liberty Fund, Inc.

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