Category: SI alumni stories

Samvel Grigoryan explains how the Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals helped him in his current job and also opened his eyes to a possible new career path. Whatever his future holds, he will keep helping people to a better life.

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SI alumni stories

”The Academy opened a new page in my life”

Samvel Grigoryan explains how the Swedish Institute Academy for Young Professionals helped him in his current job and also opened his eyes to a possible new career path. Whatever his…

SI alumni stories

Alumni networks came together to talk about social impacts of Covid-19

We have been living with a pandemic for more than half a year, what are the actual social impacts we have seen so far? This question was discussed when twelve…

Leadership programmes, SI alumni stories

“The programme really helped me to make my intitative more holistic, to combine different aspects and to take key decisions”

Indian architect, director and founder of Needlab, Sameera Chukkapalli shares her experience of the Swedish Institute Management Programme Asia (SIMP) and how it helped the organisation develop its work. Needlab…

SI alumni stories

Alumni networks adapting to a new situation

It is challenging times for all of us. Most of the SI alumni activities planned for spring 2020 have been postponed. While clothes swaps, ploggings and SDG events are put…

SI alumni stories

Alumni leaders from all over the world connected in Gothenburg

This week a delegation of SI and Sweden alumni – previous scholarship holders and participants of SI leadership programmes from all over the world – met up in Gothenburg for…