Our alumni influence and shape the world in which we live, helping to enable social good.
Our alumni influence and shape the world in which we live, helping to enable social good.
In 2020, alumnus József Váradi (LLM 2014) gave a landmark pledge of £1,145,000 to establish the Váradi Scholarships, which will have a life-changing impact on hundreds of students around the world.
Legacy gifts represent a large proportion of philanthropic income and have a significant and lasting impact on the University for years to come.
Recent alumni bequests include John Lucas (BSc Engineering 1947), who gave 25 per cent of his estate to the central University and 25 per cent to City, University of London.
Convocation Trust, which provides 10 fully-funded scholarships and other grants to academics and students from across the University and its Member Institutions.
Sir Charles Kao received a Nobel Prize for Physics. His pioneering work in fibre optics is at the heart of our digital world. During the pandemic of 2020, his work has been more vital than ever. We thought it appropriate his work should inspire the design of the University of London Strategy 2020-25 document.
Her Excellency, Luisa Diogo, Prime Minister of Mozambique from 2004 to 2010, is one of several senior officials from Mozambique to have studied the MSc Financial Economics degree from SOAS through online, blended and flexible learning. In 2005 she was listed among Forbes’ ‘100 Most Powerful Women in The World’.
Sir Derek Walcott, alumnus of the University of London International Programmes and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. For many of his 27 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela studied law as a University of London student through distance and flexible learning.
Helena Normanton was a lawyer who scored a remarkable number of firsts in her legal career. She began as a history lecturer and, while teaching, she gained a first-class degree from the University of London. She was called to the bar in 1922 and became the first woman in England to practise as a barrister.
