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A Sustainable Approach to Physics Education
Sir Peter Ogden (MBA 1973) has changed the lives of thousands of students with the Ogden Trust, which provides funding to ready the next generation of leaders in science and math.
“My focus is not to change the system. It’s to change the lives of the individuals,” says the British entrepreneur who cofounded Computacenter, a global IT services company.
Launched in 1999, the Ogden Trust has funded the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, at Durham University, and helped dozens of students to study at English universities and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in Switzerland. The Trust counts more than 1,600 alumni through its various programs, including undergraduate scholarships, symposia, and school prizes.
“Seeing a young student at 14 years old get a first-class degree in physics and go on to become a successful researcher—that is very satisfying,” he says.
Ogden, who grew up in a working-class family, recalls the power of his own education, leading up to his time at HBS, where the idea of paying it forward was part of the School’s DNA.
“There’s something in the genetic code of the School that seemed to generate that sense of obligation to give back,” he says. “Somehow, that stayed with me.”
(Published March 2015)
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