Name: Saeb A. Abdullah Ahsan

Recipient Year: 2017

Major: Public Policy

Description: Saeb Ahsan is interested in the development of urban diplomacy. He is has served as an Open Cities Fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, working to identify best practices related to open data and city-to-city collaboration. Saeb started his career in local government through an internship and advisory council role for the City of Chicago’s Commission on Human Relations. Saeb graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a BSc in Finance. He then studied Turkish entrepreneurship and corporate citizenship at Koç University in Istanbul as a Fulbright Fellow. Saeb was also an inaugural Fellow with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and completed an MPP at the University of Chicago’s Harris Public Policy as an ISF Scholar. He was also an Executive Editor for the Chicago Policy Review, managing the International, Law and Politics, and Energy and Environment sections.

School Name: University of Chicago

Sponsor: Rahbar Family Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saebahsan/