Indian Teacher Wins Oxford Saïd-Burjeel Holdings Climate Change Challenge 2024

The worldwide competition Oxford Saïd-Burjeel Holdings Climate Change Challenge 2024 brought together students, educators and global leaders.

Study In UK: Said Business School of the University of Oxford announced that the top prizes in the climate change challenge were won by a teacher from India and school students from UAE.

The global competition brought together students, global leaders and educators to find innovative solutions for climate challenges. The winners were selected through a competitive process. They were selected from 58 countries and from over 1,000 applications. The winners discussed ideas which merged science, creativity and actionable strategies to provide solutions and inspire leadership.

Naqeeb Mehdi is the Indian teacher who won the competition by introducing a cutting-edge curriculum focused on wetlands.

"We’re thrilled to celebrate the winners of the Oxford Saïd @BurjeelHoldings Climate Change Challenge 2024, which concluded at #COP29 yesterday. Huge congratulations to Team Plethora from the UAE and Naqeeb Mehdi on well deserved wins," reads the message of Saïd Business School on X platform.

"Team Plethora's Mehak, Parvi, and Tirushi from Cambridge High School in the UAE school claimed victory with a pioneering solution for industrial sludge management, and will be spending two weeks next summer in Oxford, as part of the Future Climate Innovators Summer School 2025," said the official statement.

Oxford Venture Gets $100,000 Prize

Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre awarded a $100,000 prize to Ultrablanket. Oxford researcher Netzahualcoyotl Hernandez-Cruz founded this innovative venture.

"Ultrablanket, this year’s award winner, is dedicated to improving maternity care by developing the first-ever wearable ultrasound medical device, and was founded by Netzahualcoyotl Hernandez-Cruz, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Science and participant in the Entrepreneurship Centre’s Oxford Venture Builder programme; Olga Patey, a fetal cardiologist and a postdoctoral researcher from the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health; and Edgar Castillo, a researcher from the Department of Physics," added the official statement.

Said Business School: Latest Updates

Dr. Elaine Rodrigo and Michele (Mitch) Oliver have been appointed as the new Executives in Residence.

"We are delighted to welcome Dr. Elaine Rodrigo and Michele (Mitch) Oliver as our new Executives in Residence. Experts in their fields, they bring decades of experience to the Oxford Future of Marketing Initiative - FOMI," said another message on X.

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