Ilsede, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Scholarship for a two-month research trip to India to examine how social entrepreneurs finance themselves and their endeavors - Selected as one of six awardees in the entire city of Hamburg upon suggestion by the university presidents (award granted every two years) - Chancellor Angela Merkel and the then Mayor of Hamburg and current Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz addressed the guests at the award ceremony - The Übersee-Club is a nearly 100 year old former gentlemen’s club of merchants, industrialists and high-ranking civil servants - Admission to the Übersee-Club