MIT Alumni Elaine Chew (left), Noam Angrist (top right), and Huma Yusuf (bottom right)
'Here in London, you can feel like you're part of history and that you're on the cutting edge at same time - it's a great fusion,' says Noam Angrist '13, a Rhodes Scholar who shuttles between the U.K. and Botswana on behalf of a development nonprofit he launched in 2014. Of London and the city's immediate environs he says, 'It's where the old and new clash beautifully.' For MIT graduates like Angrist, whose professional lives span disciplines and continents, greater London proves to an ideal place to set up shop. Alumni find the city a welcoming place for international projects and for multidimensional endeavors that call on their education in the disciplines of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences (SHASS), along with science and technical fields. 'This is one of the few places in the world where I can do both music and science professionally,' says Elaine Chew SM '98 PhD '00, an accomplished pianist and professor of digital media at Queen Mary University of London. 'Being here in London helps me be a global citizen, enabling me to stay in touch with both the East and West,' says Huma Yusuf SM '08, an associate director at Control Risks, a firm that consults on political and cultural issues in the Middle East and Africa. London is home to a significant cohort of MIT alumni who are deeply engaged in the MIT mission 'to make inspiring progress for the world,' in the words of President L. Rafael Reif, who will soon be visiting London for the next MIT Better World campaign event, which takes place on Jan.
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