UCL welcomes first Technology Entrepreneurship Fulbright Scholar

UCL has welcomed its first Fulbright Scholar for the university's Masters programme in Technology Entrepreneurship. Julie Markham - who is 27 and comes from the US - was selected out of hundreds of other applicants to benefit from the first scholarship, announced earlier this year. She will see the Fulbright Programme fully fund her through the Masters programme and provide a stipend for living expenses. The Technology Entrepreneurship MSc equips graduates that have a strong desire to be an entrepreneur with the skills and knowledge needed to develop their own start-up businesses. The programme provides an effective grounding across a wide range of the applied disciplines required for the effective management of technical ventures backed up with strong links to UCL Advances, which provides students and graduates who wish to develop their business ideas with assistance is making valuable  with potential investors, business partners, venture capitalists and clients. Julie joins the programme after achieving a first degree in Finance, a Masters degree in Real Estate and Construction Management, and an MBA. During her studies she interned at the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, established by Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus.