Telangana CM Revanth Reddy Set to Join Harvard Leadership Programme
Revanth became the first sitting Chief Minister in independent India to enroll in an Ivy League programme.
Hyderabad: Come January 25, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy will don a new role — or rather, relive the role he played decades ago — that of a student, but this time it will be abroad, at Harvard University.
He has enrolled for a programme titled ‘Leadership for 21st Century (Chaos, Conflict, and Courage)’ at the prestigious Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He will be on the campus of the Kennedy School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, from January 25 to 30. Reddy will proceed to the US from Davos, where he will be attending the World Economic Forum.
According to a press release, Revanth Reddy will receive programme course certification from Harvard University, the first for any current Chief Minister. He will attend gruelling classroom sessions and, once out of class, do a lot of homework and submit papers.
“He will undertake classes and assignments and submit homework besides executing group projects with participants from about 20 countries across five continents,” the Chief Minister’s Office said.
Sources said Revanth Reddy had appeared for a pre-admission interview and submitted a paper on the single biggest challenge he faced as a leader.
The Chief Minister was of the view that people vote out a government and elect a new one with the single hope of change. The single biggest challenge for him was to usher in change in real terms for the people through the administration, for which change would not only mean replacement of Cabinet ministers and a few officials here and there, sources added.
