We’re delighted to announce the winners of the 5th Study UK Alumni Awards Saudi Arabia 2020, as announced at a digital ceremony in Riyadh Wednesday night, 30 September delivered in partnership with the Embassy and live-streamed. The event was hosted by Neil Crompton, British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia,  His Royal Highness Prince Khalid Bin Bandar Al Saud, Saudi Ambassador to the UK, and Eilidh Kennedy McLean, British Council Country Director.

This is the first Alumni Awards that have been live-streamed globally – and which has allowed us to reach and even larger audience than ever before. The event generated a buzz on social media with content posted, retweeted, and amplified by alumni and influencer accounts.  

The winners of the awards are: Find our more

  • Professional Achievement winner: Dr Samar Khan – a graduate of Nottingham Trent University
  • Social Impact winner: Dr Mawya Khafaji - a graduate of the University of Exeter.
  • Entrepreneurial Award winner: Mr Abdulaziz Alsaeed, a graduate of Newcastle University

The virtual Livestream ceremony recording is available here

Total reach from @BritishCouncilSaudiArabia

Press Releases by local media: SABQnews & Arabnews  

A collection of social media posts of the Alumni Awards is available here: https://walls.io/StudyUKAlumniAwards

Over 2 million targeted audiences (Alumni, prospective students, and wider audience)

  • British Council SM followers, Facebook 228,839K, Twitter 24.6K & Instagram 24.8 K
  • Past winners, Alumni board members, and Saudi Influencer accounts
  • Promotion to Gulf-UK Alumni network (3000K Active members) and over 30K prospective students database
  • Promotion through key contacts in the Ministry of Education, health, and others

 

Congratulations to your winners, and to all institutions on having a finalist in the Study UK Alumni Awards Saudi Arabia 2020!

The sixth edition of the prestigious awards have been launched in Saudi and we encourage HEIs to Promote the Study UK Alumni Awards 2021 to your Saudi-UK alumni.

By promoting the Awards to your alumni, and celebrating their stories, you’ll have access to your country’s success stories and some outstanding ambassadors for your institution and the UK education.

You can invite your alumni in Saudi to apply through the following link https://study-uk.britishcouncil.org/alumni-awards/enter  

The application deadline is on 30 Oct 2020.

A full promotional toolkit has everything you need, making it simple and easy to promote this opportunity to your Saudi alumni. All of the details about this year’s awards, including application deadlines, are available on the Study UK website.

For more information, please contact Rizwan Safdar, Project Manager Education, Saudi Arabia at Rizwan.Safdar@sa.britishcouncil.org.