Larry Madowo bags coveted, prestigious Philip Greer award as a student

Larry Madowo hasn’t just made himself and his family proud, he has made the entire nation proud by bagging a coveted award abroad.

Larry Madowo who is a student in America was crowned the winner of 2020 Philip Greer Award which makes him the first Kenyan media personality and journalist to win the award.

The coveted award is named after Phil Greer who was the Senior Vice President of Loan Administration for State Employees’ Credit Union and was responsible for all lending functions.

“I spent months reporting on Jumia’s first year on the NYSE from Lagos, Berlin, Nairobi & New York for my @ColumbiaJournMA thesis.” Larry Madowo’s tweet read in part, “My 9,000-word piece just won the 2020 Philip Greer Award for Financial Writing. I’m also co-authoring an MBA case study on it at @Columbia_Biz School”

Knight-Bagehot Fellowship

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship is the only global mid-career journalism program devoted to business, economics, finance, and tech journalism and is undertaken at the Columbia Journalism School.

Larry Madowo was among ten individuals selected to be a part of the fellowship back in April 2019.

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The Journalism program sought to bring together top journalists in business and technology.

Prior to joining the prestigious, Colombia University in New York as a Knight-Bagehot class of 2019, Larry Madowo was the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Africa Business Editor.