Call for Proposals: Chevening Financial Fellowship Programme

Deadline extended to 23:59 (GMT) on Friday 31 October 2025.

The Chevening China Financial Fellowship Programme is a new initiative designed to engage mid-career and senior Chinese financial professionals. It aims to strengthen UK-China financial cooperation through structured academic and professional exchanges.

We welcome bids from eligible UK Universities and Institutions with academic and professional expertise in the following areas:

• Financial Regulation
• Financial Policymaking
• Banking; Capital Markets; Investment Management
• Sustainable Finance
• Insurance; Risk Management

This bidding round will seek to identify a UK University or Institution to design, implement, and deliver a bespoke curriculum for between 9-12 research fellows, mid-career Chinese Professionals who are leaders within the financial sector over a three-year period.  

Selection Criteria

Bids will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Innovation and Design: An integrated and innovative training approach to encourage real engagement for Fellows in the UK.
• Professional experience, delivery plans and monitoring: Previous experience of providing such programmes for mid-career highflyers with capacity to deliver the training and provide mechanisms for effective monitoring and evaluation.
• Accommodation & training infrastructure: Convenient location and adequate accommodation for executive level course participants with good quality extra-curricular facilities.
• Financial Aspects: Competitive fee rates in relation to the market, explaining methodology and benchmarking and demonstrating value for money.

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Process

1. Project proposals must be submitted by 23:59 (GMT) on FridayThursday 3130 OctoberApril 2025.2026. Late proposals will not be considered.
2. Proposals must include an Activity Based Budget (template included), which must be completed in English.
3. Proposals must be submitted to: barry.bobin-martin@fcdo.gov.uk

Important Information to Note

• Project payments will be paid in arrears in three instalments, on aan annual basis. Implementers must have enough resourcing to fund one third of the project costs at a time.
• Bidders should send the Activity based budget in GBP sterling.
• If the project is approved, implementers will be expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British Embassy Beijing.