[1] The idea behind the Fellowship was to bring foreign entrepreneurs and investors to New Zealand to incubate new businesses.
[2] The Immigration New Zealand partnered with the Edmund Hillary Fellowship to deliver the Global Impact Visa to 400 international applications over four years.
[3] It was setup in 2016 and has 532 fellows (400 international and 132 kiwis) as of March 2022.
[4] Yoseph Ayele is one of the co-founders of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship and was the first CEO as well.
[5] Fellows of this Fellowship include Naval Ravikant,[6] Deepa Malik,[7] Amitabh Kant,[8] and Queenie Chong.