The Soft-Power Benefits of Educating the World's Leaders. HEPI Policy Note 16

It is often said that the number of current world leaders who chose to be educated in another country can serve as a useful, though rough and incomplete, indicator of "soft power." So, since 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has been publishing desk research on the tertiary education of serving heads of state and heads of government. This Policy Note shows that the United Kingdom (UK) continues to fall behind the United States (US) when it comes to educating people who go on to lead their own countries.