Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern received a scholarship to study at Harvard

(CNN) — After stepping down as New Zealand's prime minister earlier this year, Jacinda Ardern has revealed she is swapping the chaos of politics for a quiet reflection on studying abroad, and will attend Harvard University this year with two scholarships.

According to a Harvard news release, Ardern was awarded a double scholarship to the Harvard Kennedy School, the university's school of public policy and government.

Jacinda Ardern leaves the New Zealand Parliament for the last time as Prime Minister on January 25, 2023 in Wellington, New Zealand. (Credit: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

He will serve as an Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow, a program aimed at high-level leaders transitioning from public service roles, and as the Hauser Chair in the school's Center for Public Leadership. To develop leadership skills.

“Jacinda Ardern has shown the world strong and empathetic political leadership,” said Douglas Elmendorf, dean of the Kennedy School. In the report. “He is respected beyond his country's shores and will provide our students with important information and stimulate important conversations about the public policy choices facing leaders at all levels.”

“I feel incredibly honored to join Harvard University as a fellow; “This will not only give me an opportunity to share my experience with others, but also an opportunity to learn,” Ardern said in the statement. “As leaders, we often have very little time for reflection, but reflection is essential if we are to adequately support the next generation of leaders.”

At the same time, Ardern will complete a separate fellowship at Harvard Law School's Bergman Klein Center for Internet and Society, where she will study ways to contain extremist content online.

In an Instagram post This Wednesday, Orton said, he will be “speaking, teaching and learning.”

He said Harvard was a key partner in his efforts to counter terrorism and violent extremist content in 2019, two months after the Christchurch terror attacks that killed 51 people at two mosques. The attacker live-streamed the incident and posted a statement online beforehand.

Ardern said she was going away for a semester, meaning she would miss New Zealand's general election, but would return when she finished her studies. “After all, New Zealand is my home!” wrote

When Ardern became the country's prime minister in 2017 at the age of 37, she became the third woman to lead New Zealand and one of the world's youngest leaders. Within a year, he became the second world leader born in office.

His time in power was defined by several crises, including the Christchurch attack, a deadly volcanic eruption and a global pandemic.

She quickly became a progressive global icon, remembered for her empathy for guiding New Zealand through these crises and for taking her young daughter to the United Nations General Assembly.

However, his popularity waned amid rising costs of living, housing shortages and economic concerns. He faced violent protests in the capital Wellington and received threats against him.

Ardern announced her shock resignation in January, saying she did not have enough fuel to contest the election.

Earlier this month she gave her final farewell in an emotional speech to Parliament, affirming all the nerds, weepers, huggers, mothers and ex-Mormons of the world: “You can be all these things. They can't be here; they can lead like me.”