Chelsea Clinton To Graduate From Oxford (Photo)

Hillary and Bill Clinton were seen walking around Oxford earlier today. It is believed that the Clintons were in the city for the graduation of their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, with a DPhil tomorrow.

Chelsea Clinton is thought to have previously studied a postgraduate degree at Oxford in 2001, completing an MPhil in International Relations in 2003.

The 34-year-old Clinton is reaching a number of milestones this year. In addition to her doctorate, Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting their first child in the fall. And she has taken a more public role at her family’s Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, where she serves as vice chair.

A longtime advocate for public health, Clinton has played an active role in developing policies at the foundation to address childhood obesity, HIV/AIDS, and childhood diarrhea around the globe.

During an appearance at the annual South by Southwest festival in March, Clinton noted that more than 750,000 children die around the world every year because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea, an issue her family’s foundation hopes to address.

“We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea,” she said.

The younger Clinton, a special correspondent for NBC News, is a graduate of Stanford University and holds master’s degrees from Oxford and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

During an appearance on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in April, the former president noted that once his daughter receives her doctorate, she will have four degrees.

“She’ll have as many as her parents do — combined,” Bill Clinton said. “When she was younger, the way all kids are, she thought she knew more than I did about everything. But alas, in my dotage, it turned out to be true!”

Agencies/Canadajournal