Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship
The Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for U.S. early and mid-career professionals and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to serve in a foreign government ministry or institution while carrying out an independent research component that focuses on an issue related to the Fellow’s in-country work. The Fellows have an opportunity to build their knowledge and skills, provide support to partner-country institutions, and promote long-term ties between the U.S. and the partner country.
The minimum length of the total grant is four months and the maximum is nine months. Eight to nine-month grants are preferred.
Depending on individual grant lengths and overall global budget.
Early to mid-career entrepreneurial and self-starter professionals with a graduate degree in a public-policy related field (e.g., JD, MPA, MPH). Competitive candidates must have a minimum of three to five years of full-time work experience and demonstrate how their work experience has prepared them for a technical specialist role, along with how the position will fit into their career trajectory. Postdoctoral candidates and practitioners active in the academic, public, or private sectors with a record of experience and accomplishment in a public policy related area are encouraged to apply. Candidates with field-specific background applicable to public policy (e.g.., Energy, Agriculture, Engineering) are preferred.
Ph.D. is not required. Doctoral degree holders are eligible as long as they have three to five years of public policy relevant experience – as a professional/practitioner outside of the classroom. Candidates enrolled in a Ph.D. are eligible as long as they have a MA degree AND three to five years of experience. Candidates who have gone directly from undergraduate to Ph.D. and have completed the Ph.D., but do not have any work experience are not eligible.