The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Programme

Dear Readers,

I am involved in an exciting post-doctoral fellowship program, with Oxford, exclusively for nationals of non-OECD countries. This program is a partnership between Oxford's Center for Economic Governance, led by Ngaire Woods, and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, led by Helen Milner, at Princeton. We have very generous funding for up to six two-year post-doctoral fellowships a year. Fellows will spend their first year at Oxford, and their second year at Princeton. We plan to build a network of alumni, linked to our already-instituted Global Advisory Council on distinguished scholars working in developing countries.

The purpose of the program is to help increase the capacity of developing countries to negotiate on more equal terms with rich countries. We envisage our fellows returning with ideas and skills that will enable them both to train new cohorts of people with relevant expertise, and to participate in government themselves.

Candidates must either have a doctoral degree or be in the process of completing one, and they must intend to return to their own countries, or to other developing countries, for their career. We do not require a formal agreement, but in interviews we will seek to explore the depth of candidates' personal commitments to return to help their countries.

I am writing to solicit your help. Could you please take a moment to think both of potential applicants, known to you, and more senior people, especially in developing countries, who might know such potential applicants? Please feel free to forward this note and send the attached materials.

Further details are available on the Global Leaders Fellows website at Oxford. There is a link to this site on the Niehaus Center website. These addresses are as follows:

Website: http://glf.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.asp
Niehaus Center, Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/~pcglobal/

Sincerely yours,

Bob Keohane
rkeohane@Princeton.EDU

Contributed by Harini Nagendra, Adjunct Fellow, ATREE