Fellowships for Emerging Leaders in Developing Countries - University of Pittsburgh - H.J.Heinz Company

Fellowships for emerging leaders in developing countries: Applications
are now available for the 2006-07 round of the H.J. Heinz Company
Foundation Fellowship Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Heinz Fellowship was established in 1982 by an endowment from the
H. J. Heinz Company Foundation to the University of Pittsburgh's
University Center for International Studies. The Fellowship is
offered annually and provides for one year of practical,
professional, and non-degree educational experiences through the
University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

For each round, Heinz Fellowships will be granted to two individuals
from developing countries who demonstrate potential as future leaders
in the public, government, non-profit, or private sectors. The goal
is to improve, early in a career, the Fellows' capacity to contribute
to the development of their country and to enhance their
understanding of the United States. This is accomplished through a
year of auditing selected courses and participating in practical
professional activities while based in Pittsburgh. Courses taken as
part of the Heinz Fellowship do not earn credit towards an academic
degree.

The competition for a Heinz Fellowship is open to men and women from
developing countries whose records of accomplishment early in their
careers indicate strong potential for leadership and achievement.

• Applicants must have completed a university degree.

• Applicants must be suitably proficient in speaking, reading, and
writing English.

• Preference will be given to those applicants in the earlier stages
of their careers.

• The fellowship is intended for individuals in the
practitioner/policy domains. It is not awarded for basic academic
research, academic sabbaticals, nor for medical research or updating.

• Applicants should be working in some subsection of one of the
following areas:
o Sustainable Development: For example, issues of population growth,
economic development, education, environmental change.

o Governance: Including the development of the legal system, the
extension and institutionalization of fundamental rights, the
development of civil society, or the development of the voluntary
sector.

o Public Health: Local and national approaches towards infectious
diseases, development of health services, family planning.

o Conflict Resolution: Arms control and conflict resolution efforts
at the local and regional level.

Deadline for applications is 15 March 2006.

For more information and to obtain applications: