Cosmos Foundation – Wilson Center Fellowship
Thank you for your interest in the Wilson Center Bangladesh Fellowship, a nine-month residential fellowship focused on public policy issues in Bangladesh and US-Bangladesh relations. The Wilson Center Bangladesh Fellow may come from academia, journalism, the business or policy worlds, or any category of thought leader or public intellectual. The fellow will conduct research and write in her/his areas of interest (which must focus on public policy issues in Bangladesh and/or US-Bangladesh relations), publish research through the Wilson Center and beyond, and will have the opportunity to interact with policymakers and thought leaders in Washington. The fellow will also contribute substantively to the Wilson Center’s Bangladesh programming and research. Upon completion of the fellowship, the fellow will be expected to have finished a substantive research product resulting in a monograph, a series of articles, or a book.
The Wilson Center Bangladesh Fellowship, housed within the South Asia Institute, is a core component of a Wilson Center Bangladesh initiative that builds on and expands the Center’s years of in-depth scholarship and programming on both security and non-security aspects of the US-Bangladesh relationship. The new Bangladesh initiative will host conferences and other activities on Bangladesh meant to help inform the thinking of policymakers, business leaders, journalists, and others focused on or interested in Bangladesh and/or US-Bangladesh relations.
The Cosmos Foundation is proud to collaborate with the Wilson Center on this initiative. As part of this partnership, the Cosmos Foundation will play an integral role by working with the Wilson Center on a public launch and announcement of the new fellowship. Additionally, the Foundation will assist in advertising and publicizing the fellowship competition through its extensive network in Bangladesh, including outreach to local media, business communities, and academic institutions. The Cosmos Foundation will also create and host a dedicated webpage on its site with information about the fellowship, linking directly to the Wilson Center fellowship page for further details. Furthermore, the Foundation will serve in an advisory capacity during the fellowship selection process, with a representative from the Cosmos Foundation appointed to the fellowship review committee. Finally, the Cosmos Foundation will meet with the selected fellow after their selection and prior to their departure for the U.S. to provide guidance and support.
The Wilson Center’s South Asia Institute is grateful to the following supporters for their generous commitments in support of this Initiative: The Mashooqullah Family; Salim Adaya; Fazal and Shasta Sirhandi; Mossadaq Chughtai; and Najeeb Ghauri, CEO and Chairman, NETSOL Technologies.
Visit The Wilson Center website to learn more.