Boren Fellow utilizing her language skills as she participates in a debate about women's education and society in Arusha, Tanzania.
The Baker Hughes Foundation has partnered with IIE to award scholarships to more than 100 outstanding Angolan students since 2008.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of ECA and has been administered by IIE since 1946.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses Fulbright FLTAs.
Married into a traditional family in Uttar Pradesh and deeply committed to social change, Dipti overcame significant societal challenges when she became a Ford Foundation IFP Fellow in 2003. Today, she is national coordinator for the Voice of Children, an Indian NGO that helps advocate for children's rights.
IFP Alumnus Mohammed Duba received his master's degree in International Development from the University of Denver in 2008, and now manages communications development initiatives in eight African countries for UNIFEM.
The Microinsurance Innovation Facility Technical Assistance Fellowship Program's 2009 participants are using their expertise to create innovative approaches to improve insurance products for low-income markets.
The Institute of International Education works on behalf of the United States Government and governments around the world to implement many of the world's most prestigious educational exchange and training programs. IIE is honored to administer a strategic set of programs on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, including the Fulbright Student and Scholar Programs, the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowships, the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship Program, and the International Visitors Leadership Program.
IIE works with corporations to develop talent in strategic world regions and professional fields such as engineering, management, health, and information technology. These programs bring global recognition to corporations for their philanthropic and educational investments. IIE partners with corporations and corporate foundations to design and implement a wide variety of scholarship and training programs that provide current and future employees with the academic training, cross-cultural skills and leadership needed to succeed in the 21st century.
With the support of private foundations, IIE implements scholarship and training programs that develop human capital and address key challenges in education and development around the world. These initiatives provide educational opportunities to outstanding individuals from disadvantaged groups; convene experts and thought leaders; and build leadership in countries undergoing transformation.
IIE assists international agencies, such as the International Monetary Fund and the International Labor Organization, in implementing programs that develop talent and address urgent global challenges. IIE services include the recruitment, screening, and selection of scholarship grantees worldwide; contracting of consultants with facilitation of their travel, insurance and meeting arrangements; and administration of grants to individual or organizational grantees with operational oversight and tax compliance.
IIE administers programs on behalf of the organizations and individuals listed here. In addition to these sponsors, IIE is deeply grateful to the 140 foreign governments and the universities across the United States that participate in and contribute to the success of the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Student and Scholar Programs.
The U.S. Department of State, through its various branches including the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), works to foster mutual understanding between the people of the U.S., and other countries.
The National Security Education Program (NSEP) seeks to strengthen national security by building a broader, more qualified pool of U.S. citizens with critical language and culture expertise.
Committed to educating students who are true citizens of the world, NYU Abu Dhabi is the first comprehensive liberal arts and science campus in the Middle East run by a major American research university.
The Ford Foundation works with visionary leaders and organizations around the world to advance social justice.