Fellows Alumni

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The Fellows alumni network is a special level of membership for past participants of our Fellows program. The annual dues are $315 and membership is on an annual basis.

Set up an auto-renewing annual membership.

Join for a single year with a one-time payment.

If you are a regular member of the faculty of any accredited educational institution, are in the public service, or are on the staff of a small voluntary organization, contact us to request a reduced fee of $210.

Benefits

• Access to quarterly alumni-only roundtable programs engaging leading policymakers and thought leaders.
• Free registration for our regular Community Programs (programs that do not include a meal).
• Opportunities to network and connect with alumni from different cohorts.
• Invitations to select World Affairs Council VIP programs throughout the year.
• Extended professional reach by being called on to serve as moderators and speakers, as appropriate, for our Community Programs.
• Field trips are back! Past opportunities have included field trips to Bremerton for a tour of an aircraft carrier (USS John C. Stennis); Bangor for a tour of a nuclear submarine (the USS Pennsylvania and most recently the USS Alabama); USCGC Healy; and a tour of the Intellectual Ventures Lab. Have an idea? Let us know!

Recent Speakers

Keeping the same format as the Fellows program, alumni have the opportunity to engage a wide range of international experts and policy makers in small, off-the-record roundtables.

• Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Lawfare
• Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt; S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs
• Chris Kolenda, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security; Founder, Strategic Leaders Academy
• Narushige Mischishita, Japan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program; Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.
• Nancy Izzo Jackson, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA); former Senior Bureau Official in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM)
• Tom Countryman, board member of the Arms Control Association; former acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
• Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President of the Customer Security & Trust (CST) at Microsoft
• Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Global energy & climate innovation editor, chairman of The Economist Innovation Summit; former US Business Editor and China Business Editor
• Emma Belcher, President of Ploughshares Fund; former leader of the Nuclear Challenges grantmaking program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Ambassador Douglas Lute, Chair of the International and Defense BGR Group, CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors LLC; former United States Ambassador to NATO
• Congresswoman Suzan DelBene, Washington's 1st Congressional District Representative
• Ambassador Marc Grossman, former Special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan