To nurture a new generation of Asia scholars by encouraging recent master's degree recipients to apply for NBR's Next Generation Leadership program, a year-long fellowship that focuses on bridging the gap between scholarship and policymaking. The fellowship will be based at NBR's headquarters in Seattle. Fellows will collaborate with leading scholars to publish research and share their findings with the policymaking community in Washington, D.C.

The Next Generation Leadership program is breaking new ground by mentoring
and immersing young Asia specialists from a wide variety of fields and interests in the skills and the practice of bridging the gap between scholarship and policy. Each fellow will receive a fellowship award, as well as travel and research-related expenses.

Application deadline is January 15, 2007. Fellowships begin June 4, 2007. For further information and application materials please visit
http://www.nbr.org/nextgeneration/nextgen07.html.

A poster version of this announcement is available at
http://files.nbr.org/NBRFellowshipPoster.pdf.

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