2009 Programs and Events
U.S. Embassy Announces Annual Humphrey Fellowship Program
Riga, August 26, 2009 – The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the launch of this year’s competition for the Humphrey Fellowship Program for academic year 2010-2011. The Embassy encourages all qualified candidates to apply.
The Humphrey Program provides mid-career Latvians with an opportunity to enhance their professional capabilities through participation in a specialized year of graduate-level, non-degree academic course work and professional development activities at selected U.S. universities. Programs are individually designed to include course work, independent projects, internships, consultations with U.S. experts and special seminars.
By providing these future leaders and policymakers with a shared experience of U.S. society and culture and current U.S. approaches to the fields in which they work, the program intends to provide a basis for lasting, productive ties between Americans and their professional counterparts in other countries. Thus the Humphrey Program fosters an exchange of knowledge and mutual understanding through which the United States joins in a significant partnership with participating countries.
Humphrey Fellowships are granted competitively to professional candidates with a commitment to public service in both the public and private sectors, specifically in the following fields:
- Law and Human Rights
- Trafficking in Persons, Policy and Prevention
- Educational Administration, Planning and Policy
- Public Policy Analysis and Public Administration
- Public Health Policy and Management
- Communications/Journalism
- Economic Development
- Urban and Regional Planning
- Human Resource Management
- Substance Abuse Education, Treatment and Prevention
- Technology Policy and Management
To be eligible for a Humphrey Fellowship, applicants must have the following:
- Latvian citizenship or a Latvian non-citizen passport;
- A university degree;
- Five years of substantial, post-university professional experience;
- Demonstrated leadership qualities and a record of public service;
- English language proficiency (Note: candidates will have to take TOEFL)
- Limited prior experience in the United States.
Applicants can apply for a Humphrey Fellowship electronically at the following website: https://apply.embark.com/student/humphrey/fellowship/93/. The deadline for applications is September 21, 2009.
For more information about the Humphrey Program, please visit http://riga.usembassy.gov/, or http://www.humphreyfellowship.org.
For further information regarding this program, or if you have questions about your eligibility or the application process, please contact Ingrida Bodniece at the U.S. Embassy’s Public Affairs Section at 67509024 or mail to: Bodniecei@state.gov