Fellows Alumni

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!

2022-2023 Speakers

• 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