The Weatherhead Scholars Program offers a unique opportunity to join a dynamic, interdisciplinary cohort at Harvard University, bringing together leading academics and accomplished practitioners from around the world. Each year, approximately thirty affiliates are selected through a highly competitive process. Participants may be visiting faculty from other institutions of higher education, postdoctoral fellows who earned their PhD within three years of applying, or practitioner fellows such as mid-career or senior diplomats, journalists, NGO leaders, military officers, civil servants, and other professionals. Housed within the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs—Harvard’s largest international social science research center—the program supports indepen