Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program "promotes educational exchanges, primarily for university faculty and students, that involve lecturing, research and graduate study. Over 40,000 US faculty have taken up positions abroad for a semester or longer, and an equal number have come to the US.

"The program is administered by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), a private foundation. Fulbright programs receive approximately $120 million in Congressional appropriations. In addition, a number of participating governments contribute an additional amount of around $30 million. CIES is assisted in its activities by binational commissions or the Public Affairs Section of the US embassy in individual countries." [1]

• US-UK Fulbright Commission

Prominent Fulbright Scholars of the Past

• Chinua Achebe - Writer Bard College; Annandale-on-Hudson NY
• Maya Angelou - Writer Wake Forest University NC
• Eduardo Aninat - International Organizations / NGO Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (1999- ) DC
• Andres Bianchi - Ambassador, Chile to U.S. (2000- )
• Alan Blinder - Business Vice-Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve Board (1994-96) NJ
• Hans H. Blix - United Nations Chief U.N. Weapons Inspector; Director, International Atomic Energy Agency (1981-97)
• Amar Gopal Bose - Business Founder, Chairman and CEO, Bose Corporation MA
• John Brademas - University President, New York University (1981-92); Former U.S. Representative from Indiana (1959-81) NY
• Fernando Cardoso - Head of State, President of Brazil (1995-2003)
• Alexander Counts - International Organizations / NGO President, Grameen Foundation USA
• Barbara Crossette - Media, The New York Times U.N. bureau chief NY
• Leo J. Donovan - S.J. University President President, Georgetown University (1989-2001)
• Rita Dove - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Poetry, 1987) New York NY
• Renee Fleming - Music Opera Singer CT
• Lukas Foss - Music Conductor and pianist Bridgehampton NY
• Jean-Pierre Garnier - Business CEO, GlaxoSmithKline
• Kul Chandra Gautam - United Nations Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF United Nations NY
• Boutros Boutros Ghali - United Nations Secretary-General (1992-96)
• Rita Hauser - United Nations U.S. representative to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights Chairs, International Peace Academy; Of Counsel, Stroock, Stroock & Lavan NY
• Ada Louise Huxtable - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Criticism, 1970) New York NY
• Geza Jeszensky - Ambassador, Hungary to U.S. (1998- )
• Jeane Kirkpatrick - Ambassador, U.S. to U.N. (1981-85) Professor, Georgetown University DC
• Tommy Koh - Ambassador, Singapore to U.S. (1984-90), U.N. (1968-71, 74-84) Professor, Seton Hall University NJ
• Joshua Lederberg - Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1958) President Emeritus, Rockefeller University NY
• Joseph Lelyveld - Pulitzer Prize Winner (General Non-Fiction, 1986) NY?
• Osman Faruk Logoglu - Ambassador, Turkey to U.S. (2001- )
• Lorin Maazel - Music Conductor, New York Philharmonic New York NY
• Alan G. MacDiarmid - Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry (2000) Professor of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania PA
• Anna Moffo - Music Soprano New York NY
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan - Ambassador, U.S. to U.N. (1975-76), India (1973-75); Former Senator New York NY
• Ivory V. Nelson - President, Linclon University (1999- )
• Olara Otunnu - United Nations Under Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict United Nations NY
• Philip Pearlstein - Arts Artist New York NY
• Richard Serra - Arts Artist New York NY
• Han Seung-Soo - United Nations President, U.N. General Assembly (2001-02) United Nations NY
• Ruth Simmons - University President President, Brown College (2001- ) RI; Former President Smith College (1995-2000)
• Joseph Stiglitz - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (2001) Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution CA
• Susumu Tonegawa - Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1987) MIT MA
• John Updike - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Fiction, 1982 and 1991) Ipswich MA
• Linda Vester - Media, Fox News NY
• Alberto Vitale - Business CEO of Random House NY
• James D. Watson - Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1962) President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring, New York) NY
• Josh Weston - Business Honorary Chairman of the Board, ADP NJ
• Makmur Widodo - United Nations Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations United Nations NY
• Rosalyn S. Yalow - Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1977) Professor, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Veterans Administration Hospital (Bronx, NY)
• Muhammad Yunus - International Organizations / NGO Chairman and Founder, Grameen Bank Board, UN Foundation; Ambassador, UNAIDS
• Adolfo Aguilar Zinser - United Nations Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations United Nations NY
• Farid Abboud - Ambassador, Lebanon to U.S. (1999- )
• George A. Akerlof - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (2001) Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley CA
• Philip W. Anderson - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1977) Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Bell Labs NJ
• Marcia Angell - Miscellaneous, Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine MA
• Dominick Argento - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Music, 1975) MN
• John Ashbery - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Poetry, 1976) New York NY
• Emmanuel Ax - Music ,Pianist New York NY
• William B. Bader - Government Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1999- ) DC
• Bernard Baker - Business Chairman, Board of Directors, FuelCell Energy CT
• Curtis Barnette - Business Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom DC
• Craig Barrett - Business, President and CEO, Intel Corporation AZ
• Leslie Bassett - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Music, 1966) MI
• Hans Bethe - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1967)
• Judith Blegen - Music Soprano
• Alfred H. Bloom - President, Swarthmore College (1991- ) PA
• Derek Bok - President, Harvard University (1971-91) President Emeritus and Professor of Law, Harvard University MA
• Daniel J. Boorstin - Pulitzer Prize Winner (History, 1974) Washington DC
• Robert S. Bowen - Business Vice Chairman and CEO, Group 1 Software, Inc. MD
• Andrew Brimmer - Business Member, Federal Reserve Board (1966) Professor, University of Massachusetts MA
• James M. Buchanan - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1986) Advisory General Director, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University VA
• David A. Caputo - President, Hunter College (1995-2000), President, Pace University NY
• Ingvar G. Carlsson - Head of State, Prime Minister of Sweden (1986-91, 1994-96)
• Gerhard Casper - President, Stanford University (1992-2000) Professor of Law, Stanford University CA
• Dale Chihuly - Arts Artist Seattle WA
• Timothy Chorba - Ambassador, U.S. to Singapore (1994-97) Patton Boggs Law Firm DC
• Wlodziemierz Cimoszewicz - Head of State, Prime Minister of Poland (199?-200?)
• Chuck Close - Arts Artist New York NY
• George Crumb - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Music, 1968) Philadelphia PA
• Jeffrey Davidow - Ambassador, U.S. to Mexico (1998- ), Venezuela (1993-96), Zambia (1988-90) Ambassador
• David Brion Davis - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (General Non-Fiction, 1967) Orange CT
• Misha Dichter - Music, Pianist New York NY
• Lamberto Dini - Head of State, Prime Minister of Italy (1995-96)
• David Herbert Donald - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Biography or Autobiography, 1961 & 1988) Lincoln MA
• Donald B. Easum - Ambassador, U.S. to Nigeria(1971-77) NY
• Bay Fang - Media National Correspondent, US News and World Report National Correspondent, DC
• Bruce Bissell Finley - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Breaking News Reporting, 2000) Denver CO
• Robert Finn - Ambassador, U.S. to Afghanistan (2002- ), Tajikistan Ambassador
• Jonathan Franzen - Writer, Author of The Corrections NY
• Eric Freedman - Prize Winner (Beat Reporting, 1994) East Lansing MI
• Milton Friedman - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1976), Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago; Hoover Institution IL
• Michael Froman - Business Chief of Staff, Office of the Chairman, Citigroup, Inc. NY
• Nina Gershon - Government, Federal Judge NY
• Abdul Aziz Abdul - Ghani Head of State Prime Minister of Yemen (199?- )
• Riccardo Giacconi - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (2002) President, Associated Universities, Inc.; Professor, Johns Hopkins University MD?
• Valery Giscard d'Estaing - Head of State, Prime Minister of France (1974-81)
• Milton Glaser - Arts ,Artist New York NY
• Philip Glass - Music Composer, New York NY
• Doris Kearns Goodwin -Pulitzer Prize Winner, (History, 1995) Rockport, Maine
• Hanna Holborn - Gray University President, President, University of Chicago (1978-93) President Emeritus and Professor of History, University of Chicago IL
• Paul Greenberg - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Editorial Writing, 1969) Little Rock AR
• Frederick S. Hammer - Business Co-Chairman, Inter-Atlantic and Annuity and Life Re (Holdings) Ltd NY
• Arthur Hartman - Ambassador, U.S. Ambassador to U.S.S.R. (1981-87), France (1977-81)
• Anthony Hecht - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Poetry, 1968) Washington DC
• Abdel Aziz Hegazy - Head of State, Prime Minister of Egypt (1974-75)
• Samuel Isaly - Business Founding and Managing Partner of OrbiMed Advisors LLC New York NY
• Hugh R. Jones - Business Senior Partner, Boston Office of Hale and Dorr LLP MA
• Wolf Kahn - Arts, Artist New York NY
• Galway Kinnell - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Poetry, 1983) New York NY
• Masatoshi Koshiba - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (2002) Senior Counselor, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics (University of Tokyo)
• Alan M. Kriegsman - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Criticism, 1976) Chevy Chase MD
• Hyun Jae Lee - Head of State Prime, Minister of Korea (1988)
• Philip Lochner - Business Senior Vice President, Time Warner (1998) CT
• Richard W. Lyman - President, Stanford University (1970-80); President, Rockefeller Foundation CA
• Carleton Mabee - Pulitzer Prize Winner, (Biography or Autobiography, 1944) New York NY
• Charles F. MacCormack - International Organizations / NGO President, Save the Children; Former President, World Learning CT
• Mary Ellen Mark - Arts, Artist New York NY
• Donald Martino - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1974) Cambridge MA
• Donald J. McConnell - Ambassador, U.S. to Eritrea (2001- ), Burkina Faso (1993-96)
• Thomas Messer - Arts Director, Guggenheim (1961-88) NY
• Franco Modigliani - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1985) MIT MA
• Erwin Neher - Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1991), Director, Membrane Biophysics Department, Max Planck Institut (Gottingen, Germany)
• Douglass C. North - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1993) Professor of Economics, Washington University MO
• Ronald D. F. Palmer - Ambassador, U.S. to Togo, 1976-78; Malaysia, 1981-83; Mauritius, 1986-89 Professor Emeritus, George Washington University DC
• Alfred Partoll - Business Vice President AT&T Retired NY
• Wayne Peterson - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1992) San Francisco CA
• Thomas R. Pickering - Ambassador, U.S. to U.N. (1989-92), Russia, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan, Senior Vice President, The Boeing Company
• Donald J. Planty - Ambassador, U.S. to Guatemala (1996- )
• Cornelius B. Prior, Jr. - Business CEO of several companies who gave $5 million to Holy Cross College in 1998 CT
• Roger Reynolds - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1989) La Jolla CA
• Lawrence R. Ricciardi - Business Senior VP & General Counsel, IBM (1995-Present) NY
• Ned Rorem - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1976) Nantucket MA
• Roger Rosenblatt - Media Award-winning journalist NY
• Jaime Daremblum Rosenstein - Ambassador, Costa Rica to U.S. (199?- )
• Carlo Rubbia - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1984) Professor, University of Pavia (Italy); President of the Italian Institute for Environmentally-safe Energy (ENEA)
• Theodore E. Russell - Ambassador, U.S. to Slovakia (1993-96) VA
• Paul Samuelson - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics (1970) Professor Emeritus, MIT MA
• Bengt Samuelsson - Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine (1982) Professor of Physiological Chemistry and former President, Karolinska Institute (Sweden); Chairman, Nobel Foundation
• John R. Silber - President, Boston University (1971-96) Chancellor, Boston University (1996- ) MA
• Charles Simic - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1990) Stratford NH
• Jane Smiley - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Fiction, 1992) New York NY
• Hedrick Smith - Pulitzer Prize Winner (International Reporting, 1974)
• Margaret Snyder - Founding Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
• Javier Solano - United Nations Secretary-General, NATO (1995-99)
• Mark Strand - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1999) Chicago IL
• Niara Sudarkasa - President, Lincoln University (198?-98)
• Charles H. Townes - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1964), Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley; Lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts MA
• Garrick Utley - Media Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News Contributor, CNN's New York Bureau NY
• Peter Viereck - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1949) South Hadley MA
• George Walker - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Music, 1996) Montclair NJ
• Michael Walzer - Miscellaneous Political Theorist, Professor, Princeton University NJ
• Allen Weinstein - International Organizations / NGO President, Center for Democracy
• Charles Wright - Pulitzer Prize Winner (Poetry, 1998) Charlottesville VA
• Chen Ning Yang - Nobel Prize Winner in Physics (1957), Professor at SUNY Stony Brook; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University (Beijing) NY

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