Deadline Approaches For EWC’s Asia Pacific Leadership Program

HONOLULU (Nov. 1) — The application deadline for the East-West Center’s Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is December 1, 2007. Application forms and information on fellowship opportunities are available on the program’s website at www.eastwestcenter.org/aplp.  Eligible candidates for the APLP include exceptional early to mid-career professionals and mature graduate students with high leadership potential from all sectors (government, business, NGOs, media, etc.) across the globe. Applicants must have a four-year bachelor’s degree or its equivalent.

The Asia Pacific Leadership Program is a five-month or optional nine-month graduate certificate program combining the development of regional expertise with the cultivation of individual leadership capacity. The program fees are $3,000 per semester. Limited scholarships are also available.

Based at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, the program fosters a world-wide network of dynamic leaders who are familiar with the critical issues and cultures of the Asia Pacific region and trained to work collaboratively. The Program includes intensive coursework and field studies in Hawai‘i, the mainland United States, and Asia.

The APLP receives generous funding support from the Freeman Foundation and is the premier leadership education program in the Asia Pacific region.

The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub for cooperative research, education, and dialogue on critical issues of common concern to the Asia Pacific region and the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government, with additional support provided by private agencies, individuals, foundations, corporations, and the governments of the region.

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For more information contact:
Monique Wedderburn
APLP Senior Program Officer (808) 944-7744
aplp@EastWestCenter.org