We are delighted to share in this blog post about a recent unique crossover experience between our Graduate Fellowship and CAMCA Fellowship programs this past fall.

This fall, the Foundation was pleased to recognize an alumnus who represents the next generation of civic-minded leaders. We were delighted to award the 2023 Alumni of the Year Award to Dr. Ben Judge!

We were pleased to interview Dr. Murod Ismailov on two important regional education initiatives he recently founded: CAMCA Academy and the CAMCA Academic Consortium. Murod participated in our CAMCA Fellowship Program with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute in the fall of 2009. Now, more than a decade after his time as a Fellow, Murod is working to pay forward the benefits received from his own professional experiences in order to advance educational institutions across the entire CAMCA region. 

This spring the Foundation reached an exciting milestone of our Graduate Fellowship Program as we selected our new 2023-24 Fellowship cohort, marking the start of the program’s 15^th academic year! With the addition of our new Fellows, the Foundation has been delighted to award Fellowship grants totaling more than $3.9 million to support over 200 Fellows since the program’s inaugural grants in 2009. To commemorate these recent milestones and the program’s development, we asked a few alumni within our Graduate Fellowship Network to reflect on the impact of their experience as a Fellow, share some insights on what makes the program and network unique and more. We hope you enjoy hearing firsthand from some of our terrific alumni!

We were delighted to interview our friends at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) to highlight the work they do to strengthen democracy through private enterprise and market-oriented reform, specifically throughout the CAMCA region. Read on to learn about CIPE’s important efforts and the ways in which they align with our CAMCA Fellowship, organized in partnership with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute.

We hope you enjoy this vlog featuring a series of interviews conducted with a few of the Foundation’s CAMCA Fellows as they attended our most recent CAMCA Regional Forum in June of 2022.