The McCain Institute Global Leaders Program 2025 for emerging leaders worldwide. (Fully Funded to the United States)

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Application Deadline: February 21, 2025

Applications are actually open for the 2025 McCain Institute Global Leaders Program. To adapt to and meet the wants of an ever-changing and complicated international atmosphere, the McCain Institute will decide a worldwide thematic focus space in addition to technical areas of focus for every area and recruit individuals who work on related points associated to every theme.  Throughout the 12-month program, the Leaders will take part in programming that’s each regional and international with the purpose of connecting them to a extremely related and focused skilled peer group of their home area, in addition to a broader and numerous community of worldwide friends.

2025 Global Theme: Advancing Democracy and Human Rights

2025 Regional Themes

• Western Hemisphere: Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants
• Europe and Eurasia: Countering the Spread of Authoritarianism
• Africa and the Middle East: Building the Foundations for Conflict Resolution
• Asia and Oceania: Managing the Great Power Competition in the Asia-Pacific

Leaders are chosen via a aggressive, open recruitment course of.  There are up to 25 Leaders per annual cohort damaged into 4 regional groupings.  Though there is no such thing as a age requirement, Leaders are sometimes between the ages of 25 and 45.  Leaders ought to possess a powerful monitor report of serving a trigger higher than oneself in addition to expertise working immediately on the international theme of defending democracy and their respective regional theme.  The McCain Institute emphasizes variety in the type of gender, ethnicity, individuals with disabilities, political viewpoint, financial background, and schooling.

Eligibility Requirements

• Applicants ought to be mid to senior- profession professionals, possess wonderful working proficiency in English, and actively work on the focus situation areas of the program because it relates to the international and regional theme. 
• Aspiring McCain Global Leaders (MGLs) ought to work in a management position of their area, and actively be “in the arena” striving to enact change of their home communities. 
• Applicants ought to be dedicated to serving a trigger higher than oneself and ought to be invested in full participation in digital engagements, in-person applications and submit program alumni actions.
• There is not any minimal academic requirement no requirement for a selected area or job space.

Program Schedule

Leaders will take part in three impactful in-person occasions, which will likely be enhanced by on-line studying. They embrace expert-led sensible abilities trainings and an built-in management improvement curriculum impressed by Senator McCain’s legacy and emphasizes peer-mentoring and group problem-solving.

Benefits

• Participants will obtain a stipend meant to cowl incidental bills incurred all through the program. However the direct prices of participation in the program (economic system class journey, lodges, visas) will likely be totally lined by the McCain Institute. 
• There will likely be no price of participation aside from the time dedication that MGLs make to take part in programming.
  

Summer 2025 

The McCain Leadership Curriculum:  Throughout the program, Leaders take part in a curriculum that’s administered each on-line and in individual.  The curriculum is designed to incorporate classes and experiences from Senator McCain’s life, to reinforce and increase in-person engagements and to concentrate on neighborhood constructing and group problem-solving.  A central tenet of the curriculum is a dynamic peer-mentorship mannequin, via which the Leaders assist one another’s journeys immediately.  The curriculum will assist every chief chart their very own journey as a changemaker whereas additionally imparting real-world abilities that can help leaders as they tackle a few of the most tough challenges dealing with their home nation and area.

Fall 2025 

(Annapolis, M.D. and Washington, D.C.): The first in-person occasion of the program, the Leadership Experience, brings collectively all individuals for the first time at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and in Washington, D.C.  The 10-day lengthy program exposes leaders to the ideas that guided Senator McCain’s management method and connects them with consultants of their core thematic areas and with key decision-makers.  Leaders can even work collectively and with consultants to set up their very own management philosophy and targets. 

Winter 2025/2026

The Changemaker Tour (Host Country in Each Region):  The second in-person occasion of the program convenes every regional cohort and members of the Global Advisory Council for five-day regional study excursions that present publicity to the international theme of defending democracy in a number nation and focuses on growing focused regional connections and networks, whereas offering the alternative to focus on options and concepts associated to the theme.  Leaders will likely be inspired, however not required, to discover regional skilled collaborations – the McCain Institute will actively assist any ensuing collaborations.  There will likely be one Changemaker Tour for the individuals in every respective area. Past Changemaker Tours have occurred in Colombia, Poland, Singapore, and South Africa.

Spring 2026

The Legacy Experience (Vietnam):  The capstone program of the 10-month journey will, for a second time, convey all Leaders collectively in a rustic of significance to Senator McCain’s personal management journey. The Legacy Experience will happen in Vietnam and look at the journey and relationship between Senator McCain and the folks of Vietnam.  During this seven-day journey, Leaders, MGL Alumni and members of the Global Advisory Council will convene to replicate on their expertise throughout the program, share how their very own management philosophies have advanced, discover skilled collaborations, define the subsequent steps of their management journey, and study the assets that they’ll entry as program alumni.

If you’ve a query, please e-mail [email protected].

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the McCain Institute Global Leaders Program