Council on Foreign Relations (CfR) Technologist-in-Residence Fellowship 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2026

Applications are open for the Council on Foreign Relations (CfR) Technologist-in-Residence Fellowship 2026-2027. The Technologist-in-Residence Fellowship, sponsored by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, seeks to boost the data, broaden the experience, and enrich the views of early- and mid-profession technologists by offering them with a substantive OPPORTUNITY to analysis and focus on points on the intersection of expertise and overseas coverage or nationwide safety.

Technologists in residence are anticipated to spend their time on the CFR producing coverage-oriented analysis and evaluation that explores the connections between rising applied sciences and overseas coverage and nationwide safety. The program is meant to be a transformational expertise with the purpose of selling enduring skilled networks and interdisciplinary data-sharing amongst technologists and CFR specialists and members, thereby growing mutual understanding of the linkages between rising expertise and overseas coverage and nationwide safety.

Benefits

• The fellowship runs for ten months, beginning in September 2024. The program pays a wage on the fee of $136,500 for ten months for full-time employment. Payment will probably be made on a biweekly schedule. The technologist in residence will probably be a CFR worker and be eligible for CFR employment advantages, topic to provisions specified by contract, legislation, or coverage.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be legally approved to work within the United States. The Council on Foreign Relations doesn’t sponsor candidates for employment visas.
• Applicants have to be early-profession or mid-profession professionals.
• Applicants should have a powerful file {of professional} achievement within the expertise sector and a demonstrated curiosity within the area of overseas coverage.
• Applicants should maintain not less than a bachelor’s diploma or equal.

Strong desire is given to candidates at present working at a personal-sector expertise firm. A PhD shouldn’t be required for college-based mostly candidates, although profitable candidates from academia sometimes maintain a complicated diploma. The program doesn’t fund pre- or postdoctoral analysis, work towards a level, or the completion of initiatives on which substantial progress had been made earlier than the fellowship begins.

Selection Process

Selection for the technologist in residence is predicated on the next standards:

• skilled expertise within the expertise sector
• a demonstrated curiosity in overseas coverage
• deserves and feasibility of a proposal on some facet of the connection between rising expertise and U.S. overseas coverage or nationwide safety
• the contribution the fellowship will make to the applicant’s profession improvement

The choice course of is very aggressive. A range committee critiques all candidates. CFR awards one fellowship annually. Strong desire is given to candidates who’ve by no means acquired a CFR fellowship.

Application

To apply you will have to submit the next:

• Basic biographical, academic, and employment data
• Proposal that features supposed analysis mission regarding some problem on the intersection between rising expertise and U.S. overseas coverage or nationwide, and affect on skilled improvement
• Two letters of assist

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For extra data, go to CFR Fellowship.