Overview
The Atlantic Council’s Bretton Woods 2.0 Project examines the deep challenges facing the Bretton Woods Institutions and works to reimagine the governance of the international financial system.
Led by the Atlantic Council GeoEconomics Center, the Bretton Woods 2.0 Fellowship will develop a network of experts around the world who will play leading roles in shaping the architecture of global economic governance. The fellows will identify emerging challenges to the Bretton Woods Institutions and develop innovative solutions.
Bretton Woods 2.0 Fellowship
This Fellowship aims to cultivate a new generation of professionals to rethink the pillars of capitalism and global economic governance.
The 2025 cohort will consist of two graduate students from around the world with an interest in economic multilateralism and its relations to multilateral institutions, private sector, academia, government, and nonprofits.
The participants will engage in the fellowship from August 2025, to April 2026, conducting in-depth research and interacting with high-level experts. Over the course of eight months, fellows will work to identify gaps and challenges in the architecture of global economic governance. Their research will culminate in a series of policy memos and reports that will be published by the Atlantic Council. Throughout the research process, the fellows will receive feedback from relevant experts and practitioners within the GeoEconomics Center’s networks.
Fellows will have the opportunity to interact with and interview high-level experts with decades of experience, discuss case studies, and receive peer feedback.
As part of the fellowship, the Fellows are expected to complete a policy report and at least one short form policy memo that will be published by the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. The Fellows will be compensated $3,000 stipend during the Fellowship.
The ideal fellow will be a graduate-level student with demonstrable interest in global economic governance. We encourage applicants from diverse academic and lived experiences to apply.
2024 cohort
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