ASEAN Visiting Scholar Initiative Program 2021

The Fulbright U.S.–ASEAN Visiting Scholar Initiative was launched in 2012 to deepen people to-people engagement and strengthen our educational ties around issues important to the ASEAN region. 2020 marks the 8th year of the program. To date, more than 87 scholars from all 10 ASEAN Member States (AMS) have been awarded scholarships to carry out 3-4 month research at U.S. universities on a wide range of subjects including maritime security, climate change, health, finance, political security, wildlife trafficking, and teaching English as a second language. The program is open to university faculty, foreign ministry and government officials, and professional staff of think tanks and other NGOs in AMS whose work focuses on U.S.–ASEAN issues.

Eligible subjects include (but are not limited to) education, environmental science, financial market integration, food technology, information sciences, journalism, law, political science, public administration, public/global health, social work, sociology, statistics, trade and investment, trade facilitation, and applied linguistics. Applicants are expected to have a significant record of scholarly or professional accomplishment; they must be citizens of one of the ten AMS; and they must be proficient in English. Preference is given to qualified applicants who have not had recent and substantial experience in the U.S. Applicants must be residing in an AMS throughout the nomination and selection process, and must return to an AMS upon completion of their U.S. stay.

The 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S.-ASEAN Visiting Scholar Initiative is opening its application. Selected U.S.-ASEAN Visiting Scholars will travel to the United States for three to four months, where they will carry out scholarly and professional research on priority issues to the U.S.-ASEAN relationship and ASEAN.

The objective of the Fulbright U.S.-ASEAN Visiting Scholar Initiative is to deepen people-to-people engagement and strengthen our educational ties with the ten member nations of ASEAN, while emphasizing the importance of ASEAN.  To date, 75 scholars from all 10 ASEAN Member States have been awarded scholarships to pursue studies focused on a wide range of subjects including teaching English as a second language, maritime security, health, political security, and wildlife trafficking.

Fulbright U.S-ASEAN Visiting Scholar applicants should be university faculty, foreign ministry and government officials, or professionals in the private sector, think tanks and other NGOs whose work focuses on U.S.–ASEAN issues.  Applicants will be expected to have a significant record of scholarly or professional accomplishment; they must be citizens of one of the ten ASEAN Member States; and they must be proficient in English.  Preference will be given to qualified applicants who have not had recent and substantial experience in the United States.  Applicants must be residing in an ASEAN Member State throughout the nomination and selection process, and they must return to an ASEAN country upon completion of their U.S. stay.

For more detail about the applications, please visit the following links based on the country of citizenship:

  1. Brunei
  2. Cambodia
  3. Indonesia
  4. Laos 
  5. Malaysia
  6. Myanmar
  7. Philippines
  8. Singapore
  9. Thailand
  10. Vietnam

Official website

5 Responses

  1. I want to apply for a master’s degree in public administration, please let me know when the scholarship program to apply to and which university would be preferred for public administration subject.

  2. Ali says:

    I news to study phd degree

  3. I have Diploma in civil Engineer
    I weent complet bacloria in civil Engineer

  4. naizraziz says:

    Fantastaic

  5. I want to b do PhD.I am MPhil in Hadees o seerat

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.