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The Open Society Fellowship is designed to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges.
Since 2008, the Open Society Fellowship has supported heterodox thinkers and practitioners from around the world. The fellowship helps elevate new voices to take part in global conversations on the most pressing issues of our time—from human rights and social justice to climate change and inequality—and provide established public intellectuals new audiences for their work. This year’s fellows will be chosen from selected areas, each home to a dynamic community of thinkers engaged in high-level critical debate.
We look forward to announcing the latest group of fellows in spring 2025.
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Bálint Magyar
2015Bálint Magyar, a former Minister of Education for Hungary, was looking at several post-communist states, whose actions are warped by the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of corrupt political “families.” -
Euclides Gonçalves
2015Euclides Gonsalves looked at the creative ways citizens and government officials in Mozambique put bureaucratic documents to work to advance their own interests. -
James Murombedzi
2015James Murombedzi was looking at how land expropriations affect rural farmers and local governance in Africa. -
Liz Evans
2015Liz Evans was producing a guide to help urban communities change how addicts are seen and to improve methods of treatment. -
Lucia Nader
2015Lucia Nader was looking at how rights-based groups in Brazil, the United States, and Europe have responded to the demands of mass protest movements. -
Pablo Ortellado
2015Pablo Ortellado’s project was looking at why international protest movements often reject representative government while simultaneously demanding better public services from the state—and what can be done about it. -
Sasha Polakow-Suransky
2015Sasha Polakow-Suransky was writing a book on the long-term consequences of immigration—and the political backlash against it—in France, Denmark, Holland, South Africa, and Australia. -
Shekhar Singh
2015Shekhar Singh, an activist and academic, was exploring the mixed success of Right to Information laws in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh in achieving accountability from governments and other actors. -
Ben Rawlence
2013Ben Rawlence was conducting interviews with young Somali refugees in Kenya and recording their stories of survival and their aspirations for the future. -
Helen Epstein
2013Helen Epstein was writing a book on charity and the politics of epidemics. -
Jennifer Gordon
2013Jennifer Gordon was looking at the harms posed to workers worldwide by increasingly common labor recruitment and subcontracting practices. -
Madawi al-Rasheed
2013Madawi al-Rasheed wrote about young Saudi Islamists and their attitudes toward democratization and the Arab uprisings. -
Timothy A. Wise
2013Timothy A. Wise studied the hidden links between food security and commodities markets. -
Vanda Felbab-Brown
2013Vanda Felbab-Brown was researching seven illicit economies to determine how best to understand and manage them in ways that enhance human security and human rights. -
Evgeny Morozov
2008As an Open Society Fellow, Evgeny Morozov worked on his critically acclaimed book The Net Delusion, which punctures popular myths about the power of the internet to undermine authoritarian regimes. -
Juanita Leon
2008As an Open Society Fellow, Juanita Leon launched an investigative news blog in Colombia. -
Mark Schoofs
2008As an Open Society Fellow, Mark Schoofs worked on a book that explores the historical, economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the Russian and South African AIDS epidemics.