Annabel Crabb
New South Wales, Australia

Chief Political Writer ∙ ABC Online
Television Panelist, Insiders ∙ ABC Television

Ms. Crabb plans to restructure the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) website with the help of Professor Emily Bell of Columbia University to make it more interactive and create the sense of a reader presence. She is also working with USA Fellow John Della Volpe on implementing his social media polling model in Australia. She intends to continue writing and blogging about her fellowship and will give presentations about it on several occasions, including at the 2011 EF Day event in October.

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Flavio Nogueira
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BRAZIL

President & CEO ∙ Colortextil Participações Ltda.
Secretary General ∙ Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais

Flavio Nogueira returns to Brazil scheduled to give numerous presentations on his fellowship findings to professional organizations. He is exploring the possibility of establishing an entrepreneurship mentoring program in Brazil based on models he saw in the U.S., and hopes to develop a foundation to support entrepreneurship inspired by the Kauffman Foundation. Mr. Nogueira will work closely with Philadelphia University to implement new technologies at Brazilian textile companies, and will increase interactions between Brazilian textile organizations and the National Council of Textile Organizations.

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Director General, Department of Social and Cultural Studies ∙ Chinese Academy of Governance

Dr. Gong Weibin will pursue cooperative research with U.S. institutions and will invite specialists and researchers with whom he met to participate in academic exchanges. He also plans to advocate for, design, and implement comparative research programs on housing policy, community development, and health policy between China and the United States, and to incorporate fellowship observations of American social policy into his lectures and research.

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Dr. Chou plans to implement an Open Congress project in China (Taiwan) that will disseminate information to the public about legislators' voting records and official statements. She will pursue ongoing collaboration with a number of universities and think tanks in the U.S. Among others, the Internet Governance Project at Syracuse University has invited her to participate in the annual conference of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

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Executive Director ∙ WSOY Literary Foundation
Executive Director ∙ Foundation Institutum Romanum Finlandiae

Dr. Liisa Suvikumpu will launch a "Write Yourself to Stars" program to support Finnish literature by nurturing talent among young people and creating a positive image of authorship and literature. She intends to expand her literary foundation's authors' residence, organize public readings and workshops, and to enhance both of her foundations' web sites by adding content in English and using the sites to promote literary and cultural activities. She will also give presentations about her fellowship on several occasions, including the autumn seminar of Council on Foundations in Finland and the 2011 EF Day event in October.

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Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Economics, Department of Business Administration ∙ Corvinus University of Budapest
Vice President ∙ Foundation for Public Procurement Culture

Immediately after returning to Hungary, Dr. Tátrai hosted several procurement law professors from George Washington University, arranged their agendas, and continued discussions with them on conducting joint research projects.In addition, as a result of her fellowship she is now a Board Member of the International Public Procurement Conference to be held in Seattle in 2012 and the Editorial Board of Journal of Public Procurement.

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Budithi Rajsekhar
Hyderabad, INDIA

CEO ∙ Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP)

While on fellowship, Rajsekhar Budithi made arrangements for Dr. Gary Fields, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, to speak at the International Alternative Micro-Finance Summit in June 2011 at Hyderabad, India which is being co-hosted by SERP. He also initiated talks with several prominent schools of public health to facilitate internships with SERP, and is exploring partnership opportunities with various NGOs, working in the areas of health and nutrition and disability, he visited while in the U.S.

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General Manager/Editor-in-Chief, News and Current Affairs ∙ PT Cakrawala Andalas Televisi (ANTV)

As Head of Government Relations and Regulation Committee for the Indonesia Private TV Association, Ms. Lubis will prepare a briefing recommending media convergence laws and regulations for consideration by Indonesia's Parliament. She will provide training and support to other female journalists in Indonesia, and will offer technology trainings for journalists in cooperation with Microsoft. Additionally, Ms. Lubis will help identify candidates from Indonesia for Columbia University's Master's degree program in Digital Media, and will collaboratively develop distance learning opportunities for Indonesian journalists to learn from American experts.

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Head of Technological Research and Development Branch ∙ Israel Defense Forces

Lt. Colonel Biran has a number of plans for his return to Israel, including presenting key findings to high-level commanders in his unit and the Intelligence Corps, focusing on leadership and on how to motivate innovation and entrepreneurship. He will create a program to allow former Israeli engineering students in the U.S. to come to Israel to serve in the Israel Defense Forces as research and development engineers. He also plans to collaborate with Juan José Güemes (Spain) to start a fellowship program to send officers from his unit to study at IE Business School in Spain.

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Head, Legal and International Affairs ∙ FIEG (Italian Federation of Newspaper and Magazine Publishers)

Along with executives from the Associated Press News Licensing Group (NLG), Dr. Splendore intends to present a proposal to European and Italian Newspaper Associations to expand the use of the NLG's new common infrastructure for the management of content and copyright protection. In addition, she is planning a meeting in Brussels between Microsoft representatives and the European Association of Publishers in order to speak about the Italian antitrust case against Google.

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Partner ∙ Olaniwun Ajayi LP

Tominiyi Owolabi intends to use his fellowship experience to influence banking regulatory policy direction in Nigeria, bearing in mind specific issues he addressed over the course of his fellowship, and will facilitate a banking reform workshop in the near future for practitioners in the field. He will also continue discussions to create an exchange program for U.S. university students enrolled in a Master's in Financial Regulation degree program.

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Dr. Erfa Iqbal
Islamabad, PAKISTAN

Additional Principal Staff Officer to the Prime Minister ∙ Federal Government of Pakistan

Dr. Erfa Iqbal intends to establish a forum in the U.S. with a chapter in Pakistan to promote cultural, business and academic collaborative relationships with many of the organizations and people she met during her fellowship. The proposed resource center will establish business linkages in general and connect members of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent in North America and the Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs in North America with appropriate organizations in Pakistan.

Executive Director ∙ Rawabi Foundation

Ms. Shahin has begun work on a program to give underprivileged students the chance to train to become Microsoft certified engineers. She also plans to pursue an entrepreneurial development program in Palestine, and explore the creation of a center similar to the Manchester Bidwell Corporation – a place to combine arts and vocational skills in an empowering atmosphere of art, light, and music with a staff that strives to realize the genius in everyone.

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Professor of Psychology ∙ Catholic University of Peru
Director ∙ Mente Futura S.A.
Editor-in-Chief ∙ Revista de Psicología

Dr. Blumen will pursue cooperative research on loneliness and biogenetic behavior with the University of Chicago, and will launch a joint training program in neuropsychology applied to education with Drexel University and Catholic University of Peru. Furthermore, she plans to advocate for, design, and implement "Gifted Latino," an entrepreneurship mentoring program in math and the sciences targeting promising, underprivileged youth, with the support of Eisenhower Fellows from Brazil, Israel and Spain. And finally, Dr. Blumen will restructure the Revista de Psicología website to increase its international visibility.

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Senior Director for Program Development ∙ Balay Mindanaw – International Center For Peace In Mindanão

Mr. Hernandez will explore a partnership with Eastern Mennonite University's Center for Justice & Peacebuilding to set up a global working group for peace-building between civil society and armed forces. In addition, he will work to establish a partnership and the Asia Program of the International Center for Transitional Justice to start a program of community-based transitional justice. Mr. Hernandez also plans to conduct a study about militias in Mindanao and explore options for policy recommendations on how to demobilize them and reintegrate them back in the communities.

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Assistant Deputy Governor – Research, Analysis & Councils ∙ Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA)

Building on his fellowship experience, Mr. Al-Madhi will explore possibilities to create a national entrepreneurial development center in Saudi Arabia that incorporates physical space, funding mechanisms, scholarships, academic components, and mentoring. In addition, he looks forward to investigating opportunities for improving the Saudi Arabian system for data collection and analysis vis-à-vis employment statistics and key economic and competitiveness indicators.

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Executive Director, Technology Transfer ∙ Agricultural Research Council (ARC)

Ms. Canca returns with plans to revive a Memorandum of Understanding between the South African ARC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct collaborative research on climate change and human capital development. With Iowa State University, Ms. Canca will pursue collaboration to modernize and enhance extension agent skills in South Africa. She also hopes to replicate Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in South Africa through an ARC training program.

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Chairman ∙ IE Business School, International Center for Entrepreneurial Management

Mr. Güemes will work with Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship to develop chapters in Latin America and possibly the Middle East. He plans to develop and strengthen partnerships and collaborations between IE Business School and several institutions in the U.S. In addition, Mr. Güemes will also pursue attracting venture capital investments to Spain.

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Member of Parliament ∙ Sri Lanka

Dr. Harsha de Silva will work to bring together young politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties to initiate a dialog on the need for greater discussion and debate in formulating laws in Sri Lanka. He will also continue conversations with the think tanks he visited during his fellowship.

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