🌐 Applications Now Open: International Strategy Forum (ISF)

Launching 2027 International Strategy Forum Application!

Hello, I’m Ylli Bajraktari, President of the Special Competitive Studies Project. We’re pleased to announce that SCSP is opening our application for the 2027 International Strategy Forum (ISF) fellowship cohort!

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Launching the 2027 International Strategy Forum Application

Founded by SCSP Chair and former Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt and co-chaired by CNN host Fareed Zakaria, ISF is a year-long, non-residential fellowship program that empowers rising global leaders aged 25 to 35 to explore the future of geopolitics, technology, and democracy. ISF brings together individuals from diverse fields, including government, academia, deep tech, the military, journalism, and the arts. In 2024, ISF was integrated into SCSP and has become a signature aspect of SCSP’s global network of leaders and experts.

The ISF fellowship year is organized around a series of in-person convenings alongside virtual programming, enabling Fellows to engage with each other and the broader ISF and SCSP communities. Our goal is to forge a network of next-generation problem solvers with extraordinary potential in geopolitics, innovation, and civic leadership, who can work across sectoral and national lines to collectively tackle the challenges of a changing world order.

The 2027 Application

If you or someone you know is eligible and interested in learning more, please find the application here.

Competitive applicants will have the following characteristics:

• Demonstrated leadership potential.

• Recognized expertise in their professional field.

• Clear commitment to ISF’s values of purpose, collaboration, curiosity, and empathy.

• Strong devotion to building a network of interdisciplinary leaders working to solve the world’s hardest problems.

The application deadline is July 31, 2026. Selected applicants will be invited to participate in interviews in the months that follow.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the ISF team at isfteam@scsp.ai with the subject line “ISF in 2027.”