Ron Brown Fellowship

The Ron Brown Fellowship Program was established in 1994 as the Central and Eastern European Graduate Fellowship Program and was renamed in 1996 in honor of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown, who died in Croatia while promoting U.S. business interests in the Balkans. The program reflects the late Secretary’s commitment to building democracy in the region and strengthening the global economy.

Photograph of one of the Ron Brown Fellowship recipients. Since 1994, the Educational Leadership program at Lehigh University has hosted 12 Ron Brown Fellows. These fellows have come from Albania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenian, Romania, Hungary, Kosova, Montenegro and Macedonia. Graduates of the Lehigh program are currently working in a variety of positions in their home countries and in other locations throughout the globe. These positions include serving as major policy advisors in Photograph of one of the Ron Brown Fellowship recipients. NGO’s and government departments, working as university professors, teaching and serving as administrators in primary and secondary education, and providing leadership to corporations involved with international affairs and education.

The Educational Leadership program at Lehigh is one of only six programs to participate in this program. Currently, there are two Ron Brown Fellows in this program from Albania and Kosovo.