It is designed to meet the developmental needs of senior public service officers, such as Deputy Secretaries, Senior Directors, Directors or their equivalent.

Each Fellow’s experience is inimitable, and guided by your policy questions and opportunities you choose to develop. Throughout the year, we will arrange one-to-one meetings for you with selected academics and researchers who can offer relevant expertise or perspectives to the discussion of your questions.

Additionally, there may be additional intimate events held for Fellows to know each other while participating in constructive deep discussions, sharing sessions with academics, or roundtable discussions. After a year, you will automatically join the Alumni Network, while the most active Fellows will be invited to continue their membership as Continuing Fellows.

You will join a group of people who envision application of an evidence-based method to policy making and are open to trying new methods and designs.

Through a bespoke line-up of individual meetings with academics and researchers, you can build your personal network of experts and thought leaders who are similarly dealing with the challenges of today and tomorrow. These relationships are characterised and grounded by mutual understanding and respect. You can gain new perspectives, insights, and approaches though exchanges with academics and researchers.

You are requested to put forward three to five questions that outline the policy challenges you are confronting in your job. Ideally, these questions can be answered by research, and are broad enough to be approached from a variety of disciplines.

You may ask any policy questions related to the following broad topics:

• Policy Studies, Public Management and Governance.
• International Relations and Global Governance.
• Social Policy.
• Economic Development and Competitiveness.

Remember, this Fellowship is centred around the unique questions you wish to explore. Below is a list of sample questions. We stress that this list is non-prescriptive and included only as a starting point and to show the breadth and kinds of questions which may be answered.

(Note: We do not share the policy questions explored during the previous run of the Public Policy Fellowship due to confidentiality reasons.)