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Around the school, around the world
From New Haven to capitals across the globe, the latest from Yale Jackson: events, milestones, student and alumni achievements, and stories of the thought leaders and changemakers who make up our community.
David Brooks: How America Recovers from All This
What does it take to rebuild a society fractured by distrust, populism, and eroding civic bonds? In his third Yale Conversations lecture, author and columnist David Brooks traces the shifting cultural paradigms of the past 70 years to diagnose how America arrived at its current crisis.
World Fellow Hakan Altinay on how the fellowship turned into Global Civics
Hakan Altinay went through the World Fellows program in 2009, then spent years trying to work out exactly why it had worked. He now runs a school in Istanbul built on what he found. Free of charge, small, gentle, and designed above all to produce the one thing he thinks our societies are running short of.
Q&A: Ian Shapiro’s new book explores the roots of today's angry populist politics
In his new book, the Yale political scientist examines how missed opportunities, neoliberal economic policies, and decisions by political leaders shaped today's global challenges — and outlines steps to help reverse them.
Sixteen global leaders named 2026 World Fellows
This year's cohort of World Fellows includes a Ukrainian journalist, a Chinese environmentalist, and a Kenyan orchestral conductor.
Why Yale?
Yale is unparalleled for global changemakers and servant leaders.
200,000 Living Alumni
Yale encourages alumni towards exploration and service and to be able to respond in an ever-changing world. You will find Yale alumni everywhere, but the top industries include financial services, education, technology, consulting, and healthcare.
Boola! Boola!84 Countries
Where alumni live and work, lead and serve. This includes 26 heads of state, presidents, vice presidents, prime ministers, or similar.
Yale Alumni27 Nobel laureates
As well as alumni leading Fortune 500 companies, running global nonprofits, setting key government policies, starting groundbreaking ventures, and more. Join the team!
Yale Fact SheetThe most vibrant innovation ecosystem
1900+ Yale technologies, 150+ research spinouts, 710 student & alumni startups. Yale offers support, resources, and opportunities to translate ideas and discoveries into new ventures that will positively impact the world's greatest challenges.
Yale Ventures
Faculty
Jackson faculty include a core group of eminent academics who teach in the core and electives, guide research and theses, and serve as mentors to students.
Faculty & Research
Senior Fellows
Learn alongside leading practitioners in government, business, international organizations, the NGO community, and other global affairs fields.
Senior Fellows
Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Jackson’s lecturers and visiting faculty have primary appointments with the school. Coming from a variety of academic disciplines, they teach classes and contribute to the intellectual life of the school.
Faculty & Research
Centers & initiatives
Yale Jackson's centers and initiatives create focused spaces for exploration, research, and policy development on specific topics. Jackson is home to 9 Centers and Initiatives including:
Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment
Brings scholars and practitioners together to support research and teaching on statecraft — spanning defense, diplomacy, intelligence, and global economic relations.
Dietz Family Initiative on Environment & Global Affairs
Looks at environmental change as a wide-ranging shift in our operating environment rather than a particular or separate policy area.
Peacebuilding Initiative
Understands pathways to peace and documenting how policy efforts can contribute to a lasting stability.
Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence
Works across disciplines on the technological and strategic transformations that are reshaping our world.
World Fellows
World Fellows are dynamic practitioners and leaders of extraordinary character who are committed to using their energy and talents to make a positive difference in the world. World Fellows develop close relationships with undergraduates and graduate students.
World Fellows
Yale Alumni
The Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs—the first professional school created at Yale since 1976—builds on Yale’s centuries long tradition of educating leaders. Yale’s graduates include five U.S. presidents; seven U.S. Secretaries of State; the presidents or prime ministers of Mexico, South Korea, Germany, and Iceland; numerous ambassadors; and many heads of private and non-profit enterprises that contribute to the public good such as Human Rights Watch, Mercy Corps, Ashoka, Unite for Sight, and the Peace Corps.