Fellowship programmes
Our fellowship programmes bring senior leaders to Oxford over several months to engage with our faculty, the wider Oxford community, and our students – the next generation of leaders.
AIG-Imoukhuede Foundation (AIG) Visiting Fellowship
The AIG Visiting Fellowship enables senior leaders in the Nigerian Public Service to undertake a period of study, reflection and engagement with scholars and students at the Blavatnik School. While at the School, AIG Fellows have the opportunity to further develop their understanding of specific policy issues and solutions and to reflect on practices in other countries both within West Africa and beyond. Mrs Funke Adepoju, Director-General of the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), is the AIG Fellow for 2025-26.
Blavatnik World Leaders Fellowship
The Blavatnik World Leaders Fellowship is for global leaders who are transitioning from steering their countries or organisations, to the next stage of their public leadership journey. The Fellowship enables Fellows to share knowledge, reflect on leadership lessons, mentor students, engage alumni, convene leaders, and explore innovative approaches to government.
Heywood Fellowship
The Heywood Fellowship is a visiting fellowship created in memory of Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary from 2012 to 2018. The purpose is to give a senior UK civil servant the opportunity to explore issues relating to public service and policy outside of the immediate responsibilities of government duties, with a focus on longer-term issues and/or those that cut across government departments.
Lemann Visiting Fellows Of Practice (Brazil)
The Lemann Visiting Fellows of Practice Programme, part of our wider Lemann Foundation partnership, supports Brazilian nationals who are outstanding senior practitioners and academics for a period of study, reflection and engagement with scholars and students at the Blavatnik School of Government.
Transformational Leadership Fellowship
The Transformational Leadership Fellowship is a bespoke programme crafted for a very select number of leaders at the pinnacle of their careers who seek space to reflect on how they might use their strengths towards a broader public mission.
Visiting Public Leadership Fellowship
The Visiting Public Leadership Fellowship offers senior public leaders the opportunity to spend dedicated time at the School engaging deeply with faculty and researchers on a set of strategic questions shaped around their evolving role. Through focused discussion, reflection and the potential development of a policy output, the fellowship supports fresh thinking, strengthens institutional connections, and enhances the fellows’ leadership impact in a changing global context.
Sir Christian Turner CMG, the British Ambassador to the United States of America, is the inaugural Visiting Public Leadership Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government. The Fellowship, which runs over the course of one year, allows for study, reflection and engagement with scholars and students at the School, offering the opportunity to focus on specific policy challenges and solutions.
Women in Public Leadership Fellowship
The Women in Public Leadership Fellowship at the Blavatnik School of Government supports an outstanding senior woman leader to contribute to teaching, research and policy innovation, drawing on her public service experience to advance inclusive, effective and resilient governance. Through case development, teaching, mentorship and leadership initiatives, the Fellowship amplifies women’s voices in policymaking and promotes gender-responsive public leadership with lasting institutional impact at Oxford and beyond.
Elsie Addo Awadzi, former Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, is the School’s inaugural Women in Public Leadership Fellow.