Fulbright 70th Alumni

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Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang

Chinua Achebe, Nigeria
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence to University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1987-1988. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Professor Achebe was a visiting professor of Afro-American Studies and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. The author of many novels, including Things Fall Apart, he has been awarded many literary honors for his work including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, an Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Nigerian National Order of Merit, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Man Booker International Prize 2007, and the 2010 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. He also served as a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Population Fund.

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Ambode, on the right, meets with Humphrey alumni at Lagos House following his election.

Akinwunmi Ambode, Nigeria
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship to Boston University from Nigeria in 1998-1999. Mr. Ambode was elected Governor of Lagos State in April 2015. Before his election, Mr. Ambode was the permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. He is one of the Humphrey Fellowship’s greatest champions in Nigeria. He has publicly credited his Humphrey experience with teaching him that "you have to go out there and make a difference." He has also instructed his permanent secretaries to cooperate with Humphrey alumni wherever possible in framing and implementing their policy objectives.

Guy Berger, South Africa
Fulbright Scholar from South Africa to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000.  Berger headed the School of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa, from 1994-2010. In November 2011, he left Rhodes University to work at UNESCO as Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development.

Francis Ejobi, Uganda
Fulbright Scholar from Uganda in 2003. Dr. Ejobi is a Public Health Veterinarian. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Makerere University in Uganda and is engaged in research on epidemiology of zoonoses (i.e. animal to human vectors for disease), disease modeling, and climate change. His research also examines indigenous knowledge systems and risk assessment.

Amandina Lihamba, Tanzania
Fulbright Scholar from Tanzania at UCLA in 2000. Dr. Lihamba is a Tanzanian actor, playwright and director. She is a professor in the department of fine and performing arts at the University of Dar es Salaam. In addition to her academic and artistic pursuits, Dr. Lihamba is a cultural activist who writes plays and articles on theatre, culture and politics, sex and communication. She co-founded the national Children Theatre Project and festival and the girls drama group Tuseme (Let's Speak Out) Festival.

Makaziwe Mandela, South Africa  
Fulbright Student from South Africa to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1993; Distinguished Fellows Program (50th). During her Fulbright experience, Mandela completed her degree in anthropology, focusing on rural women in South Africa. Dr. Mandela is a businesswoman and director of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Marjorie Mbilinyi, Tanzania
Fulbright Scholar from Tanzania in 2002.  She is a retired Professor of Education from the University of Dar es Salaam.  She is the founder of several feminist organizations and networks in Tanzania and other parts of Africa, including the Tanzania sex Networking Programme, the Feminist Activist Coalition, and sex and Economic Reforms in Africa.

Fred Mutebi, Uganda  
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence from Uganda to Christian Brothers University in 2003-2004.  Mutebi is a renowned printmaker and painter. He uses his artistry to convey the fragility of the human condition in Africa and to celebrate the natural beauty of Uganda, his homeland. Using a vibrant array of colors, the artist creates woodcut prints that depict stories about critical social events in Uganda or that portray images indigenous to the Ugandan environment. As a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee, Mutebi played an integral role in imparting an appreciation for this particular art form and a passion for the country called "the pearl of Africa." His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world.  In 1999 he was voted Best Artist of the Year by the Uganda Artists Association.

Edward Kofi Quashigah, Ghana       
Fulbright Scholar from Ghana to Harvard University’s Human Right’s Program in 2001-2002. Dr. Quashigah is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana and the Dean of the Faculty. In 2005, he was honored as the Best Teacher in the Humanities in the University of Ghana.  He is currently spearheading the production of the first issue of the “Annual Survey of Ghana Law”, a project intended to revolutionize the approach to legal research in Ghana.

Maryse Conde, Guadaloupe via France
Fulbright Scholar from Guadaloupe to Columbia University in 1985-86. Ms. Conde is a Guadaloupean author. Condé's novels explore racial, gender and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, tracing the relationships between African peoples and the diaspora, especially the Caribbean.

Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Italy
Fulbright Scholar from Italy to Stanford University in 2012. Currently a Marie Curie Scholar at Stanford university, Maria Giovanna is an astrophysicist who studies gamma-ray bursts, which help give us insight into what is happening in space across the universe. In 2014, Ms. Giovanna was appointed Knight of the Republic of Italy for her for her contribution on our understanding of space. At a recent American Astronomical Society in San Diego, she announced that she had developed a new way to use the most powerful explosions in the Universe to calibrate its expansion. News of this discovery has been highlighted by astrophysicist journals and organizations worldwide, including NASA.

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Mr. Hensel at a Fulbright Germany event, by Fulbright alumnus Matthew Wagner

Felipe de Borbón y Grecia, Spain
Honorary Fulbright Student from Spain to Georgetown University in 1995. King Felipe VI of Spain honored the Fulbright Program with the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in recognition of the Program’s educational and cultural exchange that has strengthened links and mutual understanding between the world’s citizens. This honor recognizes the Fulbright Program for its contributions to the overall education of young people by providing access to institutions of academic excellence, and the ability to engage civil society in each of the nations in which it operates.

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Danuta Hubner

Danuta Hubner, Poland**
Fulbright Visiting Scholar from Poland to the University of California, Berkeley in 1988-1990. Dr. Hubner has served as Poland’s first  European Commissioner, as the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy. She is is one of her country's foremost economists and policymakers and has played a key role in the enlargement of the European Union. As a member of the European Parliament, Dr. Hubner chairs the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and works on economic and tax policies.

David Jacques, UK
Fulbright Fulbright Foreign Teacher Exchange Program alumnus from the United Kingdom to Polk State University in 1996. David Jacques has worked extensively to improve the education system of the Republic of Georgia, setting up and running a charity which stimulated an investment of $12 million into the Georgian education system between 2005-08. In 2011, he was chosen as one of two ‘Outstanding’ British Fulbright Teacher Program alumni of the past 60 years. Since 2005, he has been the Project Director of an internationally significant Mesolithic archaeological site, one mile from Stonehenge. He continues to collaborate with his host institution Polk State College, visiting the school for International Education Week and bringing Polk State students to work at the archaeological site by Stonehenge.

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Croatia
Fulbright Scholar from Croatia to George Washington University in 2003-2003. Ms. Grabar-Kitarović is currently the President of Croatia, the first woman to hold this office. Before her election in 2015, President Grabar-Kitarović served her country as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Parliamentarian. In 2016, she was named one of the world’s most influential women by Forbes.

Jaroslav Miller, Czech Republic
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence from the Czech Republic to the Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville in 2008. Mr. Miller is the current Rector (President) of Palacky University in Olomouc, which has become the most rapidly improving Czech university in all the international university rankings, under his leadership. His research focuses on urban studies, and the history of political thought.

Stefan Sagmeister, Austria
Fulbright Student from Austria to the Pratt Institute in1987-1988. Mr. Sagmeister is a graphic designer who has received two Grammy Awards and was awarded the Golden Medal of Honor of the Republic of Austria in 2013. His work is known for its thought-provoking and intimate visual elements, which he creates for clients across the music industry, the scientific community, social causes, and the art world.

Inga Spriņģe, Latvia
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow from Latvia to the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2010. Ms. Spriņģe is an award-winning investigative journalist and founding member of the Re:Baltica Center for Investigative Journalism. During her Humphrey Fellowship, she also interned at the Washington Post. Her investigations have focused on organized crime, corruption and smuggling in Latvia and the Balkans, work that led to changes in Latvian law and action against public officials.

Tara Chetty, Fiji
Fulbright Student from Fiji to Rutgers University in 2009-2010. Tara is the Executive Director of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement (FWRM).  She is driven by the values of feminism, human rights, the rule of law, multiculturalism, and good governance to correct the imbalances in women’s socio-economic and political status.  Her work encompasses promoting democracy, the rule of law and human rights in Fiji. FWRM is also focused on promoting policy and legislative reforms to strengthen women’s rights and transforming structures that discriminate against women and girls.

Chong Jong-sup, Korea
Fulbright Scholar to Duke University in 2003, where he researched Constitutional Law. Dr. Chong previously served as the Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs. In 2016, Minister Chong resigned his position to campaign for a seat in the National Assembly. He won the election and now represents the Daegu area of Korea. He is also a 1993 alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program.

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Indrani Kopal

Masatoshi Koshiba, Japan **
Fulbright Student from Japan to the University of Rochester in 1953-1955. Mr. Koshiba was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos". Dr. Koshiba currently serves as Senior Counselor of International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo.

Pham Binh Minh, Vietnam
Fulbright Student from Vietnam to Tufts University in 1992. Pham Binh Minh served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam since 2011, Deputy Prime Minister since 2013. He is concurrently a member of the latest Politburo XII (2016-2020) of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam. Mr. Pham was a Fulbright student of the very first cohort of the Fulbright Program from reunified Vietnam. Over the course of his diplomatic career he has contributed significantly to the development of Vietnam’s diplomacy in both bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, ceaselessly promoting Vietnam-U.S. relations, especially the establishment of Fulbright University Vietnam.

Z Nang Raw, Burma
Fulbright Student from Burma to Duke University in 2007. She has been highly active in promoting peace among various ethnic groups in her home country since returning from the United States. She currently works as Assistant Director focusing on Strategy and Policy for the Nyein “Peace” (Shalom) Foundation.  She has served as the Secretary of “Ethnic Nationalities Mediators’ Fellowship,” a network of ethnic mediators from ethnic states from 2006-2010 during the former ceasefire period.

Kim Sedara, Cambodia
Fulbright Student from Cambodia to Northern Illinois University in 1999-2001. Kim Sedara currently serves as President of the National Preah Vihear Authority, which is responsible for the protection of the Temple of Preah Vihear (a UNESCO World Heritage site).  Previously off limits because of intermittent border violence, Preah Vihear Temple is now safe and even open to tourism due in large part to Sedara and his contributions to the International Coordinating Committee for the Temple of Preah Vihear.  He is now focused on helping Cambodia become a future chair of the committee that oversees the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. In addition to his work in the area of cultural heritage preservation, Sedara continues to play a vital role in Fulbright Program recruitment and alumni engagement in Cambodia.

Stephane Shepherd, Australia
Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar from Australia to UCLA and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2015. During his Fulbright, Dr. Shepherd conducted research on cultural competence, focusing on the health and wellbeing of indigenous people in the justice system. Dr. Shepherd was awarded the 2016 Christopher Webster Young Scholar of the Year at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services conference in New York City.

Kuo, Wan-Yong, Taiwan
Fulbright Scholar from Taiwan to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971-1972. Ms. Wan-Yong is the first female Minister in Taiwan, she lead the Ministry of Finance from 1988-1990 during Taiwan’s transition to democracy. Teaching economics at National Taiwan University for 23 years with enormous success, she also had a distinguished government career helping Taiwan move from an efficiency to an innovation driven economy, including Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Chair of the Economic Planning and Development Council, and Minister without Portfolio.

Chen Yulu, China
A Fulbright Scholar from China to Columbia University in 2000-2001. Dr. Chen was recently appointed as the vice governor of the People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank. He previously also served as president of both Beijing Foreign Studies University and Renmin University. As a scholar. Dr. Chen has published several books on Chinese and global finance.

Tameem Abdeeb, Libya
Fulbright Student from Libya to Depaul University in 2014-2016. Mr. Abdeeb is an entrepreneur in mobile information technology and app development, creating the Almaloma Company in 2006, which created and delivered the first text messaging services for consumer communication in Libya with banks, television companies and airlines. He was a 2016 Clinton Global Initiative University Commitments to Action Challenge winner for his development of FutureBox, an in-phone app that delivers tailored news reports to its users.

Ziad Amro, Palestinian Territories
Fulbright Student from the Palestinian Territories to San Francisco State University in 1995-1997.  Mr. Amro, who is blind, is a leading disability rights activist and drafted language mandating inclusion of disabled persons, accommodations, and protection of their rights within the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education’s by-laws.  He has also worked closely with the United Nations on advancing the rights of people with disabilities more broadly throughout the Middle East and North Africa.   

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egypt
Fulbright Scholar from Egypt in 1954-1955. Mr. Boutros-Ghali was a former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mr. Boutros-Ghali had a distinguished career as a diplomat, jurist, scholar and widely published author. Over four decades, Mr. Boutros-Ghali participated in numerous meetings dealing with international law, human rights, economic and social development, decolonization, the Middle East question, international humanitarian law, the rights of ethnic and other minorities, non-alignment, development in the Mediterranean region and Afro-Arab cooperation.

Rahma Bourquia, Morocco
Fulbright Scholar from Morocco to Princeton University in 1991-1992. Ms. Bourquia is currently the head of the Board of Evaluation of the Moroccan High Council on Teaching.  In 1997, she was the first female named president of a Moroccan university (University Hassan II, Mohammedia). Her doctoral dissertation won the Malcolm Kerr Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 1988.

Aya Chebbi, Tunisia
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant from Tunisia in 2012-2013 to Georgia Southern University. Ms. Chebbi, a Tunisian feminist activist and blogger, spoke at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2015. She has been recognized for her leadership by Forbes and Huffington Post.

Aaron Ciechanover, Israel
Fulbright Scholar from Israel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981-1984. Mr. Ciechanover was a 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using the protein ubiquitin.

Ziad Fahed, Lebanon
Fulbright Scholar from Lebanon to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2006-2007 and 2008 Fulbright Interfaith Community Action Program. Dr. Fahed founded the Dialogue for Life and Reconciliation Organization, an NGO that facilitates interaction and communication among Lebanese religious groups.

Maiss Razem, Jordan
Fulbright Student from Jordan to Virginia Tech in 2003-2005. Ms. Razem educates Jordan's youth on the benefits of using sustainable architecture in arid climates. She recently served as a Project Coordinator at the Jordan Green Building Council.  She completed an AMIDEAST Alumni Community Development Grant project in 2015, which introduced more than 30 Jordanian students to sustainable architecture.

Fatima Sadiqi, Morocco
Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence from Morocco to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 2013-2014, and Fulbright Visiting to the University of Washington (1991) and the University of Illinois (1999). Ms. Sadiqi is a Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies at the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah university in Fès.  Her teaching and writings have influenced college students in Morocco and America, where two of her books, Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco and Migration and Gender in Morocco (with Moha Ennaji) are widely read in curricula on the Middle East and North Africa.

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Ziad Sankari

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Umer Adnan

Nangyalai Attal, Afghanistan
Fulbright Student from Afghanistan to Golden Gate University in 2013. Mr. Attal, who as a young teen in Afghanistan worked as a shepherd, received a 2014 United Nations Youth Courage Award.

Shamshad Akhtar, Pakistan
Fulbright Student from Pakistan to Harvard University in 1986-1987. Ms. Akhtar is an economist and diplomat, who currently serves as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. She was the first woman to serve as Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and has held several other senior management positions at the United Nations and the World Bank.

Alisher Faizullaev, Uzbekistan
Fulbright Scholar from Uzbekistan to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University in 2011. Mr. Faizullaev is a Professor at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent, and was the former Ambassador from Uzbekistan to the United Kingdom, Benelux countries, the European Union and NATO.

Ashley Halpe, Sri Lanka
Fulbright Scholar from Sri Lanka to Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1991. Mr. Halpe was a teacher, critic, poet, translator and theater director. At age 31, he became the youngest professor in Sri Lanka, and served for many years as a Head of the English Department at the University of Peradeniya.

Gulnara Iskakova, Kyrgyz Republic
Fulbright Scholar from the Kyrgyz Republic to George Washington University in 1997. Gulnara Iskakova is serving as Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Before her appointment to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Iskakova represented the Kyrgyz Republic as the Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. Her career in public service was preceded by a distinguished career as a law professor and was part of the working group that drafted the Kyrgyz Republic’s constitution.

S.M. Krishna, India
Fulbright Student from India to Southern Methodist University in 1958. Mr. Krishna is an Indian politician who served as Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009-2012. His career in public service includes serving as a member of the Indian Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, serving as the 16th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004, and serving as the 19th Governor of Maharashtra from 2004 to 2008.

Kuldip Nayar, India
Fulbright Student from India to Northwestern University in 1951. Mr. Nayar is a Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, political commentator, human rights and peace activist, and author. He was a member of India's delegation to the United Nations in 1996 and was nominated as a Member of the upper house of the Indian Parliament in 1997.

Bishakha Sen, India
Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program to New York state in 2013. During her Fulbright experience, Ms. Sen researched critical and creative thinking principles at primary and secondary schools.  Ms. Sen currently teaches at a school in Kolkata, where she conducts of workshops, training programs, and seminars for students and teachers. She also works with a non-profit organization for children with disabilities.

Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh
Fulbright Student from Bangladesh to University of Colorado, Boulder and Vanderbilt University in 1965-1966. Mr. Yunus is an economist, social entrepreneur, banker and civil society leader who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank, which pioneered the concept of microfinance.

Dr. Ludwig W. Adamec, USA
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellow to India in 1964. Dr. Adamec is a noted scholar on the Middle East and Afghanistan, and is now a retired emeritus professor at the University of Arizona. In his own words: “The Fulbright-Hays fellowship helped me to do my dissertation research in the archives of India, Britain, Germany, and the United States. I came to the United States in 1954, just in time to benefit from passage of the National Defense Act which supported the study of ‘critical languages.’ I enrolled at UCLA and studied for a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, including the Persian and Arabic languages. I was already fluent in Persian, one of the major languages of Afghanistan, and a reading skill in Arabic was required. Upon finishing my course work, I was ready for dissertation research which required that I travel again to the Middle East. A Fulbright-Hays grant in 1964 helped me to do it the ‘conventional’ way, and I was able to obtain the Ph.D. degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. I could not have done it without my grant and I am grateful for the support which started my career. Several of my books were translated into Persian and Urdu, and now at age 92, I am finishing the third edition of my Historical Dictionary of Islam. Thanks to my Fulbright-Hays grant, I look back on a successful career.”

Maya Angelou, USA
Fulbright Scholar to Liberia in 1986. Dr. Angelou was a poet, author and educator who was awarded the National Medal of the Arts. During her Fulbright she lectured in Liberia as a Fulbright 40th Anniversary Distinguished Lecturer. During her life, Dr. Angelou earned more than 50 honorary degrees and was a celebrated poet, memoirist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.  She also served as a Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.

John Hope Franklin, USA
Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom in 1954; Fulbright Scholar to Australia in 1960; Distinguished Fulbright Scholar to Venezuela in 1973; Zimbabwe, 1986; Fulbright Scholar to Brazil to 1987. Dr. John Hope Franklin was a Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and Chairman of the Advisory Board for One America: The President's Initiative on Race, 1997-98. His books include From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans (7th edition, 1994). He was appointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President John F. Kennedy, where he served from 1962–69, most notably as the board’s first African American Chair, from 1966 to 1969.

Bay Fang, USA
Fulbright Student to Hong Kong in 1995. Ms. Fang had an 11-year career in journalism before going into public service. She has served as the Diplomatic Correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and covered the wars in Afghanistan (2001-2002) and Iraq (2003-2004) for US News and World Report magazine. She started her career in journalism as the Beijing Bureau Chief for US News and World Report, where she won the Robert F. Kennedy journalism award in 1999 for her story “China’s Stolen Wives.” Ms. Fang was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs 2011-2013.

Jennifer Farrell, USA
Fulbright Student to Bangladesh in 2013-2014. Jennifer Farrell developed a new mobile phone app and nonprofit social enterprise, CriticaLink, to build and mobilize a network of first responders for medical emergencies in Bangladesh. This project was inspired by her Fulbright U.S. Student fellowship in which she provided first aid training to citizens of the country. The organization trains volunteer first responders in life-saving emergency medical skills and uses location-based mobile technology to notify and dispatch the closest volunteers to the scene of an accident to provide help to injured or ill individuals. As noted when CriticaLink was recognized as one of the best new mobile apps in the world at the 2015 World Summit Awards.                

Ileana Jimenez, USA
Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program to Mexico in 2011. Ileana Jiménez has always been a strong advocate for LGBTQ youth in schools in the United States,. Her advocacy expanded globally after participating in the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program. While in Mexico City, she filmed queer youth in UNAM's high school system as they told their powerful stories about coming out, bullying and harassment, and relationships. While there, she also worked with Mexican teachers and administrators who are committed to working on gender and sexuality issues in schools, and was asked by Mexico City's Secretary of Education to keynote the first international conference on bullying in Mexico. Based in New York, Ileana is the founder of Feminist Teacher, a blog that brings visibility to the feminism-in-schools movement nationally and globally. Ileana speaks and consults widely on feminist and queer issues in schools around the world and is published in One Teacher in Ten in the New Millennium: LGBT Educators Speak Out About What's Gotten Better... and What Hasn't (Beacon, 2015).

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N. Scott Momaday

Linus Pauling, USA
Fulbright Scholar to the former Yugoslavia in 1988. During his life, Dr. Pauling was known as a prolific scientist and peace activist. He published over 1,000 articles and books, about two-thirds on scientific subjects. His landmark book The Nature of the Chemical Bond is frequently cited as the most influential scientific book of the 20th century. Dr. Pauling was also an outspoken anti-nuclear and international peace activist. DrMr. Pauling is the only person who has won two undivided Nobel Prizes:, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954; Nobel Peace Prize 1962.

Dr. Ken Rutherford, USA
Fulbright Scholar to Jordan in 2004-2005. Ken’s Fulbright to Jordan focused on disability rights, and he currently serves a Director for the Center for International Stabilization and Recovery at James Madison University. He is the cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network (now Survivor Corps) and has worked for Peace Corps (Mauritania), U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (Senegal), and International Rescue Committee (Kenya and Somalia). He has continued conducting or participating in post-conflict missions and projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Colombia, Iraq, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Switzerland, Uganda, Vietnam, and Yemen. He was a leader in the Nobel Prize-winning coalition that spearheaded the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the movement that led to the Cluster Munitions Ban Treaty in 2008.

Lucia Cuba, Peru
Fulbright Student at the New School from Peru in 2010. Lucia Cuba is a renowned fashion designer. Her work involves a critical approach to fashion design and the construction and exploration of garments as performative and political devices. As a scholar of public health and psychology, her work explores issues of body, gender and biopolitics through the construction of garments that act as critical devices.

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Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera

David Granger, Guyana
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship to the University of Maryland from Guyana in 1995-1996. Brigadier General David Granger was elected President of Guyana in May 2015, the first Humphrey Fellow ever to become a head of state.

Thaddeus Holownia, Canada
Fulbright Scholar from Canada to Sarah Lawrence College. Thaddeus Holownia is a photographer and member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Fine Arts,  who received the Order of New Brunswick, which recognizes outstanding contributions to outstanding contribution to the social, cultural, or economic well-being of New Brunswick and its residents, for producing a constantly evolving body of work that is virtually unparalleled within the visual arts in Canada.

Diógenes Céspedes Mercedes, Dominican Republic
Fulbright Scholar to Manhattan College from the Dominican Republic in 1997. A poet, essayist, novelist, journalist and literary critic, Cespedes is one of the Dominican Republic’s most important writers. Accolades include the Dominican National Book Award in 2007 and the "Pedro Henriquez Urena" National Essay Prize in 1983.

Ellen Gracie Northfleet, Brazil
Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship to American University in 1991-1992. Northfleet was appointed Brazil's first female Supreme Court justice in 2000 and later was the country’s first female Chief Justice from 2006-2008.

Cherrell Shelley Robinson, Jamaica
Fulbright Student from Jamaica to Rutgers University in 1984. Ms. Robinson was awarded the "Distinguished Librarian of the Year" Award in 2006 by the Library and Information Association of Jamaica. An accomplished children's story author, who incorporates indigenous materials in her work, Ms. Robinson received the Book Industry of Jamaica Award for best children's book in 2003.

Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia
Fulbright Student from Colombia to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1981. Mr. Santos is the current President of Colombia and has been in office since 2010. An economist and journalist, Mr. Santos has also held positions as Colombia’s Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Trade.

Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico
Fulbright Student from Mexico at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1989. Mr. Sarukhan was Mexico’s Ambassador to the United States from 2007-2013,  and from 2014-2015 served as Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Susana Tambutti, Argentina
Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow from Argentina in 1996. Ms. Tambutti is the co-founder and co-director of Nucleodanza Group. During her six-week Fulbright residency at the American Dance Festival (ADF), she created, choreographed, and directed an original work for ADF dancers.