International Fellows Program Alumni
The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has offered the International Fellows Programs since 1989. These graduate-level professional development courses attract applicants from around the globe, working in the field of philanthropy and community grantmaking in particular. The program—which consists of research, seminars, site visits, meetings and forums that offer networking opportunities—is a multi-directional learning opportunity. Not only do the Fellows learn from practitioners and experts who engage with them during the course of the program, but more importantly the Fellows learn from each other about the challenges confronted, strategies devised and solutions conceived in the field of philanthropy in their respective countries. To date, 249 Fellows hailed from a total of 72 countries and territories. See below for a list of names of alumni of the Center's International Fellows Progam (IFP), Senior International Fellows Program (SIFP) and International Fellows Progam on Community Philanthropy (IFPCP) and other information.
| Name | Country (city) of residence [generally reflects residence at time of participation] | Cohort year (Program) |
| George Varughese | AFGHANISTAN/Nepal/ India (Kabul) |
2008 (SIFP) |
| Kostandina Këruti | ALBANIA (Tirana) | 2020 (ELIFP) |
| Florencia Roitstein | ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires) | 2015 (SIFP) |
| María Paula Lemos | ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires) | 2018 ELIFP |
| Andrés Thompson | ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires) | 1989 (IFP), 2005 (SIFP) |
| Elena Vila Moret | ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires) | 1999 (IFP) |
| Anahi Viladrich | ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires) | 1994 (IFP) |
| Lusine Hakobyan | ARMENIA (Yerevan) | 2014 (SIFP) |
| Sharon Nathani | AUSTRALIA (Melbourne) | 2013 (SIFP) |
| Marion Webster | AUSTRALIA (Melbourne) | 2003 (SIFP) |
| Esther Lethlean | AUSTRALIA (Melbourne) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Josephine Buontempo | AUSTRALIA (Perth) | 2012 (SIFP) |
| Emily C. Fuller | AUSTRALIA (Sydney) | 2014 (SIFP) |
| Ketra Todd | BAHAMAS (Nassau) | 2021 (ELIFP) |
| Snigdha Emelda Tigga | BANGLADESH (Dhaka) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Yuhong Victoria Shi | BELGIUM (Brussels) | 2007 (SIFP) |
| Myra Virgil | BERMUDA (Hamilton) | 2013 (SIFP) |
| Majda Ganibegovic | BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA (Sarajevo) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Jasna Jašarevic | BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA (Tuzla) | 2006 (SIFP) |
| Mariana de Goes Borges | BRAZIL (Brasilia) | 2021 (SIFP) |
| Amanda Lima | BRAZIL (Brasilia, Distrito Federal) | 2020 (ELIFP) |
| Henrique Conca Bussacos | BRAZIL (Florianopolis) | 2012 (ELIFP) |
| Anderson Giovani Da Silva | BRAZIL (Florianopolis) | 2009 (ELIFP) |
| Mariane Maier Nunes | BRAZIL (Florianopolis) | 2017 (IFPCP) |
| Betania Gonçalves da Silva | BRAZIL (Recife) | 2008 (ELIFP) |
| Carlos Garrido | BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro) | 2020 (ELIFP) |
| Renato de Paiva Guimaraes | BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro) | 1996 (IFP) |
| Regina Dominques da Silva | BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro) | 1990 (IFP) |
| Jaqueline de Camargo | BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) | 2008 (SIFP) |
| Whilla Castelhano | BRAZIL (São Paulo) | 2021 (ELIFP) |
| Marina Fay | BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) | 2017 (SIFP) |
| Maria Carolina Trevisan | BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) | 2007 (ELIFP) |
| Helena Monteiro | BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) | 2006 (SIFP) |
| Eduardo Marino | BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) | 1998 (IFP) |
| Thereza Montenegro | BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) | 1995 (IFP) |
| Graciela Hopstein | BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro) | 2014 (SIFP) |
| Ana Paula Borges Pinho | BRAZIL (Sao Paulo) | 2014 (ELIFP) |
| Monika Nedelcheva Pisankaneva-Zlateva | BULGARIA (Sofia) | 2009 (SIFP) |
| Julius Bantar Ndzinwa | CAMEROON (Bamenda) | 2014 (ELIFP) |
| Sharon Dale Charters | CANADA (Hamilton, Ontario) | 2010 (SIFP) |
| Sarah Chilvers | CANADA (Vancouver, British Columbia) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Joanna Fultz | CANADA (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | 2015 (SIFP) |
| Sandy Houston | CANADA (Toronto, Ontario) | 2015 (SIFP) |
| Nancy Johnson | CANADA (Puslinch, Ontario) | 2003 (SIFP) |
| Jennifer Litchfield | CANADA (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | 2010 (ELIFP) |
| LuAnn Lovlin | CANADA (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | 2008 (SIFP) |
| Megan Tate | CANADA (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | 2004 (ELIFP) |
| Angela Calvo Linares | COLOMBIA (Bogota) | 2000 (IFP) |
| Andres Ceballos | COLOMBIA (Bogota) | 2018 (SIFP) |
| Paola Andrea Cubides Alvarez | COLOMBIA (Bogota) | 2021 (SIFP) |
| Juan Pablo Hoyos | COLOMBIA (Medellin) | 1999 (IFP) |
| Alejandra Monge | COSTA RICA (San José) | 2022 (SIFP) |
| Rana Celal Zincir | CYPRUS (Lefkosa)/Turkey/USA | 2009 (ELIFP) |
| Eleftheria Petridou | CYPRUS (Nicosia) | 2008 (ELIFP) |
| Petra Krystiánová | CZECH REPUBLIC (Prague) | 2013 (SIFP) |
| Kristyna Pichova | CZECH REPUBLIC (Prague) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Paola Vallejo | ECUADOR (Quito) | 2009 (ELIFP) |
| Alejandra Gómez | ECUADOR (Quito) | 2008 |
| Mahi Khallaf | EGYPT (Cairo) | 2008 (ELIFP) |
| Marwa El-Daly | EGYPT (Cairo) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Heba Abou Shnief | EGYPT (Cairo) | 2014 (SIFP) |
| Naila Farouky | EGYPT (Cairo) | 2022 (SIFP) |
| Joanna Bevan | ENGLAND (London) | 2013 (ELIFP) |
| Roland Doven | ENGLAND (London) | 1997 (IFP) |
| Catherine Elisabeth Elliott | ENGLAND (Whalley Range, Manchester) | 2009 (SIFP) |
| Elise Vogel | FRANCE (Husseren-Wessering) | 2011 (ELIFP) |
| Guillaume d’Andlau | FRANCE (Heiligenstein) | 2014 (SIFP) |
| Delphine Valette | FRANCE (Nice) | 2019 (SIFP) |
| Nino Asatashvili | GEORGIA (Tbilisi) | 2022 (ELIFP) |
| Alexander Chakhunshvili | GEORGIA (Tbilisi) | 1999 (IFP) |
| Bernadette Hellmann | GERMANY (Berlin) | 2010 (ELIFP) |
| Felicitas von Peter | GERMANY (Gutersloh) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Christoph Wilcke | GERMANY (Munich) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Habib Haruna | GHANA (Tamale, Northern Region) | 2020 (ELIFP) |
| Elizabeth Phocas | GREECE (Athens) | 2007 (SIFP) |
| Ellie Demopoulos | GREECE (Athens) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Vassilis Goulandris | GREECE (Athens) | 2005 (SIFP) |
| Valia Garzón Diaz | GUATEMALA (Antigua)/CUBA | 2002 (IFP) |
| Anthony Woo | HONG KONG | 1998 (IFP) |
| Yiu Kai Terence Yuen | HONG KONG | 2002 (IFP) |
| Angela Wing Kong Seng | HONG KONG (North Point) | 2007 (ELIFP) |
| Andrea Szegedi | HUNGARY (Budapest) | 2017 (SIFP) |
| Marianna Török | HUNGARY (Budapest) | 1997 (IFP) |
| Bhavna Ramrakhiani | INDIA (Ahmedabad) | 2000 (IFP), 2014 (SIFP) |
| Achintya Kumar Ghosh | INDIA (Ahmedabad) | 1989 (IFP) |
| Jayaram Manivannan | INDIA (Andhra Pradesh) | 2006 (ELIFP) |
| Priya Anand | INDIA (Bangalore) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Noshir H. Dadrawala | INDIA (Mumbai) | 1990 (IFP) |
| Pradeepta Kumar Nayak | INDIA (New Delhi) | 2013 (SIFP) |
| Partha Rudra | INDIA (New Delhi) | 2005 (SIFP) |
| Upala Devi Banerjee | INDIA (New Delhi) | 2004 (ELIFP) |
| Niloy Banerjee | INDIA (New Delhi) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Ritu Mohan | INDIA (New Delhi) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Maina Chawla Singh | INDIA (New Delhi) | 1995 (IFP) |
| Amelia Fauzia | INDONESIA (Jakarta) | 2009 (SIFP) |
| Shani Horowitz-Rozen | ISRAEL (Kfar Saba) | 2017 (IFPCP) |
| Thelma Rebecca Harris | IRELAND (Dublin) | ELIFP 2018 |
| Patrik Vesan | ITALY (Aosta) | 2019 (SIFP) |
| Deborah Bolognesi | ITALY (Bologna) | 2008 (ELIFP) |
| Alessio Sala Tenna | ITALY (Como) | 2020 (ELIFP) |
| Vittoria Burton | ITALY (Ivrea) | 2018 (SIFP) |
| Bernardino Casadei | ITALY (Milan) | 2013 (SIFP) |
| Tiziana Colasanti | ITALY (Milan) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Daniele Pietro Giudici | ITALY (Milan) | 2014 (ELIFP) |
| Marta Petenzi | ITALY (Monza) | 2017 (SIFP) |
| Irene Valotti | ITALY (Parma) | 2022 (ELIFP) |
| Thomas Bastianel | ITALY (Padua) | 2011 (ELIFP) |
| Daniela Castagno | ITALY (Rome) | 2021 (SIFP) |
| Carola Carazzone | ITALY (Torrino) | 2017 (SIFP) |
| Sonia Schellino | ITALY (Turin) | 2008 (SIFP) |
| Federica Corda | ITALY (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola) | 2017 (IFPCP) |
| Marlene Lewis | JAMAICA (Kingston) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Fumiyo Higeta Layman | JAPAN (Tokyo) | 1999 (IFP) |
| Eva Achieng Maina Ayiera** | KENYA (Nairobi) | 2009 (ELIFP) |
| Catherine Kiganjo | KENYA (Nairobi) | 2006 (SIFP) |
| Wanja Muguongo | KENYA (Nairobi) | 2018 (SIFP) |
| Catherine Mwendwa | KENYA (Nairobi) | 2018 (SIFP) |
| Emmanuel Opati | KENYA (Nairobi) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Otieno Aluoka Nashon Ogolla | KENYA (Nairobi) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Susan Njombo Odongo | KENYA (Nairobi) | 2022 (SIFP) |
| Lynnette Gacheri Micheni | KENYA (Naivisha) | 2012 (ELIFP) |
| Ainuska Sheripkanova | KYRGYZSTAN (Bishkek) | 2014 (ELIFP) |
| Gunita Bullite | LATVIA (Riga) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Inese Danga | LATVIA (Riga) | 2019 (SIFP) |
| Rūta Dimanta | LATVIA (Riga) | 2017 (IFPCP) |
| Rasma Rozenberga | LATVIA (Langstini) | 2007 (ELIFP) |
| Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena | MEXICO (Cuernavaca) | 2013 (ELIFP) |
| Pamela Cruz | MEXICO (Los Cabos) | 2022 (ELIFP) |
| M. Beatriz Noriega González | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 2012 (SIFP) |
| Alexandra Nayeli Jiménez Martínez | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 2010 (ELIFP) |
| Rosa Cristina D. Herrera de Morales | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 2009 (SIFP) |
| Gabriela Berrondo | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 2006 (SIFP) |
| Mariana Torres Blair | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 2004 (ELIFP) |
| Alejandra Cervantes | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Marcela Orvañanos de Rovzar | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Marco Mena | MEXICO (Mexico City) | 1997 (IFP) |
| Tatiana Fraga | MEXICO (Monterrey) | 2021 (ELIFP) |
| Alma Cota de Yanez | MEXICO (Nogales) | 2007 (SIFP) |
| Raquel Minerva Zamora Domínguez | MEXICO (Puerto Vallarta) | 2018 (ELIFP) |
| Ary Kahan | MEXICO (Tecamachalco) | 2006 (SIFP) |
| Odgerel Byamba | MONGOLIA (Ulaanbaatar) | 2008 (ELIFP) |
| Satish Pandey | NEPAL (Kathmandu) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Rita Thapa | NEPAL (Kathmandu) | 2015 (SIFP) |
| Esther Plemper | NETHERLANDS (Utrecht) | 1994 (IFP) |
| Genevieve Northey | NEW ZEALAND (Auckland) | 2018 (ELIFP) |
| Mark Andrew Bentley | NEW ZEALAND (Auckland) | 2012 (SIFP) |
| Karyn Lea McLeod | NEW ZEALAND (Auckland) | 2012 (SIFP) |
| Stephen John Chaney | NEW ZEALAND (Remuera, Auckland) | 2009 (SIFP) |
| William (Bill) Holland | NEW ZEALAND (Tauranga) | 2013 (SIFP) |
| Ese Swona Emerhi | NIGERIA (Port Harcourt, Rivers) | 2019 (SIFP) |
| Jude McCann | NORTHERN IRELAND (Belfast) | 2011 (ELIFP) |
| Timothy James Magowan | NORTHERN IRELAND (Belfast) | 2007 (SIFP) |
| Gráinne Kelly | NORTHERN IRELAND (Belfast) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Quintin Oliver | NORTHERN IRELAND (Belfast) | 1991 (IFP) |
| Suzy (Qian) Li | PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Beijing) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Chunyan Li | PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Shenzhen) | 2018 (ELIFP) |
| Hui Fang | PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Shanghai) | 2011 (ELIFP) |
| Tongting Xiao | PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Chengdu) | 2019 (SIFP) |
| Lulin Zheng | PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Zhengzhou) | 1995 (IFP) |
| Tuan Yang | PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Beijing) | 1998 (IFP) |
| Maria del Rosario Leon Gallo | PERU (Lima) | 1991 (IFP) |
| Luisa Pizarro | PHILIPPINES (Manila) | 1998 (IFP) |
| Gisela Tiongson-Velasco | PHILIPPINES (Manila) | 1996 (IFP) |
| Myrna G. Cacho | PHILIPPINES (Quezon City) | 1989 (IFP) 2017 IFPCP |
| Zuzanna Karolina Komornicka | POLAND (Krakow) | 2009 (ELIFP) |
| Andrzej Zawieska | POLAND (Nidzica) | 2007 (SIFP) |
| Magdalena Pękacka | POLAND (Warsaw) | 2018 (SIFP) |
| Hugo Martinez de Seabra | PORTUGAL (Lisbon) | 2020 (ELIFP) |
| Andrea Barrientos | PUERTO RICO (San Juan) | 1996 (IFP) |
| Andreea Alexandrov | ROMANIA (Bucharest) | 2021 (ELIFP) |
| Alina Porumb | ROMANIA (Cluj Napoca) | 2014 (SIFP) |
| Mihaela Giurgiu | ROMANIA (Cluj Napoca) | 2014 (ELIFP) |
| Ekaterina Maksimova | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 2008 (SIFP) |
| Vadim Samorodov | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 2004 (ELIFP) |
| Tatiana Sivaeva | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Natalya Kaminarskaya | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Oleg Stakhanov | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 2000 (IFP) |
| Yelena Yelagina | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 1999 (IFP) |
| Tatiana Bachinskaya | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 1999 (IFP) |
| Marina Liborakina | RUSSIA (Moscow) | 1995 (IFP) |
| Anna Alexandrovna Kletsina | RUSSIA (St. Petersburg) | 2008 (ELIFP) |
| Svetlana Chaparina | RUSSIA (Togliatti) | 2006 (ELIFP) |
| Inna Yudina | RUSSIA (Tyumen, Siberia) | 2010 (SIFP) |
| Ranka Šarenac | SERBIA & MONTENEGRO (Risan) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Natalija Simović | SERBIA (Belgrade) | 2014 (ELIFP) |
| Ida Adolfova | SLOVAK REPUBLIC (Banska Bystrica) | 2013 (ELIFP) |
| Zuzana Podhorska | SLOVAK REPUBLIC (Bratislava) | 2000 (IFP) |
| Nicole Rose Nieman | SOUTH AFRICA (Cape Town) | 2013 (ELIFP) |
| Annsilla Nyar | SOUTH AFRICA (Durban) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Benedict S. Cele | SOUTH AFRICA (Durban) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Xolani Zungu | SOUTH AFRICA (Durban) | 2000 (IFP) |
| Thandi Makhubele | SOUTH AFRICA (Johannesburg) | 2022 (ELIFP) |
| Shaun George Samuels | SOUTH AFRICA (Johannesburg) | 2013 (SIFP) |
| Bhekinkosi Moyo | SOUTH AFRICA (Johannesburg) | 2003 (ELIFP) |
| Fikile Kuhlase | SOUTH AFRICA (Morelata Park) | 2005 (SIFP) |
| Fulufhelo Godfrey Netswera | SOUTH AFRICA (Pretoria) | 2004 (ELIFP) |
| David Barnard | SOUTH AFRICA (Pretoria) | 1999 (IFP) |
| Bernadette Clair Dolley | SOUTH AFRICA (Richards Bay) | 2015 (SIFP) |
| Phindile Ntethe | SOUTH AFRICA (Richards Bay) | 2006 (ELIFP) |
| Christom Mkhize | SOUTH AFRICA (Richards Bay) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Avhapfani Patrick Muhali* | SOUTH AFRICA (Thohoyandou) | 2010 (SIFP) |
| Jung-Rin Kim | SOUTH KOREA (Seoul) | 2000 (IFP) |
| Chang-Soon Hwang | SOUTH KOREA (Seoul) | 1994 (IFP) |
| Carles Massot | SPAIN (Barcelona) | 2020 (ELIFP) |
| Mercedes Mosquera Arancibia | SPAIN (Barcelona) | 2009 (SIFP) |
| Rosa Gallego | SPAIN (Madrid) | 2021 (SIFP) |
| Sujeevan Perera | SRI LANKA (Colombo) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Hawaa El-Tayeb Musa | SUDAN (Khartoum) | 1991 (IFP) |
| Yung Hsing Kao | TAIWAN (Taipei) | 2005 (SIFP) |
| YunChing Tseng | TAIWAN (Taipei) | 2004 (ELIFP) |
| Snow (Hsueh-Yin) Lee | TAIWAN (Taipei) | 2003 (IFP) |
| I-Wen Wang | TAIWAN (Taipei) | 2002 (IFP) |
| Wei-Ming Sunny Ho | TAIWAN (Taipei) | 2001 (IFP) |
| Sheng-Shu Jack Shen | TAIWAN (Taipei) | 2001 (IFP) |
| John Robert Ulanga | TANZANIA (Dar-es-Salaam) | 2012 (SIFP) |
| Jarusri Jiravisitkul | THAILAND (Bangkok) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Meryem Senay Ataselim | TURKEY (Ankara) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Zeynep Meydanoglu | TURKEY (Istanbul) | 2010 (ELIFP) |
| Filiz Bikmen | TURKEY (Istanbul) | 2006 (ELIFP) |
| Malcolm Mpamizo | UGANDA (Kampala) | 2022 (ELIFP) |
| Richard Ebil-Ottoo | UGANDA (Kampala) | 1990 (IFP) |
| Elizabeth Rose Nandudu | UGANDA (Mbale) | 2000 (IFP) |
| Anna Gulevska-Chernysh | UKRAINE (Kyiv) | 2010 (ELIFP) |
| Svitlana A. Kuts | UKRAINE (Kyiv) | 1997 (IFP) |
| Svetlana Kupryashkina | UKRAINE (Kyiv) | 1995 (IFP) |
| Olga Nikolska | UKRAINE (Kyiv) | 2019 (SIFP) |
| Eugenia Mazurenko | UKRAINE (Kyiv) | 2022 (SIFP) |
| Ihor Ilko | UKRAINE (Uzhgorod) | 2003 (IFP) |
| Inna Starchikova | UKRAINE (Odessa) | 2015 (SIFP) |
| Lesia Naichuk | UKRAINE (Vinnytsia) | 2017 (SIFP) |
| Analía Bettoni | URUGUAY (Montevideo) | 2021 (SIFP) |
| Fabiana Hernandez | URUGUAY (Montevideo) | 2007 (ELIFP) |
| Allyson Reaves | USA (Beaufort, South Carolina) | 2007 (ELIFP) |
| Nurah W. Amat’ullah | USA (Bronx, New York) -- alsoTRINIDAD & TOBAGO | 2010 (SIFP) |
| Akira J. Barclay | USA (Brooklyn, New York) | 2012 (ELIFP) |
| Valentina Lodola-Rahaman | USA (Brooklyn, New York) -- also ITALY (Milan) | 2013 (ELIFP) |
| Tasha Tucker | USA (Charleston, South Carolina) | 2011 (ELIFP) |
| Bahia Akerele | USA (Columbia, Maryland) -- also Liberia & Nigeria | 2008 (ELIFP) |
| Christina Bookhart | USA (Hamilton, New Jersey) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Carly Hare | USA (Boulder, Colorado) | 2006 (ELIFP) |
| Szilvia Szmuk-Tanenbaum | USA (New York, New York) | 2012 (SIFP) |
| Charles E. B. Ugalde | USA (Oakland, California) | 2009 (ELIFP) |
| Joseph Gonzales | USA (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | 2005 (ELIFP) |
| Francesca Aguiar Filippelli | USA (Queens, New York) | 2012 (ELIFP) |
| Julieta Méndez | USA (San Diego, California) | 2006 (ELIFP) |
| Sache Cantu | USA (Washington, District of Columbia) | 2007 (ELIFP) |
| Trang Pham Kelly | USA (New York, New York) -- also VIETNAM (Ho Chi Minh City) | 2015 (SIFP) |
| Vu Thi Quynh Giao | VIETNAM (Ho Chi Minh City) | 2013 (ELIFP) |
| Ndanatsei Bofu-Tawamba | ZIMBABWE (Harare) |
2017 (SIFP) |
*deceased 2014
**deceased 2017
