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11/13/2025

⏰ Reminder: Applications Due Soon!

Don’t miss your chance to join the 2026 Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP)—a transformative experience for mid-career professionals from across the region.

Strengthen your leadership for complex times while exploring themes at the heart of regional and global change, from economic security and supply chains to energy, food systems, health, and AI.

For 25 years, APLP has empowered over 700 leaders from 45 countries to drive collaboration and innovation across the Asia Pacific. Be part of the next generation of changemakers shaping our shared future.

📅 Applications close November 15, 2025
🔗 Visit https://www.eastwestcenter.org/ZZt

11/02/2025

📢 Applications Are Now Open for the 2026 Advanced Leadership Program (ALP)!

The Advanced Leadership Program (ALP) at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, offers a unique opportunity for experienced professionals to expand their focus on leadership education, development, and impact across the Asia-Pacific region.

Designed for individuals with 10–15 years of professional experience, the ALP brings together up to three leaders from diverse backgrounds for an immersive two-month residency (June 8–August 1, 2026). Participants co-design a personalized learning plan that integrates research, reflection, and collaboration within the East-West Center community.

Through hands-on engagement, ALP fellows will:
• Co-develop and co-deliver leadership sessions alongside staff
• Build connections with scholars, professionals, and practitioners from across the region
• Design and pursue independent projects aligned with personal and professional goals
• Contribute to the next generation of leadership development at the East-West Center

If you’re a mid- to senior-career professional looking to deepen your leadership practice and contribute to advancing leadership education in the Indo-Pacific, this program offers the perfect platform to learn, collaborate, and lead.

📅 Program Dates: June 8 – August 1, 2026
📍 Location: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
🕒 Application Deadline: December 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more and apply: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/apply/advanced-leadership-program

10/16/2025

We are excited to welcome the participants of the 2025-2026 Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship to Honolulu. The cohort of 16 fellows from 13 countries brings with them vision of communities from across the region. Over the next year, they will work together on the urgent challenges of ensuring that food and energy systems are resilient and adaptable; build lasting connections; and imagine new futures together.

Presented by the East-West Center and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design), the fellowship supports rising leaders from across the Indo-Pacific.

10/15/2025

In September, the Fellows reunited in Japan for their final in-person convening. Following their visit in Okinawa meeting with researchers, scientists, entrepreneurs and officials from the Okinawa Prefectural Government office, they continued in Tokyo with visits to the Ministry of the Environment and NHK Broadcasting corporation to gain insights on implementing energy policy and communications strategies during severe weather events. The group also toured the world’s largest underground flood control facility, the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, and met with a local non-profit organization focused on community-based approaches for rainwater management in the Sumida Ward of Tokyo. Finally, most of the cohort joined an optional fieldtrip to the 2025 Expo in Osaka to close out the highly eventful week of engagement.

View and read more about their visit to Japan at: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/training-exchanges/2025-indo-pacific-leadership-japan-visit

A joint initiative of the and , the IPLL brings together fellows from across the Indo-Pacific region to examine leadership challenges critical to communities across the Indo-Pacific and explore community approaches to local and regional policy.

10/11/2025

🌟Applications Now Open: 2026 Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP)

Since 2000, the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) at the East-West Center has been a premier opportunity for mid-career professionals across the region to strengthen strategic leadership skills for complex times. The 2026 cohort will focus on global and geoeconomic trends shaping economic security, with weekly themes exploring the interconnected systems of energy, food and agriculture, health, and artificial intelligence—along with issues like supply chains, critical infrastructure, and economic coercion.

For 25 years the APLP has cultivated over 700 leaders from 45 countries who are advancing the region’s most pressing priorities. Apply for the opportunity to join a global network of changemakers working to build collaboration across the region and beyond.

📅 Applications are due November 15, 2025
🔗 Visit the link to learn more and apply: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/ZZt

09/13/2025

The Japan program was off to an eventful start in Okinawa!

At the University of the Ryukyus, the group toured the COI-NEXT aquaculture research facility, “RYUDAI GROUPER Project,” where grouper is being farmed, with hopes to develop techniques that can be replicated in areas with no ocean access.

On their day trip to Kumejima, representatives from the Kumejima Town Council welcomed the group to their offices for a discussion about the island and their efforts at resilient economic development using the Kumejima Model, which promotes the development of industry by combining the uses of deep seawater. While on the island, they visited the Okinawa Prefecture Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Demonstration Test Facility, which sits at the heart of the island’s efforts to utilize deep sea water to both generate renewable energy and serve as an incubator for private sector business development.

Back in Naha, the fellows met with the Okinawa Prefectural Government officials from the Peace and Subnational Diplomacy Division, the SDG Promotion Office, and the Environmental Restoration Division.

Stay tuned for a full recap of the program, including the remainder of the week in Tokyo and the Expo 2025 in Osaka.

A joint initiative of the and , the IPLL brings together fellows from across the Indo-Pacific region to examine leadership challenges critical to communities across the Indo-Pacific and explore community approaches to local and regional policy.

09/06/2025

Next week, Fellows will reunite in Japan for their third and final in-person convening. The cohort’s first three days will be spent in Naha and Kumejima, Okinawa where they will visit and meet with graduate students at University of the Ryukyus, and tour the Okinawa Prefectural Government Deep Sea Water Research Center and Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) demonstration plant. Fellows will also meet with local officials, businesses, and a land-based oyster cultivation site.

In Tokyo, the cohort will take part in expert panels with local scientists and researchers; and visit various sites throughout the Tokyo metropolitan area to learn about flood control and rainwater utilization.

A joint initiative of the and , the IPLL brings together fellows from across the Indo-Pacific region to examine leadership challenges critical to communities across the Indo-Pacific and explore community approaches to local and regional policy.

06/27/2025

As the 2024–2025 Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship wrapped its first year in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, fellows reunited in person to explore how communities can build systems that sustain both people and planet.

The week was grounded in powerful experiences—beginning with warm welcomes into Indigenous Māori spaces and local marae, where we connected with the deep meaning of place, ceremony, and community. Site visits to the Capital Kiwi Project, Zealandia’s groundbreaking ecosystem restoration, Victoria University’s “Living Building,” Wellington City Mission, and thought-provoking panel discussions challenged us to reimagine leadership, belonging, and intergenerational resilience. These moments were further enriched by hands-on workshops that offered space for reflection, peer learning, and actionable insight.

With support from Alec Wagner of the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa's Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation (OIKI), we close out this fellowship year with immense gratitude to the people and places of Wellington for sharing their wisdom, hospitality, and heart.

The Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship—an initiative of the East-West Center and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation—brings together changemakers across sectors to co-create solutions that promote long-term sustainability and equitable access to essential resources across the region.

05/23/2025

We are excited to announce that the 2024-2025 Indo-Pacific Futures Fellows (IPFF) will be convening in Wellington, New Zealand for the final segment of their program! Over the coming days, fellows will engage with local educators, practitioners, government officials, and community leaders to exchange ideas, deepen regional understanding, and reflect on their journey before concluding the fellowship.

Stay tuned for updates from Wellington!

The Indo-Pacific Futures Fellowship, a partnership between the East-West Center and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, brings together changemakers from various fields to explore solutions that ensure long-term stability and access to essential resources.

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design

05/20/2025

Earlier this month, Fellows met in Fiji for the second of three in-person convenings. Their week-long visit provided opportunities to meet with community leaders, local entrepreneurs, and scientists; and to explore ocean states’ and community efforts to frame and respond to changes in their environment.

View and read more about their visit to Fiji at: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/training-exchanges/2024-2025-indo-pacific-leadership-lab-fiji-visit

A joint initiative of the and , the IPLL brings together fellows from across the Indo-Pacific region to examine leadership challenges critical to communities across the Indo-Pacific and explore community approaches to local and regional policy.

04/30/2025

Earlier this week, Fellows arrived in Fiji to continue their year-long program! Monday, the second-year cohort met in Suva and were welcomed by the Japan Ambassador to Fiji, His Excellency, Mr. Rokuichiro Michii.

Distinguished guests from Suva’s business and church communities, University of the South Pacific (USP), and senior policy experts from the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat framed the week ahead through a multi-dimensional panel discussion with Fellows. Opening day was capped off with a visit to USP’s Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture and Pacific Studies for an afternoon of cultural and academic learning with graduate students.

A joint initiative of the and , the IPLL brings together fellows from across the Indo-Pacific region to examine leadership challenges critical to communities across the Indo-Pacific and explore community approaches to local and regional policy.

04/18/2025

In just over a week’s time, Fellows will be reuniting in Suva, Fiji for their second of three in-person convenings. The program’s 16 fellows will come together to collaborate in workshops, visits and learn from local communities, hear about innovative research at the University of the South Pacific, meet with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, and participate in rich multi-sector panels with local entrepreneurs and scientists.

A joint initiative of the and , the IPLL brings together fellows from across the Indo-Pacific region to examine leadership challenges critical to communities across the Indo-Pacific and explore community approaches to local and regional policy.

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