International visitors enrich school programs

European Union Fellow. This year's fellowship holder from the European Union in Brussels is David Galloway. A native of Scotland, Galloway is the Principal Administrator in the Foreign and Security Policy Department of the Council of the European Union. During the spring semester, he will teach a seminar entitled "European Union: Players, Processes, and Policies."

Diplomat in Residence. Joseph S. Hulings, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan, is spending a year at the LBJ School as a U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence. The program sends senior foreign service officials to university campuses as visiting scholars to share their experiences and insights.

Humphrey Fellows. Each year since 1990 the School has hosted a group of mid-career professionals from developing countries through the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. Sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency, the program brings the fellows to the LBJ School and 13 other U.S. campuses for a year of study and professional development. This year's fellows are William Kwadwo Asiedu (Ghana), Oumar Ba (Mali), Simon Michel Bibang Bi Ndong (Gabon), Britone Chitakunye (Zimbabwe), Yemane Dawit (Eritrea), Vinette Keene (Jamaica), Madusari (Indonesia), Masood Ul Mulk (Pakistan), Mary Nanjego-Wasike (Uganda), Elizabeth Malebogo Paledi (Botswana), Karen Sorby (Fiji), and Jitka Tesarova (Czech Republic).

Central American Legislative Fellows. The LBJ School is currently hosting two Costa Rican legislative staff members. The fellows spend one semester interning in the Texas Senate and take classes at UT Austin. The 1995-96 fellows are Rocío Barrientos Solano and Diana Robledo Villalobos.

Ford Foundation Brazilian Fellows. Through a three-year grant from the Ford Foundation, five Brazilian scholars are chosen each year to attend the LBJ School, where they learn about the tools and techniques of policy research. The 1995-96 fellows are Pedro de Albuquerque Neto, Paulo Roberto Demeter, Marina da Silva Kahn, Leonardo JosŽ Amaral de MŽllo, and Nelson Saule Junior.

Other visitors
Visiting Scholar Leila da Costa Ferreira is a professor of sociology at Campinas State University in Campinas, S‹o Paulo, Brazil. During her stay at the LBJ School, she is analyzing municipal environmental policies and examining the roles of the state and civil society in the design and implementation of such policies.

Geza Jeszenszky, Member of the Hungarian Parliament and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Hungary, visited the LBJ School in mid-November as a participant in the International Visitors Program of the U.S. Information Agency. Dr. Jeszenszky, who gave a brown bag talk while at the School, is also President of the Hungarian Atlantic Council and a faculty member at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.