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SYLFF Fellows in Action
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Susan Banki, of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, bonds with Burmese refugee children in Thailand during her field survey work.
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Webster Whande, of the University of the Western Cape, conducts doctoral research on biodiversity conservation in the village of Bennde Mutale, in South Africa's Limpopo Province.
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Chronology of the SYLFF Program
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Pictured are the second group of SYLFF fellows, academic year 1988-1989, and Fletcher School faculty members. From left: SYLFF fellow Jennie Litvack; The Fletcher School's then dean Jeswald Salacuse; SYLFF fellow Reeta Roy; faculty members James Paddock and John Perry; and SYLFF fellows Ariel Cohen, Song Ly, James Loewen, and David Saybolt.
Not present is the seventh SYLFF fellow named that year, Catherine McAuliffe.
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1987
●First SYLFF endowment established at
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (U.S.A.)
1988
●SYLFF endowments established at
Uppsala University (Sweden)
Ankara University (Turkey)
Korea University (Korea)
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris (France)
University of São Paulo (Brazil)
The University of the South Pacific (Fiji)
INSEAD (France)
University of Sussex (U.K.)
University of Belgrade (then Yugoslavia)
1989
●SYLFF endowments established at
University of Nairobi (Kenya)
University of Oslo (Norway)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
York University (Canada)
Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (U.S.A.)
Yale University (U.S.A.)
The Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
1990
●SYLFF endowments established at
University of Indonesia (Indonesia)
University of Malaya (Malaysia)
Chiang Mai University (Thailand)
●First issue of HEIWA: The Newsletter of the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund published (24 issues published until 1997)
1991
●SYLFF endowments established at
University of Michigan (U.S.A.)
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University (U.S.A.)
Oregon University System (U.S.A.)
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California at San Diego (U.S.A.)
The Red McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin (U.S.A.)
Howard University (U.S.A.)
Massey University (New Zealand)
Australian Graduate School of Management, The University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
University of Helsinki (Finland)
1992
●SYLFF endowments established at
Fudan University (China)
Jilin University (China)
Lanzhou University (China)
Nanjing University (China)
Peking University (China)
University of Deusto (Spain)
Institute of Political Education "Pedro Arrupe" (Italy)
El Colegio de México (Mexico)
University of Leipzig (Germany)
Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria)
Academy of Management (Mongolia)
The American University in Cairo (Egypt)
1993
●SYLFF endowments established at
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
●First meeting of SYLFF fellows and SYLFF Program administrators, "Young Leaders Forum on the Challenges of the 21st Century," convened in Beijing
1994
●SYLFF endowments established at
Chongqing University (China)
Inner Mongolia University (China)
Xinjiang University (China)
Yunnan University (China)
Sun Yat-sen University (China)
Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
●Joint Research/Exchange (JREX) Program and JREX Selection and Evaluation Committee launched
1995
●SYLFF endowments established at
University of the Western Cape (South Africa)
Charles University (Czech Republic)
Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia)
●SYLFF Advisory Board established
●New SYLFF follow-up programs launched, including SYLFF Administrator/Faculty Exchange (AFEX) Program, Visit Japan Program, and Forum Program
1996
●SYLFF endowments established at
Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Austria)
1997
●SYLFF Program Administrators Meeting convened in Vancouver in conjunction with 49th Annual Conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators
●Global Foundation for Research and Scholarship (GFRS) established
●Administrative responsibilities of SYLFF Program transferred from Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) to GFRS
●SYLFF Program Administrators Meeting convened in Barcelona in conjunction with 1997 Annual Conference of European Association for International Education (EAIE)
1998
●SYLFF endowment established at
The Juilliard School (U.S.A.)
●SYLFF Program Administrators Meeting convened at Uppsala University, Sweden, in conjunction with 1998 Annual Conference of EAIE
1999
●SYLFF endowment established at
Vietnam National University (Vietnam)
●Foundation name changed from GFRS to The Tokyo Foundation
●Scholarship Division's International Advisory Committee established
2000
●SYLFF endowment established at
Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University (Japan)
●SYLFF Program Administrators Meeting convened in San Diego, California, in conjunction with 52nd Annual Conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators
2001
●SYLFF endowment established at
Waseda University (Japan)
●SYLFF Forum Program terminated
●SYLFF database launched
2002
●SYLFF endowments established at
University of Latvia (Latvia)
University of Chile (Chile)
Ateneo de Manila University (The Philippines)
●SYLFF AFEX Program transformed into Program Development Award (PDA)
●SYLFF Program Administrators Meeting convened at The Nippon Foundation Building, Tokyo, Japan
2003
●SYLFF endowments established at
University of Jordan (Jordan)
Jadavpur University (India)
Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)
●SYLFF North/South America Regional Forum convened at The University of Texas at Austin
●SYLFF Africa/Europe Regional Forum convened at The American University in Cairo
●SYLFF Asia/Pacific Regional Forum convened at Chiang Mai University, Thailand
●Provisional SYLFF Fellows Council (PSFC) established
●SYLFF Network Program (SNP) launched
●JREX terminated
2004
●SYLFF endowment established at
Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)
●Visit Japan Program terminated
●SYLFF Fellows Mobility Program (FMP) launched
●SYLFF Prizes awarded to Amal Jadou, Egla Martinez-Salazar, and Goran Svilanovic in Tokyo
2005
●SYLFF Program Administrators Meeting convened at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila
●SYLFF Fellows Council (SFC) established
●SYLFF North/South America Regional Forum convened at Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
●SYLFF Asia/Pacific Regional Forum convened at University of Indonesia, Jakarta
●SYLFF Africa/Europe Regional Forum convened at University of Coimbra, Portugal
●Joint Initiatives Program (JIP) launched
●48 SYLFF institutions participate in FMP
2006
●SYLFF network database launched
●53 SYLFF institutions participate in FMP
●Six teams of SYLFF fellows awarded JIP grants
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