The Halle Institute’s Distinguished Fellow Program brings influential international personalities to the Emory campus for intensive interaction with faculty, staff and students, as well as with the Atlanta community and area institutions. Fellows include heads of state, politicians, policymakers, artists, and journalists, who bring unique perspectives on some of the most important world issues of the day. Fellows give public lectures, participate in seminars at Emory and other educational institutions, visit classes, and meet with political, business and media leaders in Atlanta.

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Distinguished Fellows. The Halle Institute welcomes ideas for its programs. If you would like to be invited to Halle Institute events, please send an email to evan.goldberg@emory.edu with ADD HALLE in the subject line.

Marta Lagos, Founding Director of Latinobarómetro

Johnny Isakson, United States Senator from Georgia

Mechai Viravaidya, Founder and Board Chairman of the Population & Community Development Association (PDA), Thailand

Jagdish Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Goizueta Business School





John Bruton, European Union Ambassador to the United States

Albie Sachs, Justice, The Constitutional Court of South Africa

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Journalist and Author

Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Tibetan Author and Translator

Gijs de Vries, Former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, Council of the EU

Sunita Kohli, Indian Designer and Leader in Historical Restoration





Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator for German-American Cooperation

Dr. Gayane Tamazyan, Deputy Health Minister on Maternal and Infant Health for the Moscow Region

Oona King, former British Member of Parliament, Associate Fellow of International Affairs at Chatham House

Ritu Menon, founder of India's first and most well known feminist publishing house, Kali for Women

Geshe Lhakdor, Director of the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, India, and close associate of the Dalai Lama

Jutta Limbach, President of the Goethe Institute and former President of the German Constitutional Court

Bishop Wolfgang Huber, Chief of Council, Evangelical Church of Germany

His Majesty the King Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi, Leader of the Royal Bafokeng Nation

Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkey’s most prominent journalist and chief anchor of CNN Türk

Diedre Berger, Managing Director of the American Jewish Committee Berlin Office and former correspondent for National Public Radio

Frits Bolkestein, European Commissioner for the Single Market

Mamphela Ramphele, Senior Advisor to the World Bank and co-chair of the United Nations Global Commission on International Migration

Juan Diez-Nicolas, Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University, Madrid, and founder and President of the Madrid-based survey research institute Análisis Sociológicos, Económicos y Políticos (ASEP)





Sona Khan, human rights lawyer and women’s rights activist from India

Jairam Ramesh, political analyst, columnist for India Today and the Times of India, and economic advisor to the Congress Party, India





Peter Schneider, Berlin-based novelist and journalist





Rajmohan Gandhi, Indian scholar and political commentator





Yukio Okamoto, prominent Japanese public policy advisor, businessman, and media consultant