To make a gift to The Halle Institute, visit Emory’s secure online giving form. A drop-down menu will allow you to direct your gift to The Halle Institute, and to a particular Halle program if you wish. The Halle Institute’s current programs are:

Study Trip Program

The Halle Institute promotes individual development through its unique Study Trip Program, which takes Emory and Atlanta area faculty, staff, and advanced graduate students on intensive learning trips. Over one hundred have participated in trips to Germany and India over the past six years, meeting with top regional and national politicians, business leaders, journalists, artists, citizens and scholars. Participants return to share their new knowledge and understanding, helping to broaden the perspectives of students and colleagues. The Halle Institute requires funds to continue the India Study Trip in future years, as well as to develop Study Trips to other countries around the world.

Distinguished Fellow and Speaker Series Programs

The Halle Institute brings heads of state, policymakers, and public intellectuals from around the world to Emory University through the Distinguished Fellow and Speaker Series Programs. Among the Distinguished Fellows are President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia; President Olafur Ragnor Grimsson of Iceland; Mamphela Ramphele, senior advisor to the World Bank and cochair of the United Nations Global Commission on International Migration; Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkey’s best known journalist; Deidre Berger, Managing Director of the American Jewish Committee in Berlin; Jairam Ramesh, currently Secretary of the Economic Affairs Department of the Congress Party in New Delhi, India; Sona Khan, prominent Indian and Muslim feminist lawyer; Japan’s Yukio Okamoto, prominent executive and policy advisor; and the prominent Dutchman Frits Bolkestein, when he was serving as European Commissioner for the Single Market. The Speaker Series has included, among others, Nobel Laureate John Hume; Jacques Julliard, editor in chief of the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur; Mary Carlin Yates, the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana; and Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, foreign editor of Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Program on Governance

The Program on Governance provides a forum for research and expert meetings on local, regional, national, and international issues of importance to governance. Europe was the focus of the Program’s inaugural conference “European Governance: Challenges for the Future,” which was held April 11-12, 2005 at Emory University and co-sponsored by the European Central Bank. In October 2005, the Program on Governance hosted an expert meeting on successful public/private partnerships for development in the field of maternal healthcare in Russia, co-sponsored by The Future of Russia Foundation. In cooperation with the Open World Program and the Academy of Educational Development, The Program on Governance designed a one-week program on local governance for delegates from Russia.