Alfa Fellowship ProgramSince the Alfa Fellowship Program’s inception in 2004, fellows have gained professional experience in a wide variety of placements at over 120 leading companies and organizations in Russia. Together with the Fund for International Fellowships and Cultural Dialogue, fellows play an active role in identifying appropriate placements in organizations that fit their professional backgrounds and goals while on the program.
Fellows’ fields vary from year to year; below is a sample list of where fellows have completed work placements.
Please note, prior to becoming fellows, applicants to the program are expected to show their knowledge of their respective fields in Russia by including in their personal statement thoughtful and well-researched proposals for placements where they would enhance their professional skills and contribute to the host organization’s mission through their placement there.
For more information about the work placement process, visit our FAQs here.
| Business, Finance, Law, and Energy | Media |
| Ad Marginem | Associated Press |
| Alfa-Bank | CNN |
| Bank of America | Deutsche Welle |
| bp | Feature Story News |
| Control Risks | Foreign Policy Magazine |
| Dechert LLP | National Geographic |
| Deloitte | The Bell |
| Dentons Europe AO | The Moscow Times |
| IHS Markit | The New York Times |
| KB Strelka | Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
| Kunlun Red Star (Member of the Kontinental Hockey League [KHL]) | Institutes and International Organizations |
| Mail.ru | American Chamber of Commerce in Russia |
| NCH Capital | Creative Writing School Literaturnye Masterskie |
| PBN Hill+Knowlton Strategies | Delegation of the European Union to Russia |
| Rystad Energy | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) |
| Shell Global | European Union National Institutes for Culture, Moscow Cluster |
| Yandex | German-Russian Chamber of Commerce |
| NGOs, Foundations, and Think Tanks | Goethe Institut |
| Carnegie Moscow Center | Higher School of Economics |
| Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) | Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Civic Assistance Committee | International Finance Committee |
| Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung | Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) |
| Garage Museum | Nekrasov Library |
| Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung | Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) |
| Human Rights Watch | World Bank |
| International Memorial | |
| Levada Center | |
| Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics |
