MSFS News

MSFS welcomes four new Practitioners in Residence (PiRs) for the 2021-2022 academic year. The Practitioners in Residence initiative promotes interactions between MSFS students and leading practitioners in international affairs in…

MSFS extends our welcome to Professor Jodi Vittori as the newest member of the program’s Leadership Team. Prof. Vittori will join MSFS as a Professor of Practice and co-chair of…

MSFS is thrilled to welcome SFS alumna Ashley Thomas Lenihan back to Georgetown as the new Deputy Director of the M.S. in Foreign Service program. Ashley Thomas Lenihan comes to…

Master of Science in Foreign Service and Master of Business Administration dual degree student Joey Gonzales (MSFS/MBA’23) was selected to join the inaugural cohort of the Public Policy New Voices…

Read an interview with 2020 MSFS African Student Scholar Anita Abbey as she discusses how her previous experience working at a leading bank in Ghana prepared her for MSFS and…

MSFS is thrilled to introduce the Fall 2021 recipients of the inaugural MSFS Futures Scholarship, the African Student Scholarship, and the McHenry Fellowship. These exceptional individuals were selected from a…

MSFS alumnae Annika Betancourt (MSFS’12) and Stacie Williams (MSFS’16) received the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellowship. The Fellowship brings together twenty six young professionals from across the national…

Creating solutions for foreign policy challenges through innovative learning. WASHINGTON – Georgetown University’s Master of Science in Foreign Service Program is pleased to announce the launch this month of Hacking…

Congratulations to the 2021 MSFS finalists! MSFS is delighted to announce that nine MSFS students and alumni were selected as finalists for the Presidential Management Fellows Program for the Class…

Our MSFS student representatives (reps) are an integral part of the MSFS community. Now more than ever as MSFS adapts to the virtual environment, our student reps have…

The Hinrich Foundation Global Trade Leader Scholarship is a scholarship established through the generous contribution of the Hinrich Foundation. Its mission is to advance mutually beneficial and sustainable global…

MSFS is delighted to announce Kala Hagen as the 2020 recipient of the SoldierStrong Scholarship. Kala is the fifth recipient of this endowment, a partial-tuition scholarship designated for…

Meet the newest members of the M.S. in Foreign Service Board of Advisors! The MSFS program is thrilled to welcome five of our alumni to the…

As part of MSFS’ Global Challenges Symposium, Prof. Elizabeth Ferris of Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) interviewed MSFS Class of 2017 alum Robert Mominee who is…

A message from Georgetown University President, Dr. John J. DeGioia on the university’s plans for the Spring 2021 semester. Dear Members of the Georgetown University Community: I write today to…

Heemin Yang is part of the inaugural cohort of five McHenry Fellows. The Donald F. McHenry Global Public Service Fellows Program provides professional and personal development opportunities for exceptionally…

MSFS is proud to have three of our second year students selected as student fellows with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) at Georgetown. Each year, the…

In a webinar on September 28,  2020 General Secretary of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, hosted a webinar on Climate Change and Security featuring students from ten universities across the…

Read an interview with second year MSFS student Kevin Russell as he discusses his experience at Georgetown and how he hopes to use the knowledge he has gained to continue…

MSFS second year student, Benjamin Weinberg, returns to MSFS after spending a year as a Boren fellow in Brazil where he studied Portuguese and conducted research on the Brazil’s public…