The 2025 deadline to submit applications is Monday, March 24 (11:59pm EST).
The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government accepts applications for the Ray Goldberg Fellowship in Global Food Systems.
Overview
The purpose of the fellowship is to support Harvard students working in the context of global food systems, which may include work related to agricultural systems, food supply chains, farmer and farmworker well-being and equity, agricultural economics, food justice and sovereignty, agricultural processing and industry, food science and nutrition, hunger, or food policy. The fellowship is designed to enable students to expose themselves to a wide range of researchers and research approaches, and/or non-profit and private sector organizations, early on in their training before they make their ultimate choice of a research or career topic.
Award
Each academic year we plan to make one–three awards of up to $7,500 each. The award can be used for a variety of activities including support for an independent research project, internship, or collaboration with other researchers having limited or no funds to support the participation of an award recipient. Prior awards provided funds to conduct field work, attend conferences, learn a foreign language in a host country, or visit leading scholars, practitioners, and research institutions.
Eligibility
Applications will be accepted from students enrolled full time in any degree-granting program at Harvard University at any level: undergraduate, masters, and doctoral.
Expectations
Recipients will be required to submit a progress report on use of the funds in September and may be invited to make a presentation about their work.
Application deadline
Monday, March 24, 2025 (11:59 PM EST).
Application process
Candidates should submit both:
- Goldberg Fellowship including file upload of Harvard transcript (unofficial version is acceptable). Form must be completed online.
- Student application, submitted by email, that contains as a single pdf file:
* One-page cover letter summarizing why this opportunity will benefit them;
* A description of what they would do with the support, including a title and budget (2 pages maximum); and
* Resume or CV.
The pdf file with your application should be labeled, with your Goldberg_Fellowship_lastname_firstname_, e.g., Goldberg_Fellowship_Smith_Jane.
Applications should be emailed to nora_oneil@hks.harvard.edu and include, in the subject heading, “Goldberg Fellowship application – [Your first and last name],” e.g., Goldberg Fellowship application – Jane Smith.
Selection Process
Selection will be made by a committee of Harvard faculty and staff. The applicants will be assessed on the quality of their proposed research and the intellectual rigor and relevance to the student's previous work.
Sponsorship
The fellowship was inaugurated by an anonymous gift from a Harvard Business School alumnus.
is George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School where he founded the Agribusiness Senior Management Seminars. He taught a course at the Harvard Kennedy School 
on Food Policy and Agribusiness and a junior tutorial seminar at Harvard College on Climate and Its Impact on the Global Food System. He co-founded and moderated the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Group (PAPSAC) which has met annually at the Harvard Kennedy School since the early 1990s. PAPSAC is a university-wide seminar to broaden communication among farmers, business leaders, scientists, public policy leaders, academics, not for profits, and consumer activists on topics of mutual concern to participants of the global food system and the society that it serves.