Please note that we will not be accepting any Fellowship nominations for the year 2025. The program is undergoing a comprehensive review and will be relaunched with new guidelines in Spring 2025.
For more information, please reach out to Anne-Marie Giroux, Program Officer, Fellowship and Mentorship: amgiroux@trudeaufoundation.ca.
Stefanie von Hlatky
About Fellows
While Mentors provide the non-academic perspective for Scholars, Fellows are essential academic senior counterparts to our Scholars without actually working as thesis supervisors. As top-level researchers, Fellows act as role models, enjoy the recognition of their peers and act as public intellectuals.

Fellows play a critical role in the intellectual development of our doctoral Scholars, empowering them to think about academic and non-academic pathways and inspiring them to publish, network, and attend conferences. They act as outstanding public educators, dynamic professors, and intellectual guides to Scholars during their mandate with the Foundation.
Marie-Joelle Zahar
Public educators and intellectual guides
Fellows are interested in various subject matters, have published extensively and distinguish themselves as outstanding PhD advisors. They take service to their institutions seriously and are dedicated university leaders.

As senior academics with expertise on one or more Foundation themes, Fellows may guide workshops, advise on the preparation of Foundation’s events and offer master classes on topics deemed necessary for the leadership development and intellectual engagement of the Scholars.

Testimonials from Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Fellows 

"I believe that leadership skills are crucial for having the courage to address difficult issues. In today’s world, there is a lot of polarization and echo chambers. We tend to talk to people we agree with, but we are losing the ability to engage with those we disagree with. To solve global problems, we need to be inclusive, and to learn inclusivity, we need courage. We need collaboration skills. We need listening skills."

– Marie-Joëlle Zahar, 2023 Fellow

 

"Engaged leadership is important for having impact in the world because it implies that you are going to not just be a great academic, but you are also going to be someone who speaks to the public, whether it is your local community group or at some, you know, larger national, international level. And to be able to do that, you need some practice with translating your scholarship, your interests into the language that people understand and that will that demonstrate you are addressing important issue in the world."

–  Virginia Ann Haufler, 2022 Fulbright Fellow