The Brown Foreign Policy Initiative connects students curious about global affairs and policy-making, empowering them to grow, contribute, and lead in international affairs through research, consulting, and direct engagement with the policy world.
BFPI is a fully student-governed organization dedicated to developing leaders who shape international policy and foster global cooperation in an increasingly complex world, instilling empathy, creativity, and responsibility along the way.
Student-led research teams producing evidence-based policy briefs and reports on pressing questions in international affairs, from regional security to global economic policy.
Learn more →Client-oriented consulting projects for private, nonprofit, and intergovernmental partners, pairing student research teams with real organizations to produce actionable deliverables.
Learn more →Speaker events, and trips including visits to consulates and embassies, plus our yearly New York trip, where we visit think tanks and meet with practitioners shaping global policy.
Learn more →This cycle, BFPI research and consulting teams are producing evidence-based policy analysis and client-facing deliverables for partners on and off campus.
A research team examining the strategic competition between the United States and China to set the global standard for artificial intelligence.
Learn more →A research team analyzing the humanitarian and policy challenges facing migrants and regional governments along the Darién Gap migration route.
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BFPI's consulting division is partnering with the Sambhav Foundation on a client-facing engagement this cycle.
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