The ODI Fellowship Scheme has two specific goals:

1. to provide governments of developing countries with high calibre junior professional economists where gaps in local expertise exist; and
2. to provide recent postgraduate economists with practical work experience in a developing country.

The ODI Fellowship Scheme:

• has existed since 1963
• is demand-led by developing country governments who share the costs of employing Fellows with ODI
• has worked in 40 mostly low-income countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific;
• has sent over 900 economists to work in developing countries on two-year postings;
• is open to postgraduate economists of any nationality;
• is currently partnered with 24 developing country governments and three regional bodies; and
• awarded 54 Fellowships in 2012 and currently has 100 Fellows in post.