Levels: Master, MBA
Tests needed: GMAT
Tuition: Full coverage
Finaid max: 58000  EUR
Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
Duration max: 12  months

Kofi Annan Fellowship is a fellowship grant for an emerging leader from a developing country for a two-year Master’s in Management (MIM) or a one-year full-time MBA education at ESMT Berlin in Berlin, Germany.

  • Afghanistan
  • Angola
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Congo
  • Djibouti
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gambia
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Haiti
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kiribati
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mauritania
  • Mongolia
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Nepal
  • Niger
  • Palestine
  • Paraguay
  • North Macedonia
  • Moldova
  • Rwanda
  • Samoa
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Senegal
  • Sierra Leone
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • Southern Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Swaziland
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania, United Republic of
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Uzbekistan
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
  • Business
  • Management
  • Management & Organisation

Duration max: 12  months

Duration comments: One-year full-time MBA

Fellows will receive a full tuition scholarship from ESMT (€25,000 for MIM students and €43,500 for MBA students) plus fair compensation for travel and accommodation costs and program related fees.  Travel, visa, housing, insurance, placement, networking will also be supported.

Applications for Kofi Annan Fellowships are accepted and awarded on an ongoing basis during the application cycle.  The MIM program starts in September of each year with a final application deadline of June 30. The MBA program begins in January of each year with a final application deadline of September 30.

Host Institution(s):

ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Germany in cooperation with the Kofi Annan Business Schools Foundation in The Hague, Netherlands.