Global Security & Development Program
Internships
The internship component of this program provides graduate students a unique opportunity for practical training and professional development in a chosen field of international affairs, development and public policy. The internship encourages students to gain in-depth knowledge of an organization and its relation to certain issues and policy processes, to define and pursue your own career aspirations, and to network for the future. It requires a minimum of 250 hours over a period of at least 12 weeks. Most students end up working close to full-time.
GSDP students have interned at over 200 different offices in Washington DC including:
- American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
- Amnesty International
- Asian Development Bank
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Creative Associates International
- Embassy of Mexico
- Human Rights First
- InterAction
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Peace Corps
- The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- The Eastern Congo Initiative
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF)
- The Heritage Foundation
- The U.S. Department of Defense
- The Wilson Center
- USAID
- U.S. Army Futures Command
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Department of Treasury
- U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Vital Voices
- World Wildlife Fund
For international students, work authorization is required. Details are available on the Center for International Services.