Overview
An initiative of the Abe Fellowship Program, the Abe Fellows Global Forum (Abe Global) is designed to bring Abe Fellow research and expertise on pressing issues of global concern to broader audiences. Abe Global will host several events each year in partnership with academic and civic organizations throughout the United States. This initiative is co-organized with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
This program was conducted from 2016 to 2020.
Past Events
- 2020
 Theme: Work-Life Balance in the COVID Age: Can the US and Japan Meet the Challenges?
 October 27, 9:00am – 10:00am Virtual Event
- 2019
 Theme: Cyber Challenges: The Internet, Global Competition, and National Security
 September 5, 3:00pm – 6:00pm Hudson Institute
- 2018
 Theme: Japanese and American Innovation in the Global Age
 December 1 Georgia Institute of Technology
 December 3 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- 2017
 Theme: Japan and the Leadership of the World Trading System
 November 10 Columbia University, Center on Japanese Economy and Business and School of International Public Affairs
 Theme: Confronting Climate Change: What Can Japan and the US Contribute to Creating Sustainable Societies?
 October 18 Asia Society Texas Center in Houston
 October 20 Stanford University, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
- 2016
 Abe Fellowship Program 25th Anniversary Symposium
 Theme: Emerging Futures in a Changing World- Symposium Report
- Introductory video of the symposium
- The symposium was featured in the Japan Foundation’s online publication “Wochi Kochi Magazine.”
 Highlights  
 Speakers and associates at the Center for Global Partnership/Abe Fellowship Program 25th Anniversary Symposium (held at the Toranomon Hills Forum, November 15, 2016) 
 Keynote speaker
 Gerald Curtis (Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Columbia University) “Preparing for an Uncertain Future” 
 Keynote speaker
 Yukio Okamoto (President, Okamoto Associates) “Searching for a New Equilibrium of East Asia”



