PPIA AND SCHWARZMAN SCHOLARS ARE BUILDING A GLOBAL LEADERSHIP PIPELINE
In 2026, Schwarzman Scholars joins PPIA as a Signature Investor, creating a partnership centered on global leadership, student opportunity, institutional visibility, and the future of public service education.
A national public service pipeline is now connected to a global leadership platform
The Schwarzman Scholars partnership gives PPIA students a new way to see their own potential. It brings global leadership closer to a community already built around ambition, service, and public purpose.
This is what makes the new partnership between PPIA and Schwarzman Scholars so important. For nearly fifty years, PPIA has helped students step into public service pathways that might otherwise have felt distant or difficult to reach. Now, that pathway is widening.
Schwarzman Scholars is one of the world’s most visible global leadership programs. Its connection to PPIA brings new attention to a national network of students and alumni already thinking seriously about policy, public service, government, diplomacy, nonprofit leadership, business, technology, and international affairs.
The timing matters. Students entering public service today are preparing for careers shaped by international affairs, technology, migration, diplomacy, economics, climate, and geopolitical change. The work ahead will ask them to move across institutions, cultures, perspectives, and borders.
THE SIGNAL
A wider world is opening up for PPIA students
Schwarzman Scholars’ partnership gives students stronger exposure to global leadership, academic excellence, and international possibility.
It helps students see that public service can extend far beyond the places they already know.
THE SHIFT
Public leadership increasingly requires a global perspective
The issues shaping public life now move across borders and sectors.
Students preparing for public service will need judgment, cultural fluency, strategic thinking, and the confidence to lead in unfamiliar rooms.
THE OPPORTUNTY
Students can begin imagining careers that reach further than they once thought possible
Through workshops, storytelling, alumni conversations, and leadership programming, the partnership introduces students to leadership pathways, fellowships, and mentors connected to public service on a global scale.
The power of this partnership is proximity. It brings global leadership within view and gives students a stronger sense of how public service can stretch across countries, institutions, and sectors.
That exposure can change how a student thinks about the future. A fellowship that once seemed distant becomes something to explore. A career path that once felt abstract begins to feel possible. A global leadership program becomes part of the conversation much earlier.
For PPIA, the work ahead is to turn this partnership into a year-round experience: workshops, digital storytelling, alumni conversations, leadership programming, and Future Leaders Summit moments that help students see the world differently.
Schwarzman Scholars and PPIA share a belief that the next generation of public leaders must be prepared to lead in a global world
Josh Diosomito
PPIA Executive Director
Each touchpoint gives students another way to connect ambition with action. It gives alumni another way to give back. It gives partners another reason to pay attention to the talent moving through PPIA’s network.
WHAT COMES NEXT
The partnership will continue to take shape throughout the year. Students should expect opportunities to learn more about Schwarzman Scholars, hear from alumni and leaders, and explore how global leadership connects to the public service paths they are already building.
Learn More About Schwarzman Scholars
Schwarzman Scholars prepares future global leaders through a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, combining rigorous academic study, leadership development, and deep engagement with China and the world.
