King Center Global Development Conference and Event Support (Summer Deadline)
Internal — Stanford University only
King Center Global Development Conference and Event Support (Summer Deadline) funds Stanford organizers’ academic events to bring scholars and practitioners together on global development and poverty research.
Funder: Stanford University
Due Dates: October 25, 2026 (Winter events onward) | January 17, 2027 (Spring events onward) | April 11, 2027 (Summer events onward) | July 11, 2027 (Autumn events onward)
Funding Amounts: Event funding, with limited staff assistance and conference space subject to availability
Summary: Supports Stanford-organized conferences, lectures, workshops, and other events advancing global development and poverty-focused research.
Key Information: Primary organizers must be Stanford faculty, postdoctoral fellows, or PhD students; postdoc and PhD organizers need an active faculty organizing-committee member.
Description
Stanford’s King Center on Global Development supports academic events focused on global development and poverty-related topics. The program brings together scholars, development practitioners, policymakers, and private sector leaders to address solutions-oriented research. Supported formats include lectures, smaller workshops, larger multi-day conferences, and potential co-funding of departmental seminar series.
The center encourages events that bring faculty together in new ways across disciplines such as earth sciences, economics, engineering, medicine, political science, and policy. Events should align with its mission to empower multidisciplinary scholarship, shape policy and practice, and train future global leaders. Alongside financial support, the center may provide limited planning and logistical assistance and reserve in-house conference rooms when available. High demand means only a few proposals receive funding or logistical support.
