Fellowships Program
The Vasey Fellowship affords promising scholars from outside the US the opportunity to serve as researchers at the Pacific Forum to develop hands-on expertise on US-Asia policy issues and gain an appreciation of Indo-Pacific economic and security affairs and policymaking challenges.
Eligibility and How to Apply:
To apply for the Vasey Fellowship, please complete the Non-resident Vasey Fellowship online application form and include all materials listed below. All materials must be written in English. Any statement in your application that is found to be false will be grounds for disqualification.
Moses Sakai is the Resident Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum. Between 2024 and 2025, he worked as a Research Fellow at the Papua New Guinea National Research Institute (PNG NRI), an independent public think tank based in the capital Port Moresby.
Moses is also a member of the Young Leaders Program of the Pacific since December 2023.
In June-July 2024, Moses was a visiting scholar on US Foreign Policy at the University of Delaware under the US State Department’s Study of the US Institute (SUSI) for Scholars Program.
He is also a Regional Research Associate (Honorary) since August 2025 of the Indo-Pacific Studies Center (IPSC), a Sydney-based foreign policy think tank in Australia.
His research interests lies on the US-China competition in the Pacific, US foreign policy in the Pacific, security and Pacific regionalism broadly.
