We wanted to make sure you heard the exciting news that Jacob J. Lew, the outgoing U.S. treasury secretary, will join our faculty as a visiting professor on Feb. 1, 2017.
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We wanted to make sure you heard the exciting news that Jacob J. Lew, the outgoing U.S. treasury secretary, will join our faculty as a visiting professor on Feb. 1, 2017.
We are excited to be joined by a number of new adjuncts and research scholars this spring. Among them are Karla Hoff and Augusto de la Torre of the World Bank; Ronaldo Lemos, co-founder and Director of the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro; and Pierre Vimont, former ambassador of France to the United States.
This semester I enrolled in a new course offered by SIPA’s Gender a Public Policy Specialization called Gender and Armed…
We are hosting a series of Facebook Live Friday information sessions and Seeple interviews this year to help you better prepare your applications. See the schedule for more information on each individualized session.
Kaitlyn Wells, Assistant Director of Admissions, hosted a special Facebook Live session with MPA in Development Practice Director Glenn Denning. Catch up on their conversation by watching the recording while you still can!
Looking back on his career, Professor Dirk Salomons discusses his current thinking on humanitarian action. Read our SIPA News Q&A by Coralie Martin MIA '17.
Professor Elisabeth Lindenmayer, a former assistant secretary general of the United Nations with special expertise in peacekeeping, has been named as the director of SIPA’s specialization in International Organizations and UN Studies (IO/UN).
I'm pleased to share that Columbia University has its own Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Council. The WGSS Council…
I recently shared an extensive blog post highlighting all of the new faculty, professional practitioners and visiting scholars at SIPA…
During my second semester of my first year, I was required to take Global Food Systems. As a development novice,…