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<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

School of International<br />

and Public Affairs


Welcome to <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

We live in a time of sweeping transformation. As the world’s most global public policy school, <strong>Columbia</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong>’s School of International and Public Affairs is playing a major role in shaping the changes to come.<br />

In local communities, throughout society, and around the world, <strong>SIPA</strong> alumni are at work: in government, business,<br />

academia, international organizations, the not-for-profit sector. At all levels, from community organizers to presidential<br />

advisors, venture capitalists to NGO activists, they provide skilled leadership as policymakers, analysts, and managers.<br />

For more than sixty years, <strong>SIPA</strong> has been a place where a distinguished university, a great city, and the complex world<br />

intersect. Today, from the <strong>University</strong>’s regional institutes to Wall Street, from its distinguished departments to City Hall,<br />

from Harlem to the United Nations, <strong>SIPA</strong> continues to benefit from and contribute to the <strong>University</strong>, the city, and the<br />

world. Wide and flexible course offerings, ample internship opportunities, a spectacular global network of alumni all<br />

foster thinking about universal issues—human rights, environmental health, economic development, stable financial<br />

markets, adequate housing, security and conflict resolution, and many more—even as they instill sensitivity to the<br />

particular settings in which these issues are important.<br />

As scholars, our faculty, students, and alumni work to understand the world. As practitioners, they act to change it.<br />

It is a compelling combination and a remarkable inspiration.


<strong>SIPA</strong> Connections<br />

The head of a Central Asian Central Bank; an environmental<br />

activist in China; an analyst on the Latin America desk of a<br />

global investment firm; the head of a major New York City<br />

housing organization; several Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists. <strong>SIPA</strong>’s<br />

alumni are an extraordinary group, carrying with them a dizzying variety<br />

of life and work histories but united by their energy, their enthusiasm, and<br />

their dedication to making a difference in the world. When they arrive at<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong>, they soon discover that their fellow students will become one of the<br />

most valuable elements of the <strong>Columbia</strong> and <strong>SIPA</strong> experience. The multi-<br />

plicity of their backgrounds—students come from nearly 100 countries,<br />

with practical skills from business, NGOs, and public service—brings a<br />

range of perspectives to every aspect of life on campus and guarantees lively<br />

debate inside and outside the classroom. But the benefits of a diverse<br />

student body last far longer than the two years in which most candidates<br />

complete their degrees. <strong>SIPA</strong> graduates return to the working world with<br />

a network of professional ties that will serve them throughout their careers.<br />

They may encounter fellow alumni implementing administrative reforms<br />

for the government ministry where they work, analyzing bond-market risk<br />

for a city government client, or sitting across the table in a high-stakes<br />

diplomatic dispute. Building on the common base of a <strong>SIPA</strong> education,<br />

they can expect their classmates to play a long-lasting, productive, and<br />

often unexpected role in their working lives.<br />

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<strong>SIPA</strong> offers the following degree programs:<br />

Master of International Affairs (MIA), Master of<br />

Public Administration (MPA), MPA in Environmental<br />

Science and Policy (ESP), Executive<br />

Master of Public Administration (EMPA), MPA<br />

Program in Economic Policy Management<br />

(PEPM), MPA in Development Practice (MDP),<br />

PhD in Sustainable Development.<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong> students come from nearly 100 countries;<br />

48 percent are international students.<br />

Afghanistan<br />

Albania<br />

Argentina<br />

Armenia<br />

Australia<br />

Austria<br />

Azerbaijan<br />

Bangladesh<br />

Bhutan<br />

Bolivia<br />

Bosnia and<br />

Herzegovina<br />

Brazil<br />

Bulgaria<br />

Burma<br />

Cambodia<br />

Canada<br />

China<br />

Colombia<br />

Croatia<br />

Czech<br />

Republic<br />

Denmark<br />

Dominican<br />

Republic<br />

Ecuador<br />

Egypt<br />

Eritrea<br />

Ethiopia<br />

Finland<br />

France<br />

Gambia<br />

Georgia<br />

Germany<br />

Ghana<br />

Greece<br />

Guinea<br />

Haiti<br />

Hong Kong<br />

Hungary<br />

Iceland<br />

India<br />

Indonesia<br />

Iran<br />

Iraq<br />

Ireland<br />

Israel<br />

Italy<br />

Ivory Coast<br />

Japan<br />

Kazakhstan<br />

Kenya<br />

Kyrgyzstan<br />

Lebanon<br />

Malaysia<br />

Maldives<br />

Mali<br />

Mexico<br />

Morocco<br />

Netherlands<br />

Nicaragua<br />

Nigeria<br />

Norway<br />

Oman<br />

Pakistan<br />

Peru<br />

Philippines<br />

Poland<br />

Qatar<br />

Romania<br />

Rwanda<br />

Serbia<br />

Sierra Leone<br />

Singapore<br />

South Africa<br />

South Korea<br />

Spain<br />

Sri Lanka<br />

Sweden<br />

Switzerland<br />

Taiwan<br />

Tanzania<br />

Thailand<br />

Trinidad and<br />

Tobago<br />

Turkey<br />

Uganda<br />

Ukraine<br />

United<br />

Kingdom<br />

United States<br />

Uruguay<br />

Venezuela<br />

Vietnam<br />

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<strong>SIPA</strong> and <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

As part of the <strong>Columbia</strong> community, <strong>SIPA</strong> students are often said to be spoiled for choice, with access to the<br />

resources of a major urban university comprising 16 separate schools, 22 libraries, and 5 affiliated institutions.<br />

Although our students take most of their courses at <strong>SIPA</strong>, they can also choose from more than 1,000 courses<br />

offered throughout the <strong>University</strong>, drawing on the resources of the social science departments and the schools of Business,<br />

Law, Journalism, Social Work, Public Health, and Architecture, as well as Teachers College, one of America’s leading<br />

graduate schools of education. In a typical month, they can supplement those courses with scores of lectures, presenta-<br />

tions, seminars, and documentary films sponsored by The Earth Institute, the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace<br />

Studies, the United Nations Program, and more than a dozen other specialized programs and regional institutes, along with<br />

a variety of student groups. Some recent topics of discussion at these events have included the U.S. health care system, the<br />

Kenyan Peace Process, the challenges of effective urban governance, and the role of Russia in European energy security.<br />

Just as importantly, students also have the opportunity to participate in a range of extracurricular activities with direct<br />

relevance to their fields of study, from tutoring at-risk children in Harlem to lobbying the U.S. government on its response<br />

to AIDS in Africa.<br />

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“<strong>SIPA</strong> offered me the opportunity to learn<br />

from world-renowned professors as well as<br />

from diverse and intellectual classmates.<br />

I was given the flexibility to choose classes<br />

from different schools within the <strong>University</strong><br />

and from many fields of international study,<br />

from media and communications to economic<br />

and security policy. <strong>SIPA</strong> is one of the best<br />

schools in the world in international affairs<br />

and is recognized as such.”<br />

Priya Nagrani, MIA<br />

Mumbai, India<br />

“I came to <strong>SIPA</strong> because I liked the international<br />

component to the program and<br />

I was also interested in the dual degree<br />

with <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s School of Social<br />

Work. I hope to work in the public sector,<br />

either government or nonprofit, addressing<br />

social policy issues, and the dual degree<br />

will be a great asset.”<br />

Erin Kenny, MPA<br />

Astoria, New York<br />

REGIONAL INSTITUTES<br />

AND CENTERS<br />

Institute of African Studies<br />

Center for Brazilian Studies<br />

East Central European Center<br />

European Institute<br />

Harriman Institute<br />

Institute of Latin American Studies<br />

Middle East Institute<br />

Southern Asian Institute<br />

Weatherhead East Asian Institute<br />

RESEARCH INSTITUTES, CENTERS,<br />

AND COCURRICULAR PROGRAMS<br />

The Earth Institute at <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

Institute for Social and Economic Research<br />

and Policy<br />

Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies<br />

Center for Energy, Marine Transportation<br />

and Public Policy<br />

Center for International Business Education<br />

and Research<br />

Center for International Conflict Resolution<br />

Center on International Organization<br />

Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration,<br />

and Religion<br />

Center for the Study of Human Rights<br />

Center for Urban Research and Policy<br />

Humanitarian Affairs Program<br />

The Initiative for Policy Dialogue<br />

Security Council Report<br />

UN Studies Program<br />

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<strong>SIPA</strong> and New York City<br />

When <strong>Columbia</strong>’s trustees decided in 1897 to relocate the <strong>University</strong> to Morningside Heights, a green and<br />

leafy plateau overlooking midtown and downtown Manhattan, they created a unique urban campus—<br />

surrounded by distinctive neoclassical buildings and offering students a refuge from the hurly-burly of<br />

New York, but still closely linked to the city and its institutions. The <strong>University</strong>’s location remains a vital asset to this day,<br />

with students benefiting both from Manhattan’s incomparable career opportunities and its flourishing commercial and<br />

cultural life. <strong>SIPA</strong> students can intern during the semester at the United Nations or one of the major financial institutions,<br />

hone their skills in a workshop designed to meet the needs of real-world clients, or attend talks by visiting heads of state<br />

and CEOs. New York itself is a living laboratory, where students can shape the development of public policy and apply the<br />

city’s experience to challenges at the furthest reaches of the globe. The vibrant and culturally diverse neighborhoods of<br />

the city, just beyond the campus gates, provide both a center for student social life and a place for many students to<br />

call home during their years at <strong>SIPA</strong>. <strong>Columbia</strong> is a leading international university at the heart of the world’s most<br />

international city—a relationship no other school can offer.<br />

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“Going to school in New York means that<br />

you have just as much of an international<br />

experience outside <strong>SIPA</strong> as you do within<br />

your classes. The possibilities for internships,<br />

volunteering, sampling ethnic food, attending<br />

cultural events, and anything else, are<br />

endless.”<br />

Celeste Tarricone, MIA<br />

Flemington, New Jersey<br />

“New York City is the cultural, artistic, financial<br />

heart of the United States. It helps drive<br />

the energy and future course of this nation<br />

and is a highly energizing place to live.<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong>’s location in New York City makes it an<br />

ideal place to interact with people from<br />

many geographic and cultural backgrounds.”<br />

Adam Klauber, MPA<br />

San Francisco, California<br />

DISTINGUISHED LEADERS AT <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

Recent guest lecturers included:<br />

Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State<br />

Michelle Bachelet, President of the Republic of Chile<br />

Ismael Beah, former child soldier<br />

Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City<br />

Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor<br />

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil<br />

Kemal Dervis, Administrator of the United Nations<br />

Development Programme<br />

David N. Dinkins, former Mayor of New York City<br />

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer and human rights activist;<br />

2003 Nobel Peace Laureate<br />

His Excellency Nambaryn Enkhbayar, President of<br />

Mongolia<br />

Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor at<br />

the Department of Economics, Harvard <strong>University</strong><br />

Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East<br />

Asian and Public Affairs<br />

Zalmay Khalilzad, United States Ambassador to the<br />

United Nations<br />

Maina Kiai, Chairman of the Kenya National Commission<br />

on Human Rights and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya<br />

Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services<br />

Kishore Mahbubani, Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School<br />

of Public Policy, National <strong>University</strong> of Singapore;<br />

former Singapore Ambassador to the United Nations<br />

Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Chair of House<br />

Committee on Ways and Means<br />

Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India<br />

Ambassador Dennis Ross, Counselor and Ziegler<br />

Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near<br />

East Policy; Special Middle East Coordinator, 1988–2000<br />

Jeffrey Sachs, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable<br />

Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management;<br />

Director of the Earth Institute, <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany<br />

Lan Yang, founder of Sun Culture Foundation and<br />

Chair of Sun Media Investments Holdings, Ltd.<br />

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<strong>SIPA</strong> and the World<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong> has achieved something unprecedented in higher education: it has become the first global school of public policy.<br />

In any given year, <strong>SIPA</strong> students and faculty come from nearly 100 different countries, with approximately half of the<br />

student body from overseas. When they graduate, students join a network of more than 15,000 alumni in 155 countries,<br />

working in every sector and in every part of the globe. The School has established strategic partnerships with graduate<br />

institutions throughout the world, including the London School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po in Paris,<br />

Beijing <strong>University</strong>, the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the<br />

National <strong>University</strong> of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, among others. These programs build on the<br />

strength of <strong>SIPA</strong>’s curricular design and seek to further globalize the way the <strong>SIPA</strong> community studies and shapes public<br />

policy. Those partnerships offer unique opportunities for <strong>SIPA</strong> students with a particular regional focus to complete a year<br />

of study outside the United States, gaining in-country experience few other programs can match and widely expanding<br />

their professional opportunities. <strong>SIPA</strong> graduates are now working with the U.S. State Department, the Japanese Ministry<br />

of Agriculture, the State Environmental Protection Administration in Beijing, the United Nations Development Programme,<br />

the Chicago Housing Authority, the Spanish Foreign Ministry, Goldman Sachs & Co., Newsweek International, the<br />

World Bank, the International Rescue Committee, the AIDS Service Center of New York, the Carnegie Endowment for<br />

International Peace, McKinsey & Co., the Ford Foundation, and Banco de Mexico. Other students have gone on to design<br />

their own careers as entrepreneurs, social activists, freelance journalists—and in at least one case, a head of state.<br />

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“I was a practicing neurosurgeon before I<br />

decided to concentrate in international<br />

health policy. I studied public health in<br />

London, but I knew that I needed to study<br />

the nature and dynamics of international<br />

economics to complete the entire picture.<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong> was my only choice because it offered<br />

exactly what I wanted—a program concentrating<br />

on economics within a broader<br />

institution concerned with the workings of<br />

the international system.”<br />

Ted Tai-Sen Lin, MIA<br />

London, United Kingdom<br />

“I was working in international business<br />

development when I decided to change<br />

careers and move into development to<br />

support Africa. After graduation, I hope to<br />

work in multilateral organizations such as<br />

the World Bank.”<br />

Cecile Niang, MIA<br />

Senegal<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong> ALUMNI NETWORK<br />

With more than 15,000 alumni in 155 countries,<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong> graduates have become world leaders, pursuing<br />

careers in foreign service, international<br />

business, journalism, international organizations,<br />

education, and governmental public service. They<br />

are a distinguished group of individuals who work<br />

to improve social services, to strengthen markets,<br />

to campaign for human rights, to protect our<br />

natural resources, and to serve their country.<br />

<strong>SIPA</strong> alumni are part of a truly global network.<br />

Whether a <strong>SIPA</strong> graduate living in Paris wants to<br />

contact an alumnus living in Tokyo to discuss and<br />

compare transportation infrastructure or an alumna<br />

working on sustainable development in Kinshasa<br />

wants to compare best practices with an alumnus<br />

in Lima, sharing knowledge and expertise among<br />

our global community is key. The <strong>Columbia</strong><br />

<strong>University</strong> Clubs around the world help further<br />

facilitate this exchange by providing venues and<br />

opportunities for our alumni to meet and gather<br />

for face-to-face conversation. Our alumni can also<br />

connect via our online network, <strong>SIPA</strong> Global<br />

Connection: www.alumniconnections.com/sipa<br />

The <strong>SIPA</strong> Office of Alumni Relations hosts and<br />

helps support a number of events through<br />

domestically and globally led initiatives that<br />

bring together faculty, leaders, and alumni for<br />

debate, discussion, or social networking activities.<br />

Through frequent communications to our<br />

alumni via our e-newsletter, broadcast e-mails,<br />

or <strong>SIPA</strong> News, our biannual publication, <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

keeps its alumni around the world informed.<br />

Our alumni, in turn, have become a vital resource<br />

for current students and faculty as well as for<br />

the future of the School through volunteer work,<br />

mentoring, and donations. The <strong>SIPA</strong> Alumni<br />

Council, formed in 2007 with the aim to further<br />

strengthen and build relations between the<br />

School and its alumni, helps to ensure that our<br />

alumni’s voices are heard.<br />

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Teachers and Scholars<br />

Students at <strong>SIPA</strong> find themselves at an unparalleled center of academic excellence, with world-class scholars in<br />

disciplines ranging from foreign policy to rivershed management to public finance. <strong>Columbia</strong> is one of the<br />

world’s leading research universities, whose scholars consistently rank among the most widely published, both in<br />

peer-reviewed journals and in the public forum. Its renowned faculty includes a Nobel laureate, a former president of<br />

Ireland, a former mayor of New York City, a member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization, and the<br />

founder of a leading Tibetan human rights group. In addition, distinguished practitioners from the United Nations, Wall<br />

Street, international organizations, and the news media offer a range of perspectives based on years of working experience<br />

in their respective fields. Whether leading a class in statistics or giving an informal overview of their own research at one<br />

of <strong>SIPA</strong>’s countless “brown-bag” lunch seminars, <strong>Columbia</strong> faculty are motivated both by a passion for teaching and by a<br />

commitment to applying the <strong>University</strong>’s resources to the problems of the real world. Their work with institutions and<br />

organizations beyond Morningside Heights—from development banks to environmental NGOs—allows students in<br />

virtually every field to develop a broad array of professional connections long before they leave campus.<br />

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“Being situated at <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong> and<br />

in New York City, the School attracts some<br />

of the very top professionals in their respective<br />

fields. I’ve found amazing professors<br />

here at <strong>SIPA</strong>, ones whose backgrounds<br />

encompass both rigorous academic training<br />

with the real-world experience of a practitioner.<br />

Getting the chance to work with them<br />

is one of the key reasons I came to <strong>SIPA</strong>.”<br />

Jeffrey Levine, MPA<br />

Boston, Massachusetts<br />

“A good professor is one who can bring<br />

theory and practice to the table and foster a<br />

classroom environment where students are<br />

able to also learn from each other. I have<br />

found that at <strong>SIPA</strong>.”<br />

Nabeeha Kazi, MIA<br />

Kansas City, Kansas<br />

SELECT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS<br />

Elazar Barkan—Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and<br />

Reconciliation, edited with Alexander Karn (Stanford<br />

<strong>University</strong> Press, 2006).<br />

Richard K. Betts—Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and<br />

Power in American National Security (<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

Press, 2007)<br />

John H. Coatsworth—The Cambridge Economic History of<br />

Latin America, 2 vols., edited with Victor Bulmer-Thomas and<br />

Roberto Cortes (Cambridge <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006)<br />

Steven Cohen—Understanding Environmental Policy<br />

(<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006)<br />

Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Sharyn O'Halloran, David L.<br />

Epstein, and Richard H. Pildes (eds.)—The Future of the<br />

Voting Rights Act (Russell Sage Foundation, 2006)<br />

Michael W. Doyle and Nicholas Sambanis—Making<br />

War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations<br />

(Princeton <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006)<br />

Merit Janow, Victoria Donaldson, and Alan Yanovich—<br />

The WTO: Governance, Dispute Settlement & Developing<br />

Countries (Juris, 2008)<br />

Robert Lieberman—Race, State, and Policy: American Race<br />

Politics in Comparative Perspective (Princeton <strong>University</strong><br />

Press, 2005)<br />

Mahmood Mamdani—Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America,<br />

the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (Pantheon, 2004)<br />

Maria Victoria Murillo and Steven Levitsky, eds.—<br />

Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness<br />

(Pennsylvania State <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006)<br />

José Antonio Ocampo—Stability with Growth:<br />

Macroeconomics, Liberalization, and Development, with<br />

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Shari Spiegel, Ricardo French-Davis and<br />

Deepak Nayyar (Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press, 2006)<br />

Arvind Panagariya—India: The Emerging Giant (Oxford<br />

<strong>University</strong> Press, USA, 2008)<br />

Jeffrey Sachs—Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded<br />

Planet (Penguin Press HC, 2008)<br />

Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes—The Three Trillion<br />

Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W. W. Norton,<br />

2008)<br />

Sara Tjossem—The Journey to PICES: Scientific Cooperation<br />

in the North Pacific (Alaska Sea Grant Press, 2005).<br />

Dorian Warren, Joseph Lowndes, and Julie Novkov (eds.)<br />

—Race and American Political Development (Routledge, 2008)<br />

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Policy Area:<br />

Economic and Political Development<br />

Rising global temperatures shift the migratory patterns of schools of fish, and livelihoods<br />

vanish in the coastal communities of Peru. Tubewells designed to supply<br />

clean drinking water in rural Bangladesh lead to a nationwide rise in exposure to<br />

arsenic. China’s soaring demand for petroleum drives global energy costs higher. Economic<br />

growth is a fundamental goal for all societies—but as these examples show, the consequences<br />

of development can be unexpected and not always desirable. Scholars in the field of sustainable<br />

development seek to understand the often obscure links between social and natural<br />

systems, providing policymakers with the information they need to promote human welfare<br />

over the long term. In a world where ethnic conflict, infectious disease, migration, and habitat<br />

loss spill across national borders, and where solutions to those problems increasingly draw on<br />

disparate fields of knowledge, <strong>Columbia</strong> has taken the lead in mobilizing a full complement<br />

of intellectual tools—from currency theory, to political science, to hydrology—to meet the<br />

challenges of global governance. Through its relationships with United Nations bodies, its<br />

specialized energy and environment concentration, its close cooperation with the <strong>Columbia</strong><br />

Earth Institute and its joint degree program with the School of Public Health, <strong>SIPA</strong> offers<br />

unique and comprehensive access to the resources of <strong>Columbia</strong> and New York City for<br />

students whose careers will require a solid command of both public policy and the natural<br />

sciences. <strong>SIPA</strong> students pursue their interests in development through a number of programs,<br />

including the MIA and MPA concentrations in Economic and Political Development and in<br />

Energy and Environment, the MPA degree programs in Environmental Science and Policy<br />

and Economic Policy Management, and the new MPA in Development Practice, which integrates<br />

natural sciences, social sciences, and management to address global poverty. Delivered<br />

in varying formats and calendars, and with differing points of emphasis, this array of offerings<br />

provides students a wide set of options for pursuing their study of development. <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

graduates may find themselves dealing with threats to biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon,<br />

tuberculosis in Russia’s jails, or the housing needs of new immigrants in the Bronx. The integrated<br />

perspective they bring to those tasks is among the lasting benefits of a <strong>SIPA</strong> education.<br />

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Examples of courses in this field include:<br />

Macroeconomic and Policy Development<br />

José Antonio Ocampo<br />

Human Ecology and Sustainable Development<br />

Jeffrey Sachs<br />

Globalization, International Migration and<br />

Development<br />

Ousmane Kane<br />

Methods for Development Practice<br />

Eugenia McGill<br />

Economic Development for International Affairs<br />

Miguel Urquiola<br />

Problems of Economic Growth in Latin America<br />

Thomas Trebat<br />

Food, Farming & Famine: Struggles for<br />

Sustainability<br />

Sara Tjossem<br />

Elections and Political Development<br />

Lincoln Mitchell<br />

Microfinance and the Developing World<br />

Jeffrey Ashe<br />

Issues in Rural Development<br />

Pratima Kale<br />

FACULTY PROFILE: JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPO<br />

Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs; Fellow, Committee on Global Thought;<br />

Director, Economic and Political Development Concentration at <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

Development is a comprehensive concept, which encompasses economic, social, and political dimensions. It must be promoted through a dense<br />

network of global, regional, and national institutions. José Antonio Ocampo brings to <strong>SIPA</strong> the knowledge and insight of a first-rate policy economist<br />

and economic historian together with broad experience as a leading international public servant and former cabinet minister. Professor<br />

Ocampo has served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the government of Colombia—most notably as United Nations under secretary<br />

general for economic and social affairs; executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; minister of<br />

finance and public credit and chairman of the board of the Central Bank of Colombia; director, National Planning Department (minister of planning);<br />

minister of agriculture and rural development and chairman of the board of Banco Cafetero (Coffee Bank) and Caja de Crédito Agraria, Industrial y<br />

Minera (Agrarian Bank); executive director, FEDESARROLLO; and professor of economics at Universidad de los Andes. He is the author of numerous<br />

books and articles on macroeconomic theory and policy, economic development, international trade, and economic history.


ALUMNI<br />

Andrea S. Camoens, MIA ’97<br />

Manager, Emerging Markets Group<br />

John Melone Deidrick, MIA ’85<br />

Country Representative, Cambodia, Population<br />

Services International<br />

Joshua Lockwood, MIA ’97<br />

Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity,<br />

New York<br />

Monique Pierre-Antoine, PEPM ’94<br />

Chief, Poverty Unit, UNDP, Haiti<br />

Karen Paulina Poniachik, MIA ’90<br />

Chile’s Special Envoy to the OECD<br />

CAREER DIRECTIONS IN<br />

DEVELOPMENT<br />

Acumen Fund<br />

Ashoka<br />

Asian Development Bank<br />

BearingPoint<br />

Catholic Relief Services<br />

Chemonics<br />

Development Alternatives, Inc.<br />

Foundation for International Community<br />

Assistance (FINCA)<br />

Inter-American Development Bank<br />

International Resources Group<br />

ProMujer<br />

Synergos Institute<br />

United Nations Development Program<br />

United Nations Population Fund<br />

U.S. Agency for International Development<br />

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Policy Area:<br />

Energy and Environment<br />

The future of sustainable energy consumption, the financial success of the energy<br />

industry, the economic potential of developing green businesses, and the health of the<br />

world’s environment are more closely intertwined than ever before. Local governments<br />

and private industry are devoting increased resources to environmental management.<br />

Development pressures and increased regulation of toxic materials require additional analysis<br />

and planning. Globalization and the pace of international commerce stimulate consideration<br />

of environmental impacts across international borders. At the same time, the world faces oil<br />

market insecurity, worldwide restructuring of natural gas and electricity systems, massive energy<br />

infrastructure requirements for economic development, and pervasive local and global environmental<br />

issues in energy production and use. The required investment will come, overwhelmingly,<br />

from private foreign and domestic debt and capital markets. For the investment<br />

to be efficient, market prices must internalize social and environmental costs. Solutions to<br />

energy and environmental challenges must leverage the combined resources and talents of<br />

academic, public, private, and nonprofit organizations, and <strong>SIPA</strong>’s students and faculty in<br />

these fields have deep resources on which they can draw. <strong>Columbia</strong>’s Earth Institute, one of<br />

the world’s leading research centers for integrated earth and environmental sciences, also has<br />

major research initiatives on energy, as does <strong>SIPA</strong>’s Center for Energy, Marine Transportation<br />

and Public Policy. The Energy and Environment concentration within the MIA and MPA<br />

degree programs consists of two complementary tracks: the international energy policy and<br />

management track, and the environmental policy and management track. The energy track<br />

focuses on energy business development and energy policy. The environmental track focuses<br />

on the policy and management knowledge required to address the most pressing environmental<br />

sustainability issues. Graduates of the energy track pursue careers, for example, within<br />

government ministries, energy corporations, and investment institutions focused on energy<br />

development. Graduates of the environment track pursue careers within government ministries<br />

and regulatory agencies, corporations with significant green agendas, and nonprofit research<br />

and advocacy organizations. In addition, <strong>SIPA</strong> offers a one-year MPA in Environmental<br />

Science and Policy, which provides a similar skill set, though with an emphasis on science and<br />

a one-year MPA Program in Economic Policy Management with an option to focus on energy.<br />

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Examples of courses in this field include:<br />

International Energy Systems and<br />

Business Structures<br />

David Nissen<br />

Energy Policy<br />

Shirley Neff/Deborah Bleviss<br />

The Geopolitics of Energy<br />

Adam Shrier<br />

Urban Energy Systems and Policy<br />

Stephen Hammer<br />

Petroleum Markets and Trading<br />

Irene King/David Nissen/Louise Burke<br />

Environmental Politics and Policy Management<br />

Tanya Heikkila<br />

Economics of Sustainable Development<br />

Glenn Sheriff<br />

Air Pollution Prevention/Control<br />

Vasilis Fthenakis<br />

International Relations of the Environment<br />

David Downie<br />

Environmental Finance<br />

Urvashi Kaul<br />

Environmental Science and<br />

Sustainable Development<br />

John Mutter<br />

FACULTY PROFILE: STEVEN COHEN<br />

Director, Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy; Executive Director and<br />

Chief Operating Officer, The Earth Institute at <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

With global warming and the need for alternative energy making headlines and driving the political agenda, <strong>SIPA</strong>’s role in training leaders who<br />

can develop and implement innovative environmental policies is more crucial than ever before. As Director of <strong>SIPA</strong>’s Environmental Science and<br />

Policy Program and in his role at The Earth Institute, Steve Cohen has brought practical professional education into the center of <strong>Columbia</strong>’s<br />

public administration curriculum. He developed <strong>SIPA</strong>’s workshops in Applied Public Management and Applied Policy Analysis, setting the standard<br />

for workshops as an important component of the <strong>SIPA</strong> master’s degree. His extensive experience includes serving as a policy analyst and<br />

consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and conducting professional training seminars in strategic planning, project management,<br />

and management innovation. He has published widely on public management and environmental management and appeared frequently<br />

as a political commentator on television and in the press.


ALUMNI<br />

Anna Giovinetto, MIA ’02<br />

VP, Public Affairs, Noble Environmental Power<br />

Lloyd Kass, MPA ’98<br />

Director of Energy Department,<br />

NYC Housing Authority<br />

Kedin Kilgore, MPA ’95<br />

Head, Global Environmental Markets,<br />

JP Morgan Chase<br />

Marcus Tripp, MIA ’99<br />

VP, Business Development, Exxon Mobil,<br />

Libya, Ltd.<br />

Qian Wang, ESP-MPA ’03<br />

Deputy Director, State Environmental Protection<br />

Administration, Beijing<br />

CAREER DIRECTIONS IN<br />

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT<br />

Carbonfund.org<br />

Chevron<br />

Clipper Windpower, Inc.<br />

Conservation International<br />

Economist Intelligence Unit<br />

EcoSecurities Ltd<br />

Evolution Markets<br />

Governor’s Office of Energy Management and<br />

Conservation<br />

Inter-American Development Bank<br />

London Economics International<br />

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<br />

Natsource LLC<br />

Rainforest Alliance<br />

Recycled Energy Development LLC<br />

U.S. Bureau of Land Management<br />

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<br />

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Policy Area:<br />

Human Rights<br />

Nearly every major international policy dilemma raises significant issues of human<br />

rights. From conflict resolution in Africa or the Middle East to economic devel-<br />

opment in China or South Asia—to name only two broad examples—human<br />

rights are an essential element of any meaningful solution. Grappling with these and numer-<br />

ous other global issues, therefore, requires not only knowledge of human rights per se, but<br />

expertise in many substantive areas. The teaching and study of human rights at <strong>SIPA</strong> and else-<br />

where at <strong>Columbia</strong> transcend traditional academic boundaries, departments, and disciplines,<br />

reaching out to practitioners in the process, to address the ever-increasing complexities of<br />

human rights in a globalized world. The Human Rights concentration within <strong>SIPA</strong>’s MIA and<br />

MPA degree programs brings together professionals and scholars of different expertise and<br />

perspectives to prepare students to integrate human rights into all aspects of their work. The<br />

Law School offers particularly rich course work and faculty expertise to complement oppor-<br />

tunities at <strong>SIPA</strong>. <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) also<br />

collaborates closely with <strong>SIPA</strong>, actively engaging human rights practitioners to inform the<br />

academic work of <strong>Columbia</strong>’s faculty while simultaneously challenging activists to assess their<br />

work in light of academic research. CSHR and <strong>SIPA</strong>’s connections to the global South,<br />

particularly through the Human Rights Advocates Program and their alumni, are unrivaled.<br />

At a time when human rights issues are at the forefront of international relations, the program<br />

trains students to pursue their ideals through a variety of professions, notably international<br />

human rights advocacy, monitoring and reporting, policy and empirical analysis, NGO<br />

development, and the protection of refugees and displaced persons.<br />

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FACULTY PROFILE: ELAZAR BARKAN<br />

Professor of International and Public Affairs; Co-Director, Center for the Study of Human Rights;<br />

Co-Director, Human Rights Concentration at <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

Examples of courses in this field include:<br />

Rethinking Human Rights<br />

Elazar Barkan<br />

Genocide Prevention<br />

Aldo Civico<br />

Human Rights in Africa<br />

Andrew Okolie<br />

International Human Rights Law<br />

Betsy Apple<br />

Human Rights and Development Policy<br />

Rainer Braun/Judith Gearhart<br />

Identity, Rights and Conflict<br />

Vasuki Nesiah<br />

Humanitarian Challenges<br />

Nicolas de Torrente<br />

International Ethics<br />

Michael Doyle<br />

The Subject of Rights<br />

Lila Abu-Lughod<br />

Whether the victims are holocaust survivors or refugees from Darfur, how do nations acknowledge and amend their past human rights<br />

violations? How does historical responsibility shape our evolving notion of human rights? <strong>SIPA</strong> professor Elazar Barkan is one of the leading<br />

scholars tackling these questions—factors of the ever-increasing complexities of human rights in a globalized world. Through his published<br />

research and teaching, Barkan has focused on such urgent issues as accountability for past injustices and reparations for victims of genocide,<br />

slavery, and other offenses. As founding director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) at the Salzburg Seminar, Barkan<br />

has worked to promote reconciliation in societies divided by historical conflicts and human rights abuses. Working with educational and public<br />

policy communities, he has supported IHJR’s aim to turn historical dialogue into a fundamental tool of political reconciliation.


ALUMNI<br />

Frederick Abrahams, MIA ’95<br />

Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch<br />

Scott Campbell, MIA ’95<br />

Executive Director, Elton John AIDS Foundation<br />

Priscilla Hayner, MIA ’93<br />

Director, Peace and Justice Program;<br />

Director, Geneva Office, International Center<br />

for Transitional Justice<br />

Judy Cheng-Hopkins, MIA ’78<br />

Assistant High Commissioner, UNHCR Geneva<br />

Ana Cutter Patel, MIA ’98<br />

Deputy Director, International Policymakers,<br />

International Center for Transitional Justice<br />

CAREER DIRECTIONS IN<br />

HUMAN RIGHTS<br />

Amnesty International<br />

CARE<br />

Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation<br />

Ford Foundation<br />

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<br />

Geneva Call<br />

Human Rights in China<br />

Human Rights Watch<br />

The Inter-American Dialogue<br />

Interfaith Worker Justice<br />

International Rescue Committee<br />

International Tibet Support Network<br />

Mercy Corps<br />

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan<br />

Solidarity Center<br />

United Nations Children’s Fund<br />

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Policy Area:<br />

International Finance and Economic Policy<br />

Many parties contributed to the emergence of the 2007–2008 financial crisis:<br />

regulators fell behind the pace of financial innovation; banks, investment banks,<br />

insurance companies, mortgage brokers, and U.S. government agencies engaged<br />

in reckless business practices; even academics encouraged the use of abstract models that<br />

practitioners pushed too far. As parts of the old financial system are being destroyed, new<br />

solutions will emerge to take their place. Students in the International Finance and Economic<br />

Policy concentration (IFEP) will gain the historical perspective and theoretical training to<br />

understand what happened and play important roles in whatever is coming next. How will<br />

global capital markets channel capital to households, start-up companies, established companies,<br />

and governments around the world? How will the international monetary and trade<br />

regimes be affected by the crisis and its aftermath? How will regulators cope with constant<br />

flux? <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s faculty includes many of the leading scholars and public intellectuals<br />

shaping these debates. <strong>SIPA</strong>’s faculty contains internationally recognized experts in all<br />

the crucial fields, such as international trade, financial and monetary theory and policy, and<br />

development economics. <strong>SIPA</strong> students also have access to relevant courses in the Economics<br />

Department and Schools of Business and Law. These scholarly faculty are complemented by<br />

prominent practitioners actively engaged in opening emerging markets, creating new financial<br />

instruments, financing the energy sources of the next decades, and forging global trade<br />

policy. All <strong>SIPA</strong> graduates receive grounding in the fundamentals of economic policy. The<br />

International Finance and Economic Policy concentration within the MIA and MPA degree<br />

programs provides students with the analytical tools and substantive knowledge to pursue<br />

leadership careers in the international economy in the public or private sectors. The international<br />

finance track prepares students for careers that require knowledge of international<br />

finance, capital markets, banking, and public policy in the financial sector. The international<br />

economic policy track studies the theory, formulation, institutional history, and track record<br />

and economics of international trade policies and international monetary relations. Graduates<br />

of this concentration will be well equipped to work in the public and private sectors to help<br />

build new types of financial institutions and bring fresh thinking to regulatory and trade policy.<br />

In addition, the 14-month Program in Economic Policy Management offers similar skills and<br />

leads to an MPA degree.<br />

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Examples of courses in this field include:<br />

Foreign Economic and Trade Policy<br />

Merit Janow<br />

International Finance and Monetary Theory<br />

Richard Clarida<br />

International Capital Markets<br />

Richard Robb<br />

Emerging Market Investment Climate<br />

Guillermo Calvo<br />

Investment Strategies in Developing Countries<br />

Peter Marber<br />

Indian Economy in Transition<br />

Arvind Panagariya<br />

Problems of Economic Growth in Latin America<br />

Thomas Trebat<br />

Globalization<br />

Jagdish Bhagwati<br />

China’s New Marketplace<br />

Daniel Rosen<br />

Managing the Global Corporation<br />

Gordon Thoman<br />

Corporate Finance<br />

Ailsa Röell<br />

FACULTY PROFILE: MERIT E. JANOW<br />

Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs; Director, International Economic<br />

Policy Concentration at <strong>SIPA</strong>; Co-Director, APEC Study Center<br />

Merit Janow’s upbringing in Tokyo gave her not only her Japanese-language skills, but also a head start on a career focusing on East Asia’s<br />

commercial relationship with the United States. Professor Janow brings to <strong>SIPA</strong> a range of experience in trade law and foreign economic policy<br />

acquired not only in academia but also as a public servant and a practicing attorney. She is a former associate with the firm of Skadden, Arps,<br />

Slate, Meagher & Flom, where she specialized in international corporate law. Between 1990 and 1993 she served as deputy assistant U.S. trade<br />

representative for Japan and China, negotiating with both countries and coordinating U.S. trade policy. Since her appointment to the <strong>Columbia</strong><br />

faculty in 1994, she has also directed an expert commission advising the Justice Department on international competition policy. In December<br />

2003, Professor Janow was appointed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body for a four-year term, ending in December 2007.<br />

The Appellate Body hears final appeals on issues of law and legal interpretation in international trade disputes between countries that are<br />

members of the WTO. Professor Janow also serves on the Board of Directors of several corporations and not-for-profit organizations.


ALUMNI<br />

Christian Deseglise, MIA ’90<br />

Managing Director-Global Head of Emerging<br />

Markets, HSBC Global Asset Management<br />

Kirsten Frivold, EMPA ’03<br />

Vice President, Goldman Sachs & Co.<br />

Jong-ho Kyun, MIA ’00<br />

Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and<br />

Trade, Republic of South Korea<br />

James Leitner, MIA ’77<br />

President, Falcon Management Corporation<br />

Donald Matthewson, MPA ’01<br />

Senior Vice President, Lehman Brothers<br />

Bart Oostervled, MIA ’97<br />

Senior Vice President, Moody’s Project<br />

Infrastructure<br />

CAREER DIRECTIONS IN<br />

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE<br />

Bank of America<br />

Bank of Japan<br />

Central Bank of Honduras<br />

China Banking Regulatory Commission<br />

Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank<br />

Claren Road Asset Management<br />

Federal Reserve Bank of New York<br />

GE Energy Financial Services<br />

Goldman Sachs & Co.<br />

International Finance Corporation<br />

Lehman Brothers<br />

McKinsey & Company<br />

Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic<br />

Development, Uganda<br />

UBS<br />

U.S. Government Accountability Office<br />

World Bank Group<br />

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Policy Area:<br />

International Security Policy<br />

The end of the Cold War brought premature paeans to the end of history and the<br />

obsolescence of global conflict. Subsequent history has been almost the opposite: the<br />

violent dissolution of former Yugoslavia, September 11 and the following wars in<br />

Afghanistan and Iraq, the bloody civil wars of Africa, and low intensity conflicts around the<br />

world, from Colombia to Sri Lanka and the former Soviet bloc. The United States may possess<br />

an overwhelming edge in military force and technology, but the result has been anything but<br />

peace and stability. Security policy must account for nascent and resurgent international powers<br />

(China and Russia, most obviously), assertive regional actors (Israel and Iran, for example),<br />

and conflict-ridden areas on almost every continent (Darfur, Abkhazia, Palestine, Kashmir,<br />

Colombia). Security dilemmas ranging from nuclear proliferation to terrorist networks<br />

demand expertise not only in military strategy and defense policy, but also in political stabilization<br />

and democratization. <strong>SIPA</strong> students have access to a curriculum and faculty that is<br />

almost unrivaled in breadth and depth in these areas. Scholarly expertise is complemented by<br />

practitioner faculty who are in the front lines of shaping security and military policy. The<br />

International Security Policy concentration (ISP) within the MIA and MPA degree programs<br />

spans international conflict and conflict management, defense policy, military strategy, arms<br />

control, intelligence, peacekeeping, coercion, negotiation, and alternatives to the use of force<br />

as an instrument of policy. It provides a conceptual foundation for understanding conflict and<br />

the political, economic, and military components of policies and capabilities for coping with<br />

the possibility of war, as well as expertise for analyzing specific functional and regional<br />

security issues. The ISP concentration is closely connected to two research units at the<br />

School: the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the International Conflict<br />

Resolution Program, which is headquartered in the Saltzman Institute. <strong>SIPA</strong> graduates pursue<br />

careers in a wide range of professional positions: government, international organizations,<br />

consulting firms, public interest organizations, nonprofit research institutes, journalism,<br />

or other areas and work to make the world a more secure and peaceful place.<br />

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Examples of courses in this field include:<br />

War, Peace, and Strategy<br />

Richard Betts<br />

Terrorism and Globalization<br />

Reid Sawyer<br />

Limited War and Low Intensity Conflict<br />

Joseph Felter<br />

Intelligence and Foreign Policy<br />

Mark Lowenthal<br />

The Security Council and Peacekeeping in<br />

Africa in the 21st Century<br />

Elisabeth Lindenmayer<br />

U.S. Role in World Affairs<br />

Stephen Sestanovich<br />

Terrorism and Counterterrorism<br />

Stuart Gottlieb<br />

Third World Security Issues<br />

Stephanie Neuman<br />

International Conflict Resolution: Africa<br />

Sekou-Koureissy Conde<br />

War, Termination, and the Stability of Peace<br />

Page Fortna<br />

FACULTY PROFILE: RICHARD K. BETTS<br />

Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies in the Department of Political Science; Director, Saltzman<br />

Institute of War and Peace Studies; Director, International Security Policy Concentration at <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

From the cold war to the war on terror, the field of security studies has evolved in response to new, unexpected threats, advanced weapons<br />

technology, and shifts in the balance of power. Richard Betts, an authority on national security, military strategy, and international conflict, has<br />

been involved in that dialogue as a scholar, advisor, teacher, and award-winning writer who has authored or edited eight books. He was a senior<br />

fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a former staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the National Security Council,<br />

the National Commission on Terrorism, and the Mondale presidential campaign. Professor Betts has been an occasional consultant to the<br />

National Intelligence Council and the Central Intelligence Agency. Through his teaching and leadership of the Saltzman Institute of War and<br />

Peace Studies, he has furthered the education and training of a new generation of highly skilled policy analysts.


ALUMNI<br />

Madeleine K. Albright, Certificate ’68<br />

Former U.S. Secretary of State;<br />

Principal, The Albright Group LLC<br />

Victor Cha, MIA ’88<br />

Former Director for Asian Affairs, National<br />

Security Council; Associate Professor of<br />

Government and D.S. Song-Korea Foundation<br />

Chair, Georgetown <strong>University</strong><br />

Daniel Fried, MIA ’77<br />

Assistant Secretary, European and Eurasian<br />

Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; former U.S.<br />

Ambassador to Poland<br />

Francesco Mancini, MIA ’03<br />

Associate, International Peace Institute<br />

George Tenet, MIA ’78<br />

Former Director, CIA; Professor in the Practice of<br />

Diplomacy, Georgetown <strong>University</strong><br />

CAREER DIRECTIONS IN<br />

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY POLICY<br />

BearingPoint<br />

Booz Allen Hamilton<br />

City of New York Office of the Mayor<br />

Ergo Advisors<br />

Eurasia Group<br />

International Peace Academy<br />

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Korea<br />

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Singapore<br />

New York State Executive Chamber<br />

NYPD Counter Terrorism Division<br />

Scoville Peace Fellowship<br />

Security Council Report<br />

Senior Economic Advisor/President of Afghanistan<br />

Turkish Navy<br />

U.S. Department of Defense<br />

U.S. Government–Central Intelligence Agency<br />

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Policy Area:<br />

Urban and Social Policy<br />

An ambitious policymaker in Latin America tackles the twin problems of gang<br />

violence and economic development, seeking strategic advice from <strong>SIPA</strong> faculty.<br />

The New York City Fire Department, seeking to develop a new performance<br />

management system and to address challenges of a post 9-11 world, recruits a <strong>SIPA</strong> faculty<br />

member as special advisor to the Chief. Land use planners in the Ugandan capital of Kampala<br />

struggle to control the flow of human waste into Lake Victoria, the city’s main source of<br />

drinking water and the outlet for nearly all of its sewage. Across the globe—from the developed<br />

world to the rapidly expanding cities of Asia, Africa, and Latin America—cities now have<br />

responsibilities in virtually every policy arena from developing infrastructure to sustainable<br />

economic development to meeting the basic needs of safety, security, and human welfare—<br />

including education, health, and housing. Students at <strong>SIPA</strong> are surrounded by the resources<br />

of the world’s leading international metropolis, and of a university deeply engaged in the complex<br />

tasks of managing urban growth. Drawing on the resources of <strong>SIPA</strong> and other <strong>Columbia</strong><br />

schools and departments, students can pursue the Urban and Social Policy concentration<br />

within the MIA and MPA degree programs, as well as numerous other educational opportunities.<br />

The urban policy track is designed to provide students with an understanding of policy<br />

issues that are unique to the urban environment, and to enable them to think critically about<br />

the economic, social, political, and technological forces that shape urban areas across the<br />

globe. The social policy track is motivated by the challenges of immigration and immigrant<br />

incorporation, growing racial and ethnic diversity in societies around the world, and changing<br />

gender relations. These trends are transforming old paradigms of policy design, implementation,<br />

and analysis. Students in the social policy track can focus on a specific area of social policy or<br />

tailor the concentration to fit their unique interests. Students concentrating in Urban and<br />

Social Policy pursue careers in local government, the private sector, not-for-profit organizations,<br />

think tanks, advocacy groups, and contract services providers.<br />

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Examples of courses in this field include:<br />

The Politics and Policy of Sustainable Urban<br />

Economic Development<br />

Ester Fuchs<br />

Practical Problems in Urban Politics<br />

David Dinkins<br />

American Politics and Social Welfare Policy<br />

Robert Lieberman<br />

Global Urbanism: Cities, Slums, Infrastructure,<br />

Environment<br />

Saskia Sassen<br />

Poverty and Public Policy<br />

Irwin Garfinkel<br />

Public Financing of Urban Development<br />

Richard Froehlich<br />

Education and Public Policy<br />

Gary Natriello<br />

Health Policy in the Global Context<br />

Peter Muennig<br />

Immigration Law<br />

Lenni Benson<br />

Work/Family Policy in Advanced Industrial<br />

Countries<br />

Claire Ullman<br />

ESTER R. FUCHS<br />

Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science; Director, Urban and Social Policy Concentration<br />

at <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

Ester Fuchs exemplifies <strong>SIPA</strong>’s commitment to combining scholarly expertise and practical experience, having successfully made the transition<br />

from academia to local government and back again. She was founding director of <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s Center for Urban Research and Policy<br />

and chair of the Barnard and <strong>Columbia</strong> College Urban Studies Program. She has written extensively on urban politics and policy and is a<br />

frequent commentator on radio, television, and in the press. From January 2002 to January 2006, Professor Fuchs served as special advisor to<br />

the mayor for governance and strategic planning in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. As special advisor, she<br />

was responsible for developing and implementing reform initiatives for city agencies, as well as advising on innovative and efficient ways to<br />

deliver public services. Dr. Fuchs was the first woman to serve as chair of the NYC Charter Revision Commission and is currently a NYC<br />

Commissioner on Women's Issues. She is a member of the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board, the NYC Workforce Investment Board, the<br />

Advisory Board for NYC’s Out of School Time Initiative, and the Boards of the Fund for the City of New York and the Citizens Union. She was<br />

recently appointed to the Committee on Economic Inclusion of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).


ALUMNI<br />

Alisa Blum, MPA ’00<br />

Manager of Field Operations, National League of<br />

Cities’ Center for Federal Relations<br />

Diana Bruce, MPA ’97<br />

Director of Policy and Government Affairs,<br />

AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families<br />

Neil Hernandez, MPA ’98<br />

Commissioner, Department of Juvenile Justice<br />

Diego Andres Molano, MPA ’00<br />

CEO, Water and Sanitation Company,<br />

Bogotá, Colombia<br />

David Saltzman, MPA ’86<br />

Executive Director, Robin Hood Foundation<br />

CAREER DIRECTIONS IN<br />

URBAN AND SOCIAL POLICY<br />

Booz Allen Hamilton<br />

City of Anaheim<br />

Criminal Justice Coordinator’s Office<br />

Deloitte Consulting LLP<br />

Department of Small Business Services<br />

Homes for the Homeless<br />

Inter-American Development Bank<br />

Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan<br />

New York City Department of Education<br />

The New York Law School—The New Century<br />

Institute<br />

Office of the Mayor, City of Miami<br />

The Port Authority of NY & NJ<br />

UK Department of Health, London<br />

Weill Cornell Medical College<br />

World Policy Institute<br />

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS 23


Admissions<br />

GENERAL INFORMATION<br />

Admission to <strong>SIPA</strong> is extremely<br />

competitive and is based on both<br />

professional focus and academic<br />

excellence. The School offers<br />

seven degree programs: Master of<br />

International Affairs (MIA), Master<br />

of Public Administration (MPA),<br />

Master of Public Administration in<br />

the Program in Economic Policy<br />

Management (PEPM), Executive<br />

Master of Public Administration<br />

(EMPA), Master of Public Administration<br />

in Environmental Science<br />

and Policy (ESP), Master of Public<br />

Administration in Development<br />

Practice (MDP), and a PhD Program<br />

in Sustainable Development. <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

admits applicants with a wide variety<br />

of academic and professional backgrounds.<br />

All applicants must have a bachelor’s<br />

degree or its international equivalent.<br />

Undergraduate work should<br />

include study of a foreign language<br />

and at least two courses in economics<br />

(macro- and microeconomics).<br />

Students lacking an economics background<br />

may still apply, but they are<br />

encouraged to make up this deficiency<br />

before entering the School.<br />

We evaluate all candidates based on<br />

the following criteria: the personal<br />

statement, the résumé/curriculum<br />

vitae, transcripts of prior college<br />

and/or graduate course work, letters<br />

of recommendation, and, lastly, the<br />

GRE (two-year, full-time MIA and<br />

MPA programs only). The personal<br />

statement is the most important part<br />

of the application. Your essay should<br />

demonstrate your interest in the<br />

program and its curriculum, and<br />

how it fits into your specific career<br />

goals.<br />

Applicants to the MPA in Environmental<br />

Science and Policy should<br />

have had introductory courses in<br />

biology and chemistry. PEPM applicants<br />

should have prior professional<br />

exposure to economic policymaking;<br />

and EMPA applicants must show a<br />

demonstrated commitment to public<br />

service through professional experience<br />

or volunteer work. Applicants<br />

to the PhD program must have<br />

either grades of B or higher in an<br />

undergraduate calculus course or a<br />

score above 700 on the quantitative<br />

section of the GRE.<br />

The information contained in this<br />

viewbook may be slightly different<br />

than that found online or in the <strong>SIPA</strong><br />

Bulletin. We encourage you to visit<br />

us online at www.sipa.columbia.edu<br />

for the most updated information or<br />

to request to speak to a representative<br />

about visiting the School.<br />

APPLICATION DEADLINES<br />

Please check the Web site for<br />

current admissions deadlines for<br />

each program.<br />

FINANCIAL AID<br />

We will consider your application<br />

for admission without regard to your<br />

financial need. U.S. citizens and<br />

permanent residents are eligible to<br />

apply for U.S. federal student aid.<br />

Interested applicants should complete<br />

the Free Application for Federal<br />

Student Aid (FAFSA) to be given<br />

full consideration for federal funds.<br />

Applicants must include <strong>SIPA</strong>’s<br />

Department of Education code<br />

number E00128 on the school<br />

listing of the FAFSA. The FAFSA is<br />

available beginning in mid-December<br />

at all colleges, local libraries, and<br />

high schools in the United States.<br />

You may also complete the FAFSA<br />

on the Web at: www.fafsa.ed.gov.<br />

Note: The FAFSA may be submitted<br />

at any time during the academic<br />

year. However, as federal processing<br />

time may be as long as six weeks,<br />

and since many federal aid programs<br />

have limited award budgets, we<br />

strongly urge you to check the<br />

FAFSA Web site for the current<br />

submission deadlines.<br />

Federal aid options include Stafford<br />

and Perkins loans and the Federal<br />

Work-Study program. Many states<br />

will also provide financial aid to<br />

eligible residents, such as the<br />

New York State Tuition Assistance<br />

Program. Interested students should<br />

contact their state financial aid programs<br />

for information.<br />

Private educational financing<br />

options are available for both<br />

domestic and international students.<br />

Information on these programs will<br />

be sent to you with your financial<br />

aid packet.<br />

www.sipa.columbia.edu<br />

PROGRAM WEB SITES<br />

Master of International Affairs<br />

Program<br />

www.sipa.columbia.edu/mia<br />

Master of Public Administration<br />

Program<br />

www.sipa.columbia.edu/mpa<br />

Master of Public Administration<br />

in Environmental Science and<br />

Policy Program<br />

www.columbia.edu/cu/<br />

mpaenvironment<br />

Master of Public Administration<br />

in Development Practice<br />

www.sipa.columbia.edu/mdp<br />

Executive Master of Public<br />

Administration Program<br />

www.sipa-empa.com<br />

Program in Economic Policy<br />

Management<br />

www.sipa.columbia.edu/pepm<br />

PhD in Sustainable Development<br />

www.sipa.columbia.edu/phd

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