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FALL 2012
EPD Brown Bag - Topic: Project Management and Evaluation
When: Thursday, December 6, 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 1302, IAB
EPD Internship Panel
When: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Where: Room 407, IAB
EPD Alumni Panel
When: Thursday, November 15, 2012
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Where: Room 1501, IAB
Join our accomplished EPD alumni for a panel discussion. Learn about their professional experience and receive career advice as you spearhead your internship and job search.
EPD Brown Bag - Topic: Development Consulting
When: Thursday, November 8, 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 1302, IAB
EPD is excited to offer students a casual, informal setting to meet new and other students, share suggestions, complaints or comments about the EPD curriculum and events, and provide and receive guidance from other students regarding courses, internships, jobs, and much more. This brown bag will focus on the topic of development consulting.
Regional Infrastructure as Catalyst for Sustaining Africa's Growth and Development
When: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Where: Room 1501, IAB
Join us for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Cheif Executive Officer of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA), Dirk Salomons, Director of International Organizations Specialization, Akbar Noman, Senior Fellow at Initiative for Policy Dialogue, and Amina Mohammed, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on Post-2015 Development Planning, who will address regional integration and infrastructure in Africa.
EPD Brown Bag
When: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 1302, IAB
EPD is excited to offer students a casual, informal setting to meet new and other students, share suggestions, complaints or comments about the EPD curriculum and events, and provide and receive guidance from other students regarding courses, internships, jobs, and much more. Instead of eating on the 6th floor or somewhere on Amsterdam Avenue, bring your lunch and chat with your fellow EPD students! This is a great way to connect with 2nd years, make your voice heard, and make new friends. Dessert and drinks will be provided.
Recruitment Orientation for EPD Students
When: Friday, October 5, 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 413, IAB
First-year EPD students are cordially invited to join the Office of Career Services (OCS) for a recruitment orientation to learn about various resources on internship and jobs pertinent to EPD. Pizza will be served!
When: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 1302, IAB
A discussion with Jeffrey Ashe, Director of Community Finance at Oxfam America, and Adjunct Professor at SIPA. For additional details, please click here.
Undoing Gender in School: A Story from India
When: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 1302, IAB
A discussion with Urvashi Sahni, Founder, President and CEO of the Study Hall Education Foundation in India, and Global Scholar at the Center for Universal Education, the Brookings Institution. For additional details, please click here.
The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Countries Can Take Off
When: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 1512, IAB
A discussion with author Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist at the World Bank. For additional details, please click here.
Meet the EPD Professors Happy Hour
When: Monday, September 24, 2012
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Where: Havana Central
Join some of our EPD faculty including Chris Blattman, Helen Epstein, Jenny McGill, Sara Minard, Barbara Nunberg, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Miguel Urquiola for a drink and tasty appetizers in a lively setting of a Cuban restaurant, Havana Central.
EPD Brown Bag
When: Friday, September 21, 2012
Time: 12:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 501A, IAB
EPD is excited to offer students a casual, informal setting to meet new and other students, share suggestions, complaints or comments about the EPD curriculum and events, and provide and receive guidance from other students regarding courses, internships, jobs, and much more. Instead of eating on the 6th floor or somewhere on Amsterdam Avenue, bring your lunch and chat with your fellow EPD students! This is a great way to connect with 2nd years, make your voice heard, and make new friends. Dessert and drinks will be provided.
When: Saturday, September 15 and Sunday, September 16, 2012
Where: Camp Kinder Ring, Hopewell Junction NY
Spend a weekend by the lake with your fellow EPDers. Learn about the EPD concentration, events, our curriculum, and meet some of our faculty. You must pay to register. Transportation, food and lodging are included in the price.
Not Relief...But Release: A Personal Journey in Development Work
When: Thursday, September 13, 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Where: Room 1302, IAB
EPD invites you to a lunch discussion with Marise Espineli, Regional Director for Asia at the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR). Marise has thirty years of development experience in both rural development with international NGOs and in education with the government of the Philippines. She has completed assignments in Afghanistan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Kenya, Uganda, China, India, Tanzania, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Laos. Marise holds a Master’s Degree in International and Intercultural Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering.
EPD Concentration Happy Hour
When: Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Where: Amsterdam Restaurant and Tapas Lounge
Meet our incoming class of 2014!
For a listing of all events at SIPA this semester, please visit the SIPA calendar online.