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EMPA PAST EVENTS
April 10, 2011
Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook spoke on "Faith, Politics and Religious Freedom: Religion's Role in Public Policy Forum.
April 7, 2011
EMPA Career Series hosted by the Picker Center in collaboration with the Office of Career Services. An evening of recruitment bliss, as an expert panel of executive-level recruiters explained how they recruit professionals for rewarding positions. Various sectors of the job industry were represented. Each recruiter briefly spoke about the type of recruitment they practice, followed by a roundtable discussion with EMPA students where various approaches and preparation techniques were discussed. Recruiters were open to resume review as well.
October 28, 2010- 10 Year Picker Anniversary Celebration
The Picker Center For Executive Education celebrated its 10 year anniversary on Thursday, October 28th, 2010. The Picker Center was founded in 1999 enables working professionals to benefit from SIPA’s world class faculty and curriculum in public policy, management, economics, and international affairs. The first Executive MPA class (of 20) graduated in 2001. In 2010, the graduates joined the 500+ EMPA alumni.
Picker Center also provides customized executive training programs for both national and local organizations and governments. A couple of our partnerships include:
- 92nd Street Y-Ford Fellows Program
- Brazilian Senior Executives from BI International
- Chinese Central Television (CCTV)
- COMFAMA partnership with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue of Colombia
- Externado partnership in Colombia
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Fire Officers Management Institute (FDNY)
- Jiangsu Broadcasting Media Co. (JSBC)
- National Management Institute, Egypt
- Northern Ireland Community Builders Program
- Singapore Senior Management in partnership is Lee Kuan Yew School
- Southeast Asia Fellows Program
- Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The People’s Government of Guangdong Province (GDPTO)
- UJA Federation of New York
- United Nations (UNDP)
- World Bank Trade Program
October 16, 2010
A prominent guest speaker came to the Columbia Campus to discuss an important issue in Public Administration. This was presented by the EMPA forum.
September 18, 2010
The EMPA forum hosted a wine and cheese event. This was a networking opportunity to meet the class of 2012.
April 22, 2010
EMPA Forum Annual Homecoming Event.
The key note speaker was Dr. Robert Garris, Managing Director of Bellagio Programs at the Rockefeller Foundation (and former Senior Associate Dean at SIPA). . An event where alumni and students network.
April 10, 2010
EMPA Career Series Luncheon hosted by the Picker Center in collaboration with the Office of Career Services. The career panel will feature SIPA Alumns and how they were successful in changing industries.
Feburary 13, 2010
EMPA Career Series Luncheon hosted by the Picker Center in collaboration with the Office of Career Services. The career panel will feature SIPA Alumns and how they were successful in obtaining their dream jobs.
Feburary 6, 2010
2010 Spring Policy Forum hosted by the EMPA Alumni Forum Board. This year the guest speaker is Professor Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University's Vice President for Global Centers and well as the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at SIPA. He will speak on this OECD-led world-wide project, which involves more than 100 countries. The Global Project is dedicated to what is often called "Beyond GDP," an effort to help countries assess their progress as societies in ways broader than the current reliance on gross domestic product as the central measure of "how well are we doing." GDP, however important it is, cannot adequately capture such other key dimensions of social progress as sustainable development or subjective well-being -- that is, the richest countries are not necessarily the countries whose economies are kind to nature or where its citizens are particularly happy with life.
December 12 , 2009
EMPA Holiday Party
November 7, 2009
Fall Policy Forum (1pm-2pm)
This year the guest speaker is Rose Gill Hearn, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation. For those of you who are not familiar with the DOI, it serves as an investigatory and oversight entity for all mayoral agencies in the City of New York.
September 26, 2009
Wine and Cheese Welcome for EMPA Students, Hosts: EMPA Forum, Picker Center
August 29, 2009
EMPA Class of 2009 Student Orientation
April 17, 2009
Alumni Homecoming Reception
The Annual EMPA Homecoming unites both current and former students for a primarily social event. The Homecoming allows alumni to re-connect with former classmates and for current students too have the opportunity to network with alumni and learn how the lessons taught in the classroom are applied in the real world.
Speaker: Dean John H. Coatsworth
Location: Columbia Club, NYC
December 2008
EMPA Holiday Party
November 22, 2008
EMPA Fall Policy Forum
Topic: Information Management
Speaker: Dan Lipka, Bronx Charter School
Hosts: EMPA Forum, Picker Center
June 6, 2008
EMPA Forum Spring Fling
Time 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Cibar Lounge
Hosts: EMPA Forum, SIPA Alumni Affairs
May 3. 2008
EMPA Spring Policy Forum
Topic: Corporate Social Responsibility
Speaker: Carolyn Cavicchio, the Conference Board
Hosts: EMPA Forum, Picker Center
March, 2008
Annual EMPA Homecoming
The Annual EMPA Homecoming unites both current and former students for a primarily social event. The Homecoming allows alumni to re-connect with former classmates and for current students too have the opportunity to network with alumni and learn how the lessons taught in the classroom are applied in the real world.
December 2007
EMPA Holiday Party
