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Lisa Anderson, Howard G. Buffett, and Pete Peterson are SIPA’s 2012 Global Leaders
At its 12th annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner on April 26, 2012, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs will honor three guardians of the public interest who have worked to advance the study of international relations on one of the world’s most volatile stages, improve the lives of our planet’s most impoverished citizens, and focus attention on the U.S. federal deficit.
Lisa Anderson is president of the American University in Cairo, where she has had a front-row seat to the Arab Spring movement.
A leading scholar on politics in the Middle East and North Africa, Ms. Anderson served as dean of SIPA from 1996 – 2008. She continues to serve as the James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and holds a certificate from the Middle East Institute. More
Howard Graham Buffett is an American philanthropist and farmer. He serves as president of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private philanthropic foundation that funds initiatives aimed at improving the standard of living and quality of life for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized populations.
Mr. Buffett is the son of prominent investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett and father to SIPA alumnus Howard Warren Buffett (MPA ’08). Howard Graham Buffett manages family farms in Illinois and Nebraska, as well as foundation-operated research farms in Illinois and South Africa. More
Peter G. “Pete” Peterson is founder and chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, whose mission is to target “undeniable, unsustainable and untouchable” threats to the nation’s future and to the future generations of Americans.
Mr. Peterson served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1972 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. He is chairman emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, co-founder and chairman emeritus of financial services company, The Blackstone Group, and former chairman and CEO of Lehman Brothers. From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Peterson chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. More
Presented annually, SIPA’s Global Leadership Awards honor individuals and organizations that, through work in public policy and administration, have made innovative or otherwise extraordinary contributions to the global public good. Honorees exemplify the values and qualities that SIPA seeks in our faculty and staff and strives to instill in our students, who enroll at SIPA in their desire to serve the public interest.
“Each year, SIPA’s Global Leadership awardees encourage and inspire our students as they confront a world full of problems to be solved,” said Dean John H. Coatsworth. “SIPA is thrilled to honor these extraordinary scholars and public servants for their study of political science, unique, global efforts to wipe out hunger and poverty, and lasting contributions to fiscal sustainability.
One of the foremost global public policy schools, SIPA draws its strengths from the resources of New York City and Columbia University; from a student body that hails from more than 100 countries; from 17,000 graduates around the world; and from educational partners in Beijing, Berlin, London, Mexico City, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tokyo. Proceeds raised from the annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner directly benefit SIPA’s annual fund, providing critical financial support for current and incoming students.
The 2011 Global Leadership Awards honored former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, international human rights organization WITNESS, and SIPA alumnus Mitchell Silber (MIA ’05), director of intelligence analysis for the New York Police Department.
Alex Burnett, November 1, 2011