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Global Leadership Awards: Honoring Leaders Who Exemplify SIPA’s Mission
Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) honored two leaders in their fields and a nonprofit organization at its Ninth Annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner. The award winners for 2009 are Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent; Dr. Arminio Fraga, former SIPA professor and founding partner of Brazil’s Gavea Investimentos; and the New
America Foundation.
In bestowing its annual Global Leadership Awards, SIPA recognizes individuals or organizations that exemplify the qualities and achievements that SIPA seeks to embody. The awards were presented at on April 23 at New York’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel, an event attended by about 300 faculty, alumni, students, and friends of SIPA.
In his remarks, Dean John Coatsworth said “SIPA’s mission is to contribute to sustainable development, equitable globalization, democratic governance, and a world at peace, and to strengthen the institutions that make these goals achievable. It does so by training skilled professionals, by fostering research on critical policy issues and by encouraging service in the public interest throughout the world.”
Christiane Amanpour has interviewed world leaders in politics and business, and the victims of war and oppression, from the Middle East and Europe to Africa and beyond. Ms. Amanpour has reported on major crises from the world’s many hotspots with sensitivity and depth, informing and involving a global audience.
Dr. Arminio Fraga (left with Dean John Coatsworth) began his career as a SIPA professor and successfully guided the Brazilian economy through major crises as President of its Central Bank from March 1999 to December 2002. He now serves as the founding partner at Gavea Investimentos. Dr. Fraga’s thoughtful contributions to economic policy discussions and his commitment to education and social justice make him one of Columbia’s most distinguished alumni.
The New America Foundation is a nonprofit and nonpartisan public policy institute that focuses critical attention on key issues of domestic and international policy, from the financial crisis and energy policy to the Middle East and Cuba. The Foundation was represented by its President and CEO Stephen Coll (right). It has consistently produced and promoted rigorous, forward-looking analysis of the key problems that confront the United States at home and abroad.
The Tenth Annual Global Leadership Awards will be presented at a dinner to be held in late spring 2010.