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Roger Baumann Awarded Columbia Alumni Medal
SIPA congratulates Alumni Council chair Roger Baumann (IF ’84, MIA ’85) on receiving the Columbia Alumni Medal at the 2010 University Commencement. The Alumni Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the Columbia Alumni Association for distinguished service to the University.
Baumann serves as a managing director in the private equity group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. He began his alumni involvement at SIPA as a member of School’s advisory board and chair of the 60th anniversary celebration in 2006. He has also served as co-chair of the annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner. As a student at SIPA, Baumann was selected as an International Fellow and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Affairs.
“I am extremely honored to have received the Alumni Medal. It has been a privilege to give back to the SIPA community which, as a student, helped to prepare me for life’s inevitable challenges and opportunities, both professional and personal. My work as an alumnus has afforded me a unique opportunity to work closely with SIPA’s dedicated faculty and administration, and to interact regularly with the school’s outstanding students, whose irrepressible desire to improve our world provides an endless source of inspiration.”
The Columbia Alumni Medal, first awarded in 1933, recognizes alumni for service to the University – including its schools, alumni associations, regional Columbia Clubs, and University-wide initiatives. Past medalists have inaugurated or improved alumni programs, provided visionary leadership of school-based and University-wide alumni associations, regional clubs and have organized important outreach initiatives that have fostered new and expanding relationships between alumni and the University, both here and abroad.
“Roger’s dedication, enthusiasm, and leadership have been instrumental in helping us to create a growing community of SIPA alumni,” said Dean John H. Coatsworth. “His prodigious organizational skills were instrumental in making the 60th anniversary event such a success, and in creating new ways for alumni to have a voice in the life of the School and feel a part of our global community.”
In addition to a Master of International Affairs from SIPA, Bauman holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Prior to his current role at J.P. Morgan, he held senior-level positions at James D. Wolfensohn Inc., Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank and Bear Stearns. He lives with his wife and three sons in New York City.
SIPA has more than 16,000 alumni in 155 countries around the world, and includes volunteers going back to SIPA’s first graduating class of 1948. Throughout the year and in a growing number of regions and cities across the globe, SIPA sponsors events that provide alumni with meaningful social, intellectual, and professional networking opportunities. Visit SIPA’s Office of Alumni Relations to learn more about these opportunities.
06/04/2010