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SIPA Announcements and Awards 2003-2006
Joseph Stiglitz Leads Dialogue on Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability in India
India’s future economic development and environmental sustainability are inextricably linked, concluded Indian and foreign experts at a two-day conference led by Joseph Stiglitz, Noble Laureate economist, SIPA faculty member, and co-founder and president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University. The conference examined the linkages between economic growth and the environment in India. Far from the periphery, addressing the country’s critical environmental issues is essential for realizing its future growth aspirations. Over-exploitation of critical natural resources, such as land, energy and water, pose substantial challenges that threaten to curb future economic growth and keep people trapped in poverty. [2006]
“India’s burgeoning economic growth has brought forth major new challenges for environmental sustainability. However, if actions are not taken to address these challenges, the livelihoods of the poor—who stand to reap the benefits of this growth—will be jeopardized,” said Stiglitz. Co-organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), the conference included participants from the IPD Environmental Task Force as well as leading academics, policymakers, and other key experts from India and abroad. [2006]
Saltzman Institute wins grant on Muslim World
The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Joint Warfare Analsysis Center to study Public Aspirations and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World. The study is a pilot program that includes public opinion research in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan. Lincoln Mitchell is the primary investigator on the project. A leading polling firm, Charney Research, has been contracted as a consultant on the project. [2006]
Ken Prewitt to serve as inaugural chair of National Research Council committee
Professor Kenneth Prewitt gave the keynote address at the biennial conference of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, addressing "A Fragile Statistical System: What Can Be Done?". He has also recently agreed to serve as the inaugural chair of a National Research Council standing committee on Research and Evidentiary Standards, which will focus on evidence in policy-making. [2006]
William Eimicke appointed to Andrew Cuomo's Transition Team
William Eimicke, Director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at SIPA, has been appointed to the New York State Attorney General's Transition Team. He will serve on the Public Integrity subcommittee with the initial task of helping Attorney-General-elect Andrew Cuomo fill senior positions. This appointment continues Eimicke's long record of public service, including service as the director of fiscal studies for the New York State Senate, assistant budget director of the City of New York, and deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. [2006]
Dreifus to be Inducted as Honorary Member of Science Honor Society
Claudia Dreifus, adjunct faculty at SIPA, will be inducted as an honorary Sigma Xi member. Sigma Xi is the international honor society for research scientists and engineers, with more than 500 chapters in North America and around the world. A science writer for The New York Times, Dreifus collected many of the interviews for which she is famous in a book called Scientific Conversations. Previous honorees include Father Theodore Hesburgh , Stuart Udall, and Al Gore. [2006]
Rodolfo O. de la Garza Selected for SIPA/Paris Faculty Exchange
Rodolfo O. de la Garza has been selected as SIPA’s first representative in the Alliance SIPA/CERI exchange professorship in international affairs at Sciences Po, Paris. De la Garza is Deputy Chair of the Department of International and Public Affairs and the Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science in the Political Science Department. He teaches and conducts research on immigration, immigrants, and American politics. He is also affiliated with the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, a think tank housed at the University of Southern California that conducts policy research on issues affecting Latino communities. De la Garza has edited and coauthored numerous books, including The Future of the Voting Rights Act; Sending Money Home: Hispanic Remittances and Community Development; Latinos and U.S. Foreign Policy: Lobbying for the Homeland?; and Bridging the Border: Transforming Mexico-U. S. Relations. De la Garza was named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Magazine in 1998. While at Sciences Po in the spring term of 2007, de la Garza will teach immigration and U.S. minority politics and will conduct research as a full-time member of the Science Po faculty. SIPA will soon announce the name of the Science Po/CERI faculty member who will reside at Columbia in spring. [2006]
Douglas Almond received a Fulbright grant for research at the China Center for Economic Research on the effect of ambient pollution on infant health in China and worked with the Council of Economic Advisers on the federal response to possibility of an avian flu pandemic. [2006]
Elazar Barkan joins the faculty at SIPA after a year as a visiting professor from the Claremont Graduate University. He will serve as the Co-Director of the Human Rights concentration at SIPA. Professor Barkan’s research interests focus on the role of history in contemporary society and politics, with particular emphasis on the response to gross historical crimes and injustices, and human rights. His recent books include The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices; Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity; Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation. In addition Professor Barkan is founding Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation at the Salzburg Seminar. [2006]
Satyajit Bose will be teaching economics in the Program on Environmental Science and Policy during Glenn Sherriff’s leave. Prior to SIPA, he worked as Head of Quantitative Strategies at Aristeia Capital; his research interests include Environmental Economics, Computational Dynamic Programming, and Microeconomic Theory. [2006]
Albert Bressand will be the Director of the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at Columbia University. Dr. Bressand headed the Global Business Environment department in Royal Dutch Shell's global headquarters in London from 2003-2006. In this capacity, he was responsible notably for designing a new generation of Shell Global Scenarios around an original methodology for risk and opportunity assessment. Dr Bressand is also Special Advisor to the EU Commissioner in charge of energy in Brussels. Previously, he was Managing Director and Cofounderof Promethee, a nonprofit, Paris think tank specializing in the emerging global networked economy. Dr. Bressand served as Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and held key positions with the French Institute for International Relations and the World Bank. He is a member of the faculty of the World Economic Forum, and has chaired a number of sessions at the Davos Annual Meetings. [2006]
Charles Calomiris participated in a Reuters event, “Financial Intermediation, Innovation, and Global Financial Stability: The Role of Regulatory Policy, Derivatives, and Securitization in Geo-Political Finance.” [2006]
Michael Doyle (International & Public Affairs, Political Science and Law) has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on the ethics, politics, and law of preventative self-defense. [2006]
Ester Fuchs has been appointed to the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board. Continuing her outstanding service to the City of New York, Ester Fuchs has been appointed to the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board (in addition to her successful work for on the Mayor’s Commission for Economics Opportunity). The Sustainability Advisory Board will be chaired by Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding Daniel L. Doctoroff. The objectives of the Sustainability Advisory Board will be to assist the new Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability in identifying the highest-priority issues the new sustainability agenda should address; setting the targets the City should aim to achieve; and choosing the best methods of achieving those goals. Please see the New York City Government website for press releases and further information on the Sustainability Advisory Board and the Mayor’s Commission on Economic Opportunity (Press Release) and Commission Report. [2006]
Helios Herrera joins SIPA this fall and will teach the core course “Economic Analysis for International Affairs; he is also an assistant professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). His research interests include political economy, information economics, industrial organization and financial economics. His recent works include: "Turnout and Quorum in Referenda" (2006), "Policy Platforms, Campaign Spending and Voter Participation" (2006), "Developer's Expertise and the Dynamics of Financial Innovation: Theory and Evidence" (2005), "Sorting in Risk-Aversion and Asset Price Volatility" (JME 2005). [2006]
Robert Jervis has been awarded the National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War, a prize of $20,000 awarded every three years for basic research in any field of cognitive or behavioral science that uses rigorous formal and empirical methods to advance our understanding of issues relating to nuclear risk. Jervis was chosen "for showing, scientifically and in policy terms, how cognitive psychology, politically contextualized, can illuminate strategies for the avoidance of nuclear war." [2006]
Wolfram Schlenker coauthored two papers, “The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions,” in Review of Economics and Statistics; and “Water Availability, Degree Days, and the Potential Impact of Climate Change on Irrigated Agriculture in California,” in Climatic Change. [2006]
Robert Lieberman’s new book, Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective, was published by Princeton University Press and has been awarded the Best Book on Public Policy Prize of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). For more information on the book, please click here . [2006]
Alice Miller joins the faculty at SIPA after several years of active involvement from her home base at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Miller will hold a joint appointment, and will serve as co-director of SIPA’s Human Rights concentration along with Zori Barkan. Miller’s interests include integrating gender analysis into human rights advocacy, in particular in support of the development of effective advocacy strategies and norms to advance claims of women's human rights. Her recent work focuses on developing a framework for human rights claims in the context of sexuality. She is a member of the American Society of International Law and the Washington State Bar Association. [2006]
Dorian Warren joins SIPA this fall, is jointly appointed in Political Science, and is also a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Warren specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His research and teaching interests include race, labor, inequality, urban politics and policy. His work has been published in several journals and edited volumes including the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, New Labor Forum, Du Bois Review, National Political Science Review, and Social Service Review. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Joseph S. Murphy Institute and the University of Notre Dame. [2006]
Steve Cohen's new book, Strategic Planning in Environmental Regulation, introduces an approach to environmental regulatory planning founded on interactive relationships between business and government. [2005]
William Eimicke's article, “Eliot Spitzer: “The People’s Lawyer” is featured in Public Integrity, fall 2005. [2005]
Tanya Heikkila received an NSF grant for a project with Edella Schlager studying interstate river compacts and received the American Review of Public Administration’s best article award for “Modeling Operational Decision Making in Public Organizations: An Integration of Two Institutional Theories.” [2005]
Jennifer Hill and colleague Chris Weiss (ISERP) have been awarded an NSF grant to examine the effects of holding children back in school on their subsequent cognitive development and behavioral outcomes. [2005]
Wojciech Kopzuk was selected for the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship program. [2005]
Bentley MacLeod, who joined the SIPA faculty in 2005, has been elected as a fellow of the prestigious Econometric Society, along with Kyle Bagwell of the economics department. [2005]
Sharyn O’Halloran and her colleague David Epstein (Political Science) received the 2005 Decade of Behavior Research Award for their joint research on the impact of racial redistricting on the democratic process. Their research has been cited in recent Supreme Court decisions concerning the Voting Rights Act. [2005]
Kenneth Prewitt received the Charles E. Merriam Career Award from the American Political Science Association, given to “a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research” and also presented the Killam Annual Lecture (Toronto, Canada) entitled, "Reforming American Graduate Education Despite the Fact that No One is in Charge Here.” [2005]
Jeffrey Sachs was named one of the 100 Most Influential Leaders in the World by Time magazine in 2005, and his book, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, was published. [2005]
Dirk Salomons's “Security: An Absolute Prerequisite” was published in Postconflict Development. [2005]
Elliot Sclar is focusing on his work as co-coordinator of Taskforce 8 of the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) project, responsible for the range of environmental, economic, and social problems associated with the accelerating pace of global urbanization. [2005]
David Stark's paper with Daniel Beunza, “Tools of the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room,” which appeared in Industrial and Corporate Change, won the Outstanding Publication Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies. [2005]
Sara Tjossem's new book, The Journey to PICES: Scientific Cooperation in the North Pacific, has just been published. [2005]
Miguel Urquiola received the National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship for his work on the effects of private school entry on children’s educational outcomes. [2005]
Michael Ting was awarded a grant from the NSF to conduct a study of the political economy of FDA decision making, with applications to pharmaceutical approvals and recalls, and regulatory reform. [2003]
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