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SIPA Takes Students Backstage at the UN
The latest unique offering by SIPA’s United Nations Studies Program will give select students a behind-the-scenes look at the UN by shadowing staff for a day. Through A Day at the UN: A View From Inside, 40 students will accompany UN staff to the meetings, field reports, and other activities. The students will share their experiences at a panel discussion on April 6.
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Michelle Bachelet, executive director of UN Women and former president of Chile, visits SIPA on March 2 to advance International Women’s Day.
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Chief TARP Investment Officer to Deliver Investcorp Lecture
David Miller, chief investment officer for the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, will speak at SIPA on February 25. Miller will evaluate the program’s success and implications for the future of financial markets. SIPA’s Investcorp lectures focus on policies affecting international finance and business. Miller is featured this week in the New York Times.
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Paul Volcker, WITNESS, Mitchell Silber Are SIPA’s 2011 Global Leaders
At its annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner on April 14, SIPA will honor former Fed chairman Paul Volcker; WITNESS, the international advocacy group that trains citizens to use video to end human rights abuses; and alumnus Mitchell Silber (’05), who directs the NYPD’s counterterrorism intelligence analysis. SIPA’s Global Leadership Awards honor groundbreaking work in global policymaking and practice; funds from the gala provide fellowship support for SIPA students.
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Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century
The role of the business media in the financial crisis comes under the microscope. Editor Anya Schiffrin, director of SIPA’s International Media, Advocacy and Communications program, spent more than a decade as a journalist in Europe and Asia. Per Publisher’s Weekly: “Though the contributors disagree on whether the media did or did not do its job, all present smart, deeply considered analyses that make for fascinating reading.”
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Journal of International Affairs: Technology is Leaving Higher Ed Behind
The latest Journal of International Affairs explores how information technology could drive education around the world—except that universities are not keeping up with technological change. Contributor William E. Bertrand proposes that the United States launch a major initiative to promote education, distance learning, and development through I.T. and a volunteer program modeled after the Peace Corps.
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Alumnus Argues for a Leaner, Meaner Defense
Matthew Leatherman (MIA ’09) co-authored “A Leaner and Meaner Defense: How to Cut the Pentagon’s Budget While Improving Its Performance” in this month’s issue of
Foreign Affairs. Leatherman and co-author Gordon Adams write, “…the U.S. government must make difficult choices about which defense missions to undertake, exercise restraint in defense planning and budgeting, and bring tough management practices to the Pentagon… The U.S. government's ambitions now outstrip its capacities at home and its welcome abroad.”
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