Through the Eyes of SIPA: The Haiti Earthquake
As the eyes and hearts of the world focus on the devastated nation of
Haiti - the sorrow of innocent victims lost; the struggle to carry on
by those who survived the earthquake of January 12 - the disaster has
sharpened the focus of the work of several members of the SIPA family.
Six students, a member of the faculty, and two staff from the Earth
Institute were visiting Port-au-Prince, Haiti when the earthquake
struck. The story of their work before the earthquake, the providence
of their survival, and their humanitarian response in the aftermath, is
a testament to the ideals and values represented by the entire SIPA
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Sir Brian Urquhart in Conversation with Alvaro de Soto: The Center for International Conflict Resolution hosts former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations Sir Brian Urquhart, in a conversation with Ambassador Alvaro de Soto. IAB, 1501, Feb 25 at 6 p.m.
Policy Making in the Digital Age: The Morningside Post hosts a conference to discuss how the Internet and digital technology are changing policy making and international affairs. Feb 27 More
Facing the Fracture: Media and Economic Understanding: A panel discussion covering the newsroom realities faced by business journalists
today: broadening the coverage to include new ideas and new sources
from Main Street, how the Internet has altered economic reporting, and
the variation in reporting on the financial crisis across the globe. April 6. More
10th Annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner: SIPA's annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner will honor Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria, GPS," and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of the World Bank and former Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Nigeria. April 29. More |
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Faculty
Alfred Stepan published an article in Social Research, entitled "The Early Years of Central European University as a Network: A Memoir." Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government and former dean of SIPA. Professor Stepan examines the beginnings and evolution of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where he served as its first president and rector.
 John Mutter co-authored a chapter in Human Rights and Climate Change, entitled "Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality." Professor Mutter and co-author Kye Mesa Barnard examine the highly variable effects of climate change and increasing disasters on economic development and human rights, and the debates now taking place within the spheres of science, politics, economics and civil society.
Bentley Macleod participated in a task force at the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy to develop proposals on expanding school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality. Professor Macleod and the task force released their report "Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education" on February 2. More
Guillermo Calvo delivered the keynote address at the 11th Annual Global Development Conference in Prague, Czech Republic. In his address, Professor Calvo proposed that the 2008 financial crisis saw a bank run that connected the financial and real sectors by a sudden freeze in credit. More
 Ester Fuchs has been appointed Senior Policy Fellow at the Partnership for New York City. She will serve during her spring 2010 sabbatical from SIPA. Before joining SIPA, Professor Fuchs served as Special Advisor for Governance and Strategic Planning to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. More |
"Un Futuro Para Mexico": A Future for Mexico: Four of Mexico's most visible public intellectuals and opinion shapers, including Jorge G. Casteneda and Jesus Reyes-Heroles, gathered at SIPA to discuss Mexico's future. The conversation centered on proposals offered in a new book, Un Futuro Para Mexico, which argues that Mexico needs a consensus on key issues before the 2012 presidential elections. Watch the video here.
Religion and Democracy: The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion announces renewed funding from the Henry R. Luce Initiative in Religion and International Affairs. The funding allows CDTR to embark on a three-year initiative on how religion may encourage or discourage democratic practice and human rights, and how religious and secular actors can come together to implement and increase the effectiveness of human rights initiatives and women's rights. More
Restoring the Great Lakes: Students from SIPA's MPA program in Environmental Science and Policy presented final briefings for their fall 2009 workshops in Applied Earth Systems Management. In "A Collaborative Approach to Great Lakes Restoration," the team proposes a program design for the Great Lakes Collaboration Implementation Act of 2009, to address the environmental degradation of the Great Lakes region.
Watch the team's final presentation here.
SIPA News: Science and Technology: The January 2010 issue of SIPA News focuses on a challenge facing public policy schools and professionals everywhere - keeping up with science and technology. Dean John H. Coatsworth writes "Serving the public interest now requires knowledge of the latest scientific research on a wide range of problems and an understanding of the available and developing technologies that address or could potentially address them.
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Alumni
 Brian Wynter (MIA '85) was appointed Governor of the Bank of Jamaica in November 2009. As Governor, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors. Before returning to Jamaica in 1988, Wynter worked with Chase Investment Bank and Schroder Wertheim International Company, both in New York. More
Glenn Mack (MIA '93) was named President of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Atlanta in 2009. Previously, he operated his own cooking school in Austin, TX. After SIPA, he covered the fall of the USSR for Time magazine. | |
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