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International Women’s Day: SIPA Welcomes Michelle Bachelet
To mark International Women’s Day, SIPA’s United Nations Studies Program will host Michelle Bachelet on March 2. Bachelet is executive director of UN Women and former president of Chile.
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SIPA’s UN Studies Program offers students unique access and exposure to the UN and its role in global governance. This month, 40 SIPA students will spend an unprecedented day behind the scenes at the UN, then share their experiences at a panel discussion on April 6.
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NBC’s Chuck Todd to Host SIPA’s Global Leadership Awards
NBC News’ Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd will emcee SIPA’s annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner on April 14. Honorees include former Fed chairman Paul Volcker; WITNESS, an international nonprofit that trains citizens to use video to shed light on human rights abuses; and SIPA alumnus Mitchell Silber (MIA ’05), who leads a counterterrorism team in the NYPD’s Intelligence Division.
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TARP Investment Chief Says U.S. Investments Face Ongoing Risk
David Miller, chief investment officer for the U.S. Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, delivered SIPA’s latest Investcorp lecture on February 25. He said, “While much work remains, and there is considerable market risk to these investments, we anticipate the cost of this program will be negligible and merely a fraction of what was initially estimated.” SIPA’s Investcorp lectures examine trends in international finance and business policy.
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Tunisia, Revolution... and Facebook
Elections in Tunisia are expected by this summer, after the uprising that inspired protests across the Arab world. SIPA alumna Rim Nour (PEPM ’08), an international development consultant in Tunisia, spoke with SIPA about the role of the Internet and social media in the revolution.
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SIPA Students Flex Their Skills on Public Policy Issues
In a SIPA signature event, 30 students squared off for the School’s Public Policy Case Competition. Ten teams tackled international and domestic problems and tested their presentation skills before top management professionals and development experts. The challenges involved the delivery of military benefits and predicting famines in Sudan.
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Coming Up at SIPA…
March 10: "Measuring the Markets: The Impact of Data on Economic Policymaking," featuring Keith Hall, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal agency that measures employment and unemployment and produces the Consumer Price Index.
March 28: "Obama, Human Rights, and the Lessons of the New Diplomacy," featuring Samantha Power, Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council.
March 28: "United States Policy in the Middle East,” co-hosted by SIPA’s Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
March 30: Dolores Garcia from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will give students an insider’s look at federal employment and the application process, hosted by SIPA’s Office of Career Services.
May 14: SIPA’s graduation features Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General and SIPA Global Fellow.
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Photo by Kevin Hong (MIA '11)
As a part of SIPA's Workshop in Development Practice with Kopernik (
http://www.thekopernik.org/), a team of three students visited remote communities in Central Kalimantan in Indonesia in January. They conducted preliminary research to understand the economic, social, and environmental impacts of solar lanterns.
This newsletter is distributed by the Office of Communications and External Relations at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Contact Alex Burnett at 212-851-1818 or
alex.burnett@sipa.columbia.edu.
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