Shubhi Arora MPA-ESP ’24 speaks about her experience taking Columbia University’s MPA in Environmental Science and Policy Program (MPA-ESP), through which she is gaining the skills needed to help pursue a career in sustainable finance with a focus on funding the clean energy transition.

In a course co-taught by Professor Hillary Clinton and Columbia SIPA dean Keren Yarhi-Milo, students learn how global leaders make world-changing decisions.

Douglas Almond says that working women see their incomes cut in half, on average, after having children, and that their earnings remain depressed for years.

Anne-Sophie Corbeau, of the CGEP, said that “by 2028, when everything is basically built, we end up with a hell of a lot of LNG in the US and a hell of lot of LNG in Qatar.”

Timothy Naftali joined a group of constitutional experts, that published an open letter concerning the impeachment proceedings against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.

Seohyun Lee MIA ’24 wrote: “Authoritarian regimes are getting bolder and even working together to repress freedom well beyond their own borders."

 

Takatoshi Ito writes that markets seem to be expecting the Bank of Japan to initiate monetary-policy normalization relatively soon, with interest-rate hikes most likely beginning in April.

Ian Bremmer collates a list of the 10 most pressing global risks for 2024.

Amali Tower MIA ’09, founder of the nonprofit organization Climate Refugees, said: “One of the biggest challenges for climate migrants is the ad-hoc patchwork of international protection mechanisms that may cover some but not others.”