School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Type | Private(graduate school) |
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Established | 1946 |
Dean | Keren Yarhi-Milo |
Postgraduates | 1,030 |
Location | ,, United States |
Campus | Urban |
Affiliations | APSIA |
Website | www |
TheSchool of International and Public Affairs(SIPA) is theinternational affairsandpublic policyschool ofColumbia University,a privateIvy Leagueuniversity located inMorningside Heights, Manhattan,New York City.SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields, as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
SIPA's alumni include former heads of state, business leaders, journalists, diplomats, and elected representatives.[1]Half of SIPA's nearly 1,400 students are international, coming from over 100 countries. SIPA has more than 70 full-time faculty, many of which include the world's leading scholars on international relations.
History[edit]
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Columbia University'sSchool of International Affairswas founded in 1946 following the aftermath ofWorld War II.Emphasizing practical training, the mission of SIPA was to foster the understanding of critical regions and to preparediplomats,officials,and otherprofessionalsto meet the complexities of the postwar world. It originated in dynamic regional institutes that drew on Columbia's renowned faculties inhistory,economics,political science,linguistics,and other traditional fields. The school initially awarded aMaster of International Affairs(MIA) degree.
By 1967, the school was home to eightregional institutes,covering nearly every part of the globe. It also contained the non-area-specific Institute of War and Peace Studies (now theArnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies), founded in 1951 by university presidentDwight D. Eisenhower.[2]Originally housed in a row ofbrownstones,the school moved into its own 15-story building in 1971.
To meet a growing demand for public service professionals, the school added a second degree, theMaster of Public Administration,in 1977. In 1981, the program was renamed the Graduate Program in Public Policy and Administration and the school renamed the School of International and Public Affairs.[3]
In the early 1990s, SIPA began appointing its own faculty, supplementing the distinguishedsocialandnatural scientistsandhumanistswith whom SIPA students studied around the university. Within 15 years, SIPA faculty were among the most prominent in their fields, including the one-time director of theU.S. census,aNobel Laureatein Economics, a judge on the appellate body of theWorld Trade Organization,economic advisors in both theBill ClintonandGeorge H. W. Bushadministrations, a former assistantsecretary generalof theUnited Nations,and many distinguished research scholars.
In 1992, with support from theWorld Bank,the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) was established to provide mid-career finance professionals with the skills required for the effective design and implementation of economic policy, emphasizing the problems of developing andtransition economies.Students who complete PEPM's requirements are awarded an MPA degree.
To accommodate the needs of working professionals who could not pursue full-time study, SIPA established the Executive MPA program in 1999 as part of the Picker Center for Executive Education. In 2001 the school introduced an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy (ESP), which condenses the two years into twelve consecutive months, without a reduction in requirements, and provides core courses in management and policy analysis with a concentration inenvironmental scienceandearth systems.The ESP MPA program is offered in cooperation withThe Earth Instituteand theLamont–Doherty Earth Observatory.In fall 2004 SIPA inaugurated its first doctoral program, the interdisciplinary Ph.D. inSustainable Development,which combines elements of a traditional graduate education in social science, particularly economics, with a significant training in the natural sciences.
On March 23, 2022, current professor and director of theSaltzman Institute,Keren Yarhi-Milowas named Dean.[4]
Academics[edit]
International dual-degree programs[edit]
SIPA offers a number of dual-degree programs with other schools of Columbia University and offers international dual degree programs with theLondon School of Economics and Political Science,Sciences Po,theHertie School of GovernanceinBerlin,EAESP-FGVinSão Paulo,theUniversity of Tokyoand theLee Kuan Yew School of Public Policyat theNational University of Singaporethrough the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN).[5]
Concentrations and specializations[edit]
In addition to fulfilling all core requirements, MIA and MPA students must also satisfy the requirements of both a policy concentration and a specialization. Students choose one of the following six concentrations: Economic and Political Development; Energy and Environment; International Finance and Economic Policy (includes focus areas in international finance; international economic policy; and central banking); Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy; International Security Policy; or Urban and Social Policy.[6]
Students choose a specialization in one of the following: Data Analytics and Quantitative Analysis; Gender and Public Policy; International Conflict Resolution; International Organization and UN Studies; Technology, Media, and Communications; Management; or regional expertise (8 different regions/countries). Regional specializations are offered in the following areas: Africa, East Asia, East Central Europe, Europe, Latin America, The Middle East, Russia, South Asia, and the United States. The Advanced Policy and Economic Analysis (APEA) specialization was discontinued during the 2018–2019 academic year.
Rankings and reputation[edit]
Foreign Policyranked SIPA fifth in its 2018 ranking of "Top Master's Programs for Policy Career in International Relations".[7]In addition, SIPA was ranked first byU.S. News & World ReportBest Graduate Schoolsin the 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022 world rankings for International Global Policy and Administration and fifth for Environmental Policy and Management.[8]In 2023,U.S. News & World Reportranked SIPA 1st in International Global Policy and Administration.[9]
Centers[edit]
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SIPA is home to five centers:[10]
- Center for Development Economics and Policy(CDEP): Supports microeconomic research to investigate the sources of poverty and to inform practical interventions to address them.
- Center on Global Energy Policy(CGEP): Provides independent, balanced, data-driven analysis to help policymakers navigate the complex world of energy.
- Center on Global Economic Governance(CGEG): Produces policy-oriented research on global economic governance.
- Center for International Conflict Resolution(CICR): Contributes to the resolution of international deadly conflict through research, education and practice. It was founded in 1997 by professor Andrea Bartoli as the International Conflict Resolution Program. The center was renamed in 2002, and it is aresearchcenter located within theSaltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
- Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies(SIWPS): Founded in 1951 under the sponsorship of Dwight D. Eisenhower, during his tenure as president of Columbia University, SIWPS was created to promote understanding of the "disastrous consequences of war upon man's spiritual, intellectual, and material progress". The institute has become one of the leading research centers on international relations in the United States.
Publications[edit]
Journal of International Affairswas established in 1947 and is the oldest university-affiliated publication in the field of international relations; it is edited by SIPA students.[11]
The Morningside Postis SIPA's student-founded, student-run multimedia news publication. Its content: student-written investigative news about SIPA and the SIPA community, plus world affairs analysis, opinion, and satire.
Conflict Resolution Journalis a dynamic and evolving web-based project founded by SIPA students.
SIPA Newsis a biannual publication featuring articles by faculty, students, and alumni as well as news about the school.
Notable alumni[edit]
- Alice P. Albright,CEO of theMillennium Challenge Corporation
- Madeleine Albright,formerUnited States Secretary of State
- Joseph Kofi Adda,Member of Ghanaian Parliament for Navrongo Central and Ghanaian Minister for Energy
- Clémence Boulouque,French scholar ofpolitical scienceand professor ofJewish studiesatColumbia University
- Ibrahim Agboola Gambari,Minister of External Affairs of Nigeria and UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
- Karen Attiah,Global Opinions editor forThe Washington Post
- Jose Ramos Horta(graduate student),President of East Timor(2007–); formerprime minister;Nobel Laureate
- David Kay,Chief UN weapons inspector and head ofIraq Survey Group
- George Tenet,Former Director of theCentral Intelligence Agency
- Robert L. Belknap,scholar ofFyodor Dostoevsky,former director of theHarriman Institute,acting dean ofColumbia College
- Howard Warren Buffett,former policy advisor (forBarack Obama), executive director of theHoward G. BuffettFoundation
- Wang Boming,editor-in-chief of China'sCaijingmagazine
- William Clark Jr.,former U.S. Ambassador to India
- Hagar Chemali,political satirist, writer, producer, television personality, and political commentator
- Fotini Christia,Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences atMassachusetts Institute of Technology
- Julie J. Chung,U.S. diplomat
- Bill de Blasio,formerMayor of New York Cityand formerPublic Advocate
- Monica Crowley,Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at theU.S. Department of Treasury
- Ina Drew,former Chief Investment Officer forJ.P. Morgan;forced to resign after JPM suffered a trading loss of $2 billion in April/May 2012
- Pamela Druckerman,writer and freelance journalist
- Daniel Fried,Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
- Steven Fulop,Mayor ofJersey City, New Jersey
- Eric Garcetti,Mayor ofLos Angeles
- Nellie Gorbea,Secretary of State of Rhode Island
- Victor Gotbaum,Head ofDC37,the largestmunicipal unioninNew York City
- Patricia M. Haslach,former U.S. Ambassador to Laos
- Jingdong Hua,Treasurer and Vice President of theInternational Finance Corporation
- Joe Hurd,Global Managing Director ofSOSVand formerCommerce Departmentpolitical appointee in theObama administration
- Sara Jacobs,U.S. Congresswoman forCalifornia's 53rd congressional district
- Deborah Lee James,23rdU.S. Secretary of the Air Force
- Letitia James,New YorkAttorney GeneralformerPublic Advocate
- Karine Jean-Pierre,White House Press Secretary
- Roula Khalaf,editor-in-chief,Financial Times
- Glenn Kessler (journalist),Washington Postreporter and author
- Leo KoGuan,Chinese American billionaire, founder ofSHI International Corp,third largest shareholder inTesla, Inc.
- Stephen Krasner,Director for Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State and Professor of International Relations atStanford University
- Edward Luck,United Nations expert and SIPA professor
- Gunnar Lund,Ambassador of Sweden to France (2008–present); formerly to the United States
- Lorie K. Logan,14th President and CEO of theFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Nancy McEldowney,National Security Advisor to Vice President electKamala Harris& former Director of theForeign Service Institute
- Mark A. Milley,39thChief of Staff of the United States Armyand 20thChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Jim Nicholson,former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Michael Oren,Israeli ambassador to the United States
- David Pekoske,Administrator of theTransportation Security Administration
- Santiago Peña,59th President ofParaguay
- Michael Pettis,American economist, professor atGuanghua School of Management
- Eunice Reddick,former US ambassador to Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, and later Niger
- Robert D. Reischauer,Director of theU.S. Congressional Budget Office
- Curtis Roosevelt,international civil servant and professor
- James Rubin,Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the State Department (August 1997–April 2000)
- Vuslat Doğan Sabancı,billionaire Turkish businesswoman and chairwoman ofHürriyet
- Salim Ahmed Salim,Prime Minister of Tanzania,Secretary General of theOrganization of African Unity,President of the United Nations General Assembly
- Elissa Slotkin,former U.S.Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairsand Congresswoman forMichigan's 8th Congressional District
- William E. Schaufele Jr.,former U.S. representative, UN Security Council; former Ambassador to Poland
- Andrew J. ShapiroAssistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs(2009–2013)
- Claire Shipman,ABC Newscorrespondent
- Sichan Siv,former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Ambassador to theUnited Nations Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC)
- Richard Mills Smith,CEO ofNewsweek
- Frank Snepp,journalist and former CIA analyst
- Joan E. Spero,President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
- Katie Stanton,head of international strategy,Twitter
- Puneet Talwar,Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military AffairsandUnited States Ambassador to Morocco
- Tian Huiyu,CEO ofChina Merchants Bank
- Jens Ulltveit-Moe,Founder and CEO of Umoe AS
- Alexander Vershbow,Deputy Secretary General ofNATOand formerAssistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
- Ross Wilson,U.S. Ambassador toTurkey
- Brian Wynter,Governor of theBank of Jamaica
- Donald Yamamoto,Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and former ambassador to Ethiopia
- Peter Zalmayev,human rights activist and Director of theEurasia Democracy Initiative
Notable current faculty[edit]
- Rohit Aggarwala,commissioner of theNew York City Department of Environmental Protection
- Séverine Autesserre,expert on peacebuilding and peacekeeping
- Scott Barrett,professor of natural resource economics
- John Battelle,media entrepreneur, co-founding editor ofWired
- Chris Blattman,development economist, blogger
- Jagdish Bhagwati,trade economist
- Richard K. Betts,prominent political scientist and former director of theSaltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
- J. Bowyer Bell,historian, artist, and art critic
- Stephen Biddle,author, historian, policy analyst
- Akeel Bilgrami,philosopher of language and of mind
- Sandra Black,economist, former member of theCouncil of Economic Advisers
- Jason Bordoff,founding dean ofColumbia Climate School
- Ian Bremmer,founder ofEurasia Group
- Howard Warren Buffett,research scholar, grandson ofWarren Buffett
- Charles Calomiris,financial policy expert
- Guillermo Calvo,economist for macroeconomics and monetary economics, famous forCalvo (staggered) contracts
- Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría,69thMinister of Finance and Public Creditand formerMinister of Mines and Energy of Colombia
- Thomas J. Christensen,China expert
- Richard Clarida,formerVice Chair of the Federal Reserve
- Hillary Rodham Clinton,formerUnited States Secretary of Stateand formerFirst Lady of the United States
- John Henry Coatsworth,former provost of Columbia University, Latin American expert
- Steven A. Cohen,former director ofThe Earth Institute
- Mamadou Diouf,historian
- Michael W. Doyle,the theorist of the liberal “democratic peace”
- Albert Fishlow,noted expert on Brazil and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
- Howard Steven Friedman,Health Economist and Statistician at the United Nations
- Ester Fuchs,urban and social policy expert
- Geoffrey M. Heal,British-American economist known for contributions toenvironmental economics
- Christopher R. Hill,formerUnited States Ambassador to Iraqand dean of theJosef Korbel School of International Studies
- Merit Janow,the only North American member of theWTOappellate body; former Deputy AssistantU.S. Trade Representativefor Japan and China (1990–1993)
- Robert Jervis,one of the most influentialinternational relationsscholars, expert onforeign policy analysisandpolitical psychology
- Rashid Khalidi,historian and former director of SIPA'sMiddle East Institute
- Kenneth Lipper,former deputy mayor ofNew York City,financier, novelist, and screenwriter
- John Liu,formerNew York City Comptrollerand current member of theNew York State Senate
- Mark M. Lowenthal,former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Research
- Edward Luck,expert on theUnited Nations
- William H. Luers,retired career diplomat and museum executive
- Mahmood Mamdani,leading Africa scholar
- Jack F. Matlock Jr.,former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
- Keren Yarhi-Milo,political scientist and director of theArnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
- Michael Nutter,98thMayor of Philadelphia
- Michael E. O'Hanlon,defense researcher atThe Brookings Institution
- José Antonio Ocampo,former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
- Mary Robinson,the first female President of theRepublic of Ireland;United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Arvind Panagariya,professor of economics
- Kenneth Prewitt,political scientist and former director of theUnited States Census Bureau
- David Rothkopf,chairman and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, and Garten Rothkopf, and former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade
- Jeffrey Sachs,chief economic advisor to many governments, former Director of theUN Millennium Project,Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on theMillennium Development Goals
- Giovanni Sartori,Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University
- Stephen Sestanovich,former Ambassador-at-large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State on theNew Independent States(NIS)
- Gary Sick,Iran expert and three-time member of the National Security Council
- David Siegel- Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial, Organizational and Strategic Management; CEO ofInvestopedia
- David C. Stark,professor of sociology
- Joseph Stiglitz,Nobel Prize-winning former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of theWorld Bankand former chair of the President'sCouncil of Economic Advisors
Notable former faculty[edit]
- Lisa Anderson,former dean of SIPA and a leading expert on the Middle East; former president of theAmerican University in Cairo
- Zbigniew Brzezinski,National Security Advisorunder U.S. PresidentJimmy Carter
- David Dinkins,firstAfrican Americanmayor ofNew York City
- Ernst Jaeckh(1875–1959), German-born orientalist and founder of the Middle East Institute
- Robert C. Lieberman,former interim dean of SIPA and provost of theJohns Hopkins University
- John Ruggie,former dean of SIPA; former Assistant Secretary-General and chief advisor for strategic planning toUnited NationsSecretary-GeneralKofi Annan.He continues to serve as the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Business and Human Rights
- Zalmay Khalilzad,formerUnited States Ambassador to the United Nations
- Amina J. Mohammed,Deputy-Secretary-General of the United Nations and former Ministry of Environment of Nigeria
Notable former international fellows[edit]
- Michael Armacost,diplomat,Deputy Secretary of State,president ofBrookings Institution
- Bonnie Erbe,host of thePBStelevision showTo the Contrary
- Harold Varmus,Nobel Prizewinner, head ofNational Institute of Health
- Jim Hightower,progressive activist
- Richard M. Smith,chairman and editor-in-chief ofNewsweek
- Frederick Kempe,president,Atlantic Council of the United States
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External links[edit]
- Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
- Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy
- Journal of International Affairs
- Conflict Resolution Journal
- The Harriman Institute
- The Morningside Post
- SIPA News
- Global Public Policy Network
- International Fellows Program