UPCOMING EPD & OTHER EVENTS
Building Back Better – Opportunities for the World Bank and International Cooperation
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 | 1-2PM (EST)
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The global pandemic has reversed decades of progress on poverty, healthcare and education and the knock-on effects are most devastating for the most vulnerable. The scale of the effects has prompted wide-ranging discussions on how to rebuild economies, education, health, and social protection systems the world over. Each crisis also provides an opportunity and the global development community is thus faced with the question: How to build back better? How to use the rupture of the pandemic to create more equitable, effective, and environmentally-sound systems and thus "recover forward"?
Dr. Jürgen Zattler, Director-General for International Development Policy; 2030 Agenda and Climate at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development shares insight into opportunities for the World Bank and other multilateral organizations. Until 2020, Dr. Zattler represented Germany as Executive Director for the World Bank and his talk will equally shed light on the political processes at the World Bank to steer and influence the institution's consequential activities.
The talk is moderated by Daniel Naujoks, director a.i., International Organization and UN Studies, SIPA
Conversation with Sana Ouji (SIPA MPA '15), Energy Infrastructure @ Google
Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 2021 | 1-2PM ET
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Topic: Come hear from Sana Ouji, former SIPA MPA EE alum. Sana has worked with notable companies across the energy infrastructure space, including Google, Lightsource BP, and NRG Energy.
Zoom link
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COVID-19 in Asia: Diverse Effects, Responses and Prospects for Recovery
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 | 1-2PM (EST)
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Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Director of China Center on Social Policy, Columbia University;
Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst; and
Duncan McCargo, Director, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, in a discussion on the very diverse effects, responses, and prospects for recovery post-covid-19 in Asia looking at political, economic, and social lenses.
SIPA Alumni: Clean Energy Finance Panel
Thursday, Feb 25th, 2021 |1-2PM ET
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Topic: Recent SIPA alumni will be sharing stories about what working in clean energy finance institutions means and about their path to their current position.
Adapting to Reach Children in Conflict, Crisis, and Pandemic Realities: Experiences of Sesame Workshop and IRC
Friday Feb 26th, 2021 |12-1pm
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Join EPD in conversation with Rene Celaya, Vice President for Humanitarian Programs at Sesame Workshop and Heidi Rosbe, Senior Project Specialist, Ahlan Simsim at IRC, to talk about Sesame Workshop and ICR's experience in making education work for children in conflict during a global pandemic. Ahlan Simsim—“Welcome Sesame” in Arabic—offers a warm and joyful welcome to early learning to young children across the Middle East, especially those affected by displacement.
Q&A: The role of financial policies in climate action w/ José Antonio Ocampo
EPD Co-director José Antonio Ocampo, who is also the Chair of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy, spoke to Devex on the financial policy and climate action. Read about it
HERE
UPCOMING OCS EVENTS
APSIA Webinar on Navigating a Career in US Politics and Foreign Policy
When: Monday, February 22, 2021, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Work Authorization Requirement: N/A
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Are You Ready to Serve in the New Administration?
When: Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Learn more about federal political appointment opportunities – from exploring job opportunities, and assessing if an appointment is right for you, to the vetting process complete with security checks and financial disclosures.
AECOM Employer Information Session
When: Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Initiatives to develop robust data on flood hazard and risk to better inform management decisions and policies on land use, land and asset management, and hazard preparation, mitigation and recovery.
Global Health Strategies Information Session
When: Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Join the team from Global Health Strategies to learn more about the global health landscape and the impact that a career in communications and advocacy can have on health and well-being around the world.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Briefing
When: Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is the leading international development finance institution dedicated to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific.
RSVP required:
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkf-yvqT0oHdOO2ouqWLgRPKU7c97Zc2wF
The Careers Committee of the SIPA Executive Board invites you to “An Evening Chat” (via Zoom) with Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez, MPA ’04
When: Thursday, February 25, 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez, MPA ’04, is the Managing Director of Daily Provisions, a chain of cafes from Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. Before joining Union Square Hospitality Group, Jessamyn was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the award-winning Hot Bread Kitchen, a social enterprise which serves as an incubator for start-up food businesses. Hot Bread Kitchen also helps women achieve economic mobility by preparing them for work in the culinary sector. Under Jessamyn’s leadership, Hot Bread Kitchen trained more than 250 women from 42 countries, and fostered 172 growing food businesses, thereby creating a nationally recognized brand whose products are sold across the country.
Careers in Social Impact: Jobs in the Corporate Social Sector, A Conversation with Samira Khan, Social Impact at Salesforce.org
When: Thursday, February 25, 2021, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Curious about a career in tech for good? If you’re passionate about empathy-driven innovation, social impact and solving global challenges but also want to work in the tech space, this career might be just right for you. Samira Khan works at the intersection of tech and social innovation/impact. She’s also worked at different corporations, in government, and in the social sector for over 13 years. This is an event hosted by Localized. SIPA has partnered with Localized to give students access to their career-related events. SIPA students interested in attending the event should sign up for a Localized account at sipa.localized.world
JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Development Innovation Team Intern (part-time) - OECD (Deadline: 2/25)
Job ID on SIPALINK: 26927790
For more information click
HERE
The intern will work as a member of the Development Innovation Team, situated the Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), which supports the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) to carry out its mandate to help increase financing for development and to improve the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation. Through inclusive partnerships for development, we help ensure better lives for people in the developing world by understanding development finance, strengthening aid delivery, improving development policy, and building partnerships for development.
Check out this week's OCS New Job and Internship Opportunities CLICK HERE and Upcoming Deadlines for Jobs and Internship Application CLICK HERE.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS
Erin Leyson (she/her/hers) is a second year MPA-EPD student. She was born and raised in New Jersey along with her three sisters and received her undergraduate degree in Public Policy from Duke University. During a summer internship, she worked with migrant farmworkers from Mexico on health access and labor rights issues, which inspired her to move to Mexico. She lived and worked in Mexico for four years prior to coming to SIPA and led nonprofit fundraising efforts for community development projects at AMEXTRA as well as for public policy initiatives at México Evalúa. Erin later leveraged her fundraising and institutional development experience to co-found a nonprofit organization, called Incuba ONG. Incuba provides strategic planning and capacity building to social impact organizations across Latin America. At SIPA, Erin has enjoyed exploring questions about democracy, ESG mainstreaming, and nonprofit finance. Outside of school she loves dancing and is currently taking Dancehall and Ballet classes on Zoom (reach out and ask for the link if you want to join :) ). She loves Mexican, Japanese and Mediterranean food as well as sour beers and IPAs and is always excited to go on a food adventure in NYC!
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleyson/
Iskandar Atajanow, 2022 SIPA MIA-EPD candidate, was born in Tajikistan, and at the age of 16 moved to the US. He enlisted in the US Army at the age of 18 and served in the Special Operations Command, until he was discharged to attend officer training and to receive a bachelor’s degree from Wright State University.
He is currently a Captain in the US Air Force Reserves. He is also a 2020 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellow, which allows him to attend Columbia’s SIPA and, eventually, go into foreign service in the US Department of State upon graduation. Iskandar’s passion for helping people has taken him to multiple locations across the world, where he has deepened his interest in a career that allows him to promote positive change, and to play a vital part in conflict resolution. His diverse experiences and commitment to building bridges among different cultures will advance both the US and global interests.
(Reach out to us if you'd like to be featured in the next newsletter!)
PICK OF THE WEEK
This week's featured film: For Sama
An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. The story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while conflict rises around her.
For Sama made history by becoming the BAFTA's most-nominated feature documentary and won multiple awards at the British Independent Film Awards in December 2019 including: best British independent film, best documentary, best director and best editing.
For Sama was granted "L'oeil d'or", the best documentary movie award in Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and nominated for an Oscar at the 92nd Academy Awards in the Documentary Feature category.
This week's featured book: Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s contemporary, who remained in Lenin’s Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his art and yet managed to create a singular body of revolutionary dances that spoke to the Soviet condition. His work was often considered so culturally explosive that it was described as “like a bomb going off.”
Based on untapped archival collections of photographs, films, and writings about Yakobson’s work in Moscow and St. Petersburg for the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets, as well as interviews with former dancers, family, and audience members, this illuminating and beautifully written biography brings to life a hidden history of artistic resistance in the USSR through this brave artist, who struggled against officially sanctioned anti-Semitism while offering a vista of hope.
(We would love to hear your recommendations! Let us know what you have watched/read/listened to recently so we can feature them in the next newsletter!)
EPD OFFICE HOURS
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