UPCOMING EPD & OTHER EVENTS
Global Liquidity and International Lender of Last Resort
Monday Dec. 7, 2020 | 8AM-9AM
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Speakers include: Zeti Aziz, Former Governor, Bank Ngeara Malaysia. Guillermo Ortiz, Treasurer, Group of 30, former Governor of Bank of Mexico. Odd Per Brekk, Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Dept., IMF. Patricia Mosser, Director, MPA in Economic Policy Management, Columbia SIPA.
Moderated by Takatoshi Ito, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA, Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, Centre on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School.
World Leaders Forum: Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway | Multilateral Leadership in Global Health Security | Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 | 12PM to 1PM
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Introduced by President Bollinger, a conversation between Prime Minister Solberg and Wilmot Godfrey James, Senior Research Scholar at GSAS.
As cochair of the ACT-Acceleration Facilitation Council and upcoming member of the UN Security Council, Prime Minister Erna Solberg's unique leadership position allows her to magnify the much-needed multilateral response to the current global health crisis. Norway's initiative to establish the UN COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund equally considers the immediate financial necessities as well as long term action plans needed to ensure a lasting recovery, furthering the progress of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This discussion will explore the importance of funding global health efforts, garnering multilateralism in recovery, and leveraging opportunities for a sustainable shift in society.
COVID-19: Policymaking in the Throes of a Global Crisis | Every Wednesday, 1-2 PM EDT
An online seminar co-sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs, the Earth Institute, and the Mailman School of Public Health. For more information on this online seminar series CLICK HERE.
The Dean's Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health: 2020: The Year of COVID-19 with Dr. Anthony Fauci | Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 |
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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A conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
Grand Rounds is a community conversation on the science, education, and practice of public health. The series provides an intellectual space within which to explore national and global public health challenges and the innovative approaches needed to transform the public’s health in the 21st century.
COVID-19 has served as a magnifying glass on a broken, structurally racist and unequal health system which falls grievously short of protecting communities of color, the aged and the vulnerable. It also has highlighted the devastating consequences of our country’s absence of a public health system charged with protecting and elevating health for all. This year we will deepen our understanding, research, teaching and action on this topic, through our Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health Series.
A Career in the Public Sector After COVID-19 | Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 |
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Are you interested in learning about careers in the public sector? Join our conversation with two public sector leaders – Helen Hall, Assistant Controller at Asian Development Bank, and Michael Nicolo – Partner at RSM Canada, to hear what leadership in the public sector means and how to navigate the public sector for jobs and opportunities post COVID-19.
JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Check out this week's OCS New Job and Internship Opportunities CLICK HERE and Upcoming Deadlines for Jobs and Internship Application CLICK HERE
Columbia University Sustainability Journal: Call for Submissions
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is a Columbia University-published online academic journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. As an intellectually rigorous forum, Consilience connects students, researchers, professors, and practitioners from a variety of academic fields and geographical regions. The Journal has global presence and scope, with our most recent issue including coverage of India, Ghana, Brazil, and Australia.
Each semester, Consilience invites select experts whose research they feel exemplifies their mission statement to submit their work to the Journal. This semester Consilience is looking for students that have any work they would like to submit to the Journal for their 24th edition. For this Spring 2021 issue, Consilience aims to focus on the global events of 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic and racial injustice.
We encourage you to view past issues in their
archive and to consider submitting your work for their upcoming publication. Their author guidelines, with further description on the types of articles the journal is looking for, are available
here. Papers selected for publication undergo a thorough review and editing process. If interested, please submit all articles through their
online form.
The current submission deadline for our upcoming issue is January 31st 2021.
Alternatively, Consilience is also seeking graduate/doctoral students and scholars to serve as peer reviewers for our upcoming issue. Those interested in serving as anonymous peer reviewers must either be enrolled in a doctoral-level/graduate-level program or have a doctoral/graduate degree relating to sustainable development. They will be using Publons to acknowledge and support the work of our peer reviewers. Please take a moment to fill out this
brief form to be added to our contact list of peer reviewers.
Please contact
consiliencejournal@gmail.com with any questions.
CAREER RESOURCES
SIPA Career Website & Resources
Check out great career development resources for students that can be found on SIPA Career Resources Website.
Factsheets on Career Development - Tips for international students and on connecting with alumni, interviewing, networking, PMF information, writing resumes and cover letters and other career development topics.
Career Overview Factsheet - Information, sample employers, and online resources for a variety of fields and industries
Sector-Specific Fact Sheets - Lists of employers by industry or field, organizational charts, and information on IFC and World Bank internship programs and YPPs.
Check out other resources in the website.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS
Akshika Patel is a second year MIA-EPD student, specializing in Gender and Management. She considers both the US and England her home, as she was born in London and stayed there for much of her childhood before moving to Seattle. Prior to SIPA she worked in a variety of roles primarily in the nonprofit and public sectors. She has worked as a Program Assistant at the Gates Foundation providing project support on grantee cycles for US education and Global Health teams. Additionally, she has served as a Peace Corps Civil Society Capacity Building Specialist in Botswana. Before this, she worked as a Policy Research Fellow at the NGO Working Group on Peace and Security, analyzing UN Security Council actions concerning resolution 1325. Akshika completed her B.A. in International at the University of Washington. She is currently the Communications Chair for CI3 and a participant in the MIINT competition. Her focus areas include development, gender, social justice, and financial inclusion. She is passionate about creating a career which meaningfully works with marginalized communities in an international development setting. When she isn’t studying, she loves to hike with her dogs, read diverse feminist fiction, and play computer games.
Kohei Kawabata is a first year MIA-EPD student, specializing in Africa. After getting a bachelor of law degree from University of Tokyo, Kohei started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MoFA). During two years prior to coming to SIPA, he worked in the division in charge of U.S.-Japan relations. Though very challenging, it was quite an interesting job because they had to cooperate with the U.S. (under President Trump) more than ever while East Asia's security environment has become even more severe and uncertain.
Kohei's plan and goal at SIPA is tied to his Africa specialization. In fact, since he went to both Uganda and Ghana on a study trip few years back, it has been his dream to work in Africa as a diplomat. It is why he decided to study international development at SIPA. After graduating in 2022, Kohei is hoping to be assigned to the Japan embassy in Ethiopia.
Kohei was just elected president of JASSA, the SIPA Japan Study Student Association. He doesn't think a Japan trek will be able to happen this year, but hope he and the rest of the JASSA board can organize some cool events.
Outside of school, Kohei is a coffee geek. He almost became a coffee bean trader before joining MoFA. He's looking for a friend who can take a trip to coffee farms either in Latin America or Africa (after COVID of course). Kohei is also into collecting vinyls and any companion who wants to go vinyls hunting is also more than welcome to contact him. And of course, he is a die-hard Lakers fan!
(Reach out to us if you'd like to be featured in the next newsletter!)
PICK OF THE WEEK
This week's featured film: The Crown, season 4
As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing an appropriate bride for Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor), who is still unmarried at 30. As the nation begins to feel the impact of divisive policies introduced by Britain's first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson), tensions arise between her and the Queen which only grow worse as Thatcher leads the country into the Falklands War, generating conflict within the Commonwealth. While Charles’ romance with a young Lady Diana Spencer (Emma Corrin) provides a much-needed fairytale to unite the British people, behind closed doors, the Royal family is becoming increasingly divided.
Watch the trailer
here, Watch it on Netflix.
This week's featured book: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
President Obama's first memoir book details historic decision-making amid growing racist resentment feature in this elegant, if restrained, account of life inside the White House. A Promised Land takes us from childhood to the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden.
Available on Amazon
(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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Séléna Batchily, EPD Program Assistant
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