Hello current, former, and incoming EPD students!

This Newsletter Includes: 

• EPD Student Summer Spotlight Feature
• EPD Summer Resource List
• Incoming EPD Concentrators - July Zoom Session will include EPD Alumni!
• OCS Job Strategy Discussion Groups - Upcoming Session on July 2, 2020
• Summer OCS Resources 
• ISSO Information 
• Job Opening - Knowledge Management Associate, Dalberg
• Opportunities with J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action 
• World Bank Young Professionals Program (YPP) - Accepting Applications by 6/30
• Upcoming Job and Internship Deadlines
• Upcoming Free EPD-Related and Other Webinars 
• Short essay competition: "The Future We Want, the UN We Need"
• Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Corstange
• EPD Summer Office Hours

EPD Student Summer Spotlight Thanks to all the EPD students who responded to our Student Summer Spotlight! Two of your classmates, Marisa Durham and Irina Elena Preotescu, shared with us what they're up to this summer: Marisa Durham  Where are you spending the summer: Minsk, Belarus What are you doing this summer: Belarus is only a few months out from a potentially transformative presidential election. I am currently helping with young civil society activists on how they can use big data for their campaign (all over Zoom of course)! What have you done to get along while staying at home?: I am also taking four hours of Russian, so that usually eats up my time. I am also working on the Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 JIA print editions. Irina Elena Preotescu Where are you spending the summer: Pittsfield, Massachusetts What are you doing this summer: I'm a COVID-19 Global Task Force member and Research Team coordinator for World Merit (internship); I'm also working to publish a policy analysis paper; and contributing to the Roma People's Project at Columbia University What have you done to get along while staying at home: I have been reading Maya Angelou, watching everything I've been wanting to see on Netflix and educating myself on current issues, aside from work. Keep the responses coming -- find the link here: EPD Student Summer Spotlight EPD Summer Resource List The EPD team has assembled a list of recommended resources for those looking to keep up with the latest developments and major thought in international development including organizational responses to COVID-19 pandemic. You can access the list here.

ISSO Information 
For our international students, the Columbia International Students and Scholars Office provides information and assistance about relevant visa and travel information. The ISSO’s website is https://isso.columbia.edu/. 

Among others, ISSO offers the following help and services: 
ISSO’s Covid Hub can be found here: https://isso.columbia.edu/content/covid-19-hub. 
Immigration Alerts and Resources: https://isso.columbia.edu/content/immigration-alerts-and-resources 

Job Opening - Knowledge Management Associate, Dalberg
A SIPA EPD alumna recently shared with us a full time opening with Dalberg, a leading development consulting firm. They are looking to expand their knowledge management team and are seeking to hire a Global Knowledge Management Associate, based in Mumbai, New Delhi, Nairobi or Dakar. Application Deadline is Friday, July 31.

Check out the full job posting and details on how to apply here: https://dalberg.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/108

Opportunities with J-PAL and Innovations for Poverty Action

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) have a number of openings that may be of interest to EPD students and graduates.

In New York, openings include a Monitoring and Evaluation Associate, an Engagement Manager, and a Financial Reporting, Planning & Analysis Manager with IPA. In Cambridge, J-PAL is hiring a Development Officer and Development Coordinator. Globally, among other posts, IPA is hiring a Research Manager in Malawi and a Communications Manager, Creating Learning Opportunities for Public Officials in India (CLOP) in New Delhi.

For a full listing, visit their Careers page here: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/careers. 

World Bank Young Professionals Program - Accepting Applications by 6/30
The World Bank Young Professional Program is currently accepting applications. The YPP is a starting point for an exciting career at the World Bank Group. Young Professionals are recruited from around the world with various academic and professional backgrounds relevant to the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and MIGA. The World Bank is are looking for applicants who demonstrate a passion for international development, graduate education, relevant professional experience, and the potential to grow into impactful leadership roles across our institutions.

The deadline for applications is Tuesday, June 30. Learn more here: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/careers/programs-and-internships/young-professionals-program#1

Upcoming Job and Internship Deadlines 
Search job/internship postings on SIPAlink using the Job ID indicated below. 

• June 27 - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) | Regulatory Reporting Analyst (26633555)
• June 27 - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) | Associate, LATAM Project Finance (26633579)
• June 27 - U.S. Committee For Refugees And Immigrants | Policy Analyst (26633652)
• June 27 - Action Against Hunger | Intern, Cash Learning Partnership (26633672)
• June 28 - UNICEF | Planning, Monitoring & Knowledge Management Specialist (26641120)
• June 28 - Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) | Compliance Data Analytics Associate (26633965)
• June 28 - Japan Society | Business and Policy Summer Intern (26634100)
• June 28 - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University | Senior Program Officer, Food System Policy (26634174)
• June 28 - EnCompass | Project Coordinator, Technical Assistance and Evaluation (26634184)
• June 28 - Alight | Proposal & Business Development Consultant (26634196)
• June 28 - Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury | International Economist (26641767)
• June 28 - Commonwealth Secretariat | Economic Adviser – Trade Policy Analysis (26642448)
• June 30 - Commonwealth Secretariat | Assistant Research Officer, Governance and Peace Directorate (26642452)
• June 30 - Blackpeak | Associate (26593449)
• June 30 - Blackpeak | Researcher - Greater China (26593452)
• June 30 - Red Sea Executive Search | Research Associate – Africa (26638485)
• June 30 - European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) | Policy Officer on Sustainable Consumption and Production (26641736)
• July 1 - Tahseen Consulting | Strategy Associate (26631670)
• July 1 - Apprio | Monitoring & Evaluation Analyst (26634426)

June 26: Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals
Join EPD and the IO/UN Specialization for this webinar on cross-cutting approaches to the SDGs. Haoliang Xu (MIA ‘94), UN Assistant Secretary-General, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, will provide deep insights into SDG integration as an approach to development that targets systems – not just thematic sectors – to address all aspects of a complex challenge, including its root causes and its ripple effects across economies, societies and natural ecosystems. Register here: http://cglink.me/r716857

Over the summer, we will highlight some of SIPA and EPD’s core faculty members! Feel free to explore faculty profiles and the classes that they teach at SIPA.  

Daniel Corstange is Associate Professor of Political Science and of International and Public Affairs.

Professor Corstange will teach "State Building in the Developing World" (INAF U6538), one of the core political development courses in the EPD curriculum, this coming fall. This course is a big picture class by design, which makes it a complement to the applied skills classes that round out the rest of the SIPA curriculum. It takes an overview of many of the conceptual challenges that development practitioners grapple with in their work. It starts off with discussions of state and institution building, then works through a series of topics on clientelism and elections, ethnic politics, and civil wars. Rather than trying to deal with any specific policy problems, or proposing any specific answers, the point of the course is to give students exposure to those recurring challenges that form the backdrop against which you will address the specific policy problems they will face in their careers.
 
Most of Professor Corstange's research takes place in the Arab world, which is one reason students get a little more of that than normal in his State Building class. A lot of his prior work focused on ethnic politics, clientelism, and elections. His current research focuses on how ordinary people respond to foreign intervention in their own country's domestic politics. More specifically, he has conducted a number of experiments with displaced Syrians to understand the conditions under which they support or oppose foreign intervention in their country's ongoing civil war. Professor Corstange's work includes a book, The Price of a Vote in the Middle East: Clientelism and Communal Politics in Lebanon and Yemen, published in 2016, and several journal papers.

On a lighter note, he observes that if it turns out that we need to do some of our class sessions virtually in the fall, you're likely to experience some Zoom bombing from a couple of chatty little kids who make up with raw charisma for what they lack in background reading.

Summer EPD Office Hours
The EPD team will continue to be available to chat with students throughout the summer. Please email us to schedule an appointment and we'll set up a call for you. 

José Antonio Ocampo, EPD Co-Director
jao2128@columbia.edu
 
Jenny McGill, EPD Co-Director and Workshop Director
em419@columbia.edu
 
Ilona Vinklerova, EPD Concentration Manager
iv2105@columbia.edu

That's all for now! Enjoy the warm weather! 

Best wishes,
The EPD Team