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Dear EPDers,
This week's newsletter includes:
- [Deadline Extended] OECD: Innovation for Development Facility Intern
- EPD Summer Trivia Night (virtual)
- In-person Hangout at the Park!: Indicate your interest
- [Webinar] Pandexit: Key Challenges
- [Opportunity] Consultant - Private Sector Development Research Network (World Bank Group)
- Opportunities on SIPAlink with Approaching Deadlines
- Faculty Spotlight
- Student Summer Story
- Book & Film/TV Recs
- What's Happening in New York City!?
[Deadline Extended] OECD: Innovation for Development Facility Intern
The intern will work as a member of the Innovation for Development Facility, situated within the
Development Co-operation Directorate (DCD), on supporting 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.
The Innovation for Development Facility is located within the Reviews, Results, Evaluation and
Development Innovation Division in DCD. The selected candidate would work on contributing to
the design of a strategy and implementation of the work programme, mainly through carrying
out research assignments. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to engage with a
wide range of stakeholders, ranging from bilateral development agencies to innovators from
low- and middle-income countries. She/he will work under the guidance of the Head of the
Innovation for Development Facility.
Send your CV and a max. one-page letter of motivation along with a sample of writing in English to asha.meagher@oecd.org by 25 July 2021. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview and asked to submit their application through the Internship Generic Vacancy in Taleo.
For more information on the background, main responsibilities, preferred candidate profile, requirement, and other details on the internship, please check out the Terms of Reference here.
EPD Summer Trivia Night!
Wednesday, Jul 28th, 7:30pm EDT
Join Zoom Meeting
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/94494510277?pwd=RGszYkpJQXdNSFdUUk1FOVNFbnVpdz09
Hang out with your fellow classmates while you battle wits at this final virtual social event this summer!
RSVP HERE!
In-person Hangout at the Park!: Indicate your interest
We are planning to organize an in-person meeting at one of the parks nearby on day in August. We would like to know how many of you would be interested. Please fill in THIS FORM to indicate your interest!
[Webinar] Pandexit: Key Challenges
MPA in Economic Management Policy and CCBS/Bank of England cordially invite you to attend our webinar discussion on:
Pandexit: Key Challenges
Friday, July 23rd, 2021
12:30-2:00 PM E.S.T
Experts will discuss the main obstacles to recovering from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccination and financial issues, fiscal and monetary challenges, with a focus on the problems facing emerging economies. Click HERE to register.
[Opportunity] Consultant - Private Sector Development Research Network (World Bank Group)
The Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN) is a community of institutions with an active research agenda on Private Sector Development. The networks founding objectives have been to facilitate information exchange and collaboration among network
participants in order to advance understanding and knowledge on Private Sector Development that is operationally relevant. Currentmembers sitting in the Steering Group are the CDC Group; Center for Global Development (CGD); European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); IDB Invest, member of the Interamerican Development Bank Group; International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group; International Growth Centre (IGC); Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector,
member of the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB); London Business School Wheeler Institute; and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
The post will be based at the Economics and Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency of the International Finance Corporation, reporting to the manager of the network. This part-time consultancy for the PSD Research Network, to work on social media presence, grow the website, and support its activities. Deadline for applications is August 2, and contract is for 6-months, renewable – we envisage this more medium than short-term.
For more information, check out the TOR here.
Opportunities on SIPALink with Approaching Deadlines
Faculty Spotlight - Shawna Wakefield
Shawna Wakefield is an international facilitator, consultant and advocate who supports leaders and their organizations to develop capacities for feminist leadership and organizational cultures of care, intersectional gender, race and economic justice, equity and inclusion. She is co-founder of Root. Rise. Pollinate!, an intergenerational, transnational community of practice that supports feminist leaders to individually and collectively heal trauma, interrupt patterns of domination, embody and steward social transformation. She is an independent consultant and Associate with Gender at Work, coaching, training and accompanying philanthropic, international, social justice and movement building organizations such as Urgent Action Fund-Asia Pacific, OSF-Europe, Wellspring Philanthropic Advisors, UN Women, Global Fund for Women and a cross-cultural coalition to end GBV in New York City.
Wakefield was Oxfam International’s Senior Gender Justice Lead between 2007-2015, heading organizational strategy on gender justice in advocacy and campaigns, humanitarian response, and organizational culture and accountability initiatives. She was Oxfam GB’s East Asia Regional Gender Advisor based in Cambodia, researcher with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit in Kabul, Program Specialist with UN Development Fund for Women on economic security and strategic planning and Community Organizer with Cooperative Economics for Women. She has written and co-written articles such as Re-imagining Resilience: Supporting feminist women to lead development with transformative practice, Oxfam’s Guide to Feminist Influencing, Transformative and Feminist Leadership for Women’s Rights, Better than the Sum of Our Parts? Reflections on gender mainstreaming in a confederation and A Seat at the Table: Afghan Women, Men and Decision-making.
She graduated from the Columbia School for International and Public Affairs in 2000 with a MPA, specializing in gender policy and human rights. This coming Fall, as an Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Wakefield will teach a new course Race, Power and International Development, and previously taught a SIPA capstone course on intersectionality, women, peace and security.
Student Summer Story
 Joanne Li is a first-year MIA student with a specialization in DAQA. She was born and raised in Beijing, China, and received her BA in Politics and Economics from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She had prior work experience in public health and global development in the U.S., Ireland, and her native China. This summer, Joanne is interning at the Pandemic Action Network, a network of organizations from around the world that strive to end the current pandemic everywhere and ensure that the world is prepared for the next one. She enjoys working with a close-knit team of global health experts to advocate for equitable access to all COVID-19 tools and better pandemic preparedness and response globally. She spends most of her free time reading, watching TV, and exploring New York City. She highly recommends the book she recently finished called Where the Crawdads Sing and the Netflix show Law School.
Book & Film/TV Recs
 Factfullness - Hans Rosling
When asked simple questions about global trendsÔÇòwhat percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish schoolÔÇòwe systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspectiveÔÇòfrom our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases (Source: Amazon)
 Naomi Osaka (Netflix)
One thing is obvious after watching Naomi Osaka, Netflix's three-episode docuseries tracking the life of the increasingly press-shy tennis champion. Naomi Osaka worries. A lot. She worries about the pressures of fame after her victory over Serena Williams in the 2018 U.S. Open made her a superstar. She worries about serving as a role model for biracial youth, as the daughter of a Japanese mother and Haitian father. She worries about random noises in her new home after moving away from her family. She worries about whether, as a citizen of Japan who represents the country as a championship player, she speaks Japanese well enough. And, in one of the docuseries' most poignant moments, she worries if her mental mistakes on the tennis court betray her longtime mentor and friend Kobe Bryant, who died in a January 2020 helicopter crash. (Source: NPR)
What's Happening in New York City!?
 Catch Free Performances at Little Island
NYC’s first “floating park” Little Island has become the hot spot of the summer here in NYC.
And one of the biggest draws is their fabulous outdoor performance spaces! From the 687-seat amphitheater (“The Amph”) to the more intimate stage and lawn (“The Glade”), to all the lush green spaces, the Island worked to fill their summer calendar with as many outdoor events as possible. Click here for more info! (Source: Secret NYC)
Summer Office Hours
Have any questions? Our Program Assistant, Saiful Salihudin MIA'21 holds office hour every Friday 9AM-10AM EST. Email him at sas2409@columbia.edu to make an appointment!
Best Regards,
The EPD Team
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