School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university located in Morningside 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.
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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.
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 the London School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, EAESP-FGV in São Paulo, the University of Tokyo and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore through the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN).[5]
Rankings and reputation[edit]
Foreign Policy ranked SIPA fifth in its 2018 ranking of "Top Master's Programs for Policy Career in International Relations".[7] In addition, SIPA was ranked first by U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools in 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 Report ranked SIPA 1st in International Global Policy and Administration.[9]
Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP): Supports microeconomic research to investigate the sources of poverty and to inform practical interventions to address them.
(CGEP): Provides independent, balanced, data-driven analysis to help policymakers navigate the complex world of energy.
Center on Global Energy Policy
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 a center located within the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
research
(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.
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
SIPA is home to five centers:[10]
Member of Ghanaian Parliament for Navrongo Central and Ghanaian Minister for Energy
Joseph Kofi Adda
French scholar of political science and professor of Jewish studies at Columbia University
Clémence Boulouque
Minister of External Affairs of Nigeria and UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
Ibrahim Agboola Gambari
(graduate student), President of East Timor (2007–); former prime minister; Nobel Laureate
Jose Ramos Horta
scholar of Fyodor Dostoevsky, former director of the Harriman Institute, acting dean of Columbia College
Robert L. Belknap
former policy advisor (for Barack Obama), executive director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation
Howard Warren Buffett
former U.S. Ambassador to India
William Clark Jr.
political satirist, writer, producer, television personality, and political commentator
Hagar Chemali
Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fotini Christia
U.S. diplomat
Julie J. Chung
former Chief Investment Officer for J.P. Morgan; forced to resign after JPM suffered a trading loss of $2 billion in April/May 2012
Ina Drew
writer and freelance journalist
Pamela Druckerman
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Daniel Fried
former U.S. Ambassador to Laos
Patricia M. Haslach
Global Managing Director of SOSV and former Commerce Department political appointee in the Obama Administration
Joe Hurd
Chinese American billionaire, founder of SHI International Corp, third largest shareholder in Tesla, Inc.
Leo KoGuan
Director for Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State and Professor of International Relations at Stanford University
Stephen Krasner
United Nations expert and SIPA professor
Edward Luck
Ambassador of Sweden to France (2008–present); formerly to the United States
Gunnar Lund
National Security Advisor to Vice President elect Kamala Harris & former Director of the Foreign Service Institute
Nancy McEldowney
39th Chief of Staff of the United States Army and 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mark A. Milley
former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Jim Nicholson
Israeli ambassador to the United States
Michael Oren
international civil servant and professor
Curtis Roosevelt
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the State Department (August 1997–April 2000)
James Rubin
Prime Minister of Tanzania, Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, President of the United Nations General Assembly
Salim Ahmed Salim
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Congresswoman for Michigan's 8th Congressional District
Elissa Slotkin
former U.S. representative, UN Security Council; former Ambassador to Poland
William E. Schaufele Jr.
former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
Sichan Siv
journalist and former CIA analyst
Frank Snepp
President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs
Joan E. Spero
Founder and CEO of Umoe AS
Jens Ulltveit-Moe
Deputy Secretary General of NATO and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Alexander Vershbow
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and former ambassador to Ethiopia
Donald Yamamoto
expert on peacebuilding and peacekeeping
Séverine Autesserre
professor of natural resource economics
Scott Barrett
development economist, blogger
Chris Blattman
trade economist
Jagdish Bhagwati
prominent political scientist and former director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Richard K. Betts
historian, artist, and art critic
J. Bowyer Bell
author, historian, policy analyst
Stephen Biddle
philosopher of language and of mind
Akeel Bilgrami
financial policy expert
Charles Calomiris
economist for macroeconomics and monetary economics, famous for Calvo (staggered) contracts
Guillermo Calvo
69th Minister of Finance and Public Credit and former Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia
Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría
China expert
Thomas J. Christensen
former United States Secretary of State and former First Lady of the United States
Hillary Rodham Clinton
former provost of Columbia University, Latin American expert
John Henry Coatsworth
historian
Mamadou Diouf
the theorist of the liberal “democratic peace”
Michael W. Doyle
noted expert on Brazil and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
Albert Fishlow
Health Economist and Statistician at the United Nations
Howard Steven Friedman
urban and social policy expert
Ester Fuchs
former United States Ambassador to Iraq and dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Christopher R. Hill
the only North American member of the WTO appellate body; former Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1990–1993)
Merit Janow
one of the most influential international relations scholars, expert on foreign policy analysis and political psychology
Robert Jervis
former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Research
Mark M. Lowenthal
retired career diplomat and museum executive
William H. Luers
leading Africa scholar
Mahmood Mamdani
former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Jack F. Matlock Jr.
political scientist and director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Keren Yarhi-Milo
former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
José Antonio Ocampo
the first female President of the Republic of Ireland; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mary Robinson
professor of economics
Arvind Panagariya
chairman and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, and Garten Rothkopf, and former Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade
David Rothkopf
chief economic advisor to many governments, former Director of the UN Millennium Project, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals
Jeffrey Sachs
Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University
Giovanni Sartori
former Ambassador-at-large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States (NIS)
Stephen Sestanovich
Iran expert and three-time member of the National Security Council
Gary Sick
- Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial, Organizational and Strategic Management ; CEO of Investopedia
David Siegel
professor of sociology
David C. Stark
Nobel Prize-winning former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and former chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors
Joseph Stiglitz
former dean of SIPA and a leading expert on the Middle East; former president of the American University in Cairo
Lisa Anderson
(1875–1959), German-born orientalist and founder of the Middle East Institute
Ernst Jaeckh
former dean of SIPA; former Assistant Secretary-General and chief advisor for strategic planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He continues to serve as the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for Business and Human Rights
John Ruggie
Deputy-Secretary-General of the United Nations and former Ministry of Environment of Nigeria
Amina J. Mohammed
progressive activist
Jim Hightower
chairman and editor-in-chief of Newsweek