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The Food Issue SIPAnews VOLUME XIX No. 1 DECEMBER 2005 Published biannually by School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

From the Dean

his edition of SIPA News—The Food Issue—is gramming, we also have a project in mind that conveys the devoted to the challenges of food production, wonderful diversity, good humor and tradition that charac- distribution, consumption and disposal around terize SIPA. We will be compiling a cookbook and restau- the world. From famine relief in Somalia to rant guide composed of recommendations from SIPA stu- genetically modified corn in Mexico, from dents, alumni and faculty. For that, we need your help. We Twater rights in Cambodia to waste disposal in New York, are looking for family recipes you would like to share— wherever there is (or isn’t) food, there is controversy. especially the foods you grew up with and the ones that got As I write this message, much of the world is focused on you through the long days at school—and your favorite the dramatic events, of both human and natural causes, that restaurants, both in New York and at home (see pages 24–25 have shaken the world in the last year: earthquakes in South for a preview). Asia, record hurricanes in North America, war in the Middle Throughout the year, we will be hosting receptions in a East. Through it all, the food issue continues to be of vital number of the cities around the world where we have signif- importance, and many members of the SIPA community icant numbers of alumni, starting in Washington, January maintain the steady focus of their research and practice on 12, and traveling to Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul, food. It is a centerpiece of human rights, a foundation for Mexico City, Bogotá and elsewhere before returning to New security, a pillar of trade policy and an important facet of York for a festive (and food-filled!) alumni reunion on nearly every aspect of international affairs and public policy. October 28. We will be showcasing many of our distin- Whether we are gourmets, gourmands or just plain hun- guished alumni over the course of the year, both at these gry, we know that food is vital, varied and endlessly fascinat- events and in a special 60th Anniversary edition of SIPA ing, both as an arena of policy and as a treasure of culture. News. The Food Issue coincides with the announcement of one of We hope that you will join us in celebrating SIPA at 60. our exciting projects for the coming year: 2006 is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the School, and we want Lisa Anderson to take time this year to reflect on how far we’ve come and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations where we will go next. And of course, we intend to celebrate Dean in style. Although most of our festivities will be focused on appropriate policy-relevant and thought-provoking pro- contents p.2 p.12 p.24 p.30 p.38 Stranded: Somali Prairie Cuisine: SIPA’s Guide for the New York City’s Dirty Global Public Policy Nomads Seek Food in Midwest Farmers Take Global Gourmet Habit Network a Barren Land Back the Land, and Compiled by Tom Randall By Steven Cohen By Daniel J. Gerstle the Dinner Plate and Veronika Ruff By Tom Randall p.33 p.39 p.6 p.26 SIPA Names New Third Annual World Chair of Board of p.16 Tastes & the City Moldova’s Russian Leaders Forum Advisors Hangover Improving Cambodia’s Cartoon by Emmanuel Letouzé By Remi Bello, Aaron Clark, By Chris Mayo Water Supplies Rachel Makabi, Rachel E. Goldstein, Rebecca Leicht, through Creative Meena Jagannath, Andrew Financing p.27 Monahan and Lindsay Hamilton p.41 By Tanya Heikkila and Class Notes p.8 Alison Gilmore Shipwrecked: Gulf Compiled by Kalai Murugesan Subsidies and Poor Coast Hurricanes Slam Country Interests: A Vietnamese-led Shrimp p.36 Paradox for the WTO p.19 Industry Faculty News By Arvind Panagariya By Veronika Ruff p.44 Genes for the Hungry? Donor List By Jacob Winiecki p.10 p.29 p.37 IFP Curriculum Review Food as an Essential p.22 Earthquake Relief in Medicine: The AIDS South Asia Pandemic and Food Knafe, Knafe, Knafe By Jayati Vora Insecurity in Rwanda By Zach Wales By Deborah Baron On the cover: A farmer clears and weeds his cornfields near Mayan ruins of Oxkintok, Yucatan. Stranded O O OO

BY DANIEL J. GERSTLE

A cowherd walks two head of cattle by the carcass of another, a victim of drought. Las Dhure, Somalia.

2 SIPA NEWS rouching on a straw mat in a makeshift migrant village in northeastern Somalia, Farah Ali Musa told the story of his wife’s death without emotion, his jaw muscles visible under deflated cheeks and a bushy beard. “The drought killed my pregnant wife,” he said. “She Cwas anemic, lacking vitamins. I could tell that because she had a fever and was swollen. She left behind five living children. The child she was giving birth to also died.” Musa, a former camel-herding nomad, and his family were forced to settle in the village of Awsane with dozens of other nomadic families when a harsh drought hit in 2001. Droughts are a normal part of the life cycle in Somalia, but this one was different. The dry seasons lasted far longer than normal, four

SIPA NEWS 3 years in a row. As pastures dried up, the nomads’ goats and camels fell to hunger-related disease. Since they lost their transportation and food source, Somalia’s nomads could no longer migrate from the Sanaag region’s highland pasture to low- land springs. It has been 14 years since Somalia has had a functioning federal government, during which time a civil war has killed more than 300,000. With political questions still looming, drought migrants like Musa are left with little government protection against malnutrition and disease. Now it’s up to aid agencies such as Horn Relief and the World Food Programme to try to curb the effects of Somalia’s drought disaster. In the semi-arid, soil-poor African Horn, families have always confronted serious health risks. Many regions that lack government also lack even rudimentary health care, education or food market infrastructure. The nomads’ traditional diet and dependence on grazing pasture leave many in their communities especially vulnerable to drought. Before 1927, when British and Italian colonial- ists took power, sultans ruled Somalia’s northeast, and camel herds covered the horizon. Since then, nomads—mostly Muslim tribes who roam the region trading camel steak and milk, both of which have legendary curative powers—have been at the heart of Somali culture. Carrying traditional agal cloth huts, with their meager supplies strapped to camels, nomadic families journeyed in caravans to high ground during punishing biannual rains. Then, during the scorching dry seasons, they searched for rare oases and springs. Each nomadic tribe sent traders to the sul- tanates and ports to exchange meat and milk for tuna or mackerel. Some nomadic tribes even feast- potatoes and oil. The few who miraculously still other products required for daily life: rice and ed on lobster. have animals might add goat and milk to the mix. sorghum from Ethiopia; dates, limes and potatoes Although Somalia experienced droughts and Somalia’s food problems began soon after Italy from Somalia’s Juba Valley; tea and sugar from wars in the past, its tribes always worked together and Britain abandoned their colonial lands in the Kenya; and cloth and spices from Yemen. Extra to persevere. But in modern Somalia, thousands of African Horn in 1960. In the vacuum that fol- foodstuffs were gathered for special occasions nomadic people depend on international aid and lowed, the brutal leader Siad Barre rose to power. such as wedding meals: salted camel and goat, are no longer prepared for the disasters they face. Armed rebels attacked Barre’s regime in 1991, rice mixed with smoked yogurt, potato and onions, Many of Somalia’s nomads survive on only one and Mogadishu, the capital, erupted in violence. papaya and mango, sweet cardamom and cinna- meal a day. Those who lost all of their animals to Markets, schools and hospitals closed. While mon tea. Tribes near the coasts would trade for the drought eat only foreign aid foodstuffs: rice, Somalia’s Northeast, also known as Puntland, was

4 SIPA NEWS “We had to choose this place. This is where our animals died, and we have no transport to the better areas.” spared much of the chronic violence that plagued who lost everything will create a town in Awsane or the south, the region’s primary access to the grain migrate to Bosaso to find jobs. With them they will and vegetable trade was cut. This left the nomads carry a food tradition now dependant on foreign with the tiny port of Bosaso, on the Gulf of Aden, rice and potatoes, but many dream of future good as the only practical place to exchange their camel times to be celebrated again with the slaughter of and goat products for other vital goods. a camel, a slice of papaya and a spoonful of camel Once the war had decimated their trade capa- milk in a hot glass of cardamom tea. bilities and the drought had wiped out their main “We have been pastoralists for 4,000 years— food source and transportation means, many of all our lives,” Musa said. “After losing our animals, Somalia’s nomads were forced to settle where they we cannot do anything but sit in this settlement were. Many of the hardest hit camped in Sanaag, and wait.” which is claimed by both the autonomous state of Puntland and breakaway Somaliland in the north- Daniel J. Gerstle, MIA ’05, graduated with a west. What started as temporary migrant camps self-designed concentration, Humanitarian Man- near a tiny settlement have now become rapidly agement and Media. Last summer, he served as a growing villages like Awsane. health and communications consultant for Horn “We had to choose this place,” said Muhamed Relief in Somalia. Ayid Ruso, who lives in Awsane, near Musa and his children. “This is where our animals died, and we have no transport to the better areas.” Awsane is not an ideal place to settle. The village has no water during the blistering dry season, except what villagers are able to purchase for $2 a barrel from truckers who pass periodically through the region. When it does rain, the sparse grazing land nearby floods completely. Villagers dug a berked, a water storage well, in the sandy earth with drainage channels. But just one month after the rains, the well was already crackling dry. Three kilo- meters downslope is the last patch of grass where the elders’ few remaining camels and goats graze. Horn Relief, an international agency with strong Somali roots, is working with the nomads in Sanaag to protect trees and pastures that are threatened by droughts, environmental degrada- tion and harvesters who cut trees for firewood. The organization is well integrated in Awsane, where it uses foreign aid to set up projects that should eventually lessen the community’s dependency on aid, including short-term pasture-protection projects, supplemental education programs and support for women’s groups. At left, top: An Awsane drought survivor beside her stick home. At left, bottom: Somalis on the coast share a collective Awsane’s people say they will survive. Those dish of tuna and spaghetti, available to people who have something to trade for it. This page, top: Fortunate families near oases or in higher altitudes who did not suffer serious livestock losses continue to sell camels for export to who still have a few camels or goats hope to Yemen. This page, bottom: Awsane villagers introduce an older woman with deteriorating health and eyesight. rebuild their herds and resume roaming. Those Photos by Daniel J. Gerstle

SIPA NEWS 5 Moldova’s Russian

Hangover By Chris Mayo

he view across the fields to a hol- tion throughout the region, in particular for its A simmering conflict in predominantly lowed-out concrete shell of a fac- sparkling varieties. However, the opening of Russian-speaking Transnistria also stunts Moldova’s tory says much about the regional markets has caused a headache for development. The breakaway province of more Moldovan economy. Here, near Europe’s only democratically elected Communist- than 600,000 people declared independence in Tthe quiet village of Cojusna, little governed country. Moldova’s lock on regional 1990, just before Moldova itself separated from evidence remains of the heavy industrialization markets steadily declined in recent years with an the Soviet Union in 1991. A Russian military of the Soviet era. Striking yellow sunflowers sur- influx of higher-priced wines from regions such presence has remained in Transnistria since a round the abandoned facility, and on the other as Australasia and South America. Moldovan short war in 1992, despite international agree- side of the narrow road that snakes off toward the wine producers struggle against the perception ments that Russia should withdraw its troops. Romanian border, vineyards stretch along the that the lower prices of Moldovan wine mean Only Russia recognizes Transnistrian statehood, hillside, comprising part of one of Moldova’s lower quality, and the country has so far failed and the Moldovan government’s inability to exer- largest wineries. to make inroads into the European Union wine cise control over the region fuels international Wine was Moldova’s biggest contribution to market. concerns over the smuggling of illegal goods and the former Soviet Union. This landlocked repub- Moldova’s declining regional market share and weapons, damaging Moldova’s ability to collect lic of four million people supplied 20 percent of its continuing dependence on Russian consumers customs revenues. the Union’s table wine. Today, wine is even more are worrisome for Europe’s poorest country. The Russian Web site http://pravda.ru noted in important to the region, accounting for 30 per- Moldova had a gross domestic product (GDP) per early September that Russian deputies were cent of Moldovan exports and 60 percent of all capita on a purchasing power parity basis of considering restrictions on Moldovan wine wine consumed in Russia. “I am proud to be $2,100 in 2004, less than a tenth of the EU aver- imports in retaliation for Moldovan President Romanian, but I must admit that Moldovan wine age and less than a quarter of its close neighbor, Vladimir Voronin’s increasing ties with is superior to Romanian wine,” said a Romanian Romania, which itself has struggled with economic Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and businessman, who was in Moldova pursuing reform during its transition to democracy. Shaky Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. The investments, in August. relations with Russia make Moldova’s single- Russian Duma was particularly frustrated by Moldovan wine has cultivated a good reputa- market dependence even more precarious. efforts to mediate the Transnistrian conflict

6 SIPA NEWS “I am proud to be Romanian,

but I must admit that

Moldovan wine is superior

to Romanian wine.”

without Russian input and Moldova’s refusal to the red 1990 vintage Negru de Purcari each year, priorities. On September 20, the Moldovan news allow Russian observers during elections in but so far Moldovan wine does not appear on the Web site http://reporter.md quoted Deputy Minister March 2005. shelves of British supermarkets alongside the large of Foreign Affairs Valeriu Ostalep, saying, The Russian news agency, RIA Novosti, selection of Bulgarian and Romanian offerings. “Although our strategic priority is to get the sta- reported that the Russians had requested a list of Moldovan wine exports to the European tus of EU associate member, it is not a must. This chemicals used by the Moldovan wine industry, Union suffer from protectionist tariffs and from status may turn out to be more advanced than we and Moldovan government officials fear this large subsidies to EU producers. These protec- [can] hope [for] at present.” could be a pretext for a ban on Moldovan wine tions have distorted the market so much that With EU relations stagnant, Moldova is left imports. European wineries have generated more wine to deal with a diversifying Russia as its primary International economic organizations say than they can sell. As a result, the European market, said Iurie Gotisan, senior economist for they are concerned that the agricultural sector Union tried to buy up surplus wine from produc- the Association for Participatory Democracy, an still composes 30 percent of the Moldovan GDP. ers, and the French winemaking organization, NGO based in Moldova’s capital, Chisinau. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Institut National des Appellations d’Origine, “Moldova lacks ‘space to maneuver’ to balance Development stated in its July 2005 communica- asked all regions to significantly curtail produc- its ties with Russia,” he lamented in May. “If tion on Moldova that the concentrations in agri- tion from this year’s harvest. Chisinau fails to adopt a much better [active cultural sectors “increase Moldova’s vulnerability At present, Moldova must hope for improved trade] policy, Moldova’s commercial dependency to adverse shocks,” and that the country needs to relations with the European Union through on Russia will become more visible.” reduce its “excessive reliance” on Russia, which negotiations over an association agreement on received 40 percent of Moldova’s total exports in trade protections. That could be difficult, given Chris Mayo, MIA '06, is concentrating in 2004 and supplies virtually all of Moldova’s energy the European Union’s current turmoil over International Media and Communications. He spent last requirements. Turkey’s accession negotiations and the failed ref- summer in Prague, writing and editing political and The industry’s attempts to diversify its export erenda on the European Union Constitution. economic analyses on Central and Eastern Europe for markets have not been successful. It is rumored The Moldovan government seems to acknowl- Transitions Online, www.tol.cz, a regional news Web site that Queen Elizabeth II of England orders a case of edge that the European Union may have other founded by SIPA alumnus Jeremey Drucker.

SIPA NEWS 7 SUBSIDIES AND POOR COUNTRY INTERESTS: A PARADOX FOR THE WTO By Arvind Panagariya

8 SIPA NEWS griculture will be the make-or- export revenues of the least developed countries break issue in the Doha Round that sell in these markets. negotiations at the World Trade It is tempting to argue that even if the least Organization (WTO) ministerial developed countries as a whole lose, their farm- meeting in Hong Kong in Decem- ers would at least benefit from competitive marber.A Unfortunately, this complex issue is poorly kets. But if the objective is to prevent farmers understood, with public debate on it clouded by from being undercut by cheaper imports, a coun- a number of fallacies. While I discussed these fal- tervailing duty against the subsidized imports, lacies in detail in the September 2005 issue of which is entirely legal under WTO rules, is a bet- World Economy, let me offer here the most glaring ter instrument, since it also generates revenues. and yet most widely accepted one. But the decision by the least developed countries Thanks to the advocacy of a few pressure not to impose this duty suggests that they prefer groups and many international institutions, there to have the lower prices for their consumers. is now a near-universal agreement that developed Another reason why exporters in the least country subsidies and protections in agriculture developed countries could lose out from liberaliza- hurt the poorest, least developed countries. Some tion is that wealthier countries might use less even argue that the subsidies and protections transparent regulatory policies, ostensibly for food constitute the most important barrier to the hygiene and safety, to replace more conventional development of these poorest countries. barriers such as tariffs and quotas. Wealthier devel- It is true that the rich country subsidies and oping countries in the Cairns Group would be far protections seriously distort global trade in agri- better placed to overcome these barriers than the culture and must therefore be eliminated. But it is least developed countries. While this outcome is also true that, barring a few exceptional cases, not a certainty, it is a strong possibility. such as cotton, the least developed countries Why have the numerous studies of agricultur- would actually be hurt by this liberalization. The al liberalization failed to reveal its potential prob- biggest beneficiaries of cuts in farm subsidies lems? There are three reasons. First, with rare would be the rich countries themselves, which exceptions, the studies simply ignore the fact bear the bulk of the cost of the associated distor- that the Everything But Arms initiative gives the least developed countries free access to the EU tions, followed by the Cairns Group countries, market. Second, some studies lump liberalization which include a number of middle-income devel- by poor countries together with liberalization by oping countries with the greatest export poten- rich ones. Insofar as the benefits to the least tial in agriculture. developed countries from their own liberaliza- Rich country protection and export subsidies tion outweigh the losses inflicted on them by flood world markets with undervalued products rich country liberalization, the uninformed read- and drive agricultural commodity prices down. er is left to believe that all liberalization must be The removal of these measures would therefore beneficial. Finally, some studies put the countries raise the global prices of the products in ques- that lose into a broader region (for example, tion, benefiting the exporters and hurting the Bangladesh into South Asia), so that the gains to importers of these products. Food products are other countries in the region offset their losses. among the most heavily subsidized items, and as The failure to recognize the adverse effects of many as 45 of the world’s least developed coun- trade liberalization on poor countries poses two tries are net food importers, according to calcula- Left: WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy speaks at a dangers as we move to the final stage of the Doha tions by the economists Alberto Valdes and Alex news conference following a meeting of the steering negotiations. First, without recognizing the group for the WTO's Doha Round in Geneva, Switzerland, McCalla. Even when we include nonfood agricul- potential problems, we shall fail to design the October 13, 2005. Above (top): A woman selects cotton tural products, 33 of the least developed coun- in the southern highway in Pisco, Peru. Above (bottom): compensation and adjustment programs that the Loveness Chibabi, left, with her son Michael, and sister tries are net agricultural importers. least developed countries will need in order to Peggy, right, leave a World Food Program food distribu- Some argue that the removal of the artificial adapt to liberalization. Second, when the least tion center with bags of food atop their heads in Ngombe, Zambia. price controls would still benefit the poorest developed countries, promised huge gains, countries by increasing their export revenues. But instead find themselves badly damaged, they will under the so-called Everything But Arms (EBA) be disillusioned about the benefits of trade. That initiative of the European Union, the least devel- could be fatal to the cause of future liberalization. oped countries are able to export to the European Union duty-free. This means that they benefit Arvind Panagariya is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor from the same price controls that the European of Indian Political Economy in the Departments of producers do. Removing protection by the International and Public Affairs and of Economics. His most European Union would lower the internal recent article, “Liberalizing Agriculture,” appears in the European prices and thus actually reduce the December 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs.

SIPA NEWS 9 Food as an Essential

Pascazia Mukamana, left, holds her three-year-old sister, who displays symptoms of HIV infection, at their home in Ntenyo, Rwanda. Pascazia quit school to singlehandedly raise three siblings after their mother died from AIDS.

10 SIPA NEWS “Taking medicines without food is like washing your hands and then drying them in the dirt.” —Haitian woman living with AIDS Medicine THE AIDS PANDEMIC AND FOOD INSECURITY IN RWANDA By Deborah Baron

t is almost noon, and we have not left nutrition and food insecurity are pervasive. Add the international players, including the World Food Kigali yet. We are late, but after three 250,000 HIV-positive Rwandans into the mix, and Program and USAID, launched massive food aid failed attempts, we’re still searching for it becomes a recipe for disaster. programs for people living with HIV/AIDS. They infant formula. I am beginning to lose As HIV/AIDS attacks the immune system, people realized that the urgent demand for treatment pro- hope as our truck pulls up to yet another living with the disease require higher nutritional lev- grams must be matched with the necessary support generic storefront sign that simply reads, els than normal to fight off related infections. When systems, and that means that good nutrition must “pharmacy.” At the counter, the pharma- they become too sick to work and earn an income, be a top priority for combating the disease. cistI looks perplexed, almost offended by our their diet deteriorates rather than improves during Two hours after departing for Kibongo province, request for 400 cans of formula. Choosing his these critical periods. For the few Africans fortunate we make our last cell phone calls and purchase our words carefully, he finally responds, “Is this formu- enough to receive antiretroviral therapy (ART), the final cold Coca-Colas before leaving the paved road la to be used for the common man?” miracle drugs that have turned AIDS from a death for the final approach to Rwinkwavu Hospital and I want to reply with the obvious, “no, it is for sentence into a chronic illness in the industrial the Partners in Health project. Although PIH pro- babies,” but resist. I know his question is one of Western world, make taking food with every dose vides comprehensive health, economic and social class, not age, as he struggles to understand who essential for the drugs to be effective. services to impoverished rural communities, the would need such a large quantity of a luxury item Known widely for the genocide that left more NGO is most famous for founder Paul Farmer’s work used only by the wealthy and expatriate elites. than 800,000 people dead in 100 days in 1994, in Haiti, where he spearheaded the global push to Instead, we attempt to explain the infant feeding Rwanda is also a spectacularly beautiful country— provide AIDS care and treatment to poor people in program that Partners in Health (PIH) is starting in the land of a thousand hills. Our truck winds along resource-limited settings. Applying the Haiti model, order to provide HIV-positive mothers an alternative the borders of this patchy puzzle of land made up of Partners in Health provides all patients receiving to breast-feeding. jaded plots of cultivated earth demarcated by areas antiretroviral therapy in Rwanda with nutritional Quickly losing interest in the lesson on how of brown dust. The terrain is tired and thirsty, scarred food support. These monthly food baskets are breast milk is responsible for 10 to 20 percent of by centuries of overuse and obsolete farming tech- packed with enough rice, beans, cooking oil, sugar mother-to-child transmissions of HIV infection, he niques. These are poor conditions for food security. and sosoma to feed a family of four. disappears behind a door and reemerges with boxes The term “food security” is generally used to “We do not have a screening process to decide of formula spilling out of his arms. We load the describe the physical availability and economic who needs food and who does not,” says Dr. “common man formula” into the truck next to enor- accessibility of sufficient, safe and nutritious food. Michael Rich, the country director of Partners in mous bags of sosoma—a nutritional mixture of African countries have been historically and dispro- Health in Rwanda. “Where we work, more than 90 sorghum, soya and maize flour. Finally on the road, portionately plagued by food insecurity for various percent of those about to start ARVs need it. Most we begin our journey to Kibongo province and reasons, including a lack of technological advances of our patients have both malnutrition and HIV. We Rwinkwavu Hospital, the main site of Partners in in agriculture, continued dependency on rainfall consider food an essential part of treatment—why Health’s rural health initiative. We know that no and the imposed production of cash crops under would we treat one disease and not the other?” matter how late we arrive, the women will wait. colonization. The result is that chronic malnutrition They always wait when it comes to food. is the norm, not the exception, for many Africans Deborah Baron, MIA ’05, is a dual degree stu- Rwanda is the most densely populated country and almost all Rwandans. dent with the School of Public Health. She spent in Africa, with more than 8 million people living in In the midst of the advocacy sprint for lifesav- last summer in Rwanda volunteering with Partners a state the size of Maryland. Even with 90 percent ing, essential drugs that could change the direction in Health. of the labor force tied to subsistence agriculture, of the pandemic, many relief efforts neglected the food remains one of the country’s largest imports. crucial marathon medicine of food. There is Agricultural production rates are dismal, and mal- improvement, though. In the last few years, major

SIPA NEWS 11 12 SIPA NEWS PrairieMIDWEST FARMERS TAKE BACK THE LAND, AND THE DINNER PLATE

CuisineBY TOM RANDALL

he prairies of western Missouri reach into shadows of straight-edged forests, where eagles

big enough to eat house cats perch on telephone poles and barn tops. Dan May’s farm

sits about 20 miles from the main highway, down a rural two-lane road that bends and

dips like the wandering country streams that capriciously carve the boundaries of neigh-

boring farms. A small, rusted sign that reads “Organic Way Farm” points to May’s land

and the 1960s trailer where he lives with his wife and two children.

May typifies a growing movement of Midwest small farmers who are challenging the system of American Tfood production. Beneath a dense canopy of corporate-controlled farms, this new class of small farmers is beginning to fill what it sees as gaps of nutrition, taste, and sustainability created by commodity agriculture.

Armed with product checklists, photos of hard-to-find vegetable varieties and brochures about his chemical-

free philosophy, May cuts out the middlemen and sells directly to consumers—at restaurants, farmers’

markets and through a delivery service straight to their homes.

SIPA NEWS 13 ay’s biggest account is a restaurant called Lidia’s Kansas City, rated by Zagat Survey as the most popular in the area. The chic restaurant grew out of what was once an old brick freight house, meticulously converted with floor-to-ceiling light displays, a sofa-sized fireplace aboveM the bar and four 15-foot glass chandeliers made of hand-blown globes to resemble multicolor grape clusters. The lavish open spaces of the restaurant and its exquisite cuisine don’t disguise what May and other American growers know too well: farming is an endless business of hard work for narrow margins, and without watching every dollar, the wrong set of conditions could turn a moderately successful farm into a bankruptcy case over the course of a growing season. Above: Heirloom tomatoes. At right, top: Dan May (left) and his colleague Dennis Smith inspect the work that needs May hopes to increase his annual sales to the to be done to prepare for spring. Plastic covered high tunnels allow vegetable farmers to extend their growing seasons. restaurant from $16,000 to $20,000 this year At right, bottom: Interior of Lidia’s Kansas City. with the addition of new vegetable varieties he will grow specifically for Lidia’s, including rare species of tomatoes with names like Mortgage Lifter, Green cents, according to a report by the Worldwatch chance of getting fresh California vegetables deliv- Zebra, Lemony, Garden Peach, Paul Robeson and Institute, a think tank that focuses on social jus- ered to the restaurant than local Missouri vegeta- Hawaiian Pineapple. After paying farm bills, May tice and environmental issues. Many families that bles. He decided if the produce wouldn’t come to keeps about a quarter of the revenue from his have farmed for generations find themselves him, he would go to the produce. sales. Considering the high cost of production and caught in a cycle of loans and losses, and when Every Saturday morning, Hogan drove to low prices for wholesale vegetables, May’s account they eventually stumble, the surviving farms scoop Kansas City farmers’ markets and piled his little with Lidia’s is just one of many pieces of the them up. America’s 2.1 million farms are disap- Toyota Avalon to the windows with the best local income puzzle he and his wife must put together pearing at a rate of 330 a week, according to U.S. produce he could find. He especially looked for the in order to make it through another year. Department of Agriculture census data. fruits and vegetables that suffer most from long- Farming in the United States is splitting in two On a cold January morning when sheets of ice distance transportation, including salad mixes and dramatically different directions. Corporate-run and snow still frosted the earth, May walked into tomatoes, but he also searched for squashes, agribusiness continues to push farmers toward Lidia’s Kansas City to meet with the owner, celebrity berries, and just about any other local food he increased consolidation, unprecedented crop television chef Lidia Bastianich, who had just could find that was of exceptional quality and yields and shrinking profit margins. The average flown in from New York. Bastianich owns four high- freshness. ”The first year or two, when I was farm that produced enough food to feed eight peo- profile restaurants in the United States, including schlepping so much back and forth to the market, ple a century ago is responsible for feeding more two in New York, and more in Italy. word got around,” he said. than 130 people today. Even in farm-rich states May normally deals with Lidia’s chef de cui- Hogan created for Lidia’s Kansas City the same like Missouri, grocery store items travel an average sine, Cody Hogan, who purchases the food for the farmer-chef relationships Bastianich had cultivated 1,500 miles before reaching the shelves of the Kansas City restaurant. The two first met at the for decades in New York. Twenty years ago, she was local grocer, according to a study by researchers at local farmers’ market where May was selling his going to the markets in Union Square every week to University of Missouri, Columbia. International tomatoes. Hogan had previously trained under Alice buy the vegetables for her changing menus. Her competition and government subsidies keep agri- Waters at the world-famous restaurant, Chez cooking is based on Italian tradition, but she says cultural commodity prices low as land prices dou- Panisse, in Berkeley, California. Waters is widely that the recipes must be updated to reflect local ble. Squeezed farmers push the limits of produc- credited for developing California Cuisine, a style ingredients and new styles of cooking. “It’s too tion, flooding markets and further depressing that fuses diverse cooking techniques with fresh, romantic, it’s too unreal to think you’re going back,” prices. locally grown, seasonal ingredients. she said to May over a cup of locally-roasted cofee. While grocery store chains and processed food When Hogan came from California in 1998 to “We are the next generation. We have to build on producers find creative ways to raise the prices for work with Bastianich to open Lidia’s Kansas City, what was, with a conscientious eye.” shoppers, fewer of those dollars actually make it he wanted to introduce the heartland to the philos- Now Hogan’s farmers deliver directly to the back to the farmer. In 1910, farmers received 40 ophy of food he had practiced at Chez Panisse. But restaurant. He includes their names on the menus, cents of every American food dollar spent. By because Kansas City had not yet experienced the and twice a year Lidia’s Kansas City hosts a $75 1997, that farmer’s share had dropped to almost 7 same revolution in local food, Hogan had a better five-course “tomato dinner” featuring May’s toma-

14 SIPA NEWS toes. Last year’s menu listed items such as assorted on my menu.” The climate in Missouri varies from he’ll only plant 5,000 next year. heirloom tomatoes paired with exotic volcanic and bitter icy winters to crop-baking summers, but Mistakes like overplanting peppers can suck sea salts, a risotto of heirloom tomatoes with smart farmers and chefs can reduce risk by grow- the profits out of a small farm. Not only do mises- smoked mozzarella and dried tomato skins and ing a large variety of crops, growing some crops timates cost in supplies and labor, but a market halibut served with rice-stuffed Brandywine toma- under protective plastic shelters called high tun- farmer also misses profits that could be made else- toes and a raw Brandywine tomato sauce. For nels and working with a variety of clients. where. In 2004, hurricanes in the South and a late dessert, the restaurant offered vanilla ice cream A cold drizzle falls as May walks the black, frost locally catapulted prices for tomatoes. with plum tomatoes caramelized in Grand Marnier. empty rows of his farm, taking stock of what needs Because of his high tunnels, May’s tomatoes were The dinners seat 150 people and always sell out. to be done in the coming months. He passes row fine. As tomatoes are his specialty, May should Chefs who buy locally say they receive fresher, after row of barren plant beds. Last season, May have had a bumper year, but he failed to capitalize healthier, tastier vegetables, but Hogan says they planted more peppers than he was able to find on the conditions. still have to worry about the reliability of the local stomachs for, and a few rows remain bent to the “We screwed up,” May says. ”We didn’t even farms. “If they have a frost, if they have too much ground still tied to their squishy fruits. He planted think about what we should’ve been doing. If we’d rain, if they have a hail storm, then all of a sudden, 18,000 pepper plants last year and left about a really thought about it, we would have spent the I don’t have a product for something that’s listed $4,000 worth of peppers on the stalks. He says extra money and fired up that green house and loaded it with tomatoes.” May could have easily sold his tomatoes for $5 per pound that year, and he still would have sold every one of them. But that didn’t fit with his philosophy. Instead, he continued selling them for $2 per pound. ”We’re not out to gouge anybody; we just want a living like everybody else does,” he says. So every week, he sold out his tomatoes at a fraction of the market price while watching his rows of peppers rot on the stem. May acknowledges that it can be decisions like these that keep his annual profit at around $20,000, with a total operating budget exceeding $70,000. Some might call May’s philosophy bad business, but he would argue that it is the secret to his success. Without the trust and loyalty of their customers, May says, local farmers cannot compete with big agribusiness. Local market farmers like May tell stories about crying in the fields when a project fails and plants die. They talk about finding indescribable joy in a perfect piece of onion. They tell of an intense emo- tional existence living with the earth, being part of a community, and contributing to the health of the people who consume the products of their labor. This year, May will sell his handgrown foods in as many as 40 of Kansas City’s best restaurants, but he says his biggest goal in life is to leave the soil healthier than when he got to it. “There’s no better thing that I can leave my children.”

Tom Randall, MIA ’06, is a dual degree student with the Graduate School of Journalism and SIPA News co-editor.

“Prairie Cuisine” is an excerpt of a longer piece. To get the full story and to see more of the author’s work, visit www.tsrandall.net.

SIPA NEWS 15 Improving Cambodia’s Water Supplies throughthrou Creative e v Financing n g By Tanya Heikkila and Alison Gilmore

Nearly 60 percent of the world’s population lacks access to water sanitation systems. Regions that do not have access to water infrastructure and treatment systems not only face greater human health and sanitation problems, but also poverty. Cambodia is a case in point.

16 SIPA NEWS hough Cambodia is relatively wet, the United Nations estimates that only 34 percent of Cambodia’s 13.8 million citizens had basic access to water in 2002, while just 16 percent had access to sanitation services. The International Water Resource Association determined that Cambodia’s average total domestic water use per person per day was only 9.5 liters, whereas the basic water requirement to meet human health stan- Tdards is between 20 and 25 liters per day. Why is a desert-free, water-rich environment lacking fundamental water resources for its population? Mostly because a country’s ability to access available fresh water has less to do with that country’s water resources than its per capita GDP and Human Development Index. The Human Development Index identifies Cambodia as one of the least developed countries in the world. It ranks 130 out of 177 countries on the list. Cambodia is also at the bottom of the Human Poverty Index’s list of economic performers in East Asia and the Pacific. At birth, the average Cambodian is expected to live only to the age of 56.2. People living in countries such as Laos, Cambodia and Bangladesh have more water resources per capita than those in Egypt, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, but, ironically, they have considerably less access to water. Cambodia and other eco- nomically depressed countries face a Catch-22: they lack the financial resources needed to develop infrastructure and water delivery services, but without basic water supply, economic growth and development continue to be stymied. Development agencies, nonprofit groups, the World Bank and others have struggled with this dilemma for decades, trying to find ways to support and fund water system infrastructure and delivery, among other basic human services. Through a project funded by Columbia University’s Earth Institute, we recently took stock of dozens of water infrastructure development efforts in Asia, Latin America and Africa. We found that in many cases, governments in developing countries have started to experiment with creative public-private partnerships as a method of increasing financing for water and sanitation services.

Oxfam development workers and local villagers sink a water well for a Cambodian village.

SIPA NEWS 17 For many years, funding agencies and donor Authority (PPWSA)—teamed up with the World small, private, and unregulated water enterprises. countries responded to the water issue by encour- Bank, Asia Development Bank and the French and Often, the water supplied through these opera- aging developing countries to privatize, assuming Japanese governments to enhance water access tions is untreated and overpriced. Even in Phnom that host governments—especially small, local and service delivery. Penh, where the PPWSA is the official water sup- governments—lacked the capacity to invest and Throughout the 1990s, the PPWSA took steps plier, some households still turn to private sector build new systems. The privatization approach to restructure both its organization and infra- suppliers of water because they cannot afford the has often been criticized for raising water prices structure, which resulted in more reliable water fees associated with connecting a household to while ignoring pressing local political constraints. services for the city’s residents. The organizational the public water distribution network. However, the various types of public-private restructuring included giving upper management The degree of private-sector involvement in partnerships can be opportunities for creative more direct responsibilities, instituting merit water systems varies greatly, however. Unregulated solutions that need to be studied, ranging from based promotions and providing managerial and private investments range from $900,000 for a small-scale entrepreneurs to large international teamwork employee training. PPWSA improved population of 100,000 to a few thousand dollars companies. There are systems that are completely physical infrastructure by installing water meters for a population of a few hundred, according to privately owned and operated, such as household to measure connections accurately, created an the World Bank. Private-sector participation is management, small-scaled independent providers, inspection team to stop illegal connections, and sometimes informal (small private water networks community-managed systems and divestitures. increased water tariffs to cover the costs of that pump directly from rivers and pushcart water There are also hybrids of publicly and privately operations. Additionally, the PPWSA educated suppliers), and other times formal (concession owned systems—management contracts, leases, Cambodian water consumers on the importance agreements). Going forward, it is clear that local concessions, and build-operate transfers, for of paying water bills. The focus on education, governments and development agencies must example. Stakeholders’ responsibilities vary, organizational improvements and efficiency, cou- work to ensure that contracts and agreements depending on the public-private partnership pled with a stable political climate and the back- with private-sector actors consistently provide for model. For instance, with a concession agreement, ing of the Cambodian national government, equitable services for customers, as well as government monitoring and oversight. Cambodia is just one of many countries that have worked to reform the public water utility and experimented with alternative private relationships to attack pressing water issues. The case highlights some of the critical institutional and structural factors that need to be considered in blending private and public sector roles in building effective water systems. These factors include political stability, education, investment and well- defined contractual relations with private-sector participants. Such examples further suggest that water supply financing and management are not necessarily a question of whether the public or private sector should be responsible for developing and managing water supplies for the world’s poor. Rather, it is more important to identify and understand the Children collecting water from wells in Cambodia. interaction between the political climate and the water financing and management capacity of a the public (through its government) retains own- enabled the PPWSA to improve water services country or region in need, and how that capacity ership of the assets, while a private partner oper- substantially. can be supported and enhanced by a multitude ates the system, making the required capital The restructuring improved many aspects of of private and public investors, donors, and inter- investment and bearing the commercial risk. the water supply network, including water distri- national institutions. In developing countries, a variety of these bution and reliability. In the early 1990s, prior to models are used to extend water and sanitation the restructuring, the water distribution network Tanya Heikkila is an assistant professor at SIPA. services to the poor. And in some cases the pub- covered only 40 percent of Phnom Penh City, Alison Gilmore, MPA ’05, in Environmental Science and lic sector utilities have been able, with the help of and among those connected to the network, only Policy, now works for Columbia University’s Earth Institute. development agencies and government support, half were paying their water bills. In 2002, after Together, they conducted research on water infrastructure to improve water services. the restructuring, the expanded distribution net- financing in the developing world for Columbia Earth We have seen some of these diverse water- work covered 70 percent of the city, and water Institute’s Cross-Cutting Initiative on Water. financing arrangements used in urban Cambodia bill collection increased to 99 percent. in recent years, leading to an improvement in the In other parts of the country, the immediate public water supply system. In the capital, Phnom need for water services, particularly among the Penh, a public body—the Phnom Penh Water lowest income groups, has created a market for GenesGenes forfor thethe Hungry?Hungry?

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isease and illness related to malnutrition will claim the lives of about 5 million people this year, and on any given day, another 800 million people will fall Dasleep malnourished. With global populations expected to grow by 86 million people per year, the next few decades could be devastating to the world’s poorest people if food production and economic development do not keep pace.

SIPA NEWS 19 Photos, from left to right: ome scientists and political lead- When engineers alter the sugar or starch com- ers believe that the only way to position of a plant, they cause unexpected Environmentalists from Greenpeace Mexico demon- strate outside government offices in Mexico City to ensure global food security is to changes in plant composition, with potentially protest the government's lifting of a ban on experi- genetically engineer crops that deadly effects. mental planting of genetically modified crops. Sare resistant to adverse condi- Of particular concern to biologically diverse Monsanto worker extracts corn embryo for develop- tions. However, promoters of modern biotech- regions of the world is the potential for “genet- ment of genetically modified crops. nology often overlook the technology’s substan- ic pollution,” or the uncontrolled spread of Organic farmer Dennis Dierks inspects crops on his tial risks to biological diversity and human genes from modified to previously unmodified farm in Bolinas, California. According to a survey by health and fail to address the economic inequal- organisms. If genes for pesticide resistance the Organic Farming Research Foundation of more than 1,000 farmers in the country, nearly half say ities that underpin most food shortages. transfer from modified crops to weeds, pesti- contamination from genetically modified organisms Over the last decade, scientists have learned cide-resistant “super weeds” could result, requir- is a major concern. how to alter the genes of crops to yield ing increased use of toxic agrochemicals. A Huichol farmer harvests ears of corn in El Banco, improved attributes like better nutritional con- In July 2005, the Guardian revealed that GM Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains, Mexico. tent, increased yields, new medical treatments, oilseed rape pollen transferred modified genes Francisco Toledo, one of Mexico's prominent and improved fibers and fuels. Genetically mod- to a distantly related weed, the charlock. The painters, gives away tortillas in the city center of ified organisms (GMOs) are created by artifi- new form of charlock appeared among many Oaxaca, Mexico, in order to protest the presence of genetically modified corn in the Mexican wild. cially inserting or removing genes from an other natural weeds in a field previously used for organism’s genetic structure, making it distinct the GM oilseed rape. Upon further investiga- from plants cultivated through traditional tech- tion, scientists found that the charlock had niques such as crossbreeding and grafting. developed resistance to lethal herbicides, a trait Modern biotechnology is, at best, an impre- the oilseed rape was genetically modified to cise science that relies on trial-and-error carry. The potential risks of such genetic pollu- approaches. Controlled laboratory experiments tion have prompted many countries to take can produce unexpected outcomes when new aggressive action against GMO pollution, life products are released into the wild. No including attempts to mitigate risk by requiring widespread human health impacts have yet been buffer zones around fields of genetically modi- proven. However, the risks are real, including fied crops and even some countrywide morato- antibiotic resistance due to the use of retroviral riums on GMOs. vectors, genetic contamination and unintended Perhaps the most alarming case of genetic food allergies. pollution was the contamination of native corn For example, researchers modified a variety on a farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, first covered in of soybeans using Brazil nut genes in order to the peer-reviewed journal Nature. This discovery improve the nutritional content of the crop. took the region by surprise, as the commercial They abandoned the project when they realized planting of transgenic plants was banned in that commonly held allergic reactions to Brazil Mexico. Initial press coverage doubted the nuts were also evoked by the modified soybean. study's findings and blamed the farmers them-

20 SIPA NEWS The United States is currently dumping GM corn and soya beans on poor farmers all over the world at prices that threaten to destroy traditional land-based ways of life by undermining local economies and disrupting biological stability.

selves for the contamination, as some had trav- the University of Arizona found that almost half of eled to the United States to work on a seasonal the food produced in the United States is wasted, basis and could have brought back contaminat- at a cost of more than $100 billion a year. ed pollen. The solutions to hunger are much more After careful scrutiny, investigators deter- complex than simply producing more food. In mined that the cause of the contamination was the end, GM technology does little to address the Mexican government’s so-called free trade the real social and economic causes of world rules. Under pressures from NAFTA and large poverty and hunger. It is an inherently unstable agribusiness companies, Mexico was importing science disguised as the solution to what is real- corn from the United States that it knew was ly a problem of political economy. genetically modified and then distributing the corn to poor communities as unmodified food Jacob Winiecki, MPA ’05, concentrated in Envi- aid. The United States is currently dumping ronmental Science and Policy. He now works as a GM corn and soya beans on poor farmers all consultant for Sustainable Energy Solutions in Brooklyn, over the world at prices that threaten to destroy New York. traditional land-based ways of life by undermining local economies and disrupting biological stability. Proponents of genetic engineering contend that world hunger is a result of insufficient food production. But global production of food per person is higher now than at any other time in record- ed history. A recent study by Dr. Timothy Jones of

SIPA NEWS 21 Knafe, Knafe, Knafe By Zach Wales

or one of the most historic cities in the top—but not too much—and you also have to get The process begins, as Muhammed demon- world, Nablus doesn’t get many the syrup just right. It’s not like falafel, where you strated, with a thin base of ajeena, “the crumby tourists. After years of closed borders simply deep-fry everything.” stuff,” which is a mixture of flour, milk and, and frequent, random attacks, tourists The best place to enjoy knafe is in Nablus’ well—unidentified crumby stuff. This is topped often stay away—which is too bad, bustling Old City, where bullet pockmarks and rub- by a centimeter-deep layer of Nabulsi cheese, Fbecause they are missing out on, among other ble remain from the 2002 Israeli invasion. Nablus which, according to Basil, must come from things, a little known delicacy called knafe. isn’t the only place to find knafe. One can also visit sheep’s milk. “Knafe from Nablus is delicious, the best,” the more accessible Nabulsi-run knafe joints in “Cheese from cow milk isn’t elastic enough,” says Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Ramallah—or in Queens, New York, for that mat- he explained. Arab Studies and director of the Middle East ter—but they don’t quite compare. Since the Old Finally, a second coating of ajeena completes Institute at Columbia University. City is nearly impossible to navigate, it’s easiest to the layered creation. Knafe is a dessert made up of the unhealthiest simply ask around for Al-Aqsa Sweets Shop, which I watched Muhammed fry the contents for naturally occurring substances on Earth. Perhaps is rumored to be the oldest knafe kitchen in about 10 minutes, until the ajeena turned appropriate to a treat so delectable, preparing it is Nablus. orangish. He then covered the bottom Buick-hood among the most perplexing—and arguably danger- Al-Aqsa Sweets is a small, innocuous establish- pan with an even larger one, and following a series ous—culinary tasks ever conceived. ment that turns out an unimaginable amount of of flips and pivots (I actually had to duck), the “First you have to fry the cheese at a very spe- knafe every day. It is run—at least when I visited steaming mass was transferred, bottom-side-up, cific temperature,” Khalidi explained, when I in August—by two men named Basil and to a table, where Basil drenched it in hot rose- interviewed him in his office this fall. “Then you Muhammed, who perform daring feats over blazing water syrup. have to spread a layer of that crumby stuff on gas ranges with pans the size of Buick hoods. Seconds later, someone arrived to cart the fresh

22 SIPA NEWS At Al-Aqsa Sweets kitchen in Nablus, Muhammed spreads the ajeena (left), while Basil reveals the finished product (center). Seconds later, Basil prepares the rolled variety of knafe (right). Photos by Zach Wales.

knafe to a nearby knafe café, where, were there a opted by Israel. I asked Regev Yho, a manager at student at SIPA. “There is a difference between menu, it would read knafe, knafe, knafe. No sooner the Hummos Place, a popular Israeli-owned borrowing recipes and colonizing them. One doesn’t did the first batch find its customers than restaurant in New York’s West Village, about the open a restaurant with Chinese cuisine and adver- Muhammed was doing that flip-and-pivot thing validity of a food review in the New York Times, tise ‘American egg rolls.’” with the next. which said that the Hummos Place imports its Somehow, knafe has survived the cultural bat- Knafe can also be combined with shredded tahini from Nablus. tlefield unscathed and intractably Palestinian. grain and rolled with cheese, chopped and This is easy to believe when you’re in served like sushi, minus the chopsticks. Nablus, and in the company of knafe As Muhammed fried the traditional knafe, Knafe is more than a tasty treat; it’s also chefs, where it’s enough to laugh, forget Basil prepared the sushi knafe. Elsewhere a source of pride, since it is one of the the madness of occupation and fill your in Nablus, shredded grain knafe is made stomach with goodness. using the giant pan method, thus creating only signature Palestinian dishes that a version with the not particularly appeal- remains Palestinian. Zach Wales , MPA ’07, spent his sum- ing name “hairy knafe.” mer taking language classes through Knafe is more than a tasty treat, how- Birzeit University’s Palestinian and Arab ever; it’s also a source of pride, since it is one of “This is true; all of our ingredients are imported Studies program. Wales, formerly a journalist in the only signature Palestinian dishes that from Israel,” he said, perhaps missing the irony in southern Africa, traveled to Nablus to write news remains Palestinian. my question. features and work on his documentary about Many consider falafel—often termed “Israel’s “Like history, cookbooks are written by the Palestinian economic and labor conditions. national food”—to be a Palestinian specialty co- victors,” said Saifedean Ammous, a Palestinian

SIPA NEWS 23 SIPA’S GUIDE FOR THE GLOBAL

1 Plat no 7 Hu ley s I ish 13 S a a k allarinn 14 T Ho t n San Francisco, California, USA P b (Th Seafood Appr i “Nouveau Latin cuisine in the Montreal, Quebec, Canada C llar London, England Mission District. Their fried “A great place to get smooth pints Reykjavik, Iceland “It’s in an old school with really plantains and plantain croquettes and basic but tasty eats while lis- “Fusion cuisine and the world’s high ceilings and lots of natural make my mouth water every time I tening to some of the best Celtic best seafood (Icelandic)—it’s as light. The waiters and chefs are think of them.” musicians in town.” good as it gets.” people who used to live on the streets and are being trained as Dhruva Ganesan (MIA) Gweneth Thirlwell (MPA) Maria Mjoll Jonsdottir (MIA) apprentices.”

Esther Waters (MIA) 2 Lu a’ 8 N w A ha Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Staten Island, New York, USA “Seasonal menus feature fresh “Close your eyes and you are local products and reflect in a busy eatery in Colombo, Minnesota’s Scandinavian and Sri Lanka . . . until the foghorn Native American influences.” sounds and you realize you are on an island in the New York harbor, Veronika Ruff (MIA) not the Indian Ocean.”

Gabrielle Galenek (MIA) 3 The Fi h Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, USA 9 Za tinya “Arrive by boat, throw peanut Washington, D.C., USA shells on the floor, drink cheap “A Mediterranean fusion restau- beer and consume pork tenderloin rant that serves food mezze style— the size of your head. What more I love the manit nejla, which is tiny could you ask for?” beef-stuffed pasta with roasted garlic yogurt sauce.” Lindsay Hamilton (MIA) Samia Yakub (MIA) 7

4 The Sa t Lick 2 Driftwood, Texas, USA 10 N ma’ on th “Authentic Texas barbeque 8 Te rac 1 9 with the necessary sides served Kingston, Jamaica 3 family-style in the Hill Country, “In a very old house with original 5 about an hour from Austin, 4 fixtures, giving diners a feel of but it’s worth the drive.” what warm summer nights on a sugar plantation might have been Libby Morgan (MIA) 6 like.” 10 Michelle Marston (MIA) 5 Ca é du Monde New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 11 “Wake up early and head over to 11 ndr C n 15 L dit ur the French Corner for famous café de Re Paris, France au lait and beignets (delicious Bogotá, Colombia “In the sixth arrondissement, they squares of fried dough with pow- “One of the best partying places, serve great moelleux au chocolat dered sugar).” specializing in meats combined (cake with chocolates that melt in Desiree Evans (MIA) with typical Colombian food.” the mouth).”

Daniel Castaño (MIA) Victor Fabius (MIA) 12

6 Lo Danz n e Mexico City, Mexico 12 Ca lota 16 El Tint ro “Eat spectacular sopa de frijoles São Paulo, Brazil Málaga, Spain (bean soup) in the unique colonial “Charming and clean atmosphere, “It’s a chiringuto, a chaotic and picturesque main square of delicious fusion food menu, and a seafood restaurant by the beach the Coyoacan neighborhood.” dessert called fruta do conde—a where the food is auctioned off. Esteban Rodarte (MPA) sort of flan made from fruit.” When you hear someone yelling ‘concha fita,’ raise your hand Tatiana Alves (MIA) immediately.”

Manuel Luengo (MIA)

24 SIPA NEWS The SIPA community gets around, and after two years in New York, most are certified foodies. So in order to help you find good eats during that next business trip to Beijing or vacation on the coast of Spain, we asked current SIPA students from all over the world to recommend the best restaurants L GOURMET in their hometowns. And to celebrate SIPA’s 60th birthday, we’re gathering more of that global gourmet expertise—from students and alumni—to compile an international restaurant guide and cookbook. If you have a family recipe to share or a restaurant to recommend, visit http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/60/food/. —Compiled by Tom Randall and Veronika Ruff

17 Boc ondi o 21 Cum uri et 24 Old C ato 25 Fai 28 Z a Shen Ji Milan, Italy Istanbul, Turkey ar a r t u n s Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Beijing, China “Meaning ‘divine mouthful’ or “Located in an old Greek Tashkent, Uzbekistan “Popular restaurants among locals “One of the most popular restau- ‘mouthful of wine,’ Boccondivino neighborhood that is very “Located in old part of Tashkent and expats, where you can try dif- rants in Beijing serving southern offers an incredible collection of popular among young people, called Eski Shahar, small restau- ferent kinds of mouthwatering kyr- China-styled food.” Italian wine, regional cheeses, nowadays.” rants in private homes famous for gyz and Central Asian dishes at Yi Su (MIA) salami and cold pork meats.” delicious kabobs, shurpa, reasonable prices.” Gokhan Adanali (MIA) lagmon and plov—the local Elena Avesani (MIA) Talant Sultanov (MIA) children will drag you to the restaurants in their houses.” 29 Don J an afo d Farkhod Muradov (MPA) 26 18 S im a K rt B ara Guangzhou City, China Budapest, Hungary Dehli, India “Guanghzou is known as the best “In the heart of the former Jewish “World-famous restaurant in place to taste food in China— ghetto, this hidden buffet, disco a palatial hotel with the most at Dong Jiang Seafood you can and pub in the courtyard of a delicious Mughlai food and dal order whatever you like in the soon-to-be-demolished shopping (lentils) to die for.” showroom.” complex is decorated by local Shruti Bansal (MPA) graffiti artists and gives you a taste JoJo Qinghong Zou (MIA) of the Hungarian underground.”

Patricia Eszter Margit (MPA) 30 Yon uSan Seoul, South Korea “While Seoul is a modern city, 13 YongSuSan is famous for serving traditional Korean cuisine in an authentic atmosphere.”

Hye Yeon An (MIA)

14 31 Din T Feng 15 18 Taipei, Taiwan 17 “You can’t miss the steamed buns 24 delicately sealed with juicy pork 21 25 28 and vegetables, but do expect to 30 16 32 wait in line—it’s packed.” 22 23 27 Yon Lee Bangkok, Thailand Judy Weng (MIA) 29 “This restaurant is best for 26 31 Chinese-Thai dishes, especiallly half-boiled mussels with Thai- 32 i hima styled spicy sauce and Peking Tokyo, Japan 19 duck.” “One of the Japanese foods 27 Arthit Prasartkul (MPA) I miss most is takoyaki 20 (octopus balls), and Mishima provided me with good takoyaki in my adolescence.”

Kazuhiku Shimizu (MIA) 19 Caf de Rome Dakar, Senegal “It’s classy, and the menu gives a 22 Caf Noir 33 La a Kin lot of options, from African to Tel Aviv, Israel Melbourne, Australia Western meals.” “They have the best schnitzel in “The most authentic Malaysian the world, and all the beautiful Abda Wone (MIA) food under the Tropic of people of Tel Aviv eat there.” Capricorn—the laksa is fresh, Danielle Adler (MIA) hot, and unbeatable, and a beer and a meal will bring you in well 20 Th Calab h 33 under $10.” Lagos, Nigeria “Experience Nigeria’s multiethnic 23 a b Kamil Kaluza (MPA) culture at this homey restaurant Tehran, Iran that serves a variety of dishes from “Nayeb offers the best of best numerous Nigerian states.” Persian cuisine: chelo-kabab.”

Remi Bello (MIA) Majid Zamani (MPA)

SIPA NEWS 25 Emmanuel Letouzé, MIA ‘06, has contributed political cartoons to SIPA’s Journal of International Affairs and Communiqué. He worked for several years in France as a cartoonist for a national polictical magazine and a regional newspaper.

26 SIPA NEWS SHIPWRECKED Gulf Coast Hurricanes Slam Vietnamese-led Shrimp Industry

BY VERONIKA RUFF

here once was a beautiful princess named Mi Nuong. Her father, the emperor, held a contest to find the best husband for his daughter. Extraordinary men came from all around Vietnam, Tbut Son Tinh, the Lord of the Mountains, and Thuy Tinh, the Lord of the Water, became the emperor’s top candidates. The emperor decided he would choose between them by giving his daughter’s hand to the first to arrive the next morning. Son Tinh, the Lord of the Mountains, came first. Rejected, Thuy Tinh raised the waters in bitter anger. He unleashed a massive thunderstorm with relentless rains and winds. Son Tinh raised the mountains higher and higher until Thuy Tinh retreated. The Lord of the Water never forgot his loss, and the people of Vietnam fear his fury even today.

SIPA NEWS 27 Many Vietnamese left their country during the war they call the “American War” and its aftereffects. Refugees known as “boat people” fled on fishing vessels. Close to 200,000 Vietnamese immigrants eventually settled along America’s Gulf Coast, where the climate and fishing jobs were similar to those they knew at home. Officials estimate that more than 50,000 Vietnamese-Americans were directly affected by the unforgiving hurricanes that struck the region late last summer. Vietnamese immigrants form as much as 80 percent of the shrimping industry in many Gulf areas. The Houston Chronicle told Nguyen Van Thanh’s story. The 37-year-old shrimper was at sea when the storm hit. He called his wife in New Orleans and told her to wait for him. He rode out the storm on his boat, but when he returned home, his wife and four-year-old daughter were missing. Nick Luong, 13, spoke to MSNBC for his father, who doesn’t speak English. His family lost their home but saved their fishing boat. They stayed in the boat throughout the storm, and now the boat serves as the family’s shelter. MSNBC also reported Viet Thu Linh’s story. Linh, who works in an oyster plant in Biloxi, Mississippi, said his son lost his entire fleet of fishing boats. All six vessels sank in the storm. Sadly, those who survived by fleeing or riding out the storms in their boats may not have jobs to return to. Even before the hurricanes demolished the Gulf’s shrimp trawlers and processing plants, America’s shrimp industry teetered from high fuel costs and competing shrimp imports from, among other places, Southeast Asia. Biloxi was once known as the “Seafood Capital of America.” Today, bumper stickers reading, “Friends don’t let friends eat imported shrimp,” are common. American shrimp associations such as the Southern Shrimp Alliance have long been fighting international trade battles, claiming that Top: Chau Nguyen, left, and his wife, Le, right keep out With its long, winding coastline, Vietnam suf- cheap shrimp imports from Asian and South of the sun under a tarp along with an unidentified friend, center, in Gulfport, Mississippi, September 17, fers from severe monsoons, typhoons and flood- American countries have been flooding the U.S. 2005. Since the storm, Le, who is pregnant, and her ing. Old Vietnamese folktales such as the story of market. Last January, the International Trade husband have been living on a pier beside their beached the Lord of the Mountains versus the Lord of the Commission sided with the U.S. shrimp industry shrimp boat. The Nguyens lost their home during the storm and are staying by the boat to protect it. Bottom: Water teach the importance of respecting and and imposed antidumping duties on six countries A Vietnamese woman in Biloxi, Mississippi, picks revering the sea, while understanding its dangers. found to be violating American trade laws on through shrimp that is unlikely to go to market because To many of the hundreds of thousands of shrimp imports: Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, of a ban on selling shrimp from polluted Gulf waters. Vietnamese immigrants now living along Thailand and Vietnam. America’s Gulf Coast, hurricanes Katrina and Rita Most of the shrimp imported from the six were devastatingly familiar. Thuy Tinh had struck countries is pond raised and farmed, which is a again. cheaper mode of production than the American

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Earthquake Relief in method of trawling the Gulf for fresh shrimp. With lower production costs and subsidies at South Asia home, the countries are able to export high quan- By JayatiJay t VoraVor tities of shrimp to the U.S. market for prices far lower than those of American shrimp.

After the duties were imposed, American shrimp prices increased slightly, but the industry’s problems continued. The price of diesel fuel for the shrimping boats has nearly doubled since last year. Even before the storm, a boat catching $60,000 worth of shrimp might have to pay as much as $50,000 in fuel, NBC News reported. Once the costs of supplies, labor and loan pay- ments for the trawlers are factored in, gulf shrimpers work for little profit. Katrina and Rita destroyed boats and processing plants. Shrimpers’ homes are gone, as are the businesses and restaurants that catered to them. Many of the shrimpers themselves are gone too. Some died, and others fled. Shrimp companies in the region are sharing resources until the industry can get back on its feet. Since only a few processors are still intact, companies and cooperatives take turns, using the machines in shifts. t the time SIPA News went to press, the earthquake that struck the densely Some Vietnamese-Americans are resettling populated region around Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, in October had already away from the Gulf Coast. Families are heading Akilled around 90,000 people, injured more than 69,000, and left almost to Houston, which has a growing Vietnamese three million homeless. “The scale of this tragedy almost defies our darkest imag- population, while others are joining relatives in ination,” UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced. California. But many don’t have any skills other And it’s getting worse. Winter in the region begins in November and lasts than shrimping. They will stay near the Gulf, until March, with temperatures dropping to 10°F in high mountain villages. With pick up the pieces and try to start again. snow already beginning to fall, shelter is the top priority. The injured and home- “I’ve been working with Vietnamese shrimpers less are in desperate need of warm bedding and winterized tents. The next prior- since 1976 and I have a lot of confidence in ity is food. Aid workers scrambled in November to provide food supplies for them,” said Richard Gollott, co-owner of Golden 200,000 people above the snow line and 600,000 people accessible by road. Gulf Coast Packing Co., a shrimp processing “The places where the food doesn’t reach by road, it can only be reached plant in Biloxi. “They’ve had to be resilient peo- through helicopters, so we’re trying to persuade the U.S. to send more helicop- ple always, so as soon as they get their homes and ters, to airdrop food and tents,” said Asif Alam, president of the Association of families safe, they’ll be back to shrimp . . . It’s Pakistani Professionals (AOPP), who works to raise awareness in America about what they do.” the earthquake that struck his home country. Alam worries about donor fatigue. News coverage of the continuing relief Veronika Ruff, MIA ’06, is an International Media effort has dropped off in the mainstream world media. The initial influx of vol- and Communications concentrator and co-editor of SIPA unteers to earthquake-affected areas has receded, and there is dire need of more News. She worked at the Bangkok bureau of the helpers, more doctors and the continued attention of the international community, Associated Press last summer. he noted. One U.S. dollar donated to the earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan can feed an adult and a child there. “One thing we can do sitting here in the U.S. is to send money,” Alam said. “It’s the easiest thing we can do.”

For earthquake and donation information, go to www.saquake.org and www.aopp.org.

Jayati Vora, MIA ’07, is concentrating in International Media and Communications.

30 SIPA NEWS NEW YORK CITY’S DIRTY HABIT

By Steven Cohen

ew Yorkers have a big problem with waste. Every day, the city’s 8 million residents and countless visitors generate as much as 36,200 tons of municipal solid waste. The city’s Department of Sanitation handles nearly 13,000 tons of waste generated daily by residents, public agencies and nonprofit corporations; private carting companies handle the remainder. About 12.7 percent Nof that refuse is from food. New York City has had a difficult history in waste management. Early New Yorkers dumped their trash into the rivers and ocean, a practice that continued until a coalition of New Jersey coastal towns won a federal lawsuit against the city in 1935. As the Depression and World War II delayed plans for new incinerators, the city struggled to meet its waste disposal needs. In 1947, the city opened Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. Initially, the dump was to be used for only three years—the time it would take to build large incinerators in every borough. But those incineratos never materialized, and by the 1960s, two-thirds of the city’s waste went to Fresh Kills and other municipal landfills. The rest was burned in 22 municipal and more than 17,000 apartment building incinerators.

SIPA NEWS 31 Above: The final barge full of New York City trash arrives at the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York, March 22, 2001, on the final day of the landfill's operation. A ceremony with the Mayor of New York City and the Governor of New York marked the arrival of the barge to the more than 50-year-old garbage landfill. The landfill was considered the world's largest. On previous page: Workers move garbage at the Freshkill Garbage Dump in Staten Island. This 3,000-acre landfill took in 14,000 tons of trash per day and released 2,650 tons of methane gas daily.

As environmental awareness grew, opposition to would compact refuse and ship it by barge for by truck, we emit toxins into our air. Waste disposal incinerators increased. The last municipal inciner- disposal. However, those transfer stations remain is getting more difficult and expensive—especially ator in New York City closed in 1992, and all city stuck in the planning stage. in those parts of the world that are densely settled waste was sent to Fresh Kills. But landfills were It is hard to get trash on the political agenda. urban areas. also an environmental concern, because they Let’s face it—garbage is physically unpleasant, The technology of waste incineration has leached pollutants into surrounding groundwater and thinking about waste reminds some of us of advanced dramatically in recent years. The waste and emitted noxious odors. So in 1996, Mayor our great wealth in the face of extreme global is burned at higher temperatures, producing less Rudolph Giuliani and Governor George Pataki poverty. We discard food and clothing from which pollution and less odor. In Japan, 70 percent of all announced that Fresh Kills—which had become the world’s poor could derive sustenance. We pre- waste is burned as a fuel to generate electricity one of the tallest human-made structures on fer not to think about garbage or where it will end from steam turbines. The volume of waste is earth—would close by the end of 2001. The prob- up. This propagates the fantasy that those green reduced by 90 percent, and the resulting ash is lem wasn’t solved, of course, since the waste still plastic mounds of garbage bags we put on the either turned into landfill or converted into con- needed somewhere to go. street are magically transported to some mythical struction materials. While incineration does pollute The city’s ubiquitous white garbage trucks must solid waste heaven. the air, it’s less environmentally damaging than first take the city’s waste to transfer stations, most New York’s elected leaders know that waste is a transporting waste in diesel-fueled trucks to leak- of which are located in poor neighborhoods. Then no-win issue. As long as the cost of exporting waste ing landfills. the trash is loaded into large trucks for shipment continues to increase gradually, it is unlikely that The not-in-my-backyard syndrome and the out of New York to incinerators and landfills in New enough political noise will be generated to induce a desire for convenience dominate New York’s waste Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania. After Fresh Kills sitting mayor to rethink waste export. And any mayor practices and politics. We need to reduce waste in closed, the city’s annual bill for collecting and attempting to introduce a waste incinerator or land- packaging and recycle more of the things we use. disposing residential trash jumped by nearly 50 fill in or near the city would suffer politically. We also need to use technology to reduce the envi- percent and costs well over $1 billion today. Solid waste is not simply an issue in New York ronmental damage caused by disposal. In order to The current system of waste export leaves the City; it is also a national problem. In 1960, use new technologies, we must build new waste city vulnerable over the long run, as both restric- Americans generated 88.1 million tons of waste transfer and disposal facilities. The contentious tions on waste disposal and its costs are likely to per year, equal to 2.7 pounds per person every day. politics of existing waste facilities, however, makes escalate. Landfill space continues to diminish in By 1990, that number had grown to 205.2 million the construction of new ones unlikely. the eastern United States, while political pressure tons and 4.5 pounds per person per day. By 2000, from dump-site communities increases. This may waste peaked at 232 tons, and per capita Steven Cohen directs the MPA program in envi- lead Congress and the courts to permit states remained constant at 4.5 pounds per person per ronmental science and policy at SIPA as well as to restrict the interstate flow of municipal waste— day. In all, the total amount of waste generated the Office of Educational Programs at Columbia’s giving New York fewer places to toss its trash. grew from 88 to 232 tons per year from 1960 to Earth Institute. His forthcoming book, Under- In 2002, the city began to develop a long-term 2000, according to the Environmental Protection standing Environmental Policy (Columbia Univer- plan for managing waste. Mayor Michael Bloom- Agency. And all waste causes pollution. If we bury sity Press, 2006) includes a chapter on the causes berg announced ideas to develop waterfront waste, it pollutes the groundwater and emits and effects of NYC’s garbage crisis. garbage transfer stations in each borough that greenhouse gases. If we burn waste or transport it

32 SIPA NEWS Third Annual World Leaders Forum

he Third Annual World Leaders Forum at because of its potential for improving people’s lives Sachs then introduced President Susilo Columbia University, held September all over the world. But globalization must be Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, who tackled T12–19, 2005, featured a series of campus reformed to benefit all people. the importance of achieving the MDG targets, addresses on global development delivered by “The way in which states pursue their own citing grim statistics about the more than 1 heads of state attending the United Nations business has an impact on whether people benefit billion people who live in extreme poverty. World Summit. The Forum has been expanded from globalization or whether they are spared Yudhoyono noted that although the Asia-Pacific into a yearlong series of symposia, lectures and from its negative effects,” Halonen said. ”A strong region had attained high growth and domestic conversations with world-renowned leaders— democratic state that respects human rights and savings rates, the MDG targets for the region from heads of state to leading economic, cultural the rule of law and applies good governance and were still largely out of reach. And he agreed and religious figures—on topics ranging from the social justice creates a solid foundation for the with Sachs about the close relationship between rising global health challenge to the influence of actions of individual citizens.” development and peace, giving the decades-long American films abroad. Finland has long been a leader in advancing conflict in Indonesia’s Aceh province as an example. For more information, including transcripts of women’s rights, and Halonen voiced support for “The situation became a vicious cycle: poverty the talks mentioned below and a schedule of promoting gender equality and women’s empow- bred violence, and the reign of violence rendered upcoming World Leaders Forum events, please visit erment in developing countries. “In Africa, there the people even poorer,” Yudhoyono said. It took the Web site at http//worldleaders.columbia.edu. are lots of strong brave women, but they could last year’s disastrous tsunami for the government give so much more to society if they could be and opposition to agree that reconstruction and The Millennium Development Goals: treated equally,” she said. “The girls start well at rehabilitation could be carried out only in an Social Justice and Promotion of Equality school, but they should have an opportunity to atmosphere of peace, he said. Finnish President Tarja Halonen led off the continue [their education beyond their teenage After President Yudhoyono left the stage, World Leaders Forum on September 12, speaking years] and become good mothers and citizens.” Sachs remained to answer questions and, at times, about her nation’s commitment to eradicating Remi Bello, MIA ’07 voiced his frustration at the lack of progress at global poverty. Columbia professor and Nobel the UN summit. “You would think that we would Prize winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz mod- Working Together to Achieve the have an evidence-based process . . . that if you erated the event. “Our Nordic welfare state Millennium Development Goals see what you are doing isn’t working, you try model is based upon social justice and equality,” “Don’t pin us to anything! No target, no numbers, something different.” He was referring to the dis- Halonen said. “The world is our joint responsibil- no accountability! We’ll do what we want to do!” tribution of malarial bed nets in the developing ity. We have just one planet, and if we don’t make Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at world, where mosquitoes kill three million peo- a success, it will be exactly the same result for Columbia University and special adviser to ple a year and many cannot afford to buy the every one of us.” Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium nets. Sachs and most experts advocate the free Halonen spoke at length about the importance Development Goals (MDGs) was mimicking the distribution of these nets, while the United States of achieving the Millennium Development Goals diplomatic efforts of the United States at the maintains that they should be sold. (MDGs) and for meeting the timetable originally 60th session of the United Nations World “We have an ideologically driven process,” established, which is “simply a question of trans- Summit to duck its responsibilities to the world’s said Sachs with a sigh. “The ideology says, don’t forming political commitment into action and poor. Sachs gave a bleak but frank, and at times distribute the nets for free.” implementation.” She added that globalization is humorous, update on the progress of the Millen- Aaron Clark, MIA ’07 another important factor in meeting the MDGs nium Development Goals at the UN Summit.

SIPA NEWS 33 Previous page left to right: Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland; Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Columbia Earth Institute and Susilo Yudhoyono, President of the Republic of Indonesia; SIPA Dean Lisa Anderson and Mikheil Saakashvili, President of the Republic of Georgia

This page left to right: Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda; Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger and Aleksander Kwa´sniewski, President of the Republic of Poland; Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Jalal Talabani, President of the Republic of Iraq; Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone

Photos by Eileen Barroso

Taking Power Peacefully: Reflections on The Millennium Development Goals from Finally, Kagame stressed that the sustainability of the Post-Communist Revolutions of Rwanda’s Perspective development progress hinges on the accessibility 2000–2004 Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame spoke about his of the least developed countries to open, nondis- A little more than 10 years after graduating from nation’s progress and the critical challenges that criminatory markets. Columbia’s School of Law, Mikheil Saakashvili— lie ahead for development in sub-Saharan Africa. Rachel E. Goldstein, MIA ’06 the president of the Republic of Georgia— In spite of the tragic genocide that remains, returned to his alma mater to discuss the new poli- “seared across the conscience of the world” as Poland in the Changing World cies and ideologies of his country, as well as the Provost Alan Brinkley stated in his introduction, Polish President Aleksander Kwa´sniewski began bloodless revolution that made him its president. Rwanda now appears to be emerging as a leader his address in Low Rotunda by speaking in his Saakashvili pointed to Serbia and Ukraine as in global development, holding promise for the native language directly to the Polish students in other examples of post-communist countries that achievement of the ambitious Millennium the audience. With his extensive career in elected used mass demonstrations and popular support to Development Goals (MDGs). office coming to an end, concluding ten years as overthrow corrupt leadership in what have wide- Development is a “liberation from want and Poland’s president and many more in government ly been referred to as the Color or Flower revolu- fear so that all peoples can live in dignity,” and activism, President Kwa´sniewski continually tions. Georgia’s “Rose Revolution” was so named Kagame said. He stressed the magnitude of the referred to the work still left to be done. He for the long-stemmed rose Saakashvili held in his crisis in sub-Saharan Africa, noting that 345 mil- reflected on the past as well: “The Iron Curtain, hand, as he led the crowd that burst into the par- lion people live in poverty, 280 million people which was supposed to have divided our continent liament on November 23, 2003. have no access to clean drinking water and 13,000 eternally, simply and suddenly melted away.” In Saakashvili’s view, the main difference children die daily of hunger and disease. “This is But perhaps it was not so sudden after all. The between the Georgian revolution and the ones not the kind of world we want to bequeath the Solidarity movement in Poland, of which that preceded it is that most of it was televised on generation of this millennium,” he declared. Kwa´sniewski was a part just 25 years ago, CNN, making the events more global and more Despite the immensity of the task, Rwanda is changed the course of history. President influential. widely seen to be “on track” toward realizing the Kwa´sniewski described the incredible strides that Saakashvili discussed the myriad factors MDG goals. Remarkable progress has been his country has made since the fall of involved in building a democracy, adding that achieved in terms of universal primary education Communism—a 42 percent growth in Gross one of the greatest challenges now facing the and gender equity with 90 percent enrollment in Domestic Product over 12 years and a country country is creating infrastructure—such as early primary schools and unprecedented repre- that has found its place on the world stage, hav- schools and roads—after years of stagnation. He sentation of women in parliament and cabinet ing been inducted into both the European Union has made this one of his priorities, along with try- positions. and NATO under his stewardship. ing to instill confidence in the institutions the Kagame was less optimistic about the other mil- “Poland knows from personal history what lennium goals, adding that the MDGs are a part- government is creating. bitter isolation means, and that is why you can nership effort between rich and poor countries. Saakashvili also emphasized the need for gov- count on us,” Kwa´sniewski said. He noted the While he argued that, “Africans must take first ernment to protect business without interfering in need for further cooperation and a strengthening responsibility for the sorry state of affairs on the it. He said he learned from the Communism of his of the trans-Atlantic bond, alluding to the strife African continent,” he also urged developed coun- youth, which he described as “killing competition, that has emerged from his decision—often tries to view development in terms of their own freedom of thought, and talent by allowing unpopular in Poland—to follow the United mediocre people to succeed.” A sign of optimism, self-interest, where addressing the global imbal- States into war with Iraq. “Europe needs America, he noted, is the emergence of a middle class, which ance of wealth guards against global insecurity. and America needs Europe,” the president said. “in the long run is the main stability force for Kagame’s prescription for development “In matters of fundamental importance in the democracy and for sustainable, democratic, free focused on three key areas: improving the quali- world, we have common interests.” development for every society where it emerges.” ty and quantity of overseas development assis- Rebecca Leicht, MIA ‘07 Rachel Makabi, MIA ’07 tance, promoting fair trade and relieving debt.

34 SIPA NEWS Pakistan: Meeting the Challenge of Securing “the Youngest Democracy in Working Together to Solve and Prevent Peace and Development the World” Conflict Lamenting the many misperceptions Westerners Introducing himself as “a representative of the After describing the pain of a decade-long civil have of Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf youngest democracy in the world,” Iraqi President war, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra defended his country as a moderate Muslim Jalal Talabani spoke in Low Rotunda on September Leone spoke hopefully about the future of his state. He attributed Pakistan’s faltering state- 17 and expressed his concern that America and its nation. “Today, one of our greatest achievements hood in the 12 years following the Cold War’s allies not allow this “youngest democracy” to is our adherence to the tenants of democracy and end to Afghanistan’s war with the former Soviet become one of the world’s most short lived. Amid rule of law,” he said. Union. Neither the government nor the econo- expressions of gratitude for the liberation from the First elected president in 1996, Ahmed Tejan my was prepared to deal with the problems of Saddam Hussein regime, Talabani included warn- Kabbah pledged to end the civil war that he said disarmament, millions of refugees and the newly ings that “a withdrawal of American and multina- made his nation “known to the world because of formed al-Qaeda founded by the leftover muja- tional forces now or in the near future could lead to horrific atrocities, widespread amputation and hadeen fighters. victory of the terrorists in Iraq.” sexual violence.” The rebels signed a peace The turning point for his country came on Fresh from policy talks at the White House, agreement with Kabbah’s government shortly September 11, 2001, when Pakistan joined the Talabani addressed doubts that Iraqi military and after the 1996 election, but a military coup United States in its war on terror. Realizing the civilian institutions could be sufficiently opera- forced the president and his government into economic and political benefits of allying with tional in a time frame acceptable to an increasing- exile in 1997. The government was restored nine the United States, Musharraf pursued a rigorous ly impatient American public. He touted increases months later with the help of the Economic plan to revitalize the economy and address what in the number of security forces trained and ene- Community of West African States. After the he identified as the four main global concerns: mies captured but said that state building in Iraq 1999 Lomé Peace Agreement and intervention terrorism/extremism, nuclear proliferation, human has been stymied by the absence of legitimate local by UN and British forces, the war finally ended rights and democracy. He resolved that Pakistan civilian authorities. “Fighting them [the insurgents] in 2002. That same year, the president was would adopt a policy of “enlightened modera- on the political front by creating a democratic Iraq reelected to a five-year term. tion” with a six-point antiterrorist, anti-extrem- is just as important as the military approach.” In his address, Kabbah outlined the current ism campaign aimed at eliminating terror at its Talabani cited the mid-October national ref- priorities of his government, which include secu- root and providing an example of moderation to erendum on the draft constitution as most impor- rity and war-related issues, education, good gov- fellow Islamic states. tant for building “a sense of ownership of the new ernance, food and agriculture security, resettle- On the subject of nuclear weapons, Mushar- Iraq.” The draft constitution stipulated a federal ment and reintegration issues. His government raf said the Pakistani scientist who allegedly sold democracy, though opponents have argued that has succeeded in many of these areas, having this decentralized arrangement will increase the fought corruption and worked hard to feed the nuclear secrets was an individual acting inde- danger of civil war. When asked during the Q&A nation. Kabbah expects that Sierra Leone will be pendently of the government. Addressing human to explain his support of federalism, Talabani agriculturally self-sufficient very soon, and even- rights, he briefly highlighted the necessity of responded that, “without a federal democracy, it tually have a food surplus to sell abroad. reducing violence against women and empower- is impossible to imagine a united, strong Iraq, Sierra Leone is an example of the populace and ing them so they can participate more widely in with all the different nationalities and religions.” the international community working together to the political system. Finally, he stressed Pakistan’s His talk left no doubt that Talabani is aware solve and prevent conflict. “Small, developing commitment to advancing democracy in his of his monumental challenge of quickly reconcil- countries have very little means to defend them- country, particularly given the strengthened ties ing competing demands, not least of which will selves from threats,” Kabbah explained. He between Pakistan and the United States. come from American congressmen and congress- believes that international organizations and Meena Jagannath, MIA ’07 women pushing for troop returns during the world superpowers are key to helping other war- upcoming election year. torn, developing nations stabilize and progress. Andrew Monahan, MIA ’07 Lindsay Hamilton, MIA ‘07

SIPA NEWS 35 INSIDE SIPA

New Faculty

his year SIPA added six new full-time facul- Vaughan (DIPA and Sociology), whose specializa- ronmental health conflicts in New York City; ty members, appointed through the tions include the sociology of organizations, cul- Wolfram Schlenker (DIPA and Economics), who School’s Department of International and ture, science and technology, ethnography and ana- focuses on economics of climate change, water Public Affairs (DIPA) and jointly with other logical theorizing; her book The Challenger Launch rights and their impact on agricultural output and Tdivisions of the University. They include Decision was awarded the Rachel Carson Prize and who teaches environmental economics; and Bentley Macleod (DIPA and Economics), whose the Robert K. Merton Award; Jason Corburn (DIPA Bogdan Vasi (DIPA and Sociology), whose research research focuses on understanding incentive con- and Urban Planning), who has just published his focuses on the adoption and implementation of tracts in dynamic settings and who will teach law, book, Street Science: Community Knowledge and local programs to address global climate change contracts and economics; Ailsa Röell (DIPA), whose Environmental Health Justice, which explores the and who teaches about social movements and research and teaching spans securities markets, role of local knowledge in science policymaking, quantitative research methods. corporate finance and corporate governance; Diane using four case studies of community-based envi-

Faculty News

Douglas Almond received a Fulbright grant for Wojciech Kopzuk was selected for the prestigious Elliot Sclar is focusing on his work as co-coordinator research at the China Center for Economic Sloan Research Fellowship program. of Taskforce 8 of the UN Millennium Development Research on the effect of ambient pollution on Goal (MDG) project, responsible for the range of envi- infant health in China and worked with the Council Robert Lieberman’s new book, Shaping Race ronmental, economic, and social problems associated of Economic Advisers on the federal response to Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspec- with the accelerating pace of global urbanization. possibility of an avian flu pandemic. tive, was published by Princeton University Press. Wolfram Schlenker co-authored two papers, “The Charles Calomiris participated in a Reuters event, Sharyn O’Halloran and her colleague David Epstein Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An “Financial Intermediation, Innovation, and Global (Political Science) received the 2005 Decade of Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Condi- Financial Stability: The Role of Regulatory Policy, Behavior Research Award for their joint research on tions,” in Review of Economics and Statistics; and Derivatives, and Securitization in Geo-Political the impact of racial redistricting on the democratic “Water Availability, Degree Days, and the Potential Finance.” process. Their research has been cited in recent Impact of Climate Change on Irrigated Agriculture Supreme Court decisions concerning the Voting in California,” in Climatic Change. Steve Cohen’s new book, Strategic Planning in Envi- Rights Act. ronmental Regulation, introduces an approach to David Stark’s paper with Daniel Beunza, “Tools of environmental regulatory planning founded on interac- Ken Prewitt received the Charles E. Merriam Career the Trade: The Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall tive relationships between business and government. Award from the American Political Science Street Trading Room,” in Industrial and Corporate Association, given to “a person whose published Change, won the Outstanding Publication Award William Eimicke’s article “Eliot Spitzer: “The work and career represent a significant contribution from the American Sociological Association section People’s Lawyer” is featured in Public Integrity, fall to the art of government through the application of on Communication and Information Technologies. 2005. social science research” and also presented the Killam Annual Lecture (Toronto, Canada) on the Michael Ting was awarded a grant from the NSF to Tanya Heikkila received an NSF grant for a project topic “Reforming American Graduate Education conduct a study of the political economy of FDA with Edella Schlager studying interstate river com- decision-making, with applications to pharmaceuti- Despite the Fact that ‘No One is in Charge Here.’” pacts and received the American Review of Public cal approvals and recalls, and regulatory reform. Administration’s best article award for “Modeling Jeffrey Sachs was named one of the 100 Most Operational Decision Making in Public Organiza- Sara Tjossem’s new book, The Journey to PICES: Influential Leaders in the World by Time magazine tions: An Integration of Two Institutional Theories.” Scientific Cooperation in the North Pacific, has just in 2005, and his The End of Poverty: Economic been published. Jennifer Hill and colleague Chris Weiss (ISERP) Possibilities for Our Time was published. have been awarded an NSF grant to examine the Miguel Urquiola received the National Academy of Dirk Salomons’ “Security: An Absolute Prerequi- effects of holding children back in school on their Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship for his site” was published in Postconflict Development. subsequent cognitive development and behavioral work on the effects of private school entry on chil- outcomes. dren’s educational outcomes.

36 SIPA NEWS INSIDE SIPA

IFP Curriculum Review

ast academic year a group of leading fac- dents will be especially well qualified to work: (a) The new curriculum makes mandatory certain ulty from SIPA and the Business School in private practice in positions that focus on inter- elective courses that have been popular for many worked with alumni, employers and stu- national and policy dimensions of finance; (b) on years. Beginning with the class that enters in the dent focus groups on a review of the investment banking transactions outside the fall of 2006, the following courses will be required LInternational Finance and Business United States—e.g., emerging market investment of all concentrators: Accounting, International Cor- Concentration. After long hours studying the histo- banking transactions; (c) on sovereign risk and porate Finance/Economics of Finance, Interna- ry of the concentration, evaluating enrollment pat- credit analysis; (d) in central banks or in securities tional Capital Markets, International Finance and terns, listening to stakeholders and benchmarking or banking regulation; and (e) in multilateral Monetary Theory, Emerging Markets Finance and against similar programs at other policy schools, organizations such as the IMF and the World International Banking. the group produced a set of recommendations that Bank, among others. will focus the mission of the concentration on finance, banking and policy/regulatory issues, with particular emphases on emerging market finance, global political economy (e.g., the goals and operations of multilateral institutions like the IMF and New Appointments World Bank) and international differences in the structure and performance of financial systems. SARA MASON, former assistant dean, was appointed associate dean of student affairs in July, The concentration’s new name, “International Finance and Policy,” was selected to convey the replacing Robin Lewis who is now in charge of the Global Public Policy Network (see page 38). tighter focus of the program. Sara brings seven years of experience at SIPA to her new position. The group concluded that SIPA’s concentration She had been the coordinator of SIPA’s orientation and graduation, oversaw student groups, can and should be structured in such a way to served on the Admissions Committee, worked with ISSO and advised students. Before coming to draw on the strengths of a policy school, differen- SIPA, she worked in continuing education programs at City College and NYU and with several tiate it from business schools, and meet the needs of its students more effectively than business Bronx and Harlem community organizations on educational development. Dean Mason’s promo- schools. Given the existing strengths of Columbia, tion coincided with the move of the Office of Student Affairs to newly created office space on the notably the outstanding faculty in SIPA, the 6th floor of IAB. The closer proximity to students has improved access, services and communica- Economics Department and the Business School, tion, and she looks forward to continuing to work with her colleagues on these initiatives. our strong regional centers and our location in the world’s financial capital, SIPA has a competitive advantage over other policy schools in deliver- WILLIAM EIMICKE, director of the Picker Center, was appointed to a committee of evaluators to ing a program that concentrates on finance and select the winners of the Best Practices Projects Awards of the Departamento Administrativo de la banking policy. “We are delighted by this outcome,” said SIPA Funcion Publica of the Republic of Colombia. Agencies of the national government, the depart- Dean Lisa Anderson. “The IFP review committee ments (states/regions) and local governments were eligible to nominate projects that they deemed has set a high standard for regular curriculum worthy of national recognition and could be replicated in other agencies or jurisdictions. Hundreds reviews at the School, and we look forward to con- of submissions were received from all levels of government, including projects from the fields of tinuing to incorporate the views of students, facul- health, environment, transportation, education, substance abuse and administrative management. ty, alumni and employers as we work to ensure that SIPA’s curriculum meets the needs of our students The finalists will be included in a publicly accessible Best Practices Case Study Bank. The win- in the 21st century.” ners received their awards directly from President Uribe in a ceremony at the Presidential Palace The reconfigured concentration properly pre- in Bogotá on December 7, 2005. Other members of the committee included the ambassadors to pares students for careers that require knowledge Colombia from Mexico and Israel, the President of the Bank of Colombia, the rector of Universidad of international finance, banking, and public policy in the financial sector. With a rigorous introduc- de los Andes and the gerente general of Microsoft Colombia. tion to the economic and policy dimensions of SIPA has a longstanding partnership with Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá, involv- international finance, and banking policy, stu- ing joint teaching, certificate programs, research projects and scholars in residence.

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Global Public Policy Network

n September 2005 the School of International and Public Affairs, along with Sciences Po (Paris) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), launched the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN), an international association of research uni- The Eleventh Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and versities offering graduate-level public policy education and dialogue with policymakers. Public Policy Forum—“The Global City: New York City as China’s Peking University recently affiliated with the network to strengthen their public Model and Magnet,” was held on October 10. From left: I Hon. John Liu, council member, City of New York, one of policy program and mount extensive education courses in Beijing. the panelists, former Mayor David N. Dinkins, and keynote The GPPN builds on an existing partnership among LSE, Sciences Po and SIPA that offers speaker Dr. Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis, professor of soci- prestigious master’s degrees in public policy and international affairs. Students in these mas- ology, University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting ter’s programs study in coordinated programs on each campus in emerging global disciplines Professor, London School of Economics. such as economic development, environmental policy, global governance and public management. These collaborations capitalize on the unique academic strengths and diverse curricu- la of the three graduate schools, while expanding cooperation in social science teaching and research. The network is global in two senses: it includes institutions from around the world, and the policy issues at the center of their research and teaching are of global extent. All of the GPPN’s member institutions link their teaching with their research on the most pressing policy issues of the 21st century. The GPPN academic directors are SIPA Dean Lisa Anderson, Professor Michael Storper of Sciences Po and LSE Professor Patrick Dunleavy. SIPA’s Associate Dean Robin Lewis is the first executive director and Professor Kenneth Prewitt serves as the faculty director at SIPA. “Today, our greatest public policy concerns know no borders,” said Anderson. “A global network of public policy schools offers the best opportunity for the academic community to work collectively on multiple intertwined challenges—from sustainable development to trade to terrorism to public health crises to the protection of human rights worldwide—and to prepare some of the world’s most able graduate students to assume global leadership roles in the This year’s Gabriel Silver Memorial Lecture, given by H.E. coming decades.” Jan Eliasson, president of the 60th UN General Assembly The Global Public Policy Network will eventually expand to include about 10 public pol- on October 27, celebrated the centenary of Dag Hammarskjöld’s birth. In honor of the occasion, SIPA’s icy graduate schools in key global cities worldwide, sponsoring collaborative public policy 15th floor conference room was rededicated as the Dag research and student and faculty exchanges, as well as offering dual degrees in graduate pro- Hammarskjöld Faculty Lounge. Dean Lisa Anderson and fessional programs. The network will facilitate international forums of policymakers with H.E. Jan Eliasson in front of a portrait of Hammarskjöld. scholars and policy experts from network and other universities to analyze and devise respons- es to critical global challenges. “This is the future of public policy,” said Dean Robin Lewis, the network’s first executive director, who developed many of SIPA’s international initiatives during two decades as SIPA associate dean. “The real innovation and original thinking that goes on in public policy is not confined to the United States. You cannot teach such things in a parochial way.” As part of the development of the network’s links with Peking University, SIPA, Sciences Po and LSE have announced two initial projects: a Visiting Faculty Program through which senior faculty from the partner institutions will take up residence at Peking University for up to two years on a rotating basis; and the Executive Public Policy Training Program (EPPTP) at Peking University School of Government, which will be designed and developed to train Chinese civil servants and officials in the public sector. The Global Public Policy Network will host its inaugural conference in Paris in March Secretary Madeleine Albright (center), Inaugural Saltzman 2006. Fellow, gave the keynote address, “Promoting Democracy in the 21st Century,” at the the First Annual Saltzman Forum, October 28. From left: Joan Saltzman, SIPA Dean Lisa Anderson, Richard Betts, director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Ambassador Arnold Saltzman and Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger

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SIPA Names New Chair of Board of Advisors

olumbia’s School of International and represent the School’s mission, and to promote its of TechnoServe, Inc. a not-for-profit corporation Public Affairs Dean Lisa Anderson recent- interests. engaged in economic development in Africa and ly announced that Paul E. Tierney, Jr. has Mr. Tierney is managing member of Development Latin America. Mr. Tierney is an adjunct professor at agreed to serve as the new chair of the Capital and general partner of Aperture Venture Columbia University, teaching SIPA and Columbia CSIPA Board of Advisors. Mr. Tierney takes Partners, LP, an early stage venture capital fund Business School students, and has served as an over the chairmanship from A. Michael Hoffman, focused on the health care industry. His other pri- executive-in-residence at the Business School. SIPA '73, who served for seven years. While Mr. vate investment entity, Tierney, Family Investors, is “I am delighted that Paul Tierney has agreed to Hoffman will continue to advise the dean, he has involved in a myriad of private direct investments in serve as chair at this critical moment in SIPA’s his- accepted President Lee Bollinger’s invitation to partnership with leading entrepreneurs. tory—on the eve of its 60th anniversary in 2006. serve on the University's International Advisory Mr. Tierney serves as a director of UAL Cor- Paul brings great energy and enthusiasm for SIPA’s Council. Mr. Tierney will work with Dean Anderson to poration (the parent company of United Airlines), Liz mission. I am confident he will help the School to build the SIPA Board, which was launched by Mr. Claiborne, Inc., Earth Color, Inc., Nina McLemore, become even stronger, both financially and academ- Hoffman and Dean Anderson in 1998. The SIPA Inc., The Argentine Investment Fund and the ically, and even more visible in the global public pol- Board of Advisors brings together a select group of Advisory Board of the U.S. Committee for Refugees. icy arena in the coming years,” said Dean Lisa distinguished and successful professionals in vari- Mr. Tierney has been elected to Who's Who in Anderson. ous fields of international and public affairs to pro- American Business and the Council on Foreign vide advice and assistance to the School’s dean, to Relations. He is chairman of the Board of Directors

AMBASSADOR RICHARD GARDNER, Columbia professor of law and international organization and a member of SIPA’s Board of Advisors, had his newest book, Mission Italy: On the Frontline of the Cold War (Rowman & Littlefield) published this fall. The book details his four years as U.S. Ambassador to Italy under President Jimmy Carter (1979–1981). In it Gardner, who marked his 50th year teaching Law School and SIPA students in 2005, offers insights into the foreign policy of the Carter Administration, the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy and U.S.-European relations. He also draws on hitherto classified material to deal with issues such as Carter’s success at persuading Italy to deploy U.S. cruise missiles. This was the decisive factor in Mikhail Gorbachev’s move to shift Soviet foreign policy toward genuine disarmament. SIPA co-hosted book events in Washington, D.C., Patricia M. Cloherty ’68, chair and CEO, Delta Private Equity Partners, delivered the Third and New York City in the fall and helped plan a num- Annual Investcorp Lecture in International Finance and Business entitled “Taming the Wild ber of University events that will take Gardner to alum- East: Private Equity and Entrepreneurship in Russia,” on October 19 at SIPA. Ms. Cloherty is a member of the Columbia University Board of Trustees and the SIPA Board of Advisors. The lec- ni audiences in London, Rome, Madrid, Connecticut, ture series was founded by Nemir Kirdar, president and CEO of Investcorp and also a SIPA Miami and Nassau County. Board member.

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SIPA students and administrators at the Annual Fellowship Luncheon on October 18 celebrate the 2005 Class Gift. More than $10,000 was raised for first-year fellowships, including matching funds from alumni. Front row: Yun Won Cho, director of development; Kamil Kaluza (MPA ’06); Melissa Poueymirou, major gift officer. Second row right to left: Kelly Kinneen (MPA ’06); Amelia Erwitt (MPA ’06); John Grammer ’63, Lu Tolbert ’05; Tony Gooch ’05; Dean Lisa Anderson, Diego Szuldman ’05; Claudia Minoiu (MIA ’06); Stanley Berly ’05; Peter Marber ’87. In the recent SIPASA election, a majority of students voted to allocate the Class Gift of 2006 to a Fund for Incoming Student Fellowship. The 2006 Class Gift Committee will be chaired by Veronica Alvarez, MPA ’07.

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Class Notes Compiled by Kalai Murugesan, MIA ’06

strategic planning services joined International Finance SIPA Alumna Receives “Genius Award” to U.S. and international Corporation, the private clients with business and sector arm of the World Documentary filmmaker Edet Belzberg, SIPA ’97, was among 25 people selected as policy objectives in Bank Group, six years ago. 2005 MacArthur Fellows. Also known as “Genius Awards,” the fellowships come with Washington, D.C., and Recently, he has taken on abroad. In the midst of $500,000 in “no strings attached” support over the next five years. new responsibilities in IFC’s these professional transi- Health and Education Belzberg’s signature film, the critically-acclaimed Children Underground, was nomi- tions, John and his wife Department, where he nated for an Academy Award in 2002. She spent four years creating the film, which fol- Angela recently had a works on new investments lows homeless children living in a train station in Bucharest, Romania, and personalizes fourth son; he follows in globally. Patrick would love the dangerous and chaotic world of these children the footsteps of his three- to hear from SIPA alums year-old triplet brothers. involved in health and edu- Her recent film Gymnast follows the top three American female gymnasts for two cation, particularly in pri- years before, and two years after, the 2000 Olympics. It shows what happens to young vate initiatives and/or athletes physically and mentally when they do, and don’t, attain their goals. 1988 emerging markets, to Belzberg is planning to use the grant for research and development for several films Melissa Dann, MIA trade impressions and Melissa was recently pro- that she has been thinking about over the years. She also will consider starting a fund information. moted to executive director to help other young documentary filmmakers. at The Wallace Global Fund. Melissa has served as 1990 the senior program officer Sujoya S. Roy, MIA 1975 1986 for the Fund’s Natural Sujoya just published her Tim Curran, MIA John Sitilides, MIA Resources Program since first novel titled, For Ganesh, [email protected] [email protected] 1996. Currently, she is the Remover of Obstacles, which Tim received his PhD in John Sitilides is the first chair of the board of the chronicles a woman’s dis- International Political chairman of the Woodrow Consultative Group on covery of her mother’s Economy from Columbia’s Wilson Center’s Southeast Biological Diversity secret past as an Indian clas- GSAS in 1982. Today Tim Europe Project, which was (CGBD) and chair of the sical dancer. established in January 2005 is the CEO of the Global U.S. Board for Fauna and by merging Sitilides’ Technology Distribution Flora International. In addi- Western Policy Center with Council, an international tion, she sits on the boards the Woodrow Wilson 1993 trade association concerned of the Forest Stewardship Jeff Brancato, MPA Center. The program pro- with the business of tech- Council Global Fund and Jeff recently changed posi- motes scholarly research nology distribution. He also the Laguntza Foundation as tions to work with the Uni- and informed debate about serves as an adjunct profes- well as the steering commit- versity of Massachusetts’ the full range of U.S. politi- sor of international business tee of the Funders’ Network Boston-based Office of the cal, commercial and securi- at the University of South on Globalization. President (a five-campus ty issues and interests in the Florida in St. Petersburg, system). His previous posi- eastern Mediterranean, where he lives with his wife southern Balkans and adja- tion at Columbia University and two children, Michael cent regions. After the 1989 focused on implementing and Jamie. merger, Sitilides then Patrick Leahy, MIA strategic research initiatives [email protected] launched a government and managing technology- After 10 years at Chase affairs company, Trilogy based economic develop- Manhattan Bank, Patrick Advisors, which provides ment projects.

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Yumiko Shimabukuro, MIA che represented by pop Jared Scogna, MIA Alliance for Children, [email protected] music, and What Is “J-POP?” Jared and Margaret Scogna Youth, and Families earlier Yumi is pursuing a PhD in an economic analysis of welcomed their daughter, this year. Located in political economy at the Japanese social change in Josephine Rosalyn, into the Washington, D.C., AIDS Massachusetts Institute of the 1980s and 1990s. world on April 8, 2005. Alliance advocates for the Technology (MIT). Her needs of women, children, research interests are sover- teens and families living eign risk and capital markets. 1995 1996 with HIV/AIDS in the Ethan Gutmann, MIA Annat Jain, MPA United States. She and her In 2004, Ethan published a [email protected] husband Bart Oosterveld 1994 book, Losing the New China: A In January 2005, Annat Jain continue to enjoy living on Hiro Ugaya, MIA Story of American Commerce, hosted an alumni event in Capitol Hill with their two After working as a news Desire and Betrayal, which New Delhi, India, in con- children, Emma (4 years) reporter for Asahi Newspaper, exposes the corrupt busi- junction with a visit from and Sebastian (2 years). Hiro changed careers in ness practices of American Columbia University profes- 2003 to become a freelance corporations in China. In sor Richard Clarida. Annat Bart Oosterveld is a vice journalist. Since then, Hiro recognition of the book’s welcomes inquiries and par- president/senior analyst in has published two books: effort to foster better busi- ticipation from other the public finance division The Psychological Landscape of ness practices in China, Columbia alumni in Delhi. at Moody’s Investors Service, Japanese Pop Music, an analy- Ethan received the Spirit of where he is the lead analyst sis of Japanese public psy- Tiananmen Award for 2005. Melissa Roth, MPA for U.S. airports. While [email protected] telecommuting to Moody’s Melissa published her first New York office from book, The Left Stuff, in May Columbia University Washington, D.C., he is 2005. The book seeks to also pursuing a PhD in eco- School of International and Public Affairs debunk the cultural and sci- nomics at George Mason entific stigmas that have University in Virginia. Bart, long been associated with The Program in Economic too, loves to spend his free left-handedness. time with Emma and Policy Management (PEPM) Sebastian, preferably over Thomas D. Zweifel, MIA burgers at Mr. Henry’s. [email protected] “I chose to attend PEPM because the program puts together Thomas D. Zweifel, CEO David Z. Solomon, MIA the most important and controversial issues presently faced of Swiss Consulting Group David recently married by developing countries. I liked discussing the practical lessons and adjunct faculty at SIPA Miriam Friedman of of economic policy successes and failures with my classmates has published a new book, Airmont, New York, and from all over the world.” International Organizations and was promoted to managing Democracy: Accountability, director at Goldman, Sachs The Program in Economic Policy Management provides professionals Politics, and Power. & Co. in New York. with the skills required to design and implement economic policy effectively, with an emphasis on the issues of developing economies. 1997 Susannah Spodek (Susie), The 14-month program includes three semesters of course work, fol- Diana K. Bruce, MPA MIA lowed by a three-month internship. Students earn a Master of Public [email protected] [email protected] Administration. Some applicants may qualify for full financial support. Bart Oosterveld, MPA On April 30, 2005, Susie The 2005–2006 program begins in July 2005. [email protected] gave birth to her second child, Maya L. S. Turner. For an application and additional information: Diana K. Bruce assumed the Her family, which includes [email protected] • 212-854-6982 • 212-854-5935 (fax) role of managing the policy two-year-old son Asher and government affairs D. S. Turner, lives in Forest SIPA department of AIDS Hills, Queens.

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Randy Turkel, MPA Namibia field office, where cialist in the Customs and publishes a bimonthly mag- Randy is currently working she remains country direc- Border Protection Agency azine called the NACLA as a management consultant tor. Just eight months ago, of the Department of Report on the Americas, the with SRA International in Juliet and her husband cele- Homeland Security. most widely read English Arlington, Va., where he brated the arrival of their son. news journal on Latin focuses on IT strategic America. planning and Enterprise Jessica Smith, MIA 2003 Architecture for Federal Jessica and her husband Dara Erck (née Wax), MIA government clients. On a Carlos Bobadilla, welcomed [email protected] personal note, Randy and a new daughter, Sophia Ani Dara Wax married Dan his wife Elizabeth celebrat- Bobadilla, in January. Jessica Erck on June 25, 2005, in ed the birth of their first now works as managing Costa Rica. She currently child (a daughter, Miriam) director for the law firm works in healthcare consult- on October 7, 2005. Robert W. Yarra, PLC in ing for CSC. Fresno, Calif. Christy Thornton, MIA 2001 [email protected] Juliet MacDowell, MIA 2002 Christy Thornton recently Juliet has been working for Leah Yoon, MPA took over as executive Project HOPE for the last [email protected] director of the North three years. Two years ago, Leah was recently appoint- American Congress on she began Project HOPE’s ed as a public affairs spe- Latin America. NACLA

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Listed below are the 1,205 individuals and organizations who contributed to SIPA Kim Christopher Bradley, MIA ’83 Katharine A. Morgan and the Regional Institutes between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2005. Amy Blagg Chao, MIA ’99 Edward L. Morse Corsair Partners LLC Mark David O’Keefe, MIA ’95 “CER” followed by year = graduate with certificate from a Regional Institute Gregory R. Dalton, IF ’94, MIA ’94 The Ong Family Foundation “IF” followed by year = graduate from International Fellows Program John William Dickey, MIA ’92 David B. Ottaway, IF ’63 “MIA” followed by year = graduate with a Master in International Affairs David N. Dinkins Percy Parker Phillips, MIA ’97 “MPA” followed by year = graduate with a Master in Public Administration. Elise D. Frick Jefrey Ian Pollock, MPA ’97 Susan Aurelia Gitelson, MIA ’66 Jenik R. Radon John M. Gorup Barbara Helen Reguero Barbaria, Eric D. Grossberg MIA ’86 Andrea Lynn Johnson, MIA ’89 James Jerard Richard, MIA ’98 $1,000,000 and above Patricia M. Cloherty, MIA ’68 Chester Lee Harland A. Riker Jr. The Freeman Foundation Ralph O. Hellmold, IF ’63, MIA ’64 Dennis Y. Loh Mary A. H. Rumsey Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Anuradha Jayanti Alex Machaskee Maurice R. Samuels, MIA ’83 James E. Jordan, MIA ’71 Meyers Charitable Family Fund Paul L. Saurel, IF ’66 $500,000–$999,999 Sidney & Robert Katzman Foundation Open Society Institute Karen Scowcroft, IF ’84, MIA ’84 Foundation for the Center for Energy, The Kingsley Foundation Steve Radakovich Margaret Ann Sekula, MIA ’01, CER ’01 Marine Transportation & Public Policy The Kosciuszko Foundation, Inc. Kirk P. Schubert, MIA ’82 Shelby Cullom Davis & Co. LP Ladon Corp. Christina A. Stasiuk Bin Sheng, MIA ’01 $250,000–$499,999 Paul F. Langer, CER ’52 Emanuel and Elizabeth Stern, MPA ’90 Lauren Wong Sheng The Ford Foundation Juliana Lipschultz Time Warner, Inc. Romita Shetty, MIA ’89 The William and Flora Hewlett Julie Lynn Rasmussen, IF ’90, MIA ’90 Enzo Viscusi Claire C. Shipman, MIA ’94 Foundation Saudi Arabian Oil Company Shimon Shkury Brent Scowcroft, Ph.D (Ret.) $1,000–$2,499 Gary Gordon Sick $100,000–$249,999 Mervyn W. Adams Seldon, CER ’64 1800 Park Avenue LLC Edward Silverman Association of Alumni of the College James D. Seymour, CER ’61 Asian Columbia Alumni Association Alfred C. Stepan III, IF ’65 ExxonMobil Saltzman Foundation, Inc. Anchin Block & Anchin LLP Dusan Stojanovic The German Marshall Fund of the U.S. Alan B. Slifka Foundation Branislava Balac Swiss Consulting Group Inc. International Bank for Reconstruction Talex Holdings Limited Roger R. Baumann, IF ’84, MIA ’85 Christos John Thomas, MIA ’90 Leitner Family Foundation TCA Holdings, LLCTRG Maureen R. Berman, MIA ’73 Mana Nabeshima Tokoi, MIA ’91 The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Management LP Robin L. Berry, MIA ’78 Ute City Charitable Trust John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Savio & Patty Tung Foundation Alexandria Burton Katrina Vanden Heuvel Foundation Unibanco—Uniao de Bancos Carver Federal Savings Bank Wilford Welch Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc. Brasileiros S.A. The Children’s Health Fund Betty Bey Bey Wu, MPA ’04 Toyota Motor Corporation Kathryn E. Wilbur Wha-Sup Chung, MIA ’77 Jerry Chan Yoon, MIA ’01 Ukrainian Studies Fund, Inc. Alexander E. Zagoreos, MIA ’64 Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Lulu Yu, MIA ’85 William T. Coleman Jr. Patrick King Yu $50,000–$99,999 $5,000–$9,999 Francis Costello Tatyana Zahalak Anonymous Anonymous Alexander M. Dake, MIA ’86 Michael Hoffman, IF ’69, MIA ’73 Amy L. Abrams, MIA ’81 Joel Davidow, IF ’63 $500–$999 International Women’s Health Coalition American International Group, Inc. Elizabeth Davis, MIA ’95 15 Berryhill Road, LLC Investcorp International, Inc. Peter A. Berton, CER ’56 Dextar World Trade LLC Radoslav Adzic The Korea Foundation The Philanthropic Collaborative, Inc. Miroslav Djordjevich Daniel Charles Altman, MIA ’96 Research Foundation of State University Pamela Hawkins Casaudoumecq, Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn Foundation Patrick F. Bohan of New York MIA ’89 Inc. Robert E. Buckholz Jr. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Credit Industriel et Commercial Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Richard M. Chinloy Program FWA of New York Douglas John Fink, MIA ’83 Jane D. Coleman, IF ’72 Lan Yang, MIA ’96 First American International Bank The Furst Foundation, Inc. Coletica, Inc. Bernadette Li Gentzler Michael William Galligan, IF ’83, Marc P. Desautels, MIA ’66 $25,000–$49,999 John A. Grammer Jr., MIA ’63 MIA ’84 Rodrick William Dial Blinken Foundation, Inc. Joseph Man-Kyung Ha, CER ’71 GC Eng Engineers Associates, PC Connie J. Dickerson Mahshid Farahmand Donald L. Holley, MIA ’59 Lawrence M. Gelb Foundation The Eberstadt-Kuffner Fund, Inc. Mary W. Harriman Foundation Lila J. Kalinich, M.D. Anthony C. Gooch, MIA ’05 Peter D. Ehrenhaft, MIA ’57 Banco Itau, S. A. Robert I. Kopech, MIA ’77 Erin S. Gore, MPA ’97 Anne Eisenhower Jeffrey L. Schmidt Fellowship Charity Alfonso Lau Radmila Gorup Kashiyo C. Enokido, MIA ’78 Trust Conrad H. Lung Paula S. Harrell Frederick & Katherine Yaffe Foundation Jewish Communal Fund Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc. Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe Ivy Lindstrom Fredericks, MIA ’98 Pfizer Inc. Juan A. Sabater Myron Hnateyko G & G Educational Foundation Elizabeth K. Valkenier, CER ’51 Marianne Spiegel George Franz Hollendorfer, MIA ’01 Pamela Susan Garrud, MIA ’83 Joel D. Tauber HSBC Bank USA General Insurance Brokerage, Inc. $10,000–$24,999 The Tierney Family Foundation Inc. Douglas R. Hunter, MIA ’73 Evans Gerakas, MIA ’59 The Auschwitz Jewish Center United Refining Company Joseph Kindall Hurd III, IF ’94, MIA ’94 Neal H. Harwood, MIA ’61 Banco Bradesco S.A.—New York Branch Jeanette S. Wagner International Committee of Journalism, Yoko Otani Homma Bank of America Waitex International Co., Ltd. Inc. Eva Cristina Jedruch The Russell Berrie Foundation Shiow Chyun Jin, MIA ’01 The Joelson Foundation Bolsa De Mercadorias & Futuros— $2,500–$4,999 Luba Labunka David A. G. Johnson Jr., IF ’75, MIA ’76 BM & F Lisa Anderson, CER ’76 Vincent A. Mai Stuart Macl Johnson, MIA ’67 Robert Meade Chilstrom, MIA ’69, The Howard Bayne Fund Modell’s Inc. Kathleen Marie Karich, MPA ’90 CER ’73 Matthew Penn Boyer, MIA ’94

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George M. Lazarus, M.D., IF ’69 William Yui-Wai Chan Ruth G. Ornelas, IF ’80, MIA ’81 Nataliya Vladimirovna Averyanova, MPA Seung Hoon Lee, MIA ’79 Jonathan A. Chanis Heidi Elizabeth Philipsen, MIA ’02 ’03 Nathan Leventhal, IF ’66 The David F. Chazen Charitable Trust Elizabeth M. Phillips, MIA ’79 Vlado Babic James M. Li Ed M. Chin Phoenix Petroleum Company Rade J. Bacanovic Edith R. Lim, CER ’74 Yung-Woo Chun, IF ’94, MIA ’94 Melissa Poueymirou Janny Bae, MIA ’01 Amy Kay Lipton, MIA ’88 Ellen Miriam Cohen, MPA ’03 John H. A. Quitter, IF ’67 Scott T. Baerst, MIA ’06 Manchester Benefits Group, Inc. Dustin Craven, MIA ’93 Serge Raffet Irina Bagration Lisa Minda Markowitz, MIA ’88, Custom Vault Corporation S. Ram Ramachandran Yerlan Bolatovich Baizhigitov, MIA ’06 CER ’88 John Melone Deidrick, MIA ’85 Carol Lind Rattray, MIA ’80 Michael Bakunenko, MPA ’06 Kathryn L. McCormack, MIA ’95 Dushan Kosovich, M.D., PCR John M. Reid, MIA ’64 Donald P. Banas Emmanuel R. Merle Anthony Elson, IF ’64, MIA ’65 Jeremy Neal Reiskin, MIA ’87 Stephen J. Banta, MIA ’76 Sherwood G. Moe, MIA ’48 Gordon Epstein, IF ’75, MIA ’77, Galen B. Ritchie, IF ’61 Frank Baron Montamer Corporation CER ’78 William A. Root, MIA ’48, CER ’48 Anne Elizabeth Barschall, IF ’82 Dan Mrkich Robert Mark Finkel, MIA ’88 Zabihulla Saipov Eniko M. Basa Catherine Mulder, MIA ’81 Louise R. Firestone, MIA ’79 Patricia A. Samwick, MIA ’75 Rukiye Zeynep Basak, MPA ’05 Relja I. Nedeljkovic, M.D. Grace Frisone, MIA ’76 You Sung Sang William M. Batkay, CER ’67 Nerlino & Gambale, LLP Kirsten Frivold, MPA ’03 Ernst J. Schrader, MIA ’65 Paul Bauer, MIA ’96 Walter R. Nolan Stephen Gerard Fromhart, MIA ’98 Philip A. Shearer Matthais Georg Baumberger, MIA ’05 Marilyn Popovich Larry S. Gage, IF ’71 Source One Consulting Inc. Kevin Alan Baumert, MIA ’98 Peter Powers Pulkkinen, MIA ’04 Bridgitte Gambini Bosiljka Stevanovic Robin M. Beckett, IF ’77 Alexander Radicevich Celia Genishi Sharyn Menegus Taylor, MIA ’85 Kenton H. Beerman, MIA ’05 Milovan T. Rakic Alexandra Grondahl Sandrine Tesner, MIA ’94 Julie A. Beglin, MPA ’97 Roger & Loree Wasserman Foundation Guangzhou Ruixin Technology Company Nickolas John Themelis Shirley S. Behar Peter James Ross Teresa Misty Hathaway, MIA ’89 Violet Todorovich Maria Beliaeva, MIA ’05 Thomas J. Russo Ramya Thambuswamy Hopley, MIA ’86 Joseph H. Trevisani, MIA ’88 Suzanne R. Bennison Daiji Sadamori, MIA ’74, CER ’76 Thomas N. Hull III, IF ’73, MIA ’73, CER David James Tsui, MPA ’01 Helen Delich Bentley Harold B. Segel ’73 James C. Veneau, MIA ’96 Matthew A. Berg, MIA ’98 Martin M. Selak Deborah Lee James, MIA ’81 Ljubomir Vujovic Jo Anne Berman Samuel R. Sharp, MPA ’99 Edward Van K. Jaycox Jr., MIA ’64, Sarah A. Walbert, MIA ’80, CER ’80 Shawn Erin Bernier, MPA ’06 Signature Builders, LLC CER ’64 Stephanie Louise Watnick, MIA ’92 Thomas Paul Bernstein, CER ’66 The Slater Foundation Danica Jovanovic Joanna S. Weschler Genevieve R. Besser, MIA ’86 Christopher William Smart, CER ’89 Frederick H. Katayama Gordon James Whiting, IF ’93 Wendy Lee Kutlow Best, MPA ’87 Edward Byron Smith Jr. Family John J. Kerr Jr., IF ’76 Stephanie Beth Wolk Lawrence, Peter James Biesada, MIA ’86 Foundation James Henry Kipers Jr., MIA ’02 MPA ’93 William N. Binderman, IF ’63 Daniela Stojanovic Judith Klapper Sylvia Lew Wong, MIA ’00 Thomas Lynch Bindley, MPA ’03 Yuji Sugimoto Tadeusz A. Kondratowicz Juliet Wurr, IF ’89, MIA ’89 Vlado Bjelopetrovich Hidehiko Takiguchi Joachim W. Kratz, MIA ’58 Shinwon E. Yoon John Langdon Blakeney Lela Tepavac Jules Kroll Raymond H. Yu Jaclyn Burke Bliss, MPA ’03 Douglas Boyd Thomas, MIA ’98 Peter N. Kujachich Dragoslava Zamurovic, M.D. Alisa Blum, MPA ’00 Franklin A. Thomas Miodrag Kukrika, M.D. Michael Drury Bodman, MIA ’96 John Todorovich Amy Lai $1–$249 Karen Bolak Miroslav M. Todorovich Peter Letica Anonymous Theodore Francis Bongiovanni III, Christina C. Kuan Tsu Jirawat Sophon Liwprasert, MIA ’84 5H Architecture & Design PC MPA ’03 Peter M. Wai Dallas D. Lloyd, MIA ’58 Berdine I. Abler, MIA ’76 Stanley P. Borowiec Desa V. Wakeman Ralph Luna Shiran Adiri Boris A. Borozan George D. Wick Jun MaGerard Jo Anne C. Adlerstein, IF ’75 Matthew William Botwin, MIA ’98 Byung-Kon Yoo, MIA ’92 Joseph Maguire, MIA ’02 Danica Adzemovic W. Donald Bowles, CER ’52 Catherine L. Yu-Mark Djokan Majstorovic Sadia Afridi, MIA ’05 Paul D. Boyd, IF ’63 Michael C. Yung Laura Losciale Malha, MIA ’00 Abigail Calkins Aguirre, MPA ’92 Harry Brett Francesca M. Zavolta Srdjan Maljkovic Tae Euin Ahn Donald P. Brown Branko Malkovich Yasmina Ajimi Keith Dawayne Brown, MIA ’89 $250–$499 Angelo Michael Mancino, MPA ’03 AdeWale Akinde, MPA ’05 William C. Brown, IF ’67 Thomas Abraham Dobrosav Matiasevic Afreen Alam, MIA ’05 Cecile R. Brunswick, MIA ’54 Austin Chinegwu Amalu, MIA ’81 Alan B. McDougall, MPA ’92 David E. Albright, CER ’71 Douglas Peter Brusa, MPA ’92 Patrick Kenehan Archambault, MIA ’99 Stephen Carlos Mercado, MIA ’88, William W. Alfeld, MIA ’51 Andrea Bubula Jillian Barron, MIA ’88 CER ’88 Claire S. Allen Scott Budde, MIA ’83 David J. Berish, CER ’78 Jeffrey Peter Metzler, MPA ’99 Tammy Jeanne Allen, MIA ’02 Provash Budden, MIA ’98 Peggy Robbins Bide, IF ’85, MIA ’85 Milton W. Meyer, MIA ’49 Samir Alshum Milenko Budimir Thomas H. Boast, MIA ’72 Zorka Milich Stephen Altheim, IF ’69 Beverley Jeanine Buford, MPA ’86 Joan Copithorne Bowen, MIA ’67 Kenneth Miller Maria del Rocio Alvarez, MPA ’02 Sonia Virginie Bujas, MIA ’92, CER ’92 Ivan Bozovic Milosevic Tatiana Alves, MIA ’06 Daniel F. Burton Jr., MIA ’81 Michael James Brandmeyer, IF ’95, Nobutaka Miyahara Quentin Laurent Antshel, MPA ’03 Paul H. Byers, IF ’67 MIA ’95 Jean-Noel Moneton Iris R. Argento, CER ’67 Gerald A. Cady, MIA ’76, CER ’76 John W. Broad D. R. Nagaraj Ignacio Inda Arriaga, MIA ’06 Robert Anthony Calaff, MPA ’90 Don Bronkema, CER ’57 Masaki Nishino, MIA ’01 James M. Arrowsmith Andrea Elizabeth Calise, MIA ’00 Allen L. Byrum, MIA ’72 David Michael Nixon, MIA ’83 Sarah S. Ashton, MIA ’93 Hannah K. R. Campbell, MPA ’05 Mary W. Carpenter, MIA ’51 Eileen G. Ogimachi, MIA ’77, CER ’77 Elizabeth Athey, MIA ’71 Jeffrey L. Canfield, MIA ’82, CER ’82 Michael Tatu Castlen, MPA ’93 Gary Y. Okihiro Donald E. Austin

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Michael Easterly, MIA ’68 Diana Michele Glanternik, MPA ’05 Christopher P. Jurkiewicz Jean M. Chin, M.D. Karen Marie Eben, MIA ’87, CER ’87 Sol Glasner, MIA ’76, CER ’76 JustGive.org Soojung Cho, MIA ’05 Joanne Edgar, MIA ’68 Ira E. Goldberg, MIA ’75 Peter H. Juviler, CER ’54 Milan M. Chonich, Ph.D. Judith Ann Edstrom, IF ’72, MIA ’72 Lisa G. Goldschmidt, MPA ’04 Sharon Kahn-Bernstein, MPA ’97 Dale Christensen Jr., MIA ’71 John Ehrman, MIA ’83 Marisa Beth Goldstein, MIA ’99 Kamil Kaluza, MPA ’06 Paul Brian Christensen, MIA ’83 William B. Eimicke Alexander Mark Gorup, M.D. Ousmane Kane Mina Charlotte Chung, MIA ’00 Douglas J. Eisenfelder, IF ’63 Arne Grafweg, MPA ’06 Elisa A. Kapell, IF ’79, MIA ’80, CER ’80 Jeff Geefen Chyu, MIA ’83 Steven B. Eisner, IF ’85, MIA ’85 Carolyn B. Green, MIA ’63 Alex M. Kaplan, MIA ’85 William Ciaccio, MPA ’79 Adaku Ugonma Ejiogu Richard C. Greenwald, MPA ’93 Rhona Malton Kaplan, MPA ’82 Cisco Systems, Inc. Tayeb Yehya El-Hibri Hurst Groves Makoto Kato, MIA ’97 Eugene Ciszearski Thomas A. Emmert Carole A. Grunberg, MIA ’78 Sherman E. Katz, IF ’69, MIA ’69 Azeb G. Clark, MIA ’96 Samara B. Epstein, MPA ’05 Guy B. Gugliotta, MIA ’73 Peggy Ockkyung Kauh, MPA ’01 Patricia Anne Clary, MIA ’91 Amelia A. Erwitt, MPA ’06 Memet Guney, MIA ’05 Jeff Kee, MIA ’05 Christopher Noel Clausen, MIA ’00 Sana A. Fadel, MPA ’01 Sarita Gupta, MIA ’79, CER ’79 Lauren Jennifer Kelley, MIA ’84 Mette Noehr Claushoej, MIA ’06 Denise Marie Faingar, MPA ’01 Daniel A. Gutterman Stephen T. Kerr, CER ’69 Peter James Clayton, MPA ’90 Susan Silver Farley, MIA ’78 Henry J. Gwiazda Obrad Kesic Annette Marie Clear Negin Farsad, MPA ’04 Ann Tucker Hackett, MIA ’87 Lydia W. Kesich, CER ’52 Susan E. Clelland, MPA ’03 Wilson P. Favre-Delerue, MIA ’05 Mohammed Hadi, MPA ’03 Allan R. Kessler, MIA ’82 Mary L. Clement Brent Herman Feigenbaum, MIA ’84 W. David Hager, IF ’66 Rashid Khalidi Lillian M. Coello Mitchell B. Feldman, MIA ’77 Mykola Haliv John F. Khanlian, MIA ’69 Larry Rodney Colburn, MIA ’90 Aurelius Fernandez, MIA ’59 Carrie Alden Hall Lea L. Kilraine Joseph J. Collins, IF ’80, MIA ’80 Alexander Patrick Conrad Fernando, Joel M. Halpern Ki Hun Kim Glenn L. Colville, MIA ’75 MIA ’05 Mark G. Hambley, MIA ’71 Naohito Kimura, MPA ’98 Susan E. Condon, IF ’70, MIA ’70, Vincent A. Ferraro, IF ’73, MIA ’73 Thelleze Leonie Hamzai Natasha Suzanne Kindergan, MIA ’04 CER ’70 Maria Perich Filler Katherine Olivia Hardy, MIA ’97 Brigitte Lehner Kingsbury, MIA ’89 Marybeth Connolly, MIA ’01 Irene Finel-Honigman David H. Harris, IF ’85, MIA ’85 Kelly A. Kinneen Charles D. Cook, MIA ’50 Shari Finsilver C. Lowell Harriss Donna W. Kirchheimer, MIA ’68 Steven Roy Costner, MIA ’88 H. Joseph Flatau Jr., MIA ’61 Alison M. Harwood, MIA ’85 Donald W. Klein JoAnn T. Crawford Nikolai Flexner, MIA ’05 Laura Suzanne Harwood, MPA ’92 Stephen H. Klitzman Robert S. Critchell III, MIA ’70 Bradley Feeney Foerster, MIA ’88, Gary Edward Hayes, MIA ’81, CER ’81 Anthony M. Kolankiewicz, MIA ’99 Karen J. Curtin, IF ’78, MIA ’78 CER ’88 Priscilla Belle Hayner, IF ’93, MIA ’93 Lidia Kopernik David R. Czerniejewski, IF ’65 Katherine Cecilia Fogarty, MPA ’05 Corinne A. Heditsian Victor Koshkin-Youritzin, IF ’65 Stanley J. Czerwinski David Stewart Fondiller, MIA ’92 Ian Andrew Held, IF ’95, MIA ’95 Nicolas Koutsopoulos Sandeep Dalal, MIA ’91 Anne Ford, MIA ’05 Ann Henstrand-Garay, MIA ’88 M. Vogin Kovacevic Elizabeth Rose Daly, MPA ’94 Maria Angelica Forero, MIA ’05 Joshua Rob Hepola, MIA ’00 Karen Koven Karl I. Danga, IF ’71, MIA ’72 Laura Ellen Forlano, MIA ’01 Tara Marie Herrick, MPA ’05 Ezra William Kover, MIA ’04 Jadwiga I. Daniec Kari Marie Frame, MPA ’06 John F. Hildebrand, IF ’66 Janina Kowalczuk Michael B. Daniels Jacqueline Frank, MIA ’05 Miriam E. Hill, MPA ’99 Jeff Krevat Joseph J. Darby, IF ’64, CER ’70 Eda M. Franzetti-Tato, MIA ’80 Chauthuy Thi Hoang, MIA ’08 Dana Brooke Krieger, MPA ’05 Luc De Clapiers Community Foundation of Greater Peter Alexander Hofmann, MIA ’86 Bernard Kritzer, MIA ’72 Edward N. De Lia, MIA ’87 Memphis Dale B. Honeck, IF ’85, MIA ’85 Z. Anthony Kruszewski Margaret C. De Lorme Sollitto, MIA ’94 Alexander Mols Fraser, MPA ’90 Janet I. Horan, MPA ’05 Regina Krzych Jay Douglas Dean, IF ’85, MIA ’88 Laurence Todd Freed, MIA ’94 Richard C. Hottelet Paul Krzywicki Goran Debelnogich Gerald S. Freedman, M.D., IF ’62 Pamela A. Houghtaling, MIA ’74, Gibadet Sergeyevna Kuliyeva, MIA ’05 Kristen M. Degan, MIA ’05 Amy Esther Friedman, MIA ’92 CER ’76 Amita Anil Kulkarni, MIA ’05 Delaware Community Foundation Manry Friedman Katherine Hale Hovde, MIA ’89 Piotr J. Kumelowski Jennifer DeRosa Max Friedman, MIA ’05 William D. Howells, MIA ’60, CER ’60 Carlos Augusto Kuriyama Shishido, Sonali S. Desai, MIA ’00 Bartley R. Frueh, M.D., IF ’63 Edwin C. Hoyt Jr. MIA ’05 Carolyn P. Dewing-Hommes, MIA ’86 Peter Gacs Kyaw Min Htun, MPA ’05 Orin Michael Kurland, MIA ’91 Lt. Col. Gary Francis Di Gesu, MIA ’89 Ryszard Gajewski Richard W. Hull, CER ’65 John F. Kutolowski Daniel Dicker Jacoba J. Galazka Robert Kingsley Hull, MIA ’78, CER ’78 Chrissa M. La Porte, MIA ’05 Lisa Michelle Dimas, MPA ’01 Joya Ganguly, MIA ’91 Mi-Ae Hur, MIA ’00 Darwin R. Labarthe, M.D., IF ’62 Stephen D. Docter, MIA ’60 C. Robert Garris Margaret Edsall Huson, MIA ’01 Laurin L. Laderoute Jr., IF ’66 Arthur R. Dornheim, MIA ’48 Chris Garty Thomas J. Hyra Jr., IF ’76, MIA ’77 Abel Lajtha Christine Marian Doyle, MIA ’92 Richard J. Gastowich Jon C. Imerman Debbie A. Landres Djurdjina Dragic Frances X. Gates Roberto Inda, MPA ’05 Ting Lan, MIA ’05 Alex N. Dragnich Stephen Bernt Gaull, MIA ’88, CER ’88 Yutaka Matsuura Ishizaka, CER ’82 Aikojean Lane, MIA ’05 Bogdan Cornel Dragulescu, MPA ’03 Joseph G. Gavin III, MIA ’70 Irene B. Jacey Julie Werner Lane, MPA ’92

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Lester, MIA ’01 Brian R. Meyers Camille C. Purvis, MIA ’99 Marshall D. Shulman, CER ’48 Jane Carol Leu, MIA ’98 MGS & RRS Charitable Trust Otto Quittner Melvyn J. Simburg, IF ’71, MIA ’71 Sergio Levin, MIA ’79 Thomas R. Michelmore, MIA ’74 Gil Rabinovitch, MPA ’05 Petar Simic Jay A. Levy, M.D., IF ’62 Branislava Mijatovic K. Steve Rajej George W. Simmonds, CER ’52 James John Lewellis, MIA ’04 Radmila Milentijevic David C. Ralph, MIA ’67 Michael J. Simon, IF ’80, MIA ’80 Alice E. liddell, MPA ’05 Carolyn Patricia Miles, MIA ’99 Kalpana Ramakrishnan, MIA ’04 Harendra L. Sirisena, MIA ’92 Catherine L. Liesman Gregory L. Miles, MIA ’79 Allison J. Ramler, MIA ’96, CER ’96 Timothy Snyder Amy Lile, MPA ’05 Margaret J. Milewski Tessa M. Randall Roberto E. Socas, MIA ’55 John F. Lippmann, MIA ’49 Zoran Milkovich Laxmi Rao, MIA ’05 Elaine Carol Soffer, MPA ’83 Samuel J. Lipsky, MIA ’73 Shalini Mimani Gary J. Reardon, MPA ’80 Richard J. Soghoian, IF ’65 John Joseph Lis, IF ’96, MIA ’96, Marilyn Mitchell Helen Reeve, CER ’54 Stephen A. Sokol CER ’96 Ann Mizumoto, MIA ’06, MPH ’06 Janet S. Resele-Tiden, MIA ’92 Debra E. Soled, MIA ’82, CER ’83 Richard J. Lis Kristopher Moller Diana E. Rheault, MPA ’05 Jan Solomon, CER ’75 Daniel Brown Little, MIA ’05 Redmond Kathleen Molz Alvin Richman, MIA ’60 William Vasilio Sotirovich Glenda S. Liu, MIA ’77, CER ’78 Nancy C. Moran, MIA ’99 Scott Andrew Richman, MIA ’91 Sovereign Sales LLC Jody Susan London, MPA ’90 Michael J. Moretti Leslie K. Rider-Araki, IF ’81, MIA ’82 Raymond Sowinski Carlos Lopez-Arenas, MIA ’06 Walter N. Morgan Michael D. Riess, IF ’63, MIA ’66 Stacy LeJuan Spann, MPA ’04 William Anthony Lorenz, MIA ’99 Ann Juanita Morning, MIA ’92 John Rim, CER ’52 Nicholas J. Spiliotes, IF ’79, CER ’79 Ronald Dean Lorton, IF ’71, MIA ’71 James W. Morrison, MIA ’63 Sarah E. Rimmington Daniel Sreebny, MIA ’78 The Love Foundation, Inc. Kin W. Moy, MIA ’90 Richard C. 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Sundram Yovanka Malkovich Stephanie G. Neuman Alfred J. Ross Alison Kimberly Swenton, MIA ’00 Paulo Cesar de F. Mamede Katarzyna W. Newcomer Jeannette L. Rossoff, MIA ’82 George Swierbutowicz Francesco Mancini, MIA ’03 Richard T. Newman, MIA ’51 Susan A. S. Rosthal, MIA ’71 Albina Irene Swierzbinski Harvey J. Mandel Dmitry Nikitin, MIA ’05 Michael Roston, MIA ’06 Tadeusz Swietochowski Edislav Manetovic Eri Noguchi, MPA ’93 Seymour Rotter, Ph.D., CER ’55 The New York Community Trust Ida May H. Mantel, MIA ’64 Meena Noori Richard C. Rowson, MIA ’50 Gustav O. Szabo Benjamin Aaron Marchette, MIA ’00 Bradley S. Norton, MPA ’02 Mark A. Ruben, M.D., MIA ’80 Diego M. Szuldman Daniel Marchishin Kenneth E. Nyirady Julian Eric Rubinstein Tadeusz N. Cieplak Trust Raul Kazimierz Martynek, MIA ’93 Robert J. O’Connor Moises Rudelman, MIA ’01 Elya Tagar, MIA ’05 Michael Masanovich Peter Damian O’Driscoll, MIA ’97 George F. Ruffner, MIA ’72 Yuko Tamai, MIA ’05 Jocelyn Maskow, MPA ’88 Harry John O'Hara, IF ’91, MIA ’91 Robert R. Ruggiero, MIA ’56 Aya Tanaka, MIA ’97 Smilja Matijevic Daniel John Oleks, MIA ’06 Emily Ruth Russo, MIA ’05 Congrong Tang Erna Gallian Mavrovic Clarence W. Olmstead Jr., IF ’67 Tadeusz Rybkiewicz Harold Miles Tanner Katarina Maxianova, MIA ’05 Paul Victor Olsson, MIA ’87 Julia H. Sabella Susan B. Tauber Marlene J. Mayo, CER ’57 Kevin O’Neil, MIA ’85 Anthony R. Saccomano, MIA ’70 William C. Taubman, IF ’63, CER ’65 The McCabe Family Foundation Emanuel Organek, IF ’72 Carlos Ignacio Salamonovitz, MPA ’05 Victoria A. Taylor Sissel Wivestad McCarthy, MIA ’92 Bruce A. Ortwine, MIA ’78 Christine Samano, MIA ’05 Myrna C. Tengco, MPA ’05 Robert O. McClintock, IF ’63 Timothy J. C. O’Shea, IF ’84, MIA ’85 Milivoy I. Samurovich Jennifer E. 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Van Heuven, MIA ’57 GE Foundation Irene Finel-Honigman Daniel John Oleks, MIA ’06 Laura Van Wie McGrory, MIA ’95 Goldman, Sachs & Company Katharine Cecilia Fogarty, MPA ’05 Anja Papenfuss, MIA ’05 Ketevan Vashakidze IBM International Foundation Anne Ford, MIA ’05 Radha N. Patel, MPA ’06 Ann-Ariel Nichiko Vecchio, MPA ’04 ITOCHU International, Inc. Maria Angelica Forero, MIA ’05 Jasminee Persaud, MIA ’05 Milos M. Velimirovic The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Kari Marie Frame, MPA ’06 Verena Loven Phipps, MIA ’06 Gabor P. Vermes Merck & Co. Inc. Jacqueline Frank, MIA ’05 Mark W. Pickens, MIA ’05 Alexander R. Vershbow, MIA ’76, Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc. Manry Friedman Diego Gomez Pickering, MIA ’05 CER ’76 MetLife Foundation Max Friedman, MIA ’05 Xavier Pierluca, MPA ’05 Boris G. Vlalukin Mitsubishi International Corporation C. Robert Garris Melissa A. Poueymirou Mary W. Von Ziegesar Moody’s Foundation Isadora Gaviria, MIA ’05 Kenneth Prewitt Vukan R. Vuchic New York Life Foundation Pablo Ignacio Gazzolo, MIA ’05 Beatriz Prieto-Oramas, MIA ’05 Dragan D. Vuckovic Newsweek, Inc. Thomas E. Glaisyer, MIA ’06 Gil Rabinovitch, MPA ’05 Veljko M. Vujacic Pepsico Foundation, Inc. Diana Michele Glanternik, MPA ’05 Tessa M. Randall Marc McGowan Wall, IF ’75, MIA ’75 Pfizer Foundation Anthony C. Gooch, MIA ’05 Laxmi Rao, MIA ’05 Joy C. Wang, MPA ’01 RBC Capital Markets Corporation Arne Grafweg Diana E. Rheault, MPA ’05 Megan Lee Watkins, MIA ’00 Reuters America Inc. Hurst Groves Sarah E. Rimmington, MIA ’06 Christina Anne Way, MIA ’05 The Sherwin-Williams Foundation Memet Guney, MIA ’05 Esteban Rodarte, MPA ’06 Sonali Weerackody, MIA ’94 Tiffany & Co. Mohammed Hadi, MPA ’03 Michael Roston, MIA ’06 Rhoda S. Weidenbaum, CER ’55 UBSWachovia Foundation Carrie Alden Hall, MPA ’05 Emily Ruth Russo, MIA ’05 Lois D. Weinert, CER ’51 Washington Post Company Thelleze Leonie Hamzai, MPA ’06 Carlos Ignacio Salamonovitz, MPA ’05 Alicia Deborah Weinstein, MPA ’01 Wells Fargo Foundation Tara Marie Herrick, MPA ’05 Christine Samano, MIA ’05 Paul J. Weinstein Jr., MIA ’87 Chauthuy Thi Hoang, MIA ’06 Anuj Shah, MIA ’05 Erin Marisa Weiss, MPA ’05 Donors to the Class Gift of 2005 Janet I. Horan, MIA ’05 Adhil Shetty, MIA ’05 David A. Weisz, IF ’77 Shiran Adiri, MIA ’05 Kyaw Min Htun, MPA ’05 Yumi Shindo, MPA ’05 Raymond D. White, IF ’64 Sadia Afridi, MIA ’05 Roberto Inda, MIA ’05 Jason Page Stowe, MPA ’06 Dana Lynn Wichterman, MIA ’88 Tae Euin Ahn, MIA ’06 Pyarali Jamal, MIA ’05 Peter Strublus Roy Wiesner Yasmina Ajimi Ellen Austin Johnson, MPA ’06 V. A. Subramanian H. David Willey, IF ’63 AdeWale Akinde, MPA ’05 Laura S. Johnson Fumi Sugeno, MIA ’05 Paula Wilson Afreen Alam, MIA ’05 Kamil Kaluza, MIA ’06 Sumitra T. Sundram, MIA ’05 Merle Beth Wise, MPA ’88 Samir Alshum Ousmane Kane Diego M. Szuldman, MIA ’05 Jennifer B. Witriol Tatiana Alves, MIA ’08 Jeff Kee, MIA ’05 Elya Tagar, MIA ’05 Donna C. Wonnacott, CER ’60 Lisa Anderson, CER ’76 Lea L. Kilraine, MPA ’06 Yuko Tamai, MIA ’05 John S. Wood Ignacio Inda Arriaga, MIA ’06 Kelly A. Kinneen, MPA ’06 Congrong Tang, MPA ’05 Palitja Woodruff, MPA ’05 Scott T. Baerst, MIA ’06 Nicolas Koutsopoulos Di Tang, MIA ’05 World Reach, Inc. Yerlan Bolatovich Baizhigitov, MIA ’05 Dana Brooke Krieger, MPA ’05 Victoria A. Taylor, MIA ’05 Norman G. Wycoff, MIA ’50 Michael Bakunenko, MPA ’06 Gibadat Sergeyevna Kuliyeva, MIA ’05 Myrna C. Tengco, MPA ’05 Jose Xavier, MIA ’05 Rukiye Zeynep Basak, MPA ’05 Amita Anil Kulkarni, MIA ’05 Anna Throne-Holst, MPA ’06 Anastasia Xenias, CER ’94 Matthais Georg Baumberger, MIA ’05 Carlos Augusto Kuriyama Shishido, Momolu Tolbert, MIA ’05 Hideo Yanai, MIA ’96 Kenton H. Beerman, MIA ’05 MIA ’05 Mayumi Toyoda, MIA ’05 Sonia Eun Joo Yeo, MIA ’00 Maria Beliaeva, MIA ’05 Chrissa M. La Porte, MIA ’05 Joan M. Turner Harry M. Yohalem, MIA ’69 Martin Hansen Berg, MPA ’05 Ting Lan, MIA ’05 Miguel Urquiola Sosuke Yokota, MIA ’05 Shaun Erin Bernier, MPA ’06 Debbie A. Landres Rafael Valdez Mingramm, MPA ’05 Alicia a Zadrozna-Fiszman John Langdon Blakeney, MPA ’06 Aikojean Lane, MIA ’05 Ketevan Vashakidze Anna Frajlich Zajac Patrick F. Bohan Jung Hwan Lee, MIA ’05 Mary W. Von Ziegesar Rachel Yona Zenner, MPA ’98 Harry Brett Alice E. Liddell, MPA ’05 Christina Anne Way, MIA ’05 William Zhao Andrea Bubula Amy Lile, MPA ’05 Dara Fern Wax, MIA ’03 Andrew W. Zimmerman, M.D., IF ’68 Hannah K. R. Campbell, MPA ’05 Daniel Brown Little, MIA ’05 Erin Marisa Weiss, MPA ’05 Jonathan Zorach, CER ’72Naomi Anne Maria Jose Castro, MIA ’05 Carlos Lopez-Arenas, MIA ’06 Roy Wiesner, MPA ’05 Zuk, MPA ’05 Rekha Chalasani Erika R. Lundquist, MPA ’05 Jennifer B. Witriol, MIA ’05 Jozef J. Zwislocki Jocelyn M. Chan, MIA ’05 Maria Ma, MIA ’05 Palitja Woodruff, MPA ’05 Helen Chernikoff, MPA ’05 Harpreet Mahajan Jose Xavier, MIA ’05 Below are the 33 organizations whose Soojung Cho, MIA ’05 Paulo Cesar de F. Mamede, MPA ’05 Sosuke Yokota, MIA ’05 matching gift programs supported the Mette Noehr Claushoej Katarina Maxianova, MIA ’05 William Zhao, MPA ’06 work of SIPA because a graduate or JoAnn T. Crawford Heather R. McGeory, MIA ’05 Naomi Anne Zuk, MPA ’05 friend affiliated with the company made Michael B. Daniels, MPA ’06 Jyoti Menon, MIA ’06 a gift to SIPA. Kristen M. Degan, MIA ’05, MPH ’05 Brian R. Meyers, MPA ’07 Bank of American Foundation Jennifer DeRosa, MIA ’05, MSW ’05 Shalini Mimani The Bank of New York Foundation Rodrick William Dial Ann Mizumoto, MIA ’06, MPH ’06 Barclays Capital David N. Dinkins Kristopher Moller, MIA ’05

48 SIPA NEWS SIPA News is published biannually by SIPA’s Office of External Relations.

Managing Editor: JoAnn Crawford Editors: Tom Randall, Veronika Ruff

Contributing writers: Lisa Anderson, Deborah Baron, Remi Bello, Aaron Clark, Steven Cohen, Daniel J.Gerstle, Alison Gilmore, Rachel E. Goldstein, Lindsay Hamilton, Tanya Heikkila, Meena Jagannath, Rebecca Leicht, Chris Mayo, Andrew Monahan, Arvind Panagariya, Tom Randall, Veronika Ruff, Jayati Vora, Zach Wales, Jacob Winiecki

Contributing photographers:

Kevin Fleming/Corbis (pages 2–3); Daniel J. Gerstle (pages 4–5); Denis Balibouse/Reuters (page 8); Pilar Olivares/Reuters (page 9); Salim Henry/AP (page 9); Karel Prinsloo/AP (page 10); Macduff Everton/Corbis (pages 12–13); Daniel Hulshizer/AP (page 14); Tom Randall (page 15); Howard Davies/CORBIS (page 16); Alexandre Meneghini/AP (page 19); Jose Luis Magana/AP (page 20); Jim Richardson/CORBIS (page 20); George Nikitin/AP (page 20); Maria Stenzel/National Geographic (page 21); Marco Ugarte/AP (page 21); Zach Wales (page 23); Joe Raedle (page 27); Steve Helber/AP (page 28); Spencer Platt (page 28); Arif Ali (page 29); Stephen Ferry (page 30); Matt Campbell (page 32); Eileen Barroso (pages 33–35, 38, 39); Michael Dames (page 40)

Cover Photographer: Joanna B. Pinneo

Design and Production: Office of University Publications

School of International and Public Affairs Dean: Lisa Anderson Associate Deans: Patrick Bohan, Rob Garris, Robin Lewis and Sara Mason

Office of External Relations: JoAnn Crawford, Director of Publications and Special Events Yun Won Cho, Director of Development Shalini Mimani, Assistant Director of Development/Regional Insititutes Melissa Poueymirou, Major Gift Officer

Columbia University 420 W. 118th St. MIA Program: (212) 854-8690 MPA Program: (212) 254-2167 Office of External Relations: (212) 854-8671 Fax: (212) 854-8660 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa SIPA 60TH Anniversary

For 60 years, SIPA has been educating individuals who make a difference in the world. This year we will be celebrating them as we mark “SIPA at 60” with events around the globe. Mark your calendars for our SIPA at 60 reunion in New York on Saturday, October 28, 2006, featuring panels of distinguished faculty and alumni. Check the Web site www.sipa.columbia.edu/sipa60 for more details about events throughout 2006 and for updated information, as dates are subject to change.

Calendar of Events 2006

JANUARY JUNE 12–13 Washington, D.C., OCS 6 SIPA Global Leadership Awards Conference and 60th Dinner Inaugural Reception 11–13 TBC London/Athens Alumni Panels and Receptions FEBRUARY 28 NYC Alumni Panel and Reception JULY TBD Southeast Asia Fellows MARCH Conference—Bangkok 8 Paris Alumni Panel and Reception 9 Berlin Alumni Panel and AUGUST Reception 23 Bogotá Alumni Panel and 13 Tokyo Alumni Panel and Reception Reception 14 Seoul Alumni Panel and SEPTEMBER Reception 15 Beijing Alumni Panel and TBD Boston Alumni Panel and Reception Reception 15–17 OCS NYC Conference TBD World Leaders Forum 24–26 Women Leaders Intercultural Forum APRIL 5–7 WTO Conference OCTOBER 20 Public Affairs Symposium 24 Alliance for Community 28 New York City Celebration Enhancement Event NOVEMBER MAY TBD San Francisco Alumni Panel 8–9 TBC Mexico City Alumni Panel and Reception and Reception

We’d Like to Hear from You As we celebrate SIPA’s 60th anniversary, we’d like to collect stories from our alumni to post on the Web and create a history of the School through your eyes. We hope you will send us your memories of life as a student at the School and/or an account of what you’ve been doing since—be it professional or personal. Please send your stories to [email protected] The School of International and Public Affairs has launched SIPA Global Connection http://www.sipaglobalconnect.org

SIPA Global Connection is our new online directory of more than 10,000 SIPA alumni. Only you can log in to verify/edit your entry’s accuracy and allow your classmates to view some or all of it.

Global Connection also includes SIPA’S ALUMNI CAREER ADVISORY PROGRAM (ACAP), a project of the Office of Career Services.

REGISTRATION for SIPA Global Connection

To use this system you will need your UNI (Columbia’s unique user name for all alumni, students, faculty and staff) plus a password. Typically, your UNI is your initials followed by an arbitrary number, i.e., jk122. Passwords are encrypted and known only to YOU.

• SIPA students can log on immediately, using their student UNI and password. • Recent graduates can use the same UNI and password they used as students. • Alumni may use the same UNI and password they set up for other online alumni services at Columbia University.

If you know your UNI and password: • Log on to SIPA Global Connection: http://www.sipaglobalconnect.org

If you have forgotten your password but remember your UNI: • Access https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/alumni/ alumniat/help.html and request that your password be reset.

If you don’t know your UNI and password: • Access https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/alumni/ alumniat/idreq.html and request your UNI. You will be sent a temporary PIN so you can create a password.

Please call our office if you have any problems getting started: 212-854-8671 or toll free at 877-797-2678. Columbia University Nonprofit Org. School of International and Public Affairs U.S. Postage PAID 420 West 118th Street, Mail code 3328 New York, NY New York, NY 10027 Permit No. 3593