COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS SIPAnewsWinter 2003 / VOLUME XVI NO. 1

SIPA Reaches Out Around the World SIPAnews winter 2003 / VOLUME Xvi NO.1

1 From the Dean Learning Wisdom: Debate at SIPA 2 Alumni Profile Cecile Brunswick: The Diplomacy of Art 3 Alumni Forum WTC Town Meeting: Democracy Downtown 4-6 Faculty Profiles Jeffrey Sachs, Kenneth Prewitt, Joan Helpern, Richard Robb, David Nissen 7-8 Student Profiles James Lalremruata, Violeta Krasnic, Robert Seidman, Svetlana Pinzari 10 SIPA Reaches Out Around the World 12 Extending East: SIPA Travels to Asia 14 On the Job Around the Globe 17 Alumni News MPA Graduates Celebrate Their 10th Reunion

18 9Picker Center News 19 Class Notes Alumni News Letter from Jakarta 21 Development News From the Dean: Lisa Anderson Learning Wisdom: Debate at SIPA

o live life at SIPA is to The most familiar is learning, of and argument. But the habit of mind live at the center of con- course, the transmission of a commu- that reflects an educated person is dis- troversy. But, and you nity’s received wisdom to new genera- criminating, thoughtful and demand- may be surprised to read tions. All SIPA students experience ing outside of class and beyond the this here, that is exactly this, learning as they do from the work research project as well. how I think it should of their elders, and it allows each gen- A competent citizen takes seri- Tbe. Whether we deliberate about cur- eration to incorporate and build on the ously the responsibility to think reflec- riculum reform, argue about the merits work of its predecessors. A good edu- tively, to examine questions carefully, of economic policy in Manhattan or cation also entails the creation of new to both treasure and to test the Mongolia (and we have alumni in knowledge through research. Most received wisdom of the community. both places, and nearly everywhere in SIPA students are also familiar with In order to nurture this capacity between, debating economic policy this, working on data sets, pouring among our students at SIPA, we stead- right now), discuss admissions criteria over archives, designing surveys, par- fastly defend the notion of academic or challenge the World Trade Organi- ticipating in workshops with faculty freedom. There would be nothing to zation, we are a community not simply and other researchers. Sometimes debate, no reason to question our of disinterested scholars but of deeply the product is a major scientific break- assumptions, to challenge received committed and passionate analysts and through — the kind of thing that wisdom, to create new knowledge if activists. It is our dedication to the quickly becomes the received wisdom we all agreed on everything. Fortu- schooling of that passion and commit- of the next generation. Usually it is nately, we do not. We provoke each ment which makes SIPA the magic more modest — perhaps a new plan other to reflect on and refine our place it is. for managing a not-for-profit organi- beliefs and our arguments and in the I was reminded of this most zation’s social service delivery — but process we strengthen ourselves as recently as we began a debate here this sort of invention is nonetheless a individuals and as a community. So, at SIPA, indeed, at universities across part of the creative impulse at the core yes, dear readers, you may take excep- the United States, about the merits of of true education. tion to some of the positions you see the campaign calling for universities to There is a third vital element of or hear among the students and faculty divest their holdings in firms that man- genuine education, and that is the at SIPA in the debate about divest- ufacture and supply weapons used by refinement of ideas, both received ment, and in many other forums. Israel to maintain the occupation of and new, through testing and debate. From my experience, there is no better the West Bank and Gaza. Debate This constant, restless challenge to our place in the world than at Columbia, being what it is, this conversation has understanding of our world in what from the International Affairs Build- been heated, as proponents of divest- John Stuart Mill called the “market- ing’s sixth floor coffee shop to the ment have voiced very pointed and place of ideas” is not ordinarily listed as steps of Low Library, for an animated harsh criticisms of Israeli government part of the university’s curriculum, but discussion about issues of concern to policy and opponents have drawn on it is an essential part of the translation our community. We hope that our arguments from national security to of new knowledge into received wis- friends and alumni, like today’s stu- free trade to condemn the campaign. dom, indeed, of the conversion of dents, seized and treasured the oppor- In permitting — indeed, encour- information into knowledge in the first tunity to test their ideas in this most aging — students, faculty, and staff place. Unlike the first two elements, accommodating of marketplaces. And to debate this question, or any other this one does not have a formal venue we hope that they are all better citizens question of public policy, we at SIPA or time slot on the university schedule. for it, still committed and passionate, are fulfilling one of the fundamental It may take place in the classroom, but but discerning and wise as well. purposes of a university, to provide it doesn’t have to. Indeed, it should an arena in which ideas are tested. infuse the entire experience of life at a We often forget that there are place like SIPA. Any good class and all three elements in a good education. research require testing, critical analysis

SIPAnews 1 Alumni Profile: Cecile Brunswick The Diplomacy of Art

By Celeste Tarricone

alking into Cecile Brunswick’s studio in the gar- ment district of Manhattan is like stepping through Wthe looking glass into Alice’s Wonder- land. Each door of the labyrinthine space yields a new surprise — a boxy foyer hung with black and white photos, a tiny anteroom warmly decorated with cinnamon-colored walls and whimsical sculptures, and a long, narrow hallway lined with large canvases wrapped in plastic like gifts waiting to be opened. And at the very end of the path, the apartment unfolds into a brightly lit room with high ceilings and pure white walls dressed with her paintings, whose signature style includes bold lines against backgrounds gently Cecile Brunswick finds artistic inspiration in Morocco washed in color. Brunswick, who graduated back in the days when SIPA was still SIA worked for that “other diplomats phy. She began working for a photo (the School of International Affairs), thought I was a member of the agency, and soon started taking her has shaped a career for herself as an Afghani delegation, which amused own pictures and building her own artistic ambassador, using her painting me to no end,” she said. business. as an avenue for dialogue about inter- A short while later, Brunswick After attending an intensive art national affairs and understanding. married and moved to a “teeny tiny workshop in Assisi, Italy, where she When she started at SIA, though, town” in western Pennsylvania, where “did nothing but paint,” Brunswick she dreamed of being a diplomat in the her only contact with international changed course again and focused on Middle East, focusing on Arab-Israeli affairs was through books borrowed the fine arts. relations. from the local library. Instead of writ- “I use my paintings to express my “Not a very good choice for a ing speeches for diplomats as she had feelings about what I see and feel, and woman at that time,” said Brunswick, done in New York, she penned letters what is happening in my life,” she said. who was born in Belgium and came to the editor of the local paper offering “It isn’t haphazard. It’s based on what to the United States as a young child. commentary on current events. I’ve learned.” After graduation, she stayed in “I didn’t know what I would do. Two years ago, during a trip to New York, instead, and worked for There wasn’t anything I could use my Morocco, she finally had an opportu- the Foreign Policy Association, the degree for,” she said. nity to merge her interest in art and Indonesian consulate, and as a speech- Within a year and a half, she and international affairs, and to use her writer for the Afghan delegation to the her family had moved back to New paintings to raise awareness about United Nations. York City, but instead of resuming other countries and cultures. At the UN, Brunswick spent so her career in international affairs, she much time with the diplomats she started down another path, photogra- CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

2 SIPAnews Alumni Forum: WTC Town Meeting Democracy Downtown

By Erin Doyle, ’01

n Saturday, July 20th, city and, ultimately, to our belief in table included: a Caucasian, handi- 2002, I had the democracy. We were addressed by capped woman of about 50, who is a opportunity to par- members of the Lower Manhattan resident of lower Manhattan and head ticipate in something Development Corporation (the organi- of a tenant organization in Battery Park awesome: democracy zation charged with heading up the City; an African-American woman who in action. As some- rebuilding effort), the Port Authority is a lawyer and whose two sons worked Oone who has spent most of her life in (the organization generally responsible at the WTC (neither was hurt on a thriving democracy (and enough for the World Trade Center), the 9/11); an Arab man who worked at time in fledgling democracies and non- mayor’s office, and one of the victims’ Windows on the World but was not democracies to know better), I am families associations. A brilliant facilita- at work on 9/11; a Caucasian woman The town hall was certain that we Americans take our tor walked us through a day of struc- in her 20’s who is a Ph.D. student in freedom for granted on a daily basis. tured discussion that covered topics sociology at Columbia and was there nothing short of Perhaps that’s because most of us have from our hopes and concerns about primarily to observe the process; and never known anything else. But I have, rebuilding downtown to reactions to me (I was at Ground Zero on 9/11 extraordinary.... and that’s what inspired me to partici- the six plans unveiled earlier that week and am still displaced from my place of More than 4,000 pate in the town hall meeting to discuss for the WTC site and ideas on appro- work.) The dynamic in the room was the rebuilding of lower Manhattan. priate settings for a memorial. phenomenal — everyone was focused citizens came together Brief visits to Soviet Russia, Cuba, Using the latest technology (each on the task at hand, was serious about and Nicaragua and three years working participant had a keypad to respond discussion, and considerate of every- to make their voices in Eurasia for NGOs that aim to foster to multiple choice questions) we were one’s opinions. Participants laughed heard. More than participatory democracy in the newly able to see results to simple questions and cried together, as the subject mat- independent states of the former Soviet immediately. A review of the demo- ter warranted. 4,000 citizens were Union have blessed me with a deep graphics of the participants showed Each table was equipped with a appreciation for all the freedoms we that the group was representative of the laptop computer, hooked into a net- not complacent about enjoy. After years of watching others region at large in terms of gender, age, work. Responses were funneled to the work to build better societies, to voice income, race, and ethnicity. We also network and read by a team of analysts their civic responsibility. their opinions loudly enough for their learned that: 9% of us were survivors who summarized the results and (sometimes unwilling) governments to of 9/11; 33% were at or near Ground posted them on large screens through- hear, I was presented with the opportu- Zero on 9/11; 21% became displaced out the room about an hour after we nity to be a voice in the civil society of or unemployed as a result of 9/11; 6% submitted them. It was amazing not my own world. I was also presented were rescue or recovery workers; 23% only to receive such immediate feed- with the responsibility to act on that live or lived in lower Manhattan; 41% back but also to see such dramatic opportunity. work or worked in lower Manhattan. trends in the responses from through- The town hall was nothing short For more involved questions, we out the room. Opinions were expressed of extraordinary. I had witnessed held small group discussions at tables on an array of issues — from a review countless similar exercises in new of up to 10 people: picture a room of the six concept plans to a proposed democracies, but nothing can compare with over 400 small group discussions mission statement for the memorial, to what happened in New York City occurring simultaneously. Each table the importance of restoring the skyline, that day. More than 4,000 citizens had a professional facilitator to assist and the need for affordable housing came together to make their voices with the discussion, all of whom came in the neighborhood. Due to an over- heard. More than 4,000 citizens were to New York on their own dime, in whelmingly negative response to the not complacent about their civic response to a call for volunteers over six concept plans, the planners agreed responsibility. We devoted an entire the Internet. They came from all 50 at the end of the day to re-think them. Saturday (a beautiful day in the middle states and six foreign countries, includ- of summer) to the rebuilding of our ing Afghanistan. The participants at my CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

SIPAnews 3 F aculty Profile Jeffrey Sachs

By Anjali Cordeiro

hen Jeffrey Sachs gave we will not find the political will, and his first lectures at we will have continued extreme suffer- Columbia this fall, ing of billions of people in the coming W SIPA’s auditorium could decade,” he said. “But it is quite possi- barely hold the throng of students ble not only to meet the goals from a who poured in. The eager audience technical point of view but actually to had come to hear the scholar who has find the political organization and served as an advisor to governments will to do that. I think that at critical all over the globe and has, on occasion, moments like this we have to work been called the “world’s most impor- especially hard to try to turn these tant economist.” They weren’t disap- potential crises into a real positive pointed. Sachs’s forthright opinions on opportunity.” achieving sustainable development in Sachs, who is known for unortho- the 21st century left them with plenty dox views about development, is Jeffrey Sachs to think about. equally candid when he discusses the Sachs’s move from Harvard Uni- commitment resource-rich countries parts of the world for me suggest real versity to Columbia last year and his must make towards issues of sustain- solutions to some of these great chal- much-publicized appointment as able development. He is especially lenges,” he said. director of the Earth Institute was seen vocal about their role in the war Besides heading the Earth Insti- as something of a coup for Columbia. against AIDS in Africa. “We got the tute, Sachs has appointments at SIPA Sachs also serves as special advisor to treasury secretary to Africa this spring. and at the Graduate School of Arts and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan He went to hospitals and he went Sciences. He is giving lectures all over on the United Nations’ Millennium to the clinics and he was horrified by the university, meeting students and Development Goals, an international what he saw. I’m still waiting for the working to get them involved with the plan for poverty alleviation that policy response to that. There is a little Earth Institute. “I definitely plan to includes cutting extreme poverty by bit of progress, but it is much too slow. devote a lot of time to teaching. But half and achieving universal primary It is not satisfactory at all. I won’t take this first year is teaching through visit- education throughout the world. heart in it until the U.S. is really exer- ing all parts of the university and giv- Sachs says that his responsibilities at cising the kind of leadership that it is ing a lot of talks and lectures along the the UN will complement his work capable of exercising and that the way,” he explained. at the Earth Institute, where many world needs it to exercise,” he said. And how does Columbia com- scientists are already working on ways Sachs came to Columbia after a pare to Harvard? “I love Harvard, to meet the Millennium goals. “The long tenure at Harvard, where he was I have to say. I spent 30 years there fact that I personally have these two director of the Centre for International and didn’t imagine that I was not responsibilities, and, more importantly, Development and the Galen L. Stone going to spend the next years of my that the United Nations agencies Professor for International Trade. He career there. This came as a surprise, and the Earth Institute are working has acted as a consultant to organiza- but I am finding Columbia and New together on this shared commitment, tions such as the International Mone- York to be completely exhilarating.” is extremely exciting and strongly pro- tary Fund, the World Bank, and motes the shared objective,” he said. the United Nations Development Sachs does not mince words Programme, and has served as an when he talks about the progress on economic advisor to governments on Anjali Cordeiro is a first-year MIA the Millennium Development Goals. every continent. “The things I have student concentrating in International “If things are left as they are right now, been able to see and learn in the past Media and Communications and South we will not meet the Millennium goals, 20 years of on-the-ground work in all Asian studies.

4 SIPAnews F aculty Profile F aculty Profile Ken Prewitt Joan Helpern

By Fabiota Salata By Christine Caralis

hen Professor Ken ou will have to be Prewitt got a call “ very direct, offering him the I ramble,” said Joan W position of director Y Helpern, founder of of the United States Census the fashion house Joan & David, Bureau, overseeing the 2000 pop- with a warm smile. ulation survey, he was so surprised, A native New Yorker who has he suggested several other people lived all around the world, a social he thought would be better suited psychologist, a business entrepre- for the job. neur, a CEO and a fashion icon, But once he began working Helpern joined the SIPA faculty on the census, often hailed as the this past fall as a co-professor with largest peacetime mobilization in Professor Hans Decker of the Inter- America’s history, it became a “fas- Ken Prewitt national Finance and Business (IFB) Joan Helpern cinating experience,” said Prewitt, Internship Workshop. who started his new appointment analysis and policy advocacy, has She was attracted to the inter- over three dozen awards, from at SIPA in January 2003. twice served as president of the national aspects of SIPA, which she design excellence to personal Prewitt said he loved “watch- Social Science Research Council, likens to a mini-United Nations, achievement, is a member of the ing the civic participation in the and as a board member of several because she values mentoring so Council of Fashion Directors of census unfold in thousands of academic and international organi- much. She describes the students America, and is a co-founder of communities across the country.” zations. as “committed scholars from all of the Committee of 200, a forum Inside the nation’s capital, Prewitt said he is excited to the world exchanging ideas, learn- designed to encourage and sup- however, he got a different view. engage SIPA students in discus- ing new skills, getting to know port women entrepreneurs and “Initially, I underestimated the way sions about how national measure- each other, refining their thinking, corporate executives. in which partisanship would try to ment systems, such as a census, and re-examining their issues.” She says her real mentors trump evidence and rational argu- affect group identities and social Although new to SIPA, she were her mother and grand- ment,” Prewitt said. “In the uni- issues such as race relations. With has a Columbia Master of Social mother, who taught her to never versity, we believe that facts are such a diverse international popu- Psychology and is currently a be satisfied. She recounts proudly stubborn things, and that they lation, SIPA offers a great oppor- faculty advisor and mentor to that her mother completed a dou- should and will prevail. In partisan tunity to gather different perspec- the Business School’s Lang ble major in 1912 and her grand- politics, facts are not stubborn but tives, he said. Entreprenurial Studies Program. mother established a successful endlessly flexible.” “This is the early tremor of an Helpern had always intended insurance business in the 1800s. After leaving the Census earthquake in how we understand to stay in academia, and she Like these women who inspired Bureau, Prewitt served as dean of race and ethnicity… The public is attended Harvard University her, Joan Helpern is pioneering the graduate faculty at the New ill-prepared, and the policy process to complete her doctorate in the way for women and is now School University before coming confused. Perhaps SIPA is the social psychology. bringing those skills to benefit to SIPA. This semester he will place to prepare the lesson plans Eventually Helpern left acad- SIPA students. teach two courses, one on the role for the country.” emia to establish a successful fash- of race in census surveys around ion company, Joan & David, tar- the world, and another on the geting intelligent business women. complex interaction between the Ever since, she has been shattering social sciences and policy analysis. the glass ceiling for women. Christine Caralis is a second-year Prewitt, who has done con- Helpern presently serves on MIA student concentrating in Inter- siderable research on the role Fabiola Salata is a first-year dual Harvard’s JFK Women’s Leader- national Energy Management and private foundations play in policy degree MIA/MBA student. ship Board. She is the recipient of Policy.

SIPAnews 5 F aculty Profile F aculty Profile Richard Robb David Nissen

By Tamala Montgomery By Mohammed Hadi

earing black con- hat’s unique verse sneakers, an “ about our pro- old polo shirt, and gram is the con- W faded black jeans, W centration on Richard Robb hardly seems the the interaction between energy corporate type. While pursuing a policy, business, and economic Ph.D. in economics at the Univer- development… which is appropri- sity of Chicago, Robb distin- ate for our location here at SIPA,” guished himself as a serious acade- says David Nissen when describing mic, conducting research with the Program in International Nobel Laureate Gary Becker on Energy Management and Policy manpower training programs. (IEMP). Currently, in his spare time, Robb Nissen became director of manages a hedge fund that trades Richard Robb IEMP this fall and has spent the David Nissen and invests in European asset- last few months solidifying the backed securities. me after my lectures. They apolo- program’s graduate curriculum Department and Chase Manhat- Robb’s obvious intellectual gize when they do badly on exams. while settling in at the Center for tan’s Corporate Lending Group. curiosity and concern for social I have never seen anything like it.” Energy, Marine Transportation This is not Nissen’s first acad- policy may seem hard to square Another draw to SIPA was the and Public Policy. emic experience either. He has with his 16 years in corporate opportunity to devote more time That Nissen has worked in been on the faculty at the Rutgers finance. Although Robb won’t to his research interests. both the public and private sectors School of Business and the Rice claim he “wanted to help mankind Robb, who now teaches two gives him a vantage point from University Department of Eco- through derivatives,” he denies courses, Economics of Finance and which to further develop the nomics, and has a doctorate in selling out. In Robb’s view, “soci- International Capital Markets, in IEMP goal of getting “policymak- economics from the University ety benefits from a banker who both fall and spring semesters, ers and business developers on the of California at Berkeley. helps underwrite a novel residen- offered a tip to his economics stu- same page.” He spent the last 12 He hopes to take advantage tial mortgage bond (allowing fami- dents: “Economics is a powerful years as the “resident economist” of SIPA’s diverse offerings, includ- lies to buy homes) in the same way science for understanding human for Poten & Partners, an energy ing the finance and environmental that it benefits from a researcher behavior and public policy. If it consulting firm, but also worked policy faculties, to address the who devises more effective urban were easy, everyone would know it. for the federal government during environmental and infrastructure policies.” You should expect to struggle.” the administrations of Presidents development issues that he consid- As a professor, Robb engages Nixon, Ford and Carter. ers “core issues in energy policy.” students with his obvious love for During his time at the Federal economics and his liberal pragma- Energy Administration, which tism. He said the highlight of his eventually became the Department first year at SIPA was when his of Energy, Nissen worked on the students developed an economic development of a national energy policy solution for increasing the policy, originally called “Project supply of AIDS vaccines to Africa. Independence” by the Nixon In fact, thoughtful students Administration. “It was a very and a collegial environment are exciting time of my life; we were two things that drew Robb to trying to bring some rationality to Mohammed Hadi is a second-year SIPA. “I have been struck by how a very big problem,” Nissen said. MPA student concentrating in Media Tamala Montgomery is a second-year and Communications. Last summer earnest and pleasant everyone is,” MPA student concentrating in Nissen also worked for he interned at AFX News, a business he commented. “Students thank Advanced Policy Analysis. Exxon’s Corporate Planning newswire in New York.

6 SIPAnews Student Profile Student Profile James Lalremruata Violeta Krasnic

By Liz Leyne By Sandra Kinne

received political asylum as a someone do something for them- refugee. This was the last time Lal- selves,” Krasnic said. remruata saw his family. While running the women’s While in India, Lalremruata center, Krasnic worked with non- co-founded the All Burma Student government organizations focused League (ABSL), a non-violent on women’s issues, and, in 1997, movement that believes in “peo- helped organize the first Women’s ple’s unity and strength” in estab- Human Rights Conference for lishing a truly democratic govern- Central and Eastern Europe. Kras- ment and “will leave no stone nic also helped organize support James Lalremruata unturned in its fight to remove the Violeta Krasnic groups, education sessions, and bloody military regime in Burma.” worked on media relations as she ames Lalremruata, a politi- Lalremruata lobbied the Indian ioleta Krasnic is a prob- traveled throughout Serbia. cal activist from Burma (also government, international organi- lem solver. She saw a cri- Krasnic’s work with victims of known as Myanmar) is an zations, and political parties to sis in her native country violence started while she was a JMPA student at SIPA study- appeal for the support of the V — violence against student at Belgrade University, ing international development and Burmese people; he also launched women — and set up a women’s studying psychology. A domestic management. James possesses a a number of political and social center to help victims and put an violence hotline sought volunteers, determination to fight, through awareness campaigns. end to the abuse. Before coming and Krasnic offered her time. “I non-violent means, to restore He left India to finish his to SIPA, Krasnic, a first-year MIA had these huge ideas of changing democracy in Burma, which he undergraduate degree at Hartwick student from Belgrade, Serbia, the world, of changing their describes as “one of the most College in New York and then co-founded the Autonomous world,” she said. repressive governments in the came to SIPA to continue his stud- Women’s Center Against Sexual Krasnic left the center and world.” ies. After graduating this spring, Violence in Belgrade in 1993. Belgrade in 1998 to continue her Lalremruata’s political Lalremruata will not return to his “At that point, the rape of formal education. She finished her activism dates back to the 8888 homeland, as he would be forced Muslim women by Serbian men in psychology degree at Columbia’s movement (August 8, 1988), the to acknowledge the military gov- Bosnia was receiving lots of atten- School of General Studies in 2001, nationwide uprising which was ernment as the true and legitimate tion,” said Krasnic, whose studies and then decided to continue her brutally repressed, calling for an government of Burma. However, at SIPA focus on human rights. studies at SIPA. end to military rule. In the 1990 he will continue his struggle and “We knew Serbian women had She expects to graduate with election, Aung San Suu Kyi, the that of the Burmese people. He been raped, too, so we said, “Let’s her MIA in December 2003, and General Secretary of the National considers the fight for democrati- go find them.” says she has no formal post-gradu- League for Democracy, won 82% zation as “do or die.” Krasnic established a hotline ation plans, but knows she wants of the national vote. However, the He believes that, “The most for victims of sexual violence, pro- to work in the area of human government nullified the election. important part is keeping the spirit vided one-on-one counseling, and rights. The only way to secure As Lalremruata attests, “It is still alive. If you lose your heart, you formed self-help support groups women’s safety is through empow- the will of the Burmese people that lose everything.” to address the various needs of erment, she said, and she hopes power be transferred to our elected victims. The organization also to continue working on behalf of government.” provided legal help, healthcare, women. Lalremruata, a teenager at the Liz Leyne is a second-year MIA stu- and economic support to women. time, was part of an underground dent concentrating in Economic and At one point it had a theater, network that assisted activists flee- Political Development. Before coming where the women would put on ing into neighboring countries, to SIPA, she had a Fulbright Scholar- skits for one another. Sandra Kinne is a first-year MPA stu- ship in Amman, Jordan, where she dent concentrating in education pol- and in 1992, he also left Burma for researched the role of women in the “It was encouraging to see icy. Before coming to SIPA, she taught New Dehli, India, where he democratization process. that your support can help make fourth grade in Compton, California.

SIPAnews 7 Student Profile Student Profile Robert Seidman Svetlana Pinzari

By Nori Akashi By Jennifer Dudley

apply much of what he learns in Her willingness to learn and the classroom to his job. try new things has helped her “Here I am dealing with pub- advance in her career and led her to lic-private partnership, to which SIPA. “I benefit greatly from meet- I can apply a lot of my coursework ing people from the central banks of at SIPA,” Seidman says excitedly. different countries such as Pakistan, He is enjoying learning about the Mongolia, Haiti, and China and various political, financial, and discussing monetary policy and gov- legal aspects of working in the ernment procedures. It helps me to public sector. learn of the strengths and weak- Robert Seidman SIPA also offers Seidman a Svetlana Pinzari nesses of different regimes.” Pinzari much broader perspective. Before also plans to promote a government or Robert Seidman, SIPA SIPA, he had only limited expo- tudying at SIPA with program she learned of from a class- has provided a perspective sure to international environments students from around mate from Kazakhstan “to send that reaches well beyond at his work, “since all their overseas the world has inspired young people to university as a F his days on Wall Street. offices are only located in industri- S Svetlana Pinzari, former means to invest in the future.” He is in his second year of the alized countries.” But at SIPA, vice-governor of the Bank of She finds it very hard to com- Executive MPA program, attempt- with nearly half of the students Moldova, to promote government pare studying at SIPA to her previ- ing to add something “more than coming from places outside of the support of university education, ous university study in Moldova, spreadsheets” to his resume. U.S., he is learning about coun- particularly in the areas of eco- pre-1991. At that time she only “Wall Street has its own sub- tries and cultures that he was never nomics and technology. Pinzari, studied the socialist model of eco- culture,” Seidman says of his six exposed to in his Wall Street days. a student in the Program in nomics and says that “free discus- years in the financial world. “I was He is confident that SIPA is open- Economic Policy Management sion was not encouraged.” Pinzari surrounded by so many smart peo- ing the door for him to a broader (PEPM) at SIPA, is studying for appreciates the teaching style of ple, and you never stand out with world. her MPA, focusing in macroeco- PEPM Director Francisco Rivera- your just-above-the-average smart- nomic policy management. Batiz, who encourages the students ness.” Wall Street culture also star- In 1991, Pinzari was working to analyze the weakness and tled him with its own lingo and in a small village bank when strength of policies. intensive interaction in the finan- Moldova gained its independence The learning environment at cial market. “I needed a translator from the USSR. Moldova then SIPA does not leave her with very for the first six months.” Even commenced the transition from much free time, which is her only though he made his way up the Soviet-style government to one of regret. Nonetheless, Pinzari finds corporate ladder in this field at its own design. During the past 10 that after so many years of practical major organizations such as years, the Moldovan government experience, it is good to be a student Lehman Brothers and Goldman has revamped its entire economic again. “I just remember that where Sachs, he was still drawn to politics system, often with the assistance of there is a will there is a way!” and the public sector. short-term training offered by He decided to leave the cor- many international organizations. porate world, and he is now work- Pinzari attended the trainings and ing at New York Governor George steadily moved up the ranks from Pataki’s office. Seidman finds Nori Akashi is a second-year MIA the village bank to vice-president student concentrating in Interna- SIPA’s EMPA program so appeal- tional Media and Communications. of the commercial bank to the Jennifer Dudley is a first-year MPA ing because it not only allows him Last summer she interned at CNN very prominent position of vice- student concentrating in Manage- to continue working, but he can in Tokyo. governor. ment and Institutional Analysis.

8 SIPAnews Picker centernews

Searching for Peace

By Rebecca Tunstall

fter two years of plan- ning, the Northern Ireland Peace Builders Program was launched this semester. In this pilot program, 20 par- Aticipants (10 policemen, nine commu- nity workers, and one housing executive worker) came from Northern Ireland and spent six weeks living, studying, working, and socializing together in New York City. Through two weeks of classroom lectures and a four-week internship placement, the participants were able to gain a broader under- Community workers from Northern Ireland come together for the Picker Center’s standing of Northern Ireland’s prob- peace-building program lems and to build relationships with each other that would have been virtu- organizers and participants rated the and had few personal relationships ally impossible in Northern Ireland. program as a huge success. For many with local officers.” The program was hosted by participants, this was their first time Community workers and police- SIPA’s Picker Center and jointly orga- visiting the United States, or for that men who participated were intentionally nized with Frank Costello, head of matter, leaving Northern Ireland. chosen from the same communities, Costello Associates, which is involved Coming to New York City and being and organizers hope that the relation- in community development invest- based at Columbia gave them the ships formed at SIPA will continue ment in Ireland and the U.S. During opportunity to step back and see when the participants return back the first and the final weeks, students Northern Ireland’s problems in a big- home. Relations between these two spent their days in the classroom focus- ger context. “In short, our experience groups have been strained, and the ing on topics as general as globalization at Columbia University allowed us to increased understanding and knowl- and as specific as the data gathering see that the problems we face in our edge gained by the participants, ideally, system used by the New York Police day-to-day lives at home are no differ- will increase their cooperation and Department. Supplemental speakers ent, and perhaps lesser to some extent, effectiveness as peace builders. Bill and activities throughout the program than the problems many others face in Eimicke, director of SIPA’s Picker included: Lisa Anderson, dean of New York City,” said Ciaran McClean, Center, said, “I think this program will SIPA; Senator George Mitchell, senior a community worker from County make a difference in Northern Ireland. research fellow at SIPA’s Center for Tyrone. I think if we can replicate it, it will International Conflict Resolution; Participants learned specific tools make an even bigger difference.” Joseph Esposito, the chief of the and techniques to be applied in their NYPD; and visits to the International community work back home, and, Institute on Conflict Resolution, most importantly, formed relationships Ground Zero, the United Nations, with people whom they wouldn’t and the Federal Reserve. normally have acknowledged. Stuart Rebecca Tunstall is a first-year MIA Although it was a challenge for Mullan, a community worker in West student concentrating in International Economic Policy. Before coming to SIPA, many of the participants to be back in Belfast, said that before this program she researched the political economy of Latin an academic environment and to be so he had “little experience of working America at the Center for Strategic and far away from loved ones, both the constructively alongside policemen International Studies in Washington, D.C.

SIPAnews 9 SIPA Reaches Out Around the World

By Christine Ostrowski

IPA aims to promote program as a multidisciplinary educa- If approved by the University an environment in tion in international affairs. “The pro- Senate, the dual-degree program will which its graduates gram works to prepare students for a kick off next fall, sending its first group are able to excel in an global career in the private, nonprofit of SIPA students to London, and increasingly interde- and public sectors,” she said. “Gradu- receiving LSE students from across pendent world. But this ates join a growing network of inter- the pond. Sfeat cannot be achieved alone. Coop- nationally trained decision-makers and Turning to South America, the eration and exchange with universities professionals.” Externado program, run by the Picker and institutions around the world lead Ailabouni believes the SIPA/Sci- Center, is one of the most well estab- to a more cosmopolitan and rewarding ences Po dual degree program is a way lished faculty exchanges at SIPA. experience, both for students and for students of international affairs to Externado is one of the premier uni- faculty members of international and get two different perspectives on issues versities in Bogotá, Colombia, with a public affairs. facing the world today. curriculum that Director Bill Eimicke One of the most popular and “I think the students that partici- says “parallels SIPA’s MPA and MIA well-established student exchanges is pate get a very well-rounded educa- degrees.” the Sciences Po program. Students tion, learning about different conflicts The program began in the early earn a dual degree from SIPA and and putting forth resolutions,” she said. 1990’s, with faculty from Columbia the Institut des Sciences Politiques She added, “There is no better pre- traveling to Externado to instruct stu- in Paris, spending one year in New paration for working in the international dents concentrating in international York and the other in France. It is arena than immersing oneself in it.” business. Today, SIPA professors teach compressed courses in a number of subjects ranging from management Cooperation and exchange with universities and institutions around the world to accounting and finance. “It enables us to bring the quality of a SIPA education to people who lead to a more cosmopolitan and rewarding experience. otherwise wouldn’t be able to get it,” says Eimicke. “It has also enabled our faculty to learn about another impor- a demanding program, in which One of the most recent additions tant part of the world.” students must not only take intense to SIPA’s exchange programs is an Members of the SIPA faculty courses in economics, political science initiative with the London School have performed joint research with and international affairs, but must do of Economics (LSE). Similar to the visiting scholars from Externado. As a so in French and English. Sciences Po program, students will result of the program, SIPA has seen a “It was definitely a challenge,” be able to earn a dual MPA degree high number of Colombian students says Rosa Ailabouni, an American stu- from SIPA and LSE. deciding to continue their education dent who spent her first year at Sciences Judith Rees, deputy director of in New York. Po, and is now at SIPA studying inter- LSE, believes the joint program will “The Externado program has national finance and business. “In addi- foster students’ expertise in policy proved a huge success, both for the tion to having to overcome the language management and help them develop students and the faculty,” says Eim- barrier, you’re also learning a different a unique skill set. “Our goal is to icke. educational system. But that is also improve the training of people going Looking to the other side of the what makes the program so unique.” into the public sector to cope with world, the newest initiative is SIPA’s Assistant Dean Melissa critical problems in a complex world,” partnership with Renmin, a prominent Poueymirou, who heads the Sciences Rees said at the program launch in university in China. Robert Mundell, Po program at SIPA, describes the September 2002. a Nobel Prize economist and SIPA

10 SIPAnews There is no better way to train for leadership in the interconnected world of the 21st century than by experiencing and learning from a faculty member, is one of the initiators tium of schools in France, namely Sciences Po and one of the organizers different intellectual of the partnership. Ecole Polytechnique, La Sorbonne, of the program. “We want to create Economic policy managers from and Sciences Po. These four institu- a dynamic that encourages continued community and China will come to Columbia and par- tions have come together in a commit- public dialogue.” ticipate in the Program in Economic ment to interdisciplinary programs The program held its first venture culture. Policy Management (PEPM). At the surrounding the issue of globalization. on November 7-8 at SIPA on the topic end of the two-year program they “There exists a gap of under- of “Risk in the International System.” receive a master’s of finance degree standing between the U.S. and Europe Possible themes for future meetings from Renmin. on a number of different themes include intellectual property and devel- Next fall, eight to 12 Renmin related to globalization,” says Francis opment and public utilities. The orga- students will constitute the first class of Verillaud, a vice president at Sciences nizers are planning to hold the next the collaboration effort. In addition to Po. “We are attempting to close such meeting in France this spring. student participation, faculty will also a gap through forums and talks led In this increasingly interdependent be involved in the venture. This spring by the participating education institu- world, SIPA is well prepared to meet two or three SIPA economics faculty tions.” the challenges and needs of its students will travel to China to teach at Renmin. The consortium is looking to and faculty. However, there is no bet- Dean Robin Lewis described the initia- involve students, professors and pro- ter way to train for leadership in the tive as “a capacity-building project.” fessionals in working towards solutions interconnected world of the 21st cen- Lewis said he is excited about the to the various gaps and problems that tury than by experiencing and learning initiative. “This is an important new exist. Stemming from these initial from a different intellectual commu- collaboration with a top Chinese forums, the group hopes to develop nity and culture. university that promises to offer new workshops, joint courses, and research opportunities for China’s future programs to work towards solutions. economic managers to receive world- “We don’t want to have a situa- class training,” says Lewis. tion in which we have a conference Finally, SIPA has taken a leading and examine all of these inconsistencies role in the launch of a new partnership, between the two systems, and then Christine Ostrowski, SIPA News editor, is a second-year MIA student concentrating appropriately named Alliance, which everybody goes home and forgets in International Media and Communi- encompasses Columbia University as about it,” explains Pascal DeLisle, cations. Last summer she interned at CBS a whole in conjunction with a consor- a visiting professor at SIPA from News in London.

SIPAnews 11 Extending East: SIPA Travels to Asia

By Choongo Moonga

IPA has extended its presence in Asia by launching a dual degree program in finance and economic policy with Renmin SUniversity in Beijing, China. At Renmin’s invitation, Dean Lisa Anderson traveled to Beijing in May to formally sign an agreement between the two schools. She was joined by Francisco Rivera-Batiz, the director of SIPA’s Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM), PEPM’s assistant director, Maya Haddow, and Economics Professor Robert Mundell. The dual degree entails joint academic work between the Program in Economic Policy Management and Renmin University, and is a cul- mination of long-standing coopera- Dean Anderson forges partnership with Renmin University in Beijing tion between the two universities, Rivera-Batiz said. As part of the daylong festivi- Forbidden Palace, Tianamen Square “Professor Robert Mundell ties, Dean Anderson was invited and the Great Wall. SIPA is espe- of the economics department and to deliver the Mundell Huang Da cially indebted to PEPM alumnus Hong-yi Chen, a former Renmin Lecture to an audience of Renmin Songzuo Xiang ’01, who provided student who is now a doctoral can- students, administrators, and several the dean’s transportation and acted didate in the Columbia economics SIPA alumni. Dean Anderson’s talk as a tour guide on all of her side department, have been instrumental covered the current contributions trips. Special thanks are also in getting the program imple- of social scientists to public policy extended to Hong-yi Chen, who mented,” Rivera-Batiz said. Profes- development and was followed by an planned all of the logistics for the sor Mundell, who has taught at impressive traditional dinner hosted trip, including travel, accommoda- Renmin in the past, strongly recom- by Renmin’s President Baocheng Ji. tions, scheduling with Renmin, and mended the program, which began Over the course of the three- touring. formally in September of last year. day trip to Beijing, the dean was As part of her May trip to Asia, Dean Anderson is also enthusi- also able to meet a number of SIPA Dean Anderson also visited Seoul, astic about the new program. “We alumni including Guoqiang Chen South Korea, to present a posthu- are committed not only to educating ’95, Yue Wang ’95, Steven Zhang mous degree to the family of the the future leaders of the world, but ’93, Michael Pettis ’81, Songzuo late JooWon Park (MIA ’01), a SIPA to strengthening the capacity of Xiang ’01, and Victoria Zhou ’94. student who died from wounds other institutions devoted to the About a dozen alumni joined he sustained when his apartment same goal. In this wonderful collab- her for an informal breakfast, and caught fire in October 2001. oration, we are accomplishing both several were able to accompany her Park, then 25, was completing of these purposes.” on sightseeing excursions to the his last semester as an Economic and

12 SIPAnews Yue Wang, MIA ’95, Dean Lisa Anderson, Rodrick Dial, Maya Haddow, and Songzuo Xiang, MIA ’01, at the Great Wall of China

Political Development (EPD) concentrator. A group of about 50 Columbia University alumni attended the reception, hosted by “We are committed not only to educating the future leaders of the world, but to Anderson, where the posthumous award was formally presented to strengthening the capacity of other institutions devoted to the same goal. In this Park’s family. “The students appreciated the wonderful collaboration, we are accomplishing both of these purposes.” dean’s decision to honor the late student,” said Rodrick Dial, SIPA’s director of alumni relations, who —Dean Lisa Anderson accompanied the dean on the trip. After dining privately with Park’s parents and sister on her first dean’s trip and planning the dinner, Several months after the trip, night in Seoul, the dean hosted a used the gathering to introduce SIPA was delighted to receive a gen- dinner the second evening at the his idea of forming a SIPA Alumni erous contribution on behalf of the InterContinental Hotel for SIPA Association in Korea. Kim’s sugges- Columbia University Alumni Club alumni in Seoul. Thirty-five SIPA tion was met with enthusiasm, and of Korea. The gift is intended to graduates attended, along with sev- he has since begun to organize a support Korean student activities at eral newly-admitted SIPA students formal alumni association that will SIPA and will be used to provide fel- who were scheduled to begin their cooperate with Columbia’s Univer- lowship funds for a Korean student studies in the fall of 2002. Woo-Taik sity-wide club. and support for Korea Focus. Kim, the president of the Columbia Thanks to the great hospitality University Alumni Club of Korea, of Park’s parents, his sister Yeonjoo also attended the dinner and for- Park, and his close friend, Young-Im mally welcomed the dean to Korea Cho ’02, the dean was able to tour with several of his board members. many of Seoul’s major sites during The dinner program included the short trip. Cho, who was also a the dean’s presentation of Park’s leader of the SIPA group Korea Choongo Moonga is a second-year MIA diploma to his family. In addition, Focus, specifically made the trip to student, concentrating in International Do-Hyung Kim ’99, who provided Seoul to help the dean and the Park Economic Policy. Last summer he interned invaluable help in scheduling the family. at the United Nations in New York.

SIPAnews 13 On the Job Around the Globe

By Anjali Cordeiro

ome work places are region, which harder to reach than had just com- others. Last summer pleted its fifth Leith Baker traveled year. “It was by barge to get to his wonderful to internship and returned be exposed to Sby helicopter. Working with the the UN system International Rescue Committee and see how it (IRC) in East Timor in the remote works. The Oecussi district, which was burnt to Gharm region the ground in 1999, was probably where I was more challenging than most summer had been the jobs. The Economic and Political center of civil Development concentrator was the war. I was able IRC’s only international staff person to speak to in the district, and his post included UNDP staff Nori Akashi (left) with fellow CNN intern Rosa Lam, a student at working on developing proposals for who had been UC Berkeley, at the network’s bureau in Tokyo new projects. Baker said his summer there in the initial was extremely fulfilling “because years of the project. I spoke to com- Many students are drawn to working with the IRC was some- manders who had been in the fore- internships outside of the United thing I had always wanted to do”. front of the war. We talk about States. Zeeshan Amin, an MIA stu- Like Baker, SIPA students trav- infrastructure bottlenecks in class- dent concentrating in International eled all over the globe this summer rooms but in this region I saw it in Security Policy (ISP), traveled to to get some hands-on experience in reality,” said Mane, also an EPD Islamabad, Pakistan, to spend his their chosen professions. Sunanda concentrator. summer with the Institute of Strate- Mane, a second-year MIA student, A lot of SIPA students do their gic Studies, a think-tank partially spent her summer interning with the internships abroad, and the school funded by the government. During United Nations Development Pro- offers a special incentive for those the two months he spent there, gramme (UNDP) in Gharm, Tajik- who choose to do so. “We offer Amin did research on the history of istan. It was a summer spent largely around a hundred travel grants every Asian cooperation. “Thailand had in remote areas far away from family year for those interning abroad. just proposed the creation of a new and friends, but one that allowed They cover up to 60 percent of the organization called Asian Coopera- her to interact very closely with the students’ travel to and from the tion Dialogue, so we were research- people of Tajikistan. “I was surprised place of internship,” says Katarina ing to see what potential such an how much they knew about the Holm-Didio, who is in charge of organization would have and if it country I come from, India,” says first-year internships and recruitment could be in Pakistan’s interest to join Mane. “I was particularly amused at SIPA’s Office of Career Services. it. I wrote a paper at the end of my when a huge strapping Pathan man “Last year OCS was able to increase research which will be published in came up to me in one of the villages the number of internship listings, the institute’s journal,” says Amin. and told me that he cries every time but we believe that, besides using His experiences outside the he watches an Indian film,” she the information put out by us, it is office were just as valuable as the added, smiling. also very profitable for students to work he did, Amin said. “Well, Over the summer, Mane evalu- do their own networking to find doing research was not something ated the credit component of the something that meets their specific that is new to me,” Amin shrugs, UNDP rehabilitation project in the requirements.” “What was more interesting,

14 SIPAnews Election meeting to choose village representatives in Gharm, Tajikistan, where Sunanda Mane interned with the United Nations Development Programme though, was being able to spend awareness about AIDS. Both were so time in the city, getting to know different: I got a taste of city govern- people and government systems.” ment and of an international NGO. Other SIPA students chose to It was wonderful to be able to mix draw from the wealth of opportuni- them both up.” ties that New York City has to offer. Jean Pierre’s experiences in Second-year MPA student Karine New York were very different from Jean Pierre spent her summer in the those of Nori Akashi, an Interna- Big Apple, juggling two completely tional Media and Communications different jobs simultaneously. For concentrator who did an internship nearly three months, she spent the with CNN in Tokyo. Akashi says that first half of every week at the Office she had a chance to try her hand at of Environmental Coordination everything from office management (a part of City Hall) and the second to setting up studios for a shoot. half at the Institute for Transporta- “The bureau in Tokyo was small, tion and Development Policy with only four people. As a result, (ITDP) working on its Africa pro- they depended a great deal on Leith Baker had a rough commute to work this summer gram. interns, and I managed to learn a lot. “At the office of Environmental I did a little bit of everything, from Coordination I focused on the issue producing stories and editing to of brown fields: contaminated pieces translating from Japanese to Eng- of land that the community now lish.” wants to use. I focused on legisla- All in all, it was a productive tion, wrote memos. While at ITDP and interesting summer for SIPA Anjali Cordeiro is a first-year MIA I worked on the newsletter and did students. student concentrating in International Media and Communication and South research on bike tours organized by Asian studies. Before coming to SIPA, the Peace Corps in Africa to create she worked as a journalist in India.

SIPAnews 15 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 (Cecile Brunswick) CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 (WTC Town Meeting)

On a tour of an old palace, she glimpsed “Essentially, it worked out in the end,” In the final session, we were asked about a courtyard that had been the only place she said. our experience at the town hall. Did we learn where women were allowed to socialize and Sharing art and ideas with artists from anything new? Did group discussions lead us to sit outdoors. “It shocked me into under- around the world “was a wonderful experi- change our minds on any aspect of the rebuild- standing on an emotional level what it must ence. The feeling of getting along with other ing effort? When asked how confident we were have been like for a woman,” she said. people, I found it was an easy thing to do,” that the city would listen to our voices, the The experience inspired her to create a she said. response was generally negative (approximately series of paintings called “Moroccan Enclo- Besides some of her paintings, 10% very confident, 25% confident, 45% some- sures,” in which she explored the idea of Brunswick also left behind a replica of a what confident, and 20% not confident). One of how people lived in the past and the stric- Tibetan prayer wheel that she made and the planning representatives tried to suggest that tures imposed on women. The paintings dubbed a “peace wheel” for participants in such a vote translated to 80% of the room believ- were exhibited last fall at SIPA. the program to sign. It was another personal ing they would be listened to; he was heartily Over the last few years, Brunswick’s act of artistic diplomacy, she said. booed. works have been exhibited in locales ranging “If everybody thinks about peace and Despite the cynicism of the crowd, the day from New York to Slovenia, Tokyo to makes up their mind that peace is something left me feeling empowered. I was impressed with Jerusalem. Instead of becoming “a diplomat they truly want, then maybe some day down everything about the day — from the facilitators who would travel to all the glamorous capi- the line, we’ll have it.” to the technology, the questions asked, the way tals of the world,” as she once envisioned the groups worked together, and the responses herself doing, she has become an artist of the planners and city representatives. In par- whose works do that. ticular, I was encouraged by the planners’ pledge Last summer, Brunswick was invited to to hold more town halls as the process continues Morocco for a three-week residency during and kick off each town hall with a report card, the town of Asilah’s International Arts Festi- if that’s what it takes to prove to us that they are val. She became part of a delegation of artists Celeste Tarricone, SIPA News assistant editor, is a listening. But most of all, I was proud of making whose creations served as vehicles for dialogue first-year MIA student concentrating in Interna- my voice heard and honored to have the oppor- tional Media and Communications and Economic about international issues. The experience and Political Development. Before coming to SIPA, tunity to participate in an historic process, the fulfilled her long ago dream of working in she worked as a journalist in Rhode Island and result of which will stand as a great symbol of diplomacy in an unexpected way. Latin America. the freedoms we Americans hold so dearly and take, all too often, for granted.

Alumninews

SIPA Alumni Authors Series

ince the last issue of SIPA News, SIPA was pleased to host Thursday, October 17, 2002 three events in our continuing Alumni Author Series. Deborah Scroggins ’95 presented a reading and discussion with S Please check your local bookstore or your online resource SIPA students of Emma’s War: A Story of Civil War in the Sudan. to find these books. Pantheon: 2002.

Thursday, June 6, 2002 Thursday, October 31, 2002 Jesse Larner ’02 presented a reading and discussion of Mount Matthew Stevenson ’78 Rushmore: An Icon Reconsidered. Thunders Mouth Press/Nation presented a reading and Books: 2002. discussion of Letters of Transit. Odysseus: 2001.

Please contact [email protected] or call 212-854-8671 if you have a book you would like to present to an alumni or student audience.

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MPA Graduates Celebrate Their 10th Reunion

n October, SIPA hosted the 10th of Alumni Relations throughout the and accomplishment.” reunion for the MPA Class of 1992, summer to plan the cocktail reception Joining Dean Anderson to wel- Marc Andre Blanchard one of the only 10-year reunions and dinner, which was held at the Kel- come alumni were Steve Cohen and and Ken Miyamoto catch Ithe school has ever sponsored. logg Center at SIPA. Nancy Degnan, who have been involved up on each other’s lives The reunion was a tremendous Over 30 of their approximately in the MPA program almost since its success and the brainchild of James 60 classmates were able to attend with inception. Many former students Lonergan, who has kept in touch with their partners/spouses, and many traveled from as far away as Caracas, many of his MPA classmates since more alumni contributed to the Montreal and Honolulu for the event. graduation. “We shared common 10-year reunion booklet, which pro- While SIPA does not have a interests, and are a group of dedicated vides classmates with updated contact strong tradition of holding class people who wanted to make a differ- and personal information. reunions, Rodrick Dial, the new ence,” he said. “Some of my best “It’s still exciting to be here,”said director of alumni relations, is hoping friends are from the program.” Debbie Jabobs Levy, a tenant orga- to work with individual classes and He and his reunion co-chair, nizer. “The 15th floor brings back programs who are interested in orga- Susan Smith, worked with the Office memories of anticipation, excitement nizing a reunion. Judy Salwen and Barbara Keller enjoying an evening on the 15th floor Reception Celebrates Endowment of Award In Memory of SIPA Student

By Clara Perez

riends, family and former rial board of Slant. In the summer after Dalton, who was instrumental in classmates gathered on his first year, Smith died in an accident carrying the project forward, said of October 4, 2002 to celebrate while attempting to realize his dream Smith, “He was one of those guys who F the full endowment of the of retracing an extraordinary journey had a twinkle in his eye. His adventur- Raphael Smith Award Fund, and to undertaken by his stepfather, Robert ism and spirit embodied the best of honor the memory of this exceptional E. Fulton Jr., who rode a motorcycle SIPA, and we wanted to capture that SIPA student. The award is given out from Paris to Tokyo in 1932. by recognizing exceptional travel every year at commencement for the In their speeches, both Dean reportage that embodies his spirit.” best essay in Slant, SIPA’s student Anderson and Greg Dalton (MIA Former classmates in attendance magazine. ’94), a friend and former classmate, included Michele Douglas Eleta (MIA Although the award was created acknowledged the bittersweet nature ’94), who traveled from Panama to in 1995, this year marks a milestone. of the occasion: both celebrating this attend the reception, and Hilary Dunst Last year $25,000 was raised, ensuring milestone and mourning the loss of (MIA ’93), who remembered Smith’s Raphael Smith that the award is fully endowed in per- an adventurous and compassionate “joyful spirit and expansive way of petuity. individual. Both Dalton and Dean thinking.” Smith, an IMC concentrator who Anderson also remembered Smith’s loved to travel, had worked for The late mother, Anne Boireau Fulton, Clara Perez is a first-year MIA student New York Times during his second who had worked tirelessly to make concentrating in International Media and semester at SIPA and was on the edito- the award possible. Communications.

SIPAnews 17 Alumninews

Letter From Jakarta

By Danielle Garbe ’01

Dear Family and Friends, coordination efforts to On Saturday, October 12, identify our presumed I was at a dinner party in Jakarta with dead victims. Within Embassy friends, including a security the first three weeks, officer and the emergency duty officer. the Australian Disaster We were about to leave for a nightclub Victim Identification when their phones started ringing. The team had confirmed news of a bomb blast in Bali shocked five more American us all, particularly as the magnitude of victims through dental the damage and destruction became records and just last apparent. week confirmed the Many of our Embassy staff were last victim through DNA testing. Tom as our American cities were awash with out of town over the holiday weekend, was there at the scene every day, walk- red, white, and blue flags after Septem- including a number of people vaca- ing through the morgue to check for ber 11. On the same day in New York, tioning in Bali, my consul general bodies, giving dental records to the the families of September 11 opened vacationing outside Jakarta, and my team, and making sure the odontolo- the private viewing platform at the two consular colleagues attending a gists there had enough dental supplies World Trade Center to the families of conference in Korea. That left the to keep making matches. I went out to the Bali bombings to participate in a deputy consul general and me during Bali on October 21 to assist his efforts Hindu purification ceremony. They the hectic first 48 hours to coordinate and to work on the list of 45 missing had a procession down to Battery the American Citizen services from Americans. Over two weeks, I checked Park and threw flowers in the Hudson Jakarta with our Consulate in Surabaya hotels, airline manifests, and immigra- River as the sun set behind the Statue and our Consular Agency in Bali. The tion records to track down the individ- of Liberty. first day I did double duty helping the uals who had not called home yet to Indonesia was at the top of my ambassador and the deputy chief of the tell family and friends that they were job preferences when I received my bid mission, answering the phones as well okay (or whose family and friends list on September 12, 2001, because as trying to track down and assist the had not yet called us to say they were I figured the world’s largest Muslim Americans in Bali. I was up until 2 a.m. okay). Tom and I worked long hours, country would be an interesting place on Monday taking the call about the talking to the victims’ families almost to work. I certainly have not been dis- first dead American from the friend every day as we explained to them appointed. All it takes is dealing with who identified her body. We worked what we were doing to identify their one emergency to see that the work the phones and the authorities for 24 loved ones, treat the remains, and of protecting Americans overseas truly hours straight, convincing them to ship them and their belongings home. is the primary mission of the Foreign release the body on a visual identifica- By the end of October, we reached Service. tion of the scar on her back and a the end of our tasks and were ready It has been incredibly rewarding, fingerprint match. It was a logistical to return home ourselves. though heart-breaking and exhaust- miracle and a relief that we were able I returned to Bali on November ing, to do this work on behalf of the to provide this small comfort to the 15 to participate in the Hindu cere- U.S. government and the families who family —knowing they would have mony that would cleanse the island need our assistance. their daughter back when so many and purify the souls of the victims, and You are all in my thoughts and others were still in hospitals unidenti- with the hope of doing some of my missed very much. fied. own mental purification. I found the Our consular officer in Surabaya, island awash in red, white, and blue Tom Daniels, was the first to arrive signs and T-shirts reading “Bali Cinta Love, in Bali on October 14. He began the Damai” or “Bali Loves Peace,” much Danielle

18 SIPAnews Classnotes

Compiled by Laura Limonic

social activities, plus children James will serve as managing 1969 1978 1986 nursing, funerary services editor for all of Siemens’ RICHARD FOSTER, MIA GEORGE MARSHALL WOR- FRED BURKE, MIA, JD ’87 and home loans. Pedro print and online publica- [email protected] THINGTON, MIA/MBA [email protected] joined ISSSTE in order to tions, and will also write arti- Dick is the publisher of three [email protected] Fred and his wife, Tran Thi help design a profound cles, executive speeches and newsletters dealing with pol- George has seen his con- Bich Loan, had their first financial reform for the orga- other thought leadership itics and economics in Brazil sulting practice go from child, a healthy baby girl nization. pieces. He will also be and Argentina. The name strength-to-strength since named Mai Ly, on March responsible for the direction of the company is Brazil relocating his firm to Hous- 8th (International Women’s and content of the Siemens Watch Publications, located ton a little over two years Day) in Saigon, Vietnam. Corporation intranet, as well in Bethesda, MD. The com- ago. He currently has four Fred is still working in Viet- 1988 as a special web site, which provides the company’s top pany was started in 1984 clients, with proposals out nam as the managing partner STEPHEN GAULL, MIA and the original publication, to other organizations with of the Ho Chi Minh City [email protected] U.S. leaders with competi- tive information and a means Brazil Watch, a fortnightly which he hopes to establish and Hanoi offices of the Stephen received an appoint- of sharing best practices. analytical report on Brazil relationships in the near international law firm of ment as an executive fellow for businesses, enters its future. Among the services Baker & McKenzie. In his at the Export-Import Bank HARRY ROBERT SULLIVAN, 20th year in January. Dick he is providing to these (increasingly rare) spare of the United States, where MIA also teaches at Montgomery groups are: strategic plan- time, he plays with a rock he is originating structured [email protected] College in Rockville, MD. ning/adaptive marketing; band called “DURIAN and project finance transac- philanthropic marketing; DURIAN”. tions, and advising on loan Harry married Julia Mei on event marketing; marketing restructurings in emerging September 15, 1999. At the new services and venture DR. JOSEPH M. HENNING, market countries. time, he was working as 1972 creation; and corporate MIA director of regional telecom- sponsorships and cause- munications policy at the MELVYN J. SIMBURG, MIA Dr. Henning has been STEPHEN C. MERCADO, Office of the U.S. Trade [email protected] related marketing. awarded a Fulbright Scholar MIA grant to lecture at Tohoku [email protected] Representative. His respon- Melvyn is a partner in Sim- sibilities focused on working University, Japan, where he Stephen has written a history burg, Ketter, Sheppard and with U.S. industry to iden- will teach courses on the his- of Japanese military intelli- Purdy LLP and has been tify barriers to trade in 1981 tory of US-Japan relations. gence, The Shadow Warriors appointed to the faculty for telecommunications trade AUSTIN C. AMALU, MIA Dr. Henning is the author of Nakano: A History of the the seminar on “Layering in and negotiating with foreign of the book Outposts of Civi- Imperial Japanese Army’s the International Market,” Austin is the senior regional countries to address those lization: Race, Religion and Elite Intelligence School which took place in Chile administrator with the UN issues. In July 2001, Harry the Formative Years of Amer- (Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, this past August. Melvyn Department of Peacekeep- and Julia left for Cameroon, ican-Japanese Relations, 2002). chaired the Panel on Agency ing. He was recently in where Harry is the chief of and Distribution Agreements. Kisangani, Democratic which won the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize by the the U.S. Embassy’s com- Republic of Congo, with bined political/economic the UN Security Council Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. section; he is responsible in an effort to broker peace 1990 both for relations with 1975 in the ongoing war in the PETER S. DUKLIS, JR., MIA Cameroon and Equatorial country. TOM GOODHUE, IF [email protected] Guinea. Tom has just published the 1987 Peter and his wife, Elisabetta, first biography ever written welcomed their third child, DOUGLAS CLIMAN, MIA of the woman who started Diego Stefano Duklis, on [email protected] the world’s first dinosaur 1983 November 14, 2001. Diego 1991 ACHEL OSTER Douglas left Buenos Aires craze, Curious Bones: Mary R F , MPA joins Derik (5 yrs) and MARGARET FORGIONE, MPA [email protected] to become the economic Alexandra (4 yrs). Peter also Anning and the Birth of Margaret was appointed counselor at the American graduated from the US Paleontology. Tom is a rev- Rachel was appointed direc- Manhattan Borough Com- Embassy in Islamabad. Army War College in June erend and the executive tor of financial management missioner in February 2002. 2002 and received a Master director of the Long Island and performance at the She is the agency advocate PEDRO VASQUEZ- of Strategic Studies from the Council of Churches. Office of the Secretary of for the delivery of trans- Defense. For this position COLMENARES, MPA college. [email protected] portation services in the Rachel will get to use the borough and advises the Last October, Pedro became JAMES HOLTJE, MIA skills and knowledge she Commissioner on all sensi- the CFO for ISSSTE — has learned to help improve James was recently named tive issues affecting trans- Mexico’s Social Security financial management of the manager of leadership com- portation in the borough. program. She hopes to be Agency for the Public Sector munications New York at able to make a difference Employees. ISSSTE provides Siemens. Prior to Siemens, from the inside. pensions, health services, James worked at WPP’s personal loans, cultural and Brouillard Communications.

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CARY KENNEDY, MPA invites fellow SIPA alums to SHARON KAHN, MPA The book is also available 1992 [email protected] come and visit if they ever [email protected] in Spanish, under the title LAURA HARWOOD, MPA In the 2000 election cycle, get out of the New York- On May 1st, 2002, Sharon Nuestros Héroes. [email protected] Cary authored a ground- Washington axis. and her husband, Larry, Laura can’t believe it’s been breaking state constitutional welcomed into the world CLAUDE DEMERS 10 years! She is currently amendment on PK-12 GREG MARSHALL, MPA their son, Jeremy Noah. claude.demers@dfait-maeci. living and working in education funding that was [email protected] gc.ca Arlington, VA, as an envi- approved by the voters of Since 1998, Greg has been liv- KATHERINE METRES, MIA For the past four years ronmental policy analyst for Colorado. After leaving her ing in the District of Colum- [email protected]. Claude has been working at ERG. Laura provides techni- position in the state budget bia, where he works as an Katherine has been serving the Canadian Department of cal, communication, and office under former governor Assistant United States Attor- as second secretary for polit- Foreign Affairs and Interna- evaluation support to a vari- Roy Romer, Cary authored ney. Currently Greg prose- ical affairs at the American tional Trade. Currently, ety of EPA programs includ- a constitutional amendment cutes cases in the Fraud and Embassy to Italy since Claude is second secretary ing pollution prevention, to guarantee specific funding Public Corruption Section of December 2001. Her port- at the Canadian Embassy in compliance assistance, waste levels for PK-12 education. It the U.S. Attorney’s Office, folio includes the UN and Tokyo. reduction and recycling, and is the largest funding measure and has also served in the international organizations, performance measurement. ever approved by the state’s Office’s Sex Offense and international organized ALEX MARTINEZ, MPA voters. Cary lives in Denver Domestic Violence, General crime, Sub-Saharan Africa, [email protected] MARC SELVERSTONE, MIA and is married with two chil- Felony, and Appellate Sections. East Asia, and Latin Amer- Alex has recently embarked [email protected] dren, Kadin (12-23-97) and Prior to joining the Office, ica. In February 2001, she on a new position with the Marc is an assistant professor Kyra (10-21-99). She currently Greg clerked for two years for completed a tour as consular, United Way, where he is at the University of Virginia, works for Educare Colorado, a federal appellate judge in economic, and commercial working to help women and holding down a variety of a nonprofit organization, Florida, and spent a year in sections chief at the Ameri- families infected or affected jobs, such as editing and advancing state policy to private practice in New York. can Embassy Nouakchott, by AIDS. Although Alex annotating the Kennedy improve the quality of child- Greg earned a law degree in in Mauritania, West Africa. does not do direct service White House Tapes as part of care and early education. 1993 from Cornell University. Katherine would love to provision, he funds agencies the Miller Center of Public hear from long-lost class- that do the work. Affair’s Presidential Record- ANNELIESE MAUCH, MIA SHERRILL STROSCHEIN, MIA mates. ings Project. In addition, [email protected] [email protected] TASARA MUZORORI, PEPM Marc is the managing editor Anneliese recently welcomed Sherrill is an assistant profes- SARAH WHITE, MIA/MBA Since September 2001, for AmericanPresident.org, a new member into the sor of Political Science at [email protected] Tasara has been employed as well as co-editor of a print family, Mia Hattie, born Ohio University in Athens, Sarah is currently in the by a company called Techfin and online project to improve September 12, 2000. Ohio. She teaches courses in D.C. area working as a Research (Pvt) Ltd. in his the quality of standards-based the areas of East European sports producer. Sarah has home country of Zimbabwe. history education in Virginia Politics, Nationalism, Com- her own production com- The company carries out high schools. Finally, he is parative Politics, and Inter- pany called Big Water Pro- business, economic and teaching courses in the UVA 1994 national Relations. Sherrill ductions and primarily investment research for Zim- often travels to Boston to history department on the MARIO AGUILAR Y MAYA, focuses on extreme sports babwe and the Southern Cold War and U.S. Diplo- MIA visit her boyfriend, who cur- production. She has been in African Development Com- rently resides there. matic History. On the per- Mario heads the Ministry of the sports industry since munity. Tasara maintains sonal side, Marc and his wife Finance at the government graduation, producing both that the training he received Bonnie had a son, Jake, on of the Mexican state of Gua- online and for TV shows. at Columbia is invaluable to June 14, 2001. najuato. On a personal note, Sarah his career and hopes one day 1995 was married last summer in to enroll in an Economics Greece. PhD program at Columbia. JAY CHAUDHURI, MIA KLAUS FAMIRA, MIA [email protected]. [email protected] 1993 nc.us Klaus will return to Belgium ADRIENNE SANDERS, MIA [email protected] MICHAEL TATU-CASTLEN, Jay is currently serving as after three years in Rome, MPA special counsel to North where he is currently finish- 1998 Adrienne is currently a Michael was recently Carolina Attorney General ing his dissertation on the CAROLINA AGUILERA reporter at the San Francisco appointed executive vice Roy Cooper, where he man- integration of Schengen in [email protected] Examiner. president at Population Com- ages a number of policy ini- the European Union. Carolina had her first book, munications International. tiatives, particularly in the Our Heroes, published by area of education and juve- Planeta in August. The book LINDA DWORAK, MIA nile justice. Previously, Jay profiles the Latino firemen [email protected] served as Roy Cooper’s 1996 who died on September 11. On August 17, Linda was legislative counsel, when he ELIOT HIGHET, MIA This is the first time that Laura Limonic is a second- married to Juan Munoz. was State Senate Majority Eliot and her husband, Willy Planeta, the largest of the year MIA student concentrat- The couple lives and works Leader. Jay recently closed Patty, recently had a baby Spanish language publishers, ing in International Economic in Manhattan. on a house in Raleigh, so he boy named Andrew Patty. released a book in English. Policy.

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European Travel Log

By Brigette Bryant

he fall semester of 2002 day with the first of a series of meetings proved to be an exciting at Human Rights Watch, an organiza- time at the School of tion whose board she is a member of. International and Public Day 2 — The second day of our Affairs. As is her custom, trip was brimming with activities: the the dean planned an dean’s in London and mine in Paris. Tannual excursion “somewhere in the While the dean attended her morning world” to visit SIPA graduates. Mexico board meeting at Human Rights City, Tokyo, Shanghai, Korea, Russia, Watch, I flew to Paris to visit the Cen- and Hong Kong are just a few of the tre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et Strate- international destinations which have giques and to meet with three SIPA been a part of the dean’s recent travels. graduates. My first meeting was with Six weeks into the semester, Dean Bruno Frydman ’80, former president Brigette Bryant with Michael J. Strauss, 1976 Inter- national Fellow, at the Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques Anderson traveled to London, where of AMC Europe, followed by a visit to et Strategiques in Paris we had occasion to visit with a number Centre d’Etudes Diplomatiques et of SIPA graduates and also to celebrate Strategiques, where alumnus Michael the school’s new dual degree program Strauss ’76 is working on his Ph.D. tion was well attended and provided an with the London School of Econom- My last meeting of the day was with excellent opportunity for SIPA gradu- ics. As luck would have it, I accompa- Giorgio Stock ’88, vice president, ates to make connections not only with nied the dean to London and also took Global Licensing for Disney Publish- each other but also to reconnect with a side trip to Paris to meet with gradu- ing Worldwide. As I listened to these the school and Dean Anderson. The ates in that beautiful city. Here is a men and those I met the day before dean delivered a report on SIPA’s snapshot of our trip to Europe: discuss their career paths, I was recent developments, future plans, and Day 1 — James Rubin ’84 was reminded how incredibly prepared activities to a room of over 40 guests, our first stop in London. As former SIPA alumni are for any career path which included Advisory Board Chair- assistant secretary of state for public they choose and struck by how each man, A. Michael Hoffman, managing affairs in the Clinton Administration one could — with a SIPA degree and a partner of Palamon Partners, and and the State Department’s chief wealth of experience — chart a new board member Jeanette S. Wagner, spokesman under U.S. Secretary of course in any professional direction. former vice chairman of Estee Lauder, State Madeleine Albright, Rubin That really is the “beauty” of SIPA. and her husband, Paul Wagner, who updated us on his post-Washington, Back in London, the day was were in from New York City. D.C. professional activities. Currently, marked with an event in celebration of The evening concluded with a he heads his own consulting firm in SIPA’s new dual MPA degree program private dinner hosted by A. Michael London. We also met with Malcolm with the London School of Economics Hoffman and John Quitter in the Ter- Stewart ’78 IF, ’79 MIA, managing (LSE). The program, which will begin race Room at the RAC Club. Hoffman director, Citicorp at Canary Wharf for in fall 2003, will give students the and Quitter were joined by Mercedes lunch at Ubon and John Quitter ’67, opportunity to study policymaking Hoffman, Peter and Susan Arndt, ’68, chairman, The Northern Partner- from a trans-atlantic perspective at both from the class of 1990, Arpad ship Limited and chairman, The leading institutions in two of the Krizsan ’94, Kevin Caulfield ’84, British-Icelandic Chamber of Com- world’s most international cities. Elizabeth Katkin ’92, her husband, merce for afternoon tea. Both alumni Day 3 — Michael Lehman ’71 Richard Waryn, Michael Lehman ’72, shared their student experiences while was our first SIPA meeting of the day, Bronwen Manby ’92, Erich Stock ’88, at SIPA and their professional lives as followed by an evening alumni recep- Jeanette and Paul Wagner, and Jianjun post-graduates. The dean ended her tion at the Kingsway Hall. The recep- Zhang ’95.

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SIPA received gifts from $25,000 – $49,999 Joseph Man-Kyung Ha ’71 Lawrence D. Glaubinger $1,000 – $2,499 almost 1,100 alumni, Abdel Muhsen Al-Qattan Cert. Ralph O. Hellmold ’64 Lisa Anderson ’76 Cert. friends, corporations and Al-Qattan Charitable Trust James Harmon Joan Klitzman Suzanne Bakken, R.N. foundations in 2001–02. American International The Harmon Foundation Kramer Levin Naftalis & Robin L. Berry ’78 Together the gifts total Group, Incorporated Investcorp International, Frankel LLP Patricia Bevacqua approximately $4.8 mil- Banco Itau, S. A. Incorporated Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Donald M. Blinken lion. Below are the 356 Ambassador Donald Blinken James E. Jordan ’71 Gregory McLaughlin The Boblink Foundation donors who gave $250 & Vera Blinken The Jordan Company LLC Meyers Charitable Family Fund Kim Christopher Bradley ’83 or more between July 1, Blinken Foundation, Walid H. Kattan Charles S. Monat Marcia Beth Burkey ’88 2001, and June 30, 2002. Incorporated Said T. Khoury New York Community Trust Charles E. Cheever, III Not listed are the 730 Canadian Government Nemir Kirdar Mina Nikou Leo M.F. Chirovsky donors who gave under Patricia M. Cloherty ’68 James Leitner ’77 and Sandra Philanthropic Collaborative, Stephen F. Cohen ’69 Cert. $250, to whom we are Richard A. Debs Shahinian Leitner ’76 Incorporated Columbia University Club very grateful. The Debs Foundation Brian C. Lippey ’78 & PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of Washington DC, Inc. The Florence J. Gould Jackie MacLeod Julie Lynn Rasmussen ’90 Courtroom Television $1,000,000 and above Foundation Peter Neill Marber ’87 & William A. Ryan Network LLC The Freeman Foundation Mary W. Harriman Foundation Andrea Marber Kamal A. Shair Anne Cannon Cowles ’89 A. Michael Hoffman ’73 New York Mercantile Scherman Foundation, Robert S. Diamond $500,000 – $999,999 Harley L. Lippman ’79 Exchange Incorporated John William Dickey ’92 Gordon Gray, Jr. J.P. Morgan Chase & Vahid F. Noshirvani Shearman & Sterling W. Leslie Duffy, Esq. Company James D. Seymour ’61 Cert. Claire C. Shipman ’94 Walter A. Eberstadt $250,000 – $499,999 Kathleen H. Mortimer Saudi Arabian Oil Company Shirvani Metallurgical Collen A. Edwards Foundation for the Center The Kosciuszko Foundation, SG Cowen Securities Consulting Peter D. Ehrenhaft ’57 for Energy, Incorporated Corporation Abdul Majeed Shoman Elise D. Frick W. Alton Jones Foundation, Leucadia National Corporation Tahereh H. Shirvani Ken Sunshine John A. Grammer, Jr. ’63 Incorporated Ambrose Monell Foundation Joan E. Spero ’68 Ken Sunshine Consulting, Edgar C. Harrell ’72 Cert. Merrill Lynch & Company, Joseph S. Steinberg Incorporated The JKW Foundation $100,000 – $249,999 Incorporated Joseph and Diane Steinberg UBS Warburg Henry D. Kahn Carnegie Corporation of Smith Richardson Foundation, Charitable Trust Jens Ulltveit-Moe ’68 Lila J. Kalinich, M.D. New York Incorporated Malcolm J. Stewart ’79 Geraldine Wang Hisanori Kataoka ’98 The William and Flora Juan A. & Mariana Sabater Henry M. Strage The Richard C. Welden David A. Kay ’64 Hewlett Foundation Jeffrey L. Schmidt ’79 IF The Alberta & Henry Strage Foundation Julia Grammer Kislevitz The Korea Foundation & Cert. Foundation Mrs. Giles Whiting Melvyn N. Klein, Esq. ’65 IF The John D. and Catherine T. Jeffrey L. Schmidt Charitable The Tinker Foundation Foundation Philip Koether MacArthur Foundation Trust Incorporated Philip Koether, Architects Leonard Riggio Jeanette S. Wagner Trans-Pacific Foundation, $2,500 – $4,999 Pichon P. Y. & Vivien L. Loh T. Dixon Long The Riggio Foundation Incorporated Wilder K. Abbott ’61 Dale A. Lucas The Rockefeller Foundation $10,000 – $24,999 Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP Anonymous James Luikart ’72 Ukrainian Studies Fund, Shaler Adams Foundation Vincent Viola Volodymyr O. Bazarko Alex Machaskee Incorporated Anonymous Kathryn E. Wilbur Michael H. Coles Sophia G. McConnell The World Bank Mina Schricker Atabai Neal L. Wolkoff Coles Family Foundation Peter A. Berton ’56 Cert. Alexander E. Zagoreos ’64 Gregory R. Dalton ’94 Edward M. McNally, Esq. Stanislaw A. Milewski $50,000 – $99,999 Laszlo Z. Bito David W. Zalaznick The William & Mary Greve Sergio Millerman Anonymous James L. Broadhead, Esq. Foundation, Incorporated Daniel N. Mondrow, M.D. Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr. & ’63 IF & Sharon Broadhead $5,000 – $9,999 James R. Helvey, III ’84 London Morawski Dr. Camille Cosby Olivia B. Carino The Annie E. Casey John W. Kiser, III The London & Mary International Women’s Robert Meade Chilstrom, Foundation, Incorporated Donna L. Klitzman, M.D., Morawski Charitable Health Coalition Esq. ’69 & Buena Chilstrom Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin F.C.C.P. Foundation National Futures Association Ramzi A. Dalloul & Kohn, PLLC Robert I. Kopech ’77 Richard D. Parsons Olayan Charitable Trust Steven Aaron Denning Atlantic Advisors, LLC Claudette M. Mayer ’76 Henry M. Paulson Joan Schneeweiss Ambassador Edward Elson Estate of the Most Honorable Mehrangiz Nikou Estate of Dasturgada Jal Pavry Taipei Economic and Cultural Estee Lauder, Incorporated Bapsy Marchioness of Shahnaz Nikou Percy Parker Phillips ’97 Office Fannie Mae Foundation Winchester Oscar Capital Management, Pulmonary & Intensive Care Trace Foundation Francis Finlay Judith Brown ’71 IF & LLC Specialists of New Jersey United States-Japan Francis Finlay Foundation Michael Meyers Mary A.H. Rumsey Lincoln Rathnam Foundation Genesis Ten Centennial Foundation Foundation Harland A. Riker, Jr. Verizon Foundation Dr. Leslie Gruss & Brenda Dar Al Handasah Consultants Judith O. Rubin Lan Yang ’96 and Bruno Z. Wu Gruss Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson ’66

22 SIPAnews Safra National Bank of Polish Student Organization Edward Van K. Jaycox, Jr. ’64 Suzanne R. Bennison Barry Emanuel New York of New York Eva Cristina Jedruch Arlynn Benson Mariko Enomoto Springcreek Foundation- Anthony C.E. Quainton Dale Knezevich Elizabeth S. Berberich Will Lewis Evans ’97 Dividend Philip L. Schiffman, M.D., Dushan R. Kosovich, M.D., Lisa Berman Andrea Fagin Carol Gary Tatti ’82 F.A.C.P. P.C. Pearl Berman Denise Marie Faingar ’01 Elizabeth K. Valkenier ’51 Christopher William Smart Steven H. Krawet Michael H. Bernhard Louis Gino Fava Cert. ’89 Cert. Jeff Krevat Jan Carol Berris Betty I. Feder Katrina Vanden Heuvel Edward Byron Smith ’70 Keiichiro Kubota ’00 Patricia Bevacqua James A. Feldman Margo Viscusi Matthew M. Stevenson ’78 Richard H. Lawrence, III, Shadi Lal Bhatia Robert Mark Finkel ’88 Wilford Welch Steven T. Stokes Esq. ’77 IF Vladimir Bibic Francis Finlay Guillermo M. R. Strauss ’77 Beatriz Eugenia Leycegui Dorothy J. Bieber Gerald D. Fischbach $500 – $999 David H. Taylor, Jr. Gardoqui ’90 David Lawrence Birnbaum ’98 Kathryn Anne Fleury ’93 William Armstrong Christos John Thomas ’90 John Joseph Lis ’96 Laszlo Z. Bito Audrey L. Flumen Pearl Berman Miroslav M. Todorovich Charles B. McLane ’48 Cert. Joan S. Blog Laura Ellen Forlano ’01 Kenneth Herbert Blackman ’00 Joseph H. Trevisani ’88 Milton W. Meyer ’49 Lawrence R. Boddy Renee Claire Fox Dinah K. Bodkin James Williamson Uehlinger ’92 Amy L. Miller ’82 Dinah K. Bodkin Carol Francis Patrick F. Bohan Desa V. Wakeman Montamer Corporation Christopher K. Bowen Scott Edward Fraser Matthew Penn Boyer ’94 Gavin Conrad Wellington ’95 Catherine Mulder ’81 Robert J. Brenner, M.D. Rav Freidel Cengiz Cagar ’78 Jayne S. Werner Mary Agnes O’Donnell ’95 Rebecca Bromley ’70 Elise D. Frick Cardiology Associates of Sandra K. Wigler Ruth G. Ornelas ’81 Donald P. Brown Stephen Gerard Fromhart ’98 New Brunswick Chang Yu-Fa Richard B. Palmer ’55 Sonia Virginie Bujas ’92 Peter Gacs Central Jersey Oncology Madeleine H. Zelin Lidia Paslawskyj Pauline Ho Bynum Ryszard Gajewski Center, P.A. Thomas David Zweifel ’96 Ratko Picuric Andrea Elizabeth Calise ’00 Martin Garbus The Cleveland Foundation John H. A. Quitter ’67 IF Olivia B. Carino Frances X. Gates Richard Wayne Coffman $250 – $499 Radakovich Foundation Victor Caroddo Peter F. Geithner Miriam Cohen Daniel Charles Altman ’96 Mildred Radakovich Carmen Anne Chan ’00 Robert J. Gellert Michael A. Coye ’79 IF The Armstrong Foundation Robert D. Reischauer ’66 Melan M. Chonich, Ph.D. Anne Margaret Geschardt ’87 David N. Dinkins John L. Armstrong Marvin M. Reiss ’87 Satinath Choudhary Susan Gillotti Karin Falencki Jonathan E. Aviv, M.D. Glenda G. Rosenthal ’71 Cert. Nicholas A. Christakis Eugene Ginewski Gerald D. Fischbach Maureen R. Berman ’73 Indranil Sarkar ’01 Thomas John Christensen Leslie Glanz Michael William Galligan ’84 Kenneth Lawrence Blacklow ’93 Ernst J. Schrader ’65 Jadwiga Chrusciel Lawrence D. Glaubinger Ibrahim A. Gambari Amy E. Brenner ’94 Laurie Sherwen Mina Charlotte Chung ’00 Laura Goldenberg Richard N. Gardner Rebecca Bromley ’70 Louis V. Siracusano Andrew Z. Ciszek Roslyn M. Goldstein Lawrence M. Gelb Foundation Donald D. Bronkema ’57 Cert. William T. Spadaro Lisa E. Cleary Edward J. Grace Esther Goldsmith ’96 Pauline Ho Bynum Alan Stern ’68 Natalie Greenan Coburn ’89 Dierdra A. Gray ’97 Joseph E. Gore Allen L. Byrum ’72 LeAnn D. Tavtigian ’87 Stephen F. Cohen ’69 Cert. Gordon Gray, Jr. Radmila Gorup Joan O. Camins ’73 IF Hui-Yu Caroline Ts’Ai David M. Colbert, Esq. Stanislaw W. Grebski John D. Greenwald, Esq. Lisa E. Cleary The Wilf Family Education Michael H. Coles Astaire R. Greenberg ’71 IF Philip A. Dabice ’77 Foundation Jerry Lewis Collins Jennifer Greenstein Neal H. Harwood ’61 Carol M. Degener ’84 Andrew W. Zimmerman, Vincent Michael Coluccio, Dr. Clark D. Griffith ’00 Joseph Kindall Hurd, III ’94 Robert Laurence Direnzo ’94 M.D. ’68 IF William H. Cosby, Jr. Susan L. Groelly Horace P. Jen ’93 Jutta E. Dorscher-Kim ’87 Sidney Zirlin Debra Craine Rakesh Gupt George I. Karp, M.D. Gordon Epstein ’77 Ian Keith Crooke ’00 Joseph T. Hapak Lauren Jennifer Kelley ’84 Aurelius Fernandez ’59 Edward J. Czerwinski Andrea M. Harangozo, M.D. Thomas L. Kennedy Robert Mark Finkel ’88 There were 366 new indi- Christopher Paul D’Andrea James Harmon Miodrag Kukrika Louise R. Firestone ’79 vidual donors to SIPA in Gabriella A. B. Dahlstrom ’99 Mary Beth Hastings ’94 Jane P. Laudon Friends of Karen Klitzman 2001–02. We would like Ramzi A. Dalloul Mark A. Hatsis George M. Lazarus, M.D. Memorial Fund to thank each of them for Mary Catherine Dansky David G. Hees ’69 IF The Foundation for Worker, their first gift. Joseph J. Darby ’57 Cert. Gladys Heitin Nathan Leventhal, Esq. ’66 IF Veteran, & Environmental Gurnam Das Susan E. Heuman ’68 Cert. Cara Londin Health Abdel Muhsen Al-Qattan Ram Dass Michael Anthony Hillmeyer ’97 Lorin Marsh, Ltd. Larry S. Gage, Esq. ’71 IF Simeon David Alder ’00 Natalie Newbern de La Martin S. Himeles, Jr. The Love Foundation, Evans Gerakas ’59 Rosalind Alpert Giraudiere ’98 Richard A. Hirsch Incorporated John M. Gorup Veronica A. Alroy Richard A. Debs Susie Hoffman, Ph.D., M.P.H. William Kennedy Love ’90 Jennifer Greenstein Eliza Chrystie Armstrong ’96 Deborah R. Deitcher Douglas A. Hutt, M.D., Herbert H. P. Ma Guy B. Gugliotta ’73 John L. Armstrong Marilyn L. Deleon F.C.C.P. Ann Wilbur MacKenzie Andrea M. Harangozo, M.D. William Armstrong Steven Aaron Denning Richard A. Isay, M.D. Alan B. McDougall ’92 Peter L. Harnik ’75 Marilyn Iris Auerbach, Paula Derrow Nachamah Jacobovits Deborah Duff Milenkovitch Teresa Misty Hathaway ’89 Dr.PH., M.P.H. Rosalind Devon David M. Janas Andrew J. Nathan Svea Herbst-Bayliss ’88 Jonathan E. Aviv, M.D. Robert S. Diamond Christopher Janik M. Michael Ogan Christine L. Honnen ’91 Suzanne Bakken, R.N. Robert Laurence Direnzo ’94 Jelka J. Jankovic Ron Oppenheimer Hunter College of the City R. J. Balcarek Dimitrije Djordjevic Danica Javanovic Scott Alan Otteman ’89 University of New York Zdzislaw Baran Madeleine Dorval ’98 Eva Cristina Jedruch Chang P’eng-Yuan Constance L. Hunter ’94 Gordon N. Bardos W. Leslie Duffy, Esq. Luis Alberto Jimenez- Hugh Patrick Douglas R. Hunter ’73 John Warren Barnhill Goran Dukuic McInnis ’97 Carol Jean Patterson ’76 Douglas A. Hutt, M.D., Andrew Barros ’90 Hilary Dunst ’93 Austin Denis Johnston ’89 Peter J. Pettibone F.C.C.P. Donna M. Batcho ’93 Patrick Orr Dwyer ’00 Christopher P. Jurkiewicz Polish American Congress of Nachamah Jacobovits Joan Beck Walter A. Eberstadt Jane R. Kahan Western MA, Incorporated Deborah Lee James ’81 Linda M. Ben-Zvi Collen A. Edwards Henry D. Kahn

SIPAnews 23 Marvin J. Kahn Susan J. McQuade Philip L. Schiffman, M.D., Jill Fishkin Yener ’93 Anne Kamen Michael Mennard F.A.C.P. Chang Yu-Fa Genesia Perlmutter Kamen Andrew J. Meyers ’87 Joan Schneeweiss Alicia a Zadrozna-Fiszman Margrit Kaminsky Beth S. Michelson ’97 IF Eric Schorr Farwa Zafar ’84 Jonah Edmund Kaplan ’97 Branislava Mijatovic Caroline Paulus Schreder ’92 William D. Zeller George I. Karp, M.D. Sergio Millerman Kamal A. Shair Stanley R. Zimmerman, M.D. Elizabeth Lynn Katkin, Esq. ’92 Martha Mindlin Laurie Sherwen Warren Zimmerman Walid H. Kattan Alexander John Miral ’01 Lu Shi-Chiang Sidney Zirlin David A. Kay ’64 Philip P. Mitchell Tahereh H. Shirvani Laura Kenny Hana Rebecca Miura ’91 Abdul Majeed Shoman Robert M. Kertzner, M.D. Eric Stacey Moen ’98 Joel Shufro Thirty-seven companies Said T. Khoury Barbara Mogulescu Frank Joseph Shulman supported SIPA through John W. Kiser, III Nazanien Monasebian ’92 David C. Siegel their corporate matching Julia Grammer Kislevitz Charles S. Monat Yael Simonson gift programs by matching Bruce Klitzman Daniel N. Mondrow, M.D. Amarjit Singh the chartitable gifts of Donna L. Klitzman, M.D., Marcia R. Mondschein Joginder Singh their employees, retirees or F.C.C.P. Stephen Mooser Satnam Singh shareholders. We thank Elliot S. Klitzman London Morawski Louis V. Siracusano them for their support. Jack Klitzman Paul Richard Newman ’00 Robert Slocum Joan Klitzman Mehrangiz Nikou Timothy Snyder Alliance Capital Management Mary Ann Klitzman Mina Nikou William Vasilio Sotirovich L.P. Mona Klitzman Shahnaz Nikou William T. Spadaro Bank One Foundation Stephen H. Klitzman Vahid F. Noshirvani Anita E. Spertus Deutsche Bank Americas Philip Koether Tracey Ellen O’Connor ’94 Stefan Stein, M.D. Foundation Lidia Kopernik Ron Oppenheimer Zena Stein Susser EAI Corporation Andrzej Korbonski Jerzy A. Owczarek Joseph S. Steinberg Enron Slawomir A. Korzan Chang P’eng-Yuan Ada Sterling ExxonMobil Foundation David & Ronda Kotelchuck Prem Panther Steven T. Stokes Fannie Mae Foundation Rebecca E. Kotkin Richard D. Parsons Ilene S. Stone Fidelity Foundation Steven H. Krawet Peter Pastor Cheryl P. Sucher First Data Corporation Jeff Krevat Henry M. Paulson Marianne L. Sullivan ’93 GE Fund Ivan Kristoffy John T. Pawlikowski Jennifer Jaryi Sun ’97 IBM International Foundation Regina Krzych Jed A. Perl Ken Sunshine J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Alan B. Kubarek Sophie M. Peters ’76 Cert. Mervyn Wilfred Susser Jefferies & Company, Keiichiro Kubota ’00 James Andrew Pickup ’91 George Swierbutowicz Incorporated Vivian Kushner-Schwartz Ratko Picuric Eva Szabo Johnson & Johnson Family Magdale Linda Labbe ’96 Murray Polner ’67 Cert. Gustav O. Szabo of Companies Surjit Lal Vesna T. Popovich Naoki Takyo ’98 KPMG Foundation Marc Andrew Landis Frances Pritchett David H. Taylor, Jr. Massachusetts Mutual Life Paul Algirdas Landsbergis, Ph.D. Bernard J. Purta Christos John Thomas ’90 Insurance Company Jesse Gabriel Larner ’02 Otto Quittner Sara R. Throne The McGraw-Hill Companies John Lastavica Steve Radakovich Nathaniel L. Tindel, M.D. Foundation, Incorporated Donald A. Lawniczak Irwin C. Radezky Denise Marie Tomasini ’99 Moody’s Corporation Molly Kinney Leonhardt ’93 Alexander Radichevich Kenneth Trell The Merck Company Herbert R. Levin Milan Radovich Amy Ullman Foundation Michael A. Levitt Adina Rakocevic, M.D. Susan Unterberg Mitsubishi International Sobner Lherisson ’97 Lincoln Rathnam John Karl Urda ’91 Corporation Hua-Yu Li Jane Recant Laura Vallone Merrill Lynch & Company Amy S. Loewenberg Catherine Rekai Vincent Viola Foundation, Incorporated Cara Londin Larry & Freda Remmers Margo Viscusi Metropolitan Life Foundation Laura Zenta Losciale-Malha ’00 Leonard Riggio Irma Wachtel Motorola Foundation Marsha L. Love Anne Barnard Roberts ’96 Christopher T. Walker ’01 Mutual of Omaha Companies Xiaobo Lu Lynn F. Roberts Yi-Chia Wang ’00 New York Life Foundation Jeffrey S. Lubbers Maria Rosenfeld Robert E. Ward NIKE, Incorporated Dale A. Lucas Gabrielle Catherine Ross ’93 Stephanie Louise Watnick ’92 Northwestern Mutual Life Nancy J. Lucas Laura Rothenberg Lisa Watson Foundation, Incorporated Hal Alan Luftig Elizabeth Dee Rubin ’95 David Wechsler-Azen Organon, Incorporated James Luikart ’72 Judith O. Rubin Richard S. Weinert The William Penn Foundation Vic Lumovich Samuel Rutter Morton P. Weitzman Pfizer Foundation Nasser A. Malik ’91 William A. Ryan Robert H. Weitzman, M.D. Philip Morris Companies, Paul L. Mandel ’78 Cert. Ignatius R. Rzeznik Barbara Wierzbianski Incorporated Joanne E. Mantell Hardev Sahai Sandra K. Wigler The Pioneer Group, Paulina M. Marano George Samuel Samman ’00 Drenka Willen Incorporated Borivoje A. Markovic Indranil Sarkar ’01 Ron Winchel, M.D. Reuters America, Incorporated Grazyna Marmajewska Rosalind Sarlin Nadine Rachelle Witkin ’95 The Sherwin-Williams Ruth E. Marmorstein Halina T. Sasak James L. Wolf Foundation Kathryn L. McCormack ’95 Manabu Sasaki ’01 Stephen L. Wolf The Times Mirror Foundation Gregory McLaughlin Mariko Sato ’94 Neal L. Wolkoff UBS Warburg Edward M. McNally, Esq. Christine Savarese Arthur M.F. Yee Wells Fargo Foundation

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