Reid Hall Columbia Global Centers | Paris Annual Report 2019 – 2021 Two Years of Creative Transformations 2019 – 2021 UGE | PARIS STUDENTS, FALL 2019 PARIS STAFF, 2021 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 Contents 10 WELCOME 12 Introduction 14 Overview 16 A Tribute to Paul LeClerc 18 Donors 20 GOVERNANCE 22 Advisory Board 22 Faculty Advisory Committee 24 ADMINISTRATION 26 Operations 29 Finance and Human Resources 31 Information Technology 32 STUDENT PROGRAMS 34 Masters in History and Literature (MAHiLi) 37 Undergraduate Global Engagement (UGE) 44 The Shape of Two Cities Program: Paris/New York 45 Executive M.S. in Technology Management 46 Alliance Program 47 University Initiative for International Students (UIIS) 50 ALUMNI 52 Columbia Alumni Association – France (CAA-F) 54 RESEARCH AND CREATION 56 Institute for Ideas and Imagination 64 Public Events 72 Special Projects 78 Affiliations 80 REID HALL MEMBERS AND STAFF CONTENTS CONTENTS 82 Reid Hall Members 85 Reid Hall Staff 86 Credits 6 7 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 MATTHIEU GILLET, REID HALL’S COURTYARD GATES, DRAWING, SEPTEMBER 2019 Lee C. Bollinger President, Columbia University Our network of Global Centers has become central to the University’s teaching, research, and scholarship. The Centers afford students and faculty the opportunity to engage with the people and ideas shaping the modern world, at a moment when that need could not be more urgent. And when they return to our home campuses, those who have travelled abroad play an essential role in broadening the intellectual outlook of all of us. LEE C. BOLLINGER C. LEE It is simply a fact that we would BOLLINGER C. LEE not be the same institution without the Global Centers. 8 9 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 Welcome DETAIL OF THE ICONIC REID HALL COURTYARD PILLARS 10 11 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 At a time when so many turned inward and the world became insular, we went out – even more – and we adapted, innovated, Introduction and built community. Safwan M. Masri Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development Columbia University A challenging year the world over, 2020 vividly The Global Centers also offered students virtual illustrated the perils of not heeding recommendations internships, providing our local and regional networks backed by scientifically proven data. Making decisions of employers exceptional talent and skills. The program based on populism and false assumptions has cost the generated 1900 applications from students in more world dearly. than 50 countries. More than 400 students from 15 schools across campus took up positions last summer, Yet the response to the Covid-19 crisis by health care and the program has been expanded and extended into professionals and the medical research community has the academic year. demonstrated the power of pooled resources, as brilliant minds came together from around the world to come Perhaps the most pioneering work the Centers up in record time – albeit still not quickly enough – performed during the crisis was in leading the with real solutions to a global pandemic not seen in our University’s efforts to provide international students lifetime. The world can now afford more than a glimmer study and community spaces – to convene, connect, of hope, as millions of vaccines are being distributed and collaborate – at the Global Centers and nine pop- globally; and know that knowledge and reason are once up sites around the world, in addition to student access SAFWAN M. MASRI, COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS | BEIJING, JUNE 2019 again prevailing in political leadership. to study facilities in 80+ other cities. More than 4000 students have registered for and accessed the spaces This cooperative approach, and its attendant benefits, and thousands more have been engaged in robust The network of Columbia Global Centers has turned In hope and faith, was also a hallmark of the Columbia Global Centers programming through new communication channels a corner in a way that is enormously beneficial to their network during 2020. The Centers quickly mobilized designed to meet the needs of our international stakeholders in every region, and to the University. This and pivoted to offer more than 500 instructive webinars, student body. year, 2021, is one of consolidation for our network, tackling issues related to the economy, Covid-19, forced as we strive to continuously grow and strengthen the migration, climate change, and many other critical At a time when so many turned inward and the world international presence essential to the University and topics that brought Columbia expertise in conversation became insular, we went out – even more – and we the global community. Safwan M. Masri with essential voices from all over the world, reaching adapted, innovated, and built community. We were Executive Vice President for Global Centers hundreds of thousands of audience members. The not isolated groups serving specific locations, but a I am immensely grateful to our many partners and and Global Development, Columbia University WELCOME Centers collaborated in their programming with global body functioning together for all. Our defining supporters all over the world who make the work of the WELCOME every school on campus, which led to new, sustained purpose, of being an essential, international part of the Columbia Global Centers possible and impactful, and opportunities for tangible and impactful collaborations University, has never been more clearly realized. I am especially proud of our staff, who have worked that engage our faculty with regional partners around tirelessly throughout the year to ensure that we deliver relevant topics. on our promise. 12 13 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 – 2021 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDIVIDUALS CULTURAL AND Betsy and Edward Cohen EDUCATIONAL Daniel Cohen INSTITUTIONS Bibliothèque nationale Philippe Dumont Overview de France Brian Fix Paul LeClerc GSAS ‘69 Centre Culturel Irlandais Director Mary Ann Fribourg École normale supérieure Judith Ginsberg and spouse Maison de la poésie Thomas and Maarit Glocer Musée du Louvre Joan Granlund Musée national Eugène Delacroix Ron Halpern The American Library Alan Kanzer Théâtre de la Ville Ann F. Kaplan Théâtre des Abbesses Scott and Laura Malkin As Covid-19 had upended both the 2019 – 2020 and I wish to extend my Villa Gillet 2020 – 2021 academic years at Reid Hall, we have Many Meneh decided to issue a single report covering this historically never-ending thanks Azmi T. Mikati challenging time for us and for the world. to all the marvelous, FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDS Jean-Pierre Reichenbach PAUL LECLERC, HONORED AS “OFFICIER DE Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Our report is written by the executive staff of Columbia LA LÉGION D’HONNEUR,” FRENCH CONSULATE generous individuals, Gerald M. Rosberg OF NEW YORK, MAY 2012 Areté Foundation Global Centers | Paris, by the directors of the various foundations, Victoria Sanger Columbia University programs residing at Reid Hall, EHA Foundation Suresh Sharma with additional contributions from faculty and students other donors, we, collectively, have guided Reid Hall corporations, and Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn alike. Each of these vignettes will evoke the innovative through an astonishing renaissance. government agencies Celeste and Eraj Shirvani Foundation ways in which everyone on-site adapted to new The Honorable Arun K. Singh Ford Foundation realities, constraints, and opportunities brought about I think Elisabeth Mills Reid would be pleased with which supported our Apoorva Srivastava Gramercy Park Foundation by the pandemic. what we have accomplished at the beloved place that work at Reid Hall Joshua Steiner Kotak Family Fund bears her name. and Antoinette Delruelle Throughout these two tumultuous years, we have had during my nine years Stavros Niarchos Foundation David I. Sugarman the immense fortune of being supported by Columbia I leave Reid Hall with unending gratitude to all who as Director. Their Taylor UK Fund University’s President, Lee C. Bollinger, the EVP for have been my friends, partners, advisors, and supporters. Rob Taylor Thender Foundation Global Centers and Global Development, Safwan M. And I leave the direction of Reid Hall and the Columbia contributions made Mel and Lois Tukman Masri, as well as our generous donors. To each of them, Global Centers | Paris in the immensely capable hands simply wonderful Olga and George Votis and to every Columbia staff member at Reid Hall, I of my dear friend and incomparable partner, Brunhilde GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Sue Ann Weinber wish to add a very special note of thanks. Biebuyck. I know that she will guide the evolution of things happen at AND ORGANIZATIONS Reid Hall post-Covid-19 with flair and brilliance. Reid Hall. Embassy of the United States June 2021 will mark the ninth and final year of my CORPORATIONS of America – France tenure as Director at Reid Hall and the Paris Global Air India Embassy of the Republic Center. These have simply been some of the most of India – France enjoyable and rewarding times of my entire career. Hotel Lutetia India Tourism WELCOME Thanks to the fruitful partnerships I have enjoyed La Vallée Village/Value Retail WELCOME with the University’s administration, with marvelous Paul LeClerc, GSAS ‘69 Louis Roederer Champagne Ministry of External Affairs, Republic members of the Columbia faculty, with staff at Reid Director of India LVMH Hall, and with members of our Advisory Board and Institut Français