SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

Columbia's Department of International and Public Affairs is the academic home of more than sixty full-time faculty and more than a hundred adjunct faculty, scholars, and practitioners who have distinguished themselves in research and leadership in the policy world. They include among their number some of the world's leading scholars on international relations, democratization, elections, demography, and social policy, among many other subjects. A former mayor of New York City, a judge on the World Trade Organization appellate body, and the former director of the U.S. Census are among the senior practitioners who help shape the research agendas and curriculum of SIPA, one of the world's premier graduate schools of global public policy.

This outstanding faculty mount a curriculum at SIPA that includes more than 300 classes per year, supplemented with electives in almost 1,000 classes per year around the Columbia campus. The faculty and the school and the University offer students an innovative graduate education energized by the dialogue between the academy and the policy world. It is without parallel.

Announcements

Ocampo Receives Colombian Award for Contributions to the Field of  Development Economics

David Nissen named Senior Fellow at U.S. Association for Energy Economics

Congressional Research Service Partners with SIPA on Workshops

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