CIPA Colloquium is a public affairs seminar series. This forum features invited speakers who engage participants in discussions of issues facing public affairs and public policy professionals. All colloquia are open to students, faculty, staff, and community members. The public is encouraged to attend!
CIPA Colloquium is also a one-credit course for all CIPA students (GOV 6999); enrollment is required for each semester that a CIPA fellow is in residence at Cornell. While many students specialize in a policy subfield during their graduate careers, the colloquium series is structured to provide students with the opportunity to engage distinguished scholars and practitioners across subfields. Attendance at this series is an essential aspect of a student's professional development while at CIPA.
Colloquia are held on Thursdays (please see the schedule below) from 4:30-5:45 p.m. in 233 Plant Science.
This series is funded in part by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Finance Commission.
Spring 2009
January 22
Modeling Labor Market Policies
Gary Fields
Professor of Labor Economics and the
John P. Windmuller Chair in International and Comparative Labor,
Cornell University
January 28
Accelerating Effective Microfinance
Edward Bland
President, Unitus
February 5
Strategic Nonprofit Concepts
Greg Loushine and Ashley Sloan
Founders, Live St. Bernard
*Co-sponsored by the CIPA-New Orleans Professional Partnership
February 12
They'll Take it from Here...MCC and the Implications of Country Ownership
Jason Bauer
Director of Private Sector Initiatives, Millennium challenge Corporation
February 19
Medellin: From Fear to Hope
Sergio Fajardo
Former Mayor of Medellin, Colombia
*Co-sponsored by the Latin American Students Program, the Johnson Graduate School of Management, the Colombian Student Association, the Cornell Law School, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell
March 5
Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
Kris Holloway
Author of Monique and the Mango Rains and
Director of Institutional Relations, Center for International Studies
*Co-sponsored by the Cornell Global Public Health Program, Cornell Health International, and the Cornell Student Society for Public Health
March 12
Beyond Microfinance: Finance for the 'Missing Middle' in Africa and Latin America
Brian Milder
Director of Strategy and Innovation, Root Capital
March 26
Implications of a Federal Carbon Program for Renewable Portfolio Standards Policies
Mark DeAngelis, CIPA MPA 1992
Managing Director, RNK Capital, LLC
April 9
The Homosexual Agenda Revisited
Jaime Grant
Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute
April 16
Global Nonprofit Public Affairs Management
William Martin
President, United States Council for International Business
April 23
Perspectives on Opportunities for Government and Commercial Interactions
William Prantl
Project Manager, Booz Allen Hamilton
Fall 2008
September 4
The Challenge of Sustainability and the Role of the United States
David Hales
President, College of the Atlantic
Former Director of Environmental & Sustainability Programs
United States Agency for International Development
September 11
Thoughts on the 2008 Presidential Election
Theodore Lowi, Professor in the Cornell Department of Government
Jerome Zieger, Professor Emeritus in the Cornell Department of Policy Analysis & Management
*Co-sponsored by the Cornell Public Affairs Society (CPAS)
September 18
Preparations of Islamic Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism
Bassam Tibi
Professor of International Relations, University of Gottingen
Cornell A.D. White Professor at Large
September 25
Liberia's Poverty Reduction Strategy
Samuel Kofi Woods, Minister for Labor, Republic of Liberia
Jackson Wonde, Minister for Manpower Development, Republic of Liberia
Nicholas Weekes, CIPA Fellow '09
*Co-sponsored by the Cornell Institute for African Development (IAD)
October 2
The World Food Programme and the Global Hunger Challenge: Adapting to a
Changing Environment
David Stevenson
Director of Policy, Strategy and Planning at the World Food Programme
October 9
Power, Purses, and Politics: Women's Progress in the American Political System
Marion Sullivan
Vice President for Political Planning, National Women's Political Caucus
*Co-sponsored by Women in Public Policy (WIPP) and Pi Alpha Alpha
October 16
Microfinance Investing: Risks and Perceptions of Risk
Gil Crawford
Chief Executive Office, Microvest
October 23
Meeting World Food Needs by Raising the Productivity of Land, Labor, Capital and Water: Opportunities Indicated by the System of Rice Intensification
Norman Uphoff
Director of Graduate Studies, CIPA
Professor of Government, Cornell University
October 30
Consulting for Criminal Justice and Emergency Services
Travis Miller
Senior Vice President, Matrix Consulting
November 6
The United Nations: Between Progress and Conflict
Lakhdar Brahimi
Former Special Advisor to the U.N. Secretary General &
Cornell A.D. White Professor at Large
November 13
The Politics of Resource Allocation
Neeraj Negi
Evaluation Officer, The World Bank
November 20
Summer Internships for Public Affairs
Alison Cathles, CIPA Fellow, Intern for Save the Children
Chandra Ghosal, CIPA Fellow, Intern for NYC Office of Management & Budget
Mario Guerrero, CIPA Fellow, Intern for US Government Accountability Office
Geetanjali Mukherjee, CIPA Fellow, Intern for Human Rights Watch
Anumeha Yadav, CIPA Fellow, Intern for International Finance Corporation
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