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This weekly forum engages participants in discussions of issues facing public affairs and public policy professionals. Although the purpose of Colloquiums is to increase the exposure of CIPA fellows to policy questions, the ongoing contingent of non-CIPA attendees indicates that broader audiences also appreciate these educational forums. The public is encouraged to attend!
All colloquia are funded in part by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Finance Commission. Forums meet weekly on Thursdays from 4:30-5:45 p.m. in 233 Plant Science.
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August 30
Cyber Security and National Security: Are We Ready for the Challenges of the 21st Century?
Jeffrey Wright
CIPA M.P.A. 1982
Former Deputy Director; Strategic Initiatives Branch, Cyber Security Division
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
September 13
Working with Survivors in War-Torn Aceh, Indonesia
Dr. Nadine Hoover
Director; Conscience Studios &
Coordinator; Friends Peace Teams Indonesia Initiative
*Cosponsored by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program
September 20
Environmental Financial Markets and the Kyoto Protocol
Mark DeAngelis
CIPA M.P.A. 1992
Managing Director
RNK Capital, LLC
September 27
Summer Internship Forum
CIPA Fellows '08
Andrew Siwo, Denise Ziobro, Graham Keefe, Richard Benware & Kajal Gulati
October 4
Job Search Strategies for International Students
Fred Kollaram
President
H1Bvisajobs.com
October 11
Uncovering Hidden Value Using Sustainable Investment Metrics
Hewson Baltzell
President
Innovest Strategic Value Advisors
October 18
International Development: Why is it so Hard?
Dr. Janet Ballantyne
Cornell A.B. 1961, Ph.D. 1976
International Development Group Vice President
Abt Associates
October 25
Current Issues in Trade and Investment in Africa
Aubrey Hruby
Director of Trade and Investment
The Whitaker Group
November 1
CIPA M.P.A. Alumni Forum: Marketing the M.P.A. to the Private Sector
Panel of Select CIPA Alumni
November 8
The Global Labor Force and Demographic Dynamics
Dr. Martha Farnsworth Riche
Former Director
U.S. Bureau of the Census
November 15
Civil Service Reform: Challenges & Future Prospects for Mexican Democracy
Dr. David Arellano Gault
Professor of Public Administration
Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas
*Cosponsored by the Cornell Latin American Studies Program
November 29
Women in New York: The State of the State
Dr. Francine Moccio
Director
Institute for Women and Work
January 25
Breaking the Code: Systems Thinking and the Role of Social Entrepreneurship in City Government
Ron Rigores
Information Technology Program Manager
New York City Housing Authority
February 1
Building the New Economy: The Political Struggles and Policies of Sustainability
Robert Young
Former Executive Director; Office of Sustainable Business
New Jersey Department of Commerce
February 8
The Revolutions of Our Time
Jerome Ziegler
Professor; Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University
February 15
The Survival of Wetland Agriculture in the Valley of Mexico
Ignacio Armillas
CIPA Visiting Scholar and Former Director
UN-HABITAT for the Asia-Pacific Region
February 22
Making Order Out of Chaos: The President's 2008 Budget Proposals in the New Congress
Mark Weatherly
Deputy Associate Director
United States Office of Management and Budget
March 1
Trends in Latin America in Democracy and Foreign Policy
Robert Gelbard
Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
March 8
Management Consulting: A Career, a Job, or Just the Professional Skills?
John Newman
CEO, 1492 Consulting Group
Former Partner, McKinsey & Company
March 15
Family Foundations: Reconciling Private Values and the Public Good
Joanne Florino
Executive Director
Triad Foundation
March 29
Enacting the FairTax: The Better Federal Tax System
Ken Hoagland
Communications Director
Americans for Fair Taxation
April 5
Thinking Beyond War: Why America Fails to Win the Peace
Isaiah Wilson III, PHD
Lieutenant Colonel and Professor
United States Military Academy at West Point
April 12
Weaving Sustainability into the Fabric of the Community
Gay Nicholson
Program Coordinator
Sustainable Tompkins
April 19
Public Service in the 21st Century
Mark Gearan
President, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Former Director, United States Peace Corps
April 26
Internally Displaced Persons, Conflict, and the International Response
Ivan Lupis
Humanitarian Affairs Officer
The United Nations
May 3
Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Airports Management
Germa Bel
Professor, Department of Economic Policy
University of Barcelona
Fall 2006
Invisible Need: Lessons learned from United Way's Hunger and Food Insecurity Project
James Brown
President
United Way of Tompkins County
Mexico City: A Case for an Intergrated Water Management Policy
Ignacio Armillas
Former Director
United Nations Centre for Human Settlement, Office for the Asia-Pacific Region
Thirty Years of Death: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Modern American Death Penalty
John Blume
Associate Professor of Law & Director, Cornell Death Penalty Project
Cornell Law School
U.S. Military Transformation: Challenges and Choices
John White
Former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
Block the Vote: The Stealing of Democracy through Elections Administration
Jehmu Greene
Former President
Rock the Vote
Unlocking the Human Potential for Public Sector Performance
Guido Bertucci
Director of the Division of Public Economics and Public Administration
The United Nations
Lessons in Social Policy ReformL Recent Experience
Shannon Christian
Associate Commissioner, Child Care Bureau
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Meeting the Challenges of Local Level Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Christopher Bragdon
Executive Director
Bosnia Initiatives for Local Development
Gender Mainstreaming in Humanitarian Affairs
Kate Burns
Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer
The United Nations
The New York State Health Care System Crisis: Are There Any Solutions?
Dr. Jon Cohen
Former Senior Healthcare Advisor
Kerry/Edwards 2004 Presidential Campaign
From Welfare State to Welfare Planet
Jeffrey Lehman
Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies &
11th President of Cornell University
Evaluation
William Trochim
Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University
Foreign and Community Development Assistance:What is our Role?
Marcia Greenberg
Adjunct Professor of Law
Cornell Law School
January 26
Climate Change Policy and Science
Kevin Rosseel
Head, Integrated Environmental Strategies Program
United States Environmental Protection Agency
February 2
Tort Law as a Means for Regulating Safety
John Siliciano
Vice Provost and Professor
Cornell University Law School
February 9
Truth and Reconciliation as a New Paradigm for Conflict Resolution
Billie Jean Isbell
Professor Emeritus
Cornell Department of Anthropology
February 16
Healthcare Financing and Congressional Politics
Julie Stone
Social Policy Analyst
The Congressional Research Service
February 23
Muslims and Civil Liberties in the United States After September 11th
Ahmed Younis
National Director
Muslim Public Affairs Council
March 9
Current Issues and Debates on NGOs
Neema Kudva
Assistant Professor
Cornell Department of City and Regional Planning
CIPA Core Faculty Member
March 16
Reducing the Impact of Cities on the Environment: Policymaking in the Context of Developing Economies
Dr. Ignacio Armillas
Former Director, UN-HABITAT, Fukuoka
March 30
Low-Income Working Mothers in Tompkins County: Filling the Gap When Ends Don't Meet
Peggy Arcadi
Former Community Outreach Worker, Alternatives Federal Credit Union
Cornell Public Service Center Civic Leader Fellow
April 6
Stop the Silence: The Need for Social, Policy, and Legal Action Regarding Child Sexual Abuse
Dr. Pamela Pine
Health Communications Director
The Futures Group
April 13
Dynamics of the Social Sector
Bill Myers
Chief Executive Officer
Alternatives Federal Credit Union
April 20
Diversity and Inclusion in Ithaca's Public Sector: Realities and Myths
Marcia Fort
Executive Director
Greater Ithaca Activities Center
April 27
Growing Up in Cities
Dr. David Driskell
Lecturer
Cornell Department of City and Regional Planning
May 4
Association Management: Government Affairs and Much More
Rick Cristol
Executive Vice President
The Kellen Company
September 1
Leadership in the 21st Century for Latin America
Beatriz Merino
Senior Specialist in the Public Sector
at the World Bank and Former Prime
Minister of Peru
* 4:45P.M. / B45 Warren Hall
September 8
What is Sustainable Enterprise?
Stuart Hart
Samuel C. Johnson Professor of
Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell's
Johnson Graduate School of Management
September 15
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Ross Brann
Milton R. Konvitz Professor of
Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell
September 22
The Changing Climate and Status
of Community-Based
George Ferrari
Executive Director, Catholic Charities
of the Southern Tier
* 5:00P.M. / 100 Caldwell Hall
September 29
Buildig Trust in International
Organizations
Christopher London
Executive Director, Educate the Children
October 6
Making and Breaking
Policy in the NGO World
Linda Rabben
Visiting Scholar, Cornell Latin American
Studies Program
October 13
United States Army Transformation:
Under Construction
Major Isaiah Wilson
Professor of Social Sciences,
U.S. Military Academy at West Point
CIPA Alumnus '98
October 20
Life in a Congressional Office:
Behind the Scenes
Dan Lamb
District Representative, Office of
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
Summer Internships
in Public Affairs
CIPA Fellows with
CIPA Assistant Director for
Professional Development
November 3
U.N. Peacekeeping and the
Challanges of Reconstruction
in Post-Conflict Societies
Muna Ndulo
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
November 10
Leadership
Jerome Ziegler
CIPA Core Faculty Member and Professor
Emeritus, Cornell Department of Policy
Analysis and Management
CIPA Alumni Forum
December 1
Fair Trade Coffee: An Analysis
of Consumers' Perceptions
Regarding How FAIR is Fair
Arnab Basu
Associate Professor of Economics,
College of William and Mary
Spring 2005
February 3
The End of the Republic of Parties
Dr. Theodore Lowi
Professor
Government
February 10
Engineers for a Sustainable World:
Organizational Overview, Projects,
and Challenges
Dan Bonner & Maurice Ayache
Engineers for a Sustainable World
February 17
Transforming the United States Army
for a New Millennium
Robert Nye, CIPA Alumnus
U.S. Army War College
February 24
The Future of Social Security Reform
Dr. Jennifer Wissink
Senior Lecturer
Economics
March 3
Corruption and International Valuation:
Does Virtue Pay?
Dr. David Ng
Assistant Professor
Applied Economics and Management
March 10
Promoting Economic Development in
Distressed Communities Through
Town/Gown Partnerships
Dr. Kenneth Reardon
Associate Professor
City and Regional Planning
March 17
Global Labor Standards and Local Freedoms
Dr. Kaushik Basu
Professor
Economics
March 31
FDA Regulation of Genetically Modified
Foods: Sorting Out the Science, Law,
and Politics
Dr. David Pelletier
Associate Professor
Nutritional Sciences
April 7
The United States and the United Nations:
Working out the Problems in a
Difficult Marriage
Gordon Olson
Deputy Political Counselor
United States Mission to the United Nations
April 14
Managing Large Assistance Programs in High
Threat Countries
Mark Ward
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Asia Near East Bureau, USAID
April 21
Cultivating Learning Communities in Graduate
Education
Dr. Alison Power
Dean
Cornell Graduate School
April 28
Think Tanks and the Foreign Policy Process
Dr. Jacqueline Miller, CIPA Alumnus
Deputy Director
Council on Foreign Relations Washington
Program
May 5
U.S. Food Policy for Low-Income Households:
Past, Present, and Outlook for the Future
Dr. Christine Ranney
Associate Professor
Applied Economics and Management
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