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Please consult our Recent News for updates on the MPA students and faculty.
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March 10th 2010: William O'Neill, Program Director for the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the Social Science Research Council, will speak about Haiti and the earthquake relief effort.
Call for papers: business diplomacy workshop. Details here.
Matías Bianchi (MPA class of 2008) and Eduardo Vergara (MPA class of 2009) will travel to New York as part of the “Next Generation of Leadership in the Americas”. The two MPA graduates will be recognized by the Council of the Americas for their work at Asuntos del Sur, an organization conceived at the MPA.
Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen will speak on 'Justice and the Environment after Copenhagen'. The conference is co-hosted by MPA faculty member, Eloi Laurent.
Professor Raymond Saner took part in a panel discussion on trade governance and developing countries.
MPA graduate, Shivani Ratra, recently published a research report on 'Rebuilding the Global Economy' and the issues facing the world in light of the economic crisis.
Every year, Professors Olivier Borraz and Pierre-Benoit Joly select papers produced by students in the Risk Governance overview course. These papers are chosen on account of their excellence, because the issue they cover is important, and in order to illustrate different approaches in analyzing risks. In 2009, the papers are concerned with the one-child policy in China and electric black-outs in the US.
Helen Diaz-Page, Talent Research Manager at the World Bank, invited 10 MPA students for a career talk. Participating students learned about different carrier paths at the organization, with a particular focus on the Young Professionals Program (YPP). Internship opportunities and mid-career positions were also discussed. The presentation offered the opportunity to engage in direct conversations with Senior Recruitment Officers of the World Bank. Many students took advantage of this chance to introduce themselves and ask more questions regarding careers at the World Bank.
Our warmest congratulations to the graduating class of 2009. The graduation keynote address was delivered by Mrs. Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland. Professor Erhard Friedberg situated the MPA in context. Valedictorian remarks were made by Juan Pablo Franco Jiménez.
MPA graduate, Lina Arbelaez, is working with CiViSOL to protect the economic and social rights of the waste pickers in Colombia. CiViSOL intervened before the Constitutional Court of Colombia, which resulted in the creation of new policies to recognize and protect the waste pickers’ work as well as their rights.
The MPA hosted a training seminar for high-ranking Kuwaiti private and public sector leaders with a focus on the analysis and discussion of current issues in public management, decision-making and leadership.
Congratulations to MPA first year student, Kenny Galloway, on winning a national wine tasting competition in Lyon together with his Sciences Po team, In Vino Veritas.
We are pleased to announce the selection of Sean Ruthe (MPA Class of 2009) as a finalist for the Presidential Management Fellowship program. As a US Army Captain, Sean was assigned to the secretariat of the general staff in Baghdad. His academic focus includes Economic and Territorial Development, Human Security, and Risk Governance.
MPAVIS is a space for students of the MPA at Sciences Po Paris to share their views on current policy issues, politics, and current events. The blogging community consists primarily of MPA students but readers are invited to comment and enter the discussion. MPAVIS is a student-run blog and the student editors are solely responsible for its content.
A joint university project "WaCoPaS - Warsaw-Cologne-Paris-Simulation" was carried out last semester within the second year MPA concentration "Multilevel Economic Governance" in cooperation with the University of Cologne and the Polish Academy of Sciences. The project consisted of a simulacrum of a negotiation on the Budget Review of the European Union for the period 2014-2018. After three days of negotiations, the participants of the project, simulating a conference of the European Council, finally agreed upon a compromise paper which they formally submitted within the official consultation process of the European Commission. Out of the numerous contributions, the Commission selected the paper as an especially interesting and innovative piece.
You can read the paper here. 
In addition to this, the Commission made a video highlighting the variety of contributions they received. An MPA graduate, Gerrit Reininghaus, who was awarded as the best negotiator of the simulation game, participated in this video. The video was shown during the conference on November 12, 2008 at the European Commission within the Budget Review Conference.
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