This year’s Princeton Reunions take place from May 23 to 26. As always, the SPIA alumni community will be well represented, partnering with the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) as the largest participating graduate department.

New for Reunions this year is the Orange and Black Oasis – alcohol-free gatherings featuring jazz, craft zero-proof drinks, mocktails, and cookies. They will be held in the Murray-Dodge Café on Friday, May 24, from 8 p.m. to midnight and on Saturday, May 25, from 4 to 6 p.m. and from 8 p.m. to midnight. Princeton SPIA is co-sponsoring along with the Office of Religious Life, Students Recover, and the Princeton Alumni Association.

SPIA-specific events include:

• The Program in Law and Public Policy reception, Friday, May 24, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m., Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall. P*LAW invites alumni and guests — lawyers and law-curious alike — for champagne and dessert. As part of SPIA, the program follows in the tradition of Princeton’s great law and public affairs programs engaging leading legal scholars and practitioners in the work of solving the complex policy problems of the 21st century.
• Keeping the Lights On: Global Energy and Macroeconomic Policy, Friday, May 24, 2 – 3 p.m., Bowl A71, Louis A. Simpson International Building. An alumni panel will discuss the current state of global commodity markets, the energy transition, and energy policy going forward in the face of macroeconomic challenges. Speakers include Helima Croft *01, managing director and head of global commodity strategy and Middle East and North Africa research at RBC Capital Markets, member of the National Petroleum Council, life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a CNBC contributor; Amy Myers Jaffe ’80, professor and director of the Energy, Climate, and Sustainable Justice Lab at New York University, co-chair of the Women in Energy Initiative at Columbia University, and former senior advisor on sustainability to the chief investment officer of the University of California Regents; and Edward Morse *69, special advisor at Hartree Partners and former global head of commodities research at Citi and deputy assistant secretary of state for energy policy. Abhiram Karuppur ’19 of Harvard Business School will moderate.
• Geopolitics to the Fore? Prospects for Globalization in an Uncertain World, Friday, May 24, 3 – 4:30 p.m., Bowl 16, Robertson Hall. An alumni-faculty forum will explore the politics of today’s global economy. Speakers include Nawaf S. Al-Sabah ’94, CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation; Layna Mosley, a professor of politics and international affairs; Meicen Sun ’12, an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois; James Vreeland, a professor of politics and international affairs; and Carl Westphal *13, deputy director of international monetary policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
• SPIA All-Alumni Reception, Friday, May 24, 3:30 – 5 p.m., Schultz Cafe, Robertson Hall. Dean Amaney Jamal will offer brief remarks.
• Why Ukraine Matters: A Conversation with Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch ’80 and General Mark Milley ’80, Friday, May 23, 3:45 – 5 p.m., Room 10, McCosh Hall. This conversation on the global implications of Russia’s war in Ukraine will be moderated by Lauren Bleakney ’13, foreign service officer, with an introduction by Dora Chomiak ’91, CEO of Razom for Ukraine, and closing remarks by Lydia Zaininger ’83, executive director of the Ukrainian Institute of America.
• World in Flux: The Dynamics of Global Power, Saturday, May 25, 10:30 – 11:45 a.m., Room 50, McCosh Hall. This alumni-faculty forum features panelists Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah ’94, CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation; Zeynep Zehra Dereli ’99, executive board member and CEO of the Industry Group at Calinos Holding; Jennifer Pan ’04, Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor of Chinese Studies, professor of communication, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and professor, by courtesy, of political science and of sociology at Stanford University; and Peter Schram ’09, assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Nadia C. Crisan, the executive director of SPIA’s Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, will moderate.
• SPIA 20th, 25th, and 50th Reunion Brunch, Sunday, May 26, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., Schultz Cafe, Robertson Hall.

Princeton’s Commencement will be held on Tuesday, May 28, at 10 a.m. at Princeton Stadium, with the student procession beginning at approximately 9:40 a.m. SPIA-specific Commencement-related events are as follows:

• SINSI Graduation Brunch, Sunday, May 26, 10 a.m., The Atrium at Carl Icahn Laboratory
• SPIA Hooding and Awards Ceremony, Monday, May 27, 9 a.m., McCarter Theatre (open to MPP/MPA grad and guests, SPIA staff and faculty).
• SPIA Class Day ceremony, Monday, May 27, 2 p.m., Richardson Auditorium (open to all); reception to follow on Alexander Beach.

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