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Attendees at Third Annual Sovereign Finance Lab conference
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April 23, 2026
The Third Annual Politics of Sovereign Finance Conference
How are governments of Global South countries likely to navigate the current financial environment -- facing fuel and food price shocks, cuts in foreign aid and ongoing development needs? What does the case of Senegal tell us about the domestic politics of crisis and adjustment, as well as about the politics of debt…
Attendees at Third Annual Sovereign Finance Lab conference
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March 27, 2026
Career Building at the United Nations: An Interactive Session with Students on Exploring Career Opportunities
The event “Career Building at the United Nations,” co-organized by the Afghanistan Policy Lab at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton University’s Center for Career Development, featured a practical and candid conversation with students interested in pursuing careers at the United Nations and…
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Wendy Kopp ’89
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March 19, 2026
A Dorm Room Dream Turns into Reality for Wendy Kopp ’89
It’s the spring of 1989 at Princeton University, and inside her Patton Hall dorm room, Wendy Kopp ’89 is putting the finishing touches on a senior thesis that would guide her career for the next 40 years.Increasingly concerned about educational equity during her time as an undergrad student at the Princeton School of Public and…
Wendy Kopp ’89
University Presidents Alumni
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March 03, 2026
For These Princeton SPIA Alumni, Higher Education Has Been a Higher Calling
In the days before barcodes and scanners, Princeton librarians kept track of who checked out a particular book by using readers’ university ID cards to imprint their names on a card accompanying the book. The card was then returned to the book when it was checked back in.As a junior at the Princeton School of Public and…
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January 22, 2026
Even Outside the Classroom, Faculty Educate in Many Ways
Members of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs faculty neither vote on legislative bills nor implement those that are approved and signed into law. They aren’t roaming statehouse corridors or city halls, they don’t disburse grant funding, and their nonprofit work is largely confined to the University.Yet…
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Dean Amaney Jamal with students
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September 29, 2025
Princeton SPIA Goes Global at UNGA and Climate Week
The first week of fall marked a flurry of activity at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs as faculty, students, and alumni participated in a host of events around the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and New York City Climate Week, which is timed concurrently to the high-level diplomatic meetings.On…
Dean Amaney Jamal with students
Tali Mendelberg
News, Research Briefs
August 19, 2025
Increasing Voter Turnout Among College-Aged Students
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
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Elena Ayala-Hurtado
News, Research Briefs
January 30, 2025
Research Record: The Expectational Liminality of Insecure College Graduates
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
Elena Ayala-Hurtado
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News, Research Briefs
January 06, 2025
Research Record: Estimating the Collapse of Afghanistan’s Economy Using Nightlights Data
Princeton SPIA’s Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life.If you’d like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click here and select “research project.”
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SPIA Policy Workshop, Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar - Devanne Béda-Geuder and students
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December 04, 2024
Princeton SPIA Policy Workshop Tackles Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar
Context is key. That’s one of Devanne Béda-Geuder’s guiding principles in “Strengthening Urban Climate Adaptation and Finance in Dakar, Senegal,” a policy workshop she’s leading this semester at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA).“It’s really important to think about climate change,…
SPIA Policy Workshop, Climate Finance Challenges in Dakar - Devanne Béda-Geuder and students