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SPIA alumna Caroline T. Nguyen, Director for Clean Energy and Global Public Sector Partnerships in the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House, briefs Lichtenstein Institute International Policy Associates during their visit to Washington, D.C. Photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar

Liechtenstein Institute International Policy Associates Take High-Level Meetings in Washington, D.C.

As the School of Public and International Affairs works to continue expanding its footprint in Washington, D.C., its Liechtenstein Institute (LI) recently brought 14 students to the nation’s capital for a day and a half of meetings with leaders from the public, private, and civil society sectors. The Institute’s International…

SPIA alumna Caroline T. Nguyen, Director for Clean Energy and Global Public Sector Partnerships in the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House, briefs Lichtenstein Institute International Policy Associates during their visit to Washington, D.C. Photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar

Kenneth Roth

Former Human Rights Watch Leader Roth to Join SPIA Faculty for 2023-24 Academic Year

A former longtime head of Human Rights Watch will join the faculty of the School of Public and International Affairs this fall. Kenneth Roth, who led the international NGO from 1993 until last year, will serve as SPIA’s Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer for the 2023-2024 academic year. “Ken…

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Profiles in Perseverance: Living With Hope

To commemorate International Women’s Day, the Afghanistan Policy Lab profiled eight Afghan women, highlighting the struggle and the fight of women in the country. These profiles share the struggle of Afghan women to survive, to live and not give up their fight, and to hope. These courageous women write poignantly of the lives…

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Ashoka Mody

SPIA Economic Historian on Why ‘India Is Broken’

Ashoka Mody is an economic historian at Princeton, but writes that his “heart is in India.” It’s from this perspective that Mody, the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the School of Public and International Affairs, channels his finance- and policy-driven analysis of the world’s…

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Members of the Afghanistan Policy Lab include, back row from left, Lutf Ali Sultani, Storai Tapesh, Muhammad Idrees Ghairat, and Gran Hewad; and front row from left, Ambassador Adela Raz and Naheed Farid. Photo: Frank Wojciechowski

Evacuated Experts Keep the Conversation About Afghanistan Alive

Researchers at Princeton’s Afghanistan Policy Lab Are Researching Four Key Areas of Policy The journey from Afghanistan to Princeton was not easy for Lutf Ali Sultani. Sultani worked as a journalist for a newspaper during the two-decade period when the U.S.-backed Afghan government supported freedom of the press. After the U…

Members of the Afghanistan Policy Lab include, back row from left, Lutf Ali Sultani, Storai Tapesh, Muhammad Idrees Ghairat, and Gran Hewad; and front row from left, Ambassador Adela Raz and Naheed Farid. Photo: Frank Wojciechowski

Alan Blinder

Princeton Economist Alan Blinder to Receive 2023 Moynihan Prize for Scholarship and Public Service

Alan Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will receive the 2023 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), the group announced today. The Moynihan Prize, named for the former U.S. senator from New York…

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Michael Froman

Council on Foreign Relations Announces Michael Froman Will Serve as New President

Today, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) announced that Michael Froman—a widely respected leader across government, business, and the nonprofit sector—will become the organization’s fifteenth president. Froman will succeed Richard Haass, CFR’s president since 2003, who has announced that he will be stepping down in June…

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February 21, 2023

Princeton University Seniors Austin Davis and Ella Gantman Receive Pyne Prize

Princeton University seniors Austin Davis and Ella Gantman are the recipients of the 2023 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. They will be recognized at Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 25. The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has…

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February 10, 2023

Amazonian Indigenous Leader Davi Kopenawa Visits Princeton

Illegal gold mining threatens the environment and human health in the Amazon, said shaman and Yanomami Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa in a talk at Princeton Jan. 31. And there are consequences for all of us, too, as mining in the Amazon rainforest diminishes one of the planet’s largest natural carbon sinks and a bastion of…

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February 09, 2023

Winter Policy Trips Enrich the SPIA Experience

SPIA students returned to campus for the spring semester with new outlooks on issues such as climate change and adaptation, urbanization, migration, and infrastructure challenges following Winter Policy Trips. These trips allowed participating students to explore key policy issues through firsthand meetings with international…

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