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New Faculty for 2009 - 2010
Scott Barrett joins SIPA and the Earth Institute as the first Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics. Professor Barrett previously served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Professor Barrett’s research focuses on interactions between natural and social systems, especially at the global level.
Kemal Dervis will co-teach a course on global economic governance with Professor José Antonio Ocampo and will be a fellow of the Committee on Global Thought. Dervis most recently served as head of the United Nations Development Programme. He also served as a member of the Turkish Parliament, Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey and Vice-President of the World Bank.
Swati Desai is an associate professor of practice, teaching management. Professor Desai served in a variety of positions with the City of New York’s Human Resources Administration, most recently as Executive Deputy Commissioner of Evaluation and Research. She has previously taught at New York University, among others, and her research interests include management analysis, performance management, and health and labor economics.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno will join SIPA in the spring of 2010 as the Arnold Saltzman Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs. Guéhenno is an internationally recognized diplomat, scholar and commentator on international affairs. He served as the United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations from 2000 – 2008. Previously, Guéhenno served in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Court of Audit, the Analysis and Forecasting Centre (CAP), and as chair of the Institute of Higher Studies for National Defense. He continues to serve as Non-resident Senior Fellow
at the Brookings Institution, and was a Senior Fellow at the NYU Center on International Cooperation.
Seung-Jin Jang is a lecturer in discipline and will teach quantitative methods. Jang recently completed his Ph.D. in political science at Columbia University. His research interests are American government, racial and ethnic politics, and methodology.
Austin Long is an assistant professor, teaching security policy. Professor Long most recently worked as an associate political scientist for the RAND Corporation, serving in Iraq as an analyst and advisor to the Multinational Force Iraq and the U.S. military. He also worked as a consultant to MIT Lincoln Laboratory, on a study on technology and urban operations in counterinsurgency. His research focuses on national security and counterinsurgency.
Yuen Yuen Ang will join SIPA in the fall of 2010 as an assistant professor, teaching economic and political development, and East Asian studies. Ang completed her Ph.D. in political science at Stanford University, where she studied comparative politics, political organizations and China. She will spend 2009 - 2010 as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow conducting research in the People’s Republic of China. Ang previously worked at the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore, where she participated in the negotiation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement.
Glenn Denning is a professor of professional practice and associate director of the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute of Columbia University. Professor Denning joined the Earth Institute in 2004 as Senior Research Scholar and Associate Director of the Tropical Agriculture and Environment Program. Denning helped establish The MDG Centre, East and Southern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, and served as Director.
Denning previously held senior management positions in the International Rice Research Institute and the World Agroforestry Centre.