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Milena Gómez
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
mg1087@columbia.edu
Biography:
Prior to moving to New York in 2000, Milena Gomez was Acting Dean of the School of Finance, Government and International Relations at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. From 1993 to 1999, she was Vice Dean of the School and since 1986 she taught (profesora titular) various courses in the field of international relations. She was also a founding member and a member of the Board of Directors of ALADAA-Colombia, the Latin American Association of African and Asian Studies.
Milena Gomez has been a faculty member at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) since 2002, teaching the fall Public Policy Workshop in the MPA program. She has lectured and written on issues related to the Colombian Diaspora in the United States and Latino politics in New York. Her written work has been published by the Colombian Foreign Ministry as well as Hoy, a local Spanish language newspaper. One of the articles appearing in Hoy, that she co-authored referencing Latinos and the 2000 Census, won the first prize for Outstanding Multiple Series, Largest Publications by the National Association of Hispanic Publications. She is currently researching the impact of remittances on housing investments in Colombia, her dissertation topic for her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She has engaged in consulting jobs related to this topic, most recently with the Inter-American Development Bank
Professor Gomez holds a B.A. from Brown University (1979), a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (1983) and a M.Phil. from Columbia University (2004).