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Jagdish Baghwati: The American Interest
Jagdish Baghwati is the Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and a professor of political science.

Guillermo Calvo: The Economist
Guillermo Calvo is the director of SIPA’s mid-career Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM). Professor Calvo's main field of expertise is macroeconomics of emerging market and transition economies.

Steven Cohen: The Huffington Post
Steven Cohen is director of SIPA’s Energy and Environment concentration; director of the MPA program in Environment Science and Policy; executive director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

Ralph Da Costa-Núñez: The Huffington Post
Ralph Da Costa-Núñez is President and CEO of Homes for the Homeless, and President of Institute for Children and Poverty, an independent think tank which focuses poverty, homelessness, and the impact on children and families.

Rodolfo de la Garza: WNYC
Rodolfo de la Garza specializes in immigration, Latino political behavior, and public policy. He directs the Project on Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race and is vice-president of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California.

Tanya Domi: The New Civil Rights Movement
Tanya Domi is Senior Public Affairs Officer at Columbia University's Office of Communications and Public Affairs. She teaches human rights at SIPA.

Howard Friedman: The Huffington Post
Howard Friedman works as a statistician and health economist for the United Nations, currently focused on the areas of maternal and newborn child health, health expenditures, and fertility at UNFPA. He teaches health economics at SIPA.

Stuart Gottlieb: The Arena on Politico
Stuart Gottlieb teaches American foreign policy and counterterrorism.

Sylvia Hewlett: The Woman Solution: Forbes
Sylvia Hewlett is president of the Center for Work-Life Policy and teaches gender policy at SIPA.

Anne Nelson: PBS Media Shift, New Media Communications 2010, New Media Communications 2009
Anne Nelson specializes in international media development and has worked extensively as an analyst, evaluator, and practitioner in the field.

José Antonio Ocampo: Project Syndicate
José Antonio Ocampo is director of Economic and Political Development concentration at SIPA, and a Fellow of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Professor Ocampo previously served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia.

Benjamin Orlove: Earth Institute’s State of the Planet
Benjamin Orlove focuses on environment and climate change. He is an anthropologist who has conducted field work in the Peruvian Andes, East Africa, the Italian Alps, and Aboriginal Australia.

Gary Sick: Gary’s Choices on Tumblr
Gary Sick is a senior research scholar at Columbia’s Middle East Institute and an adjunct professor at SIPA. He served on the National Security Council for three presidents, and is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on Iran and the Persian Gulf region.

Alfred Stepan: Project Syndicate
Alfred C. Stepan is Wallace Sayre Professor of Government and former Dean of SIPA. His teaching and research interests include comparative politics, theories of democratic transitions, federalism, the world's religious systems, and democracy.

Joseph Stiglitz: Project Syndicate: Unconventional Economic Wisdom
Joseph E. Stiglitz is a professor of finance and business at Columbia University, and chair of the University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Student and alumni blogging:

SIPA’s student-run blog: The Morningside Post

Samantha Barthelemy (MIA ’11/Sciences Po dual-degree): SAMANHATTAN

Craig Duff’s storytelling class: Mixing Platforms

Michelle Chahine (MIA ’12): First Generation

Josh Gartner (MIA ’06): China Policy Pod

Francisco Noguera (MPA DP ’12): Next Billion

Jessie Daniels (MIA '09, IF '08): Across the Aisle: Partnership for a Secure America

Anahi Ayala (MIA '10): Diary of a Crisis Mapper

James Bruno (MIA '74): Diplo Denizen

Rafael Merchan (MPA DP '13) hosts International Agriculture and Development

Samantha McCann (MPA '12): My Peregrinations, and Other Big Words