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Faculty and Curriculum Affairs
Columbia's Department of International and Public Affairs is the academic home of more than sixty full-time faculty and more than a hundred adjunct faculty, scholars, and practitioner, who have distinguished themselves in research and leadership in the policy world. They include among their number, some of the world's leading scholars on international relations, democratization, elections, demography, and social policy, among many other subjects. A former mayor of New York City, a judge on the World Trade Organization appellate body and the former director of the U.S. Census are among the senior practitioners, who help shape the research agendas and curriculum of SIPA, one of the world's premier graduate schools of global public policy.
This outstanding faculty mounts a curriculum at SIPA that includes more than 300 classes per year, supplemented with electives in almost 1,000 classes per year around the Columbia campus. The faculty, the school and the University offer students an innovative graduate education energized by the dialogue between the academic and the policy world. It is without parallel.
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