Alumni Information COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog

Alumni Information COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog I was recently speaking with our Director of Alumni Relations about some various topics and she said she was working on a short list of notable alumni for a project.   I asked for a copy and she was happy to pass it along. SIPA has over 16,000 alumni living in 150 countries around the world an incredibly powerful networking tool for students and graduates.   The list below is divided by concentration area. INTERNATIONAL SECURITY POLICY Madeleine K. Albright (Certificate ’68), Former U.S. Secretary of State; Principal, The Albright Group LLC Victor Cha (MIA ’88), Former Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council; Associate Professor of Government and D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair, Georgetown University Daniel Fried (MIA ’77), Assistant Secretary, European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Francesco Mancini (MIA ’03), Associate, International Peace Institute George Tenet (MIA ’78), Former Director, CIA; Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University HUMAN RIGHTS Frederick Abrahams (MIA ’95), Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch Scott Campbell (MIA ’95), Executive Director, Elton John AIDS Foundation Malika Dutt (MIA ’86), Executive Director and Founder of Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture. Malika testified before the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, along with actress Nicole Kidman, UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador. Their testimony was to encourage passage of the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA), which seeks to ensure that the fundamental right to live a life free from violence can become a reality for the world’s women. Priscilla Hayner (MIA ’93), Director, Peace and Justice Program; Director, Geneva Office, International Center for Transitional Justice Judy Cheng-Hopkins (MIA ’78), Assistant High Commissioner, UNHCR Geneva Rochelle Fortier Nwadibia (MIA ’82), Attorney at Law. Rochelle has won two major cases in asylum law, one of which, Mohammed v. Gonzales, is the leading federal appellate case on female genital mutilation as grounds for asylum. Her second major refugee case was Ndom v. Ashcroft, where Rochelle successfully petitioned for asylum for a Senegalese man fleeing political persecution. Both these cases are positioned quite prominently in global refugee law, notes Nwadibia. Foreign courts are citing our courts in taking the lead in these cases. Ana Cutter Patel (MIA ’98), Deputy Director, International Policymakers, International Center for Transitional Justice INTERNATIONAL FINANCE ECONOMIC POLICY Christian Deseglise (MIA ’90), Managing Director-Global Head of Emerging Markets, HSBC Global Asset Management Kirstin Frivold (EMPA ’03), Vice President, Goldman Sachs Co. Jong-ho Kyun (MIA ’00), Deputy Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of South Korea James Leitner (MIA ’77), President, Falcon Management Corporation Bart Oostervled (MIA ’97), Senior Vice President, Moody’s Project Infrastructure ENERGY ENVIRONMENT Anna Giovinetto (MIA ’02), Vice President, Public Affairs, Noble Environmental Power Lloyd Kass (MPA ’98), Director of Energy Department, NYC Housing Authority Kedin Kilgore (MPA ’95), Head, Global Environmental Markets, JP Morgan Chase Marcus Tripp (MIA ’99), Vice President, Business Development, Exxon Mobil, Libya, Ltd. Qian Wang (ESP-MPA ’03), Deputy Director, State Environmental Protection Administration, Beijing ECONOMIC POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT Andrea S. Camoens (MIA ’97), Manager of Emerging Markets Group. John Melone Deidrick (MIA’ 85), Country Representative, Cambodia, Population Services International. John Lockwood (MIA ’97), Executive Director for Habitat for Humanity New York. Monique Pierre-Antoine (PEPM ’94), Chief of the Poverty Unit, UNDP, Haiti. Karen Paulina Poniachik (MIA ’90), Chile’s Special Envoy to the OECD URBAN SOCIAL POLICY Alisa Blum (MPA ’00), Manager of Field Operations, National League of Cities’ Center for Federal Relations Diana Bruce (MPA ’97), Director of Policy and Government Affairs, AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth and Families Neil Hernandez (MPA ’98), Commissioner, Department of Juvenile Justice Diego Andres Molano (MPA ’00), CEO, Water and Sanitation Company, Bogota, Colombia David Saltzman (MPA ’86) Executive Director, Robin Hood Foundation