Alliance Graduate Summer School 2024

The Alliance Graduate Summer School is an event organized by the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society of Columbia University. It began in 2012 as a student-led initiative to promote interdisciplinary exchange among graduate students working at the nexus of science and policy within Alliance institutions. The summer school connects world-class professors, industry experts, and graduate students through a mixture of guest speakers and workshops to foster the exchange of ideas, encourage intellectual discourse, and highlight cutting-edge research. This year’s theme is “Sustainable Development at the Interface of Global North and South” and will occur on the 28th-31st of May 2024 in Paris, France.

It will feature the following speakers:

  • Jeff Sachs: Columbia University (Keynote Lecture)
  • John Mutter: Columbia University
  • Vijay Modi: Columbia University
  • François Libois: Paris School of Economics
  • Antoine Dechezleprêtre: London School of Economics
  • Marta Torre-Schaub: French National Center for Scientific Research
  • Julien Wolfersberger: AgroParisTech and Université Paris-Saclay
  • Sylvain Chabé-Ferret: Tolouse School of Economics
  • Anant Sudarshan: University of Warwick
  • Alessandra Gianni: Ecole Normale Supérieure-Université
  • Lauren Biermann: University of Plymouth
  • Matt Gordon: Paris School of Economics

You can apply by clicking on the following link (bit.ly/2024AllianceSchool) or by scanning the QR code in the flyer below! If you wish to be considered for travel scholarships, you must apply by March 15, 2024. Otherwise, the deadline for the application is April 10, 2024.

Previous years

If you wish to see the schedules from previous years, they are available here. Speakers from former summer schools include:

  • Joseph Stiglitz: Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics at Columbia
  • Christian Gollier: Professor and Director of Toulouse School of Economics
  • Eric Maskin: Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics at Princeton
  • Jeffrey Sachs: Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University
  • Bob Watson: Former IPCC Chair
  • Jean Jouzel: IPCC Group I Chair
  • Laurence Tubiana: Special Representative for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference
  • and many more!

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An event organized by the first-year students of the Sustainable Development PhD program.