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 Futures: Integrating Science and Policy for Global Impact” and will occur on the 3rd-6th of June 2025 in Paris, France.
Eligible students include all research-oriented master’s degree and PhD students. The participation fee for the program is €80 (which covers all lunches and refreshments). The deadline to apply for a scholarship is March 17, 2025 and the general application deadline is April 14, 2025. The application link is https://tinyurl.com/AllianceSummerSchool. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
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.
