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I’m always excited to share news about our Seeple. And since the academic year is already underway, I thought everyone would like to hear about the recent literary achievements of some of our SIPA faculty members. Who knows; maybe one of these titles will inspire you as you work on your admissions applications!
Position is responsible for faculty recruitment and faculty development
Eric Verhoogen, an associate professor at SIPA and in Columbia’s Department of Economics, has been named as SIPA’s new vice dean for academic affairs by Dean Merit E. Janow.
As vice dean, Verhoogen will be responsible for faculty recruitment and faculty development. He replaced Miguel Urquiola, who held the role for three years, on July 1.
“Since joining the SIPA faculty more than a decade ago, Professor Verhoogen has distinguished himself as a scholar, teacher, and colleague, and also as a leader in the creation and ongoing work of our Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP),” Janow said. “As vice dean, he will play a central role in the School, and I look forward to collaborating with him to further enhance SIPA’s standing as a leading center for research and education on global policy issues.”
“I’m excited to be taking on the job of vice dean,” Verhoogen said. “SIPA’s faculty are already world leaders in a number of important intellectual areas, and I look forward to continuing to broaden and deepen our faculty and building on our existing strengths.”
A leading scholar of development economics, labor economics, and international trade, Verhoogen joined the Columbia faculty in 2004 and became a tenured associate professor in 2010. He received the SIPA Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007.
As the co-director (and former founding director) of the Center for Development Economics and Policy, Verhoogen helps lead the Center’s important research into poverty reduction, human capital, innovation, and conflict in developing nations.
Among his many activities outside of Columbia University, Verhoogen serves on the board of directors of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), the leading network of development economists, and is a research program director of the International Growth Centre, an international research consortium. From 2009 to 2013 Verhoogen was co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics, the top field journal in development.
Verhoogen holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an AB in history and science from Harvard University.
Patricia C. Mosser, a leading economic researcher with 25 years’ experience at the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will join Columbia SIPA as a senior research scholar and senior fellow in international finance. She will also serve as founding director of SIPA’s new initiative on central banking, monetary policy, global finance and prudential practice.
Mosser, whose appointment at SIPA will begin on June 1, has spent the past two years as deputy director in charge of research and analysis for the Office of Financial Research (OFR) at the U.S. Treasury Department. Before joining OFR Mosser worked from 1991 to 2013 at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Read More →
Starting today, you may RSVP to attend a networking/mini-series event in NYC, known as Raising the Bar. Raising the Bar is a worldwide initiative aimed at making education a part of a city’s popular culture. We create one of a kind, knowledge-driven events in unusual locations. Our goal is to raise the bar on the content people consume in their everyday lives. We want to constantly be inspired, inside and outside of the classroom. That’s why we decided to bring the city’s brightest minds to the last place you would expect them: in your neighborhood bar. So grab a drink and come learn how to build a spaceship.
Six of SIPA’s brightest minds are participating in this edition of Raising the Bar. Each professor has something unique to contribute to the international affairs and public policy conversation. More information on each lecturer and their presentations are below. Read More →
"The most global public policy school, where an international community of students and faculty address world challenges."
—Merit E. Janow, Dean, SIPA, Professor of Practice, International and Economic Law and International Affairs
