Press Release
from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
A festive end-of-year event for Harvard Kennedy School’s International and Global Affairs (IGA) students featured congratulations to graduates, special awards to students, and praise by professors, led by IGA Area Chair William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development at the Kennedy School.
The annual IGA Class Day Breakfast was hosted by IGA area faculty and staff to honor the MPP (Masters of Public Policy) graduates of the Class of 2015 who elected to concentrate in International and Global Affairs. The event was sponsored by the Belfer Center and organized by IGA Area Manager Gretchen Bartlett.
Awards for outstanding Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) in several categories were announced by IGA Policy Area of Concentration (PAC) Seminar Leader Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) professor of practice and co-principal investigator with the Belfer Center’s Project on Managing the Atom.
The Robert Belfer Annual Award for Best PAE in IGA went to Jessie Landerman and Amelia (Mia) Mitchell, a former Belfer IGA student fellow. The title of their PAE was “Improving CiviParty: Evidence from Usability Testing in Mexico.” The students produced the PAE for the National Democratic Institute, and were advised by HKS Assistant Professor of Public Policy Dara Kay Cohen.
The Best Take on a Large Problem Award was presented to Belfer IGA Student Fellows Christopher McGuire, JeeYoung Oh, and Joshua Stiefel. Their PAE, titled “Nonproliferation in Cyberspace: An International Initiative to Prevent the Transfer of Cyber Weapons Targeting Industrial Control Systems to Non-State Actors,” was produced for Eric Rosenbach, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyberpolicy with the U.S. Department of Defense and former executive director for research at the Belfer Center. The students were advised by Harvard Distinguished Service Professor Joseph Nye with additional advice from Nicholas Burns, director of the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project.
Finally, Richard Freeman received the Best Research Award for his work titled “Supporting the Rwanda Law Reform Commission to Improve Statutory Interpretations: Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Context of Rwanda’s Accession to the East African Community, Commonwealth Membership, and Anglophone Realignment.” Advised by HKS Associate Professor Matthew Andrews, Freeman’s client was the Rwanda Law Reform Commission.
More information on the IGA program is available here. Information on the Belfer Center IGA student fellowship program is here.