The first cohort of OSUN students enrolled in the OSUN GLOBALED certificate program, hosted at the Department of Public Policy of CEU, completed their Practicum projects. Student teams presented their findings and recommendations to an audience of OSUN faculty mentors and client representatives at an online conference held on March 28, 2022.
Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, George Soros Visiting Chair at DPP in the winter term, held a public lecture on March 2 titled Is Violent America Europe's Future? Chebel d'Appollonia, a professor at Rutgers University, Newark and an affiliated Senior Researcher at Sciences Po Paris, discussed some of the negative sides of identity politics in the United States, building on the work of her forthcoming book, as well as how this leads to division of the left and an ever-increasing polarization of the political landscape in America.
Marc Schiffbauer, a Senior Economist at the World Bank working in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management unit has been invited to speak the the DPP Evidence-Based Policymaking (EBPM) seminar series. The seminar, held on February 23, was the first event of the seminar series that brings together researchers across multiple departments at CEU interested in empirical issues related to social policy and public policy.
DPP MPA (Master of Public Administration) alumna Song Ah Lee has been awarded the highly competitive and prestigious year-long Human Rights Watch Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship for 2022. Professor Kirsten Roberts-Lyer said: "I am delighted that Song Ah has been awarded this highly competitive and prestigious fellowship with one of the leading human rights NGOs in the world. Song Ah is an outstanding MPA student and will be a great asset to Human Rights Watch during her fellowship.
