M.S. in Global Affairs

MSGA FIRST FRIDAY SERIES

Our community is extraordinary and committed to making a difference in the world. On the first Friday of the month during the academic year, the MS in Global Affairs community – faculty, students, and staff – meet to discuss critical global issues and share lunch. First Fridays are presented as a collaboration between the graduate program and the Global Affairs Graduate Society (GAGS) and feature speakers on a wide range of topics.

Recent speakers have included:

Simona Petrova, chief of office, UN Under-Secretary-General for Management

Catherine Dale, office of the secretary of defense; former chief political advisor, U.S Armed Forces in Iraq

Charles J. Hanley, special correspondent, international desk, Associated Press

Marlene M. Johnson, executive director and chief executive officer, NAFSA: Association of International Educators

Eric J. Pan, director, The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Global Governance, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Judith Samuelson, executive director, business and society program, Aspen Institute

Ursula Wynhoven, special assistant to the executive head, UN Global Compact Office

David Olson, MD, medical advisor, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

 

Nina Schwalbe, director of policy, Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance)

His High Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the UN

Dana Burde, associate research scholar, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Program on Forced Migration and Health

Sigrid Gruener, director, conflict assessment, Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR)

Thomas Hill, visiting scholar, University of Pennsylvania Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict

Gideon Rose, managing editor, Foreign Affairs

Andrew Nagorski, senior editor, Newsweek International

Karen Sughrue, producer, CBS News / 60 Minutes

Global Affairs:
Public Events Series

The Center of Global Affairs proudly presents video footage from the Public Events series.

Visit the public events page to learn more.


Briony MacPhee

Alumna, M.S. in Global Affairs

"After listening to a speaker from the UN mission to Peru, I was able to ask him questions one-on-one."