APSIA February 2020 Newsletter: Celebrating APSIA Students Worldwide

APSIA's February 2020 Newsletter: Celebrating APSIA Students Worldwide

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February 2020 Newsletter:
Celebrating APSIA Students Worldwide

Black American National Security & Foreign Policy Next Generation Leaders

To celebrate and honor the African Americans in foreign policy, New America published a list of the next generation of leaders, including congressional staff, intelligence analysts, military veterans, diplomats, foreign aid practitioners, entrepreneurs, economists, and beyond.

The 35 experts in U.S. national security and foreign policy were selected for their excellence and leadership; their current work in national security or foreign policy; and their contributions to their issues of expertise through thought leadership. Among these experts are many APSIA school alumni.

To learn and read more,
please click here.

APSIA Students Win Carnegie Council's International Student Essay Contest 2019

Congratulations to APSIA graduate students Romain Forestier (Sciences Po) and Margarita Valkovskaya (The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs) for winning the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs' International Student Essay Contest.

Students worldwide approached the essay topic: "Is there an ethical responsibility to regulate the Internet? If so, why and to what extent? If not, why not?" Forestier's "Compromising on Censorship? The Case for a Bilateral Agreement Over the Interne t" was awarded the first prize, while Valkovskaya's "In Favor of the Public Interest: Social Media Should be Regulated" was awarded the second.

Congratulations to all of the winning essays! To read them all, please click here.

For a full list of our upcoming events,
please visit the APSIA events page here.

Featured Opportunity:
2020 International Contest for
Graduate Students

Have you registered for the 2020 Geneva Challenge?

Launched in 2014 at the Graduate Institute Geneva, the Advancing Development Goals International Contest for Graduate Students aims to stimulate reflection and innovation on development issues from diverse disciplines and contexts. The theme for this year is "2020: The Challenges of Social Inclusion."

The goal is to gather and contribute ideas that are theoretically grounded and pragmatic solutions to a relevant international development problem. Team collaboration will be between three to five enrolled master students from anywhere in the world.

Deadline to register is March 23, 2020.
To learn more about this year's theme, please click here.

Featured Resource:
Student Stories

Curious about the flexibility of an APSIA degree? Not sure what a career in international affairs can look like? Not to worry! We are here to help. The Student Stories section on our website highlights graduates from many of our APSIA member schools around the world, with diverse experiences and career interests.

Are you an alumna/alumnus? Want to share your story with us?
Please email us at apsia@apsia.org.

Alumna Highlight: Makda Getachew

Makda Getachew is an alumna from the Master of Public Policy program at the Hertie School of Governance, where she focused on African Studies.

After graduating, Getachew moved back home to Ethiopia and worked for various organizations within the international development field, including the International Labour Organization, UN Economic Commission for Africa, Irish Aid, and most recently, for the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) in Ethiopia and Zambia. In this role, she is responsible for program development and management focusing on economic and social justice, socio-political analysis, and working with various local and international organizations.

Getachew credits the Hertie School for giving her strong policy analysis skills and
"the ability to dissect a sector, dissect an issue…from different points of view, the political economy of different actors, and seeing where change can happen.”

To learn more about Getachew's experience in
development, governance, and social inclusion, please click here.

Member School Highlight:
Hertie School of Governance

A big welcome to our newest APSIA member school, The Hertie School of Governance! The Hertie School is a private university based in Berlin, accredited by the State and the German Science Council. Interdisciplinary and practice-oriented teaching, first-class research and an extensive international network set the Hertie School apart and position it as an ambassador of good governance, characterized by public debate and engagement. The School was founded at the end of 2003 as a project of the Hertie Foundation, which remains its major partner.

In September 2008, the School launched its second master’s program: the Executive Master of Public Management. The right to award doctorates was conferred to the Hertie School in September 2012 and the School launched a new, research-intensive doctoral program, the PhD in Governance, shortly thereafter.

To learn more about the Hertie School, please click here.

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