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Are you interested in local and global policy?
We invite you to view many of SIPA’s major events
online at sipa.columbia.edu/multimedia. These
events can also be viewed on iTunes and UChannel.
A selection of the past year’s events
includes:
Kai-Fu Lee, Vice-president of Engineering
at Google, Inc. and President of Google
Greater China, on “Delighting Chinese
Users: The Google China Experience”
Ester Fuchs and Robert Walsh present a
case study on “NYC Workforce
Development”
Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Columbia
Earth Institute on ”Global Cooperation
and Sustainable Development“
Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City,
on “Transforming Mexico City: Creating a
City for the 21st Century,” the fi rst lecture
in the SIPA Mayors’ Speaker Series
New York City Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg, Manhattan Borough President
Scott M. Stringer and others on “The
Politics of Food,” a conference focusing
on one of New York City’s biggest policy
challenges
Matt Dowd, Rodolfo de la Garza, Stuart
Gottlieb, and Frederick Harris on “What’s
Race Got to Do with It: A Discussion of
the Role of Race in the 2008 Presidential
Election”
Joseph Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo,
Richard Robb, and Christian Deseglise on
“The Crisis in Emerging Markets:
Impacts on Emerging Markets and
Future Consequences”
Zbigniew Brzezinski on “U.S. Foreign
Policy: Beyond 2008”
Kishore Mahbubani on “The New
Asian Hemisphere”
Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of
Germany, on “Russia and the Future of
European Energy Security”
Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya
on “India—An Emerging Giant”
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house near Stanton Square on
Capitol Hill last year. In the
spring, she plans to defend her
doctoral dissertation in the
Southeast Asia Studies Program
at Johns Hopkins SAIS; the
subject is private sector development
in Timor-Leste. She
would be happy to hear from
SIPA pals coming through DC,
at epsych@hotmail.com.
1996
Magdale (Labbe) Labbe-
Henke, MIA
Magdale is pleased to announce
the opening of her immigration
law consulting fi rm,
MLH Consular Consulting, in
Munich, Germany. It provides
individuals and small- to
medium-sized companies with
U.S. and global immigration
law advice and services, as well
as international HR consulting.
The fi rm also works closely
with a worldwide network of
attorneys and with experts in
the United States who provide
global wealth planning and
tax advice. More information
can be found on its Web site,
www.consular-consulting.com.
Magdale can be reached at
mlhconsular@aol.com.
Thomas D. Zweifel, MIA
Thomas, the Swiss Consulting
Group’s CEO and a SIPA
adjunct professor of leadership
from 2001 to 2008, has just
published his fi fth book: The
Rabbi and the CEO: The Ten Commandments
for 21st Century Leaders
(coauthored with Rabbi Aaron
L. Raskin; SelectBooks, 2008).
An excerpt can be downloaded
at http://www.swissconsultinggroup.com/books.php#rabbi.
1997
Megan McKenna, MIA
Earlier this year, Megan
coauthored a book with a
refugee from Darfur, published
by Random House, called The
Translator. The book is a memoir
of the life of Daoud Hari,
who translated for journalists
and NGOs. Megan has been
working with Doctors without
Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
since June and moved to
Europe in October to continue
with the organization as a
senior communications offi cer.
Diana Bruce Oosterveld,
MPA
Diana K. Bruce was recently
named Director of Health
and Wellness for the District
of Columbia Public Schools.
After years of advocating for
reproductive health and HIV/
AIDS issues at the federal, state
and local levels, Diana decided
to commit her health policy
expertise to improving public
schools. She and husband Bart
Oosterveld (MPA ’97) are
raising their children Emma (7)
and Sebastian (5) in Washington,
DC, where they attend a
Montessori program within a
DC public school. Diana and
Bart loved returning to SIPA
earlier this year to catch up
with other MPA alums at the
30th Anniversary! Contact Diana
at Diana.Bruce@dc.gov.
1998
Debora Garcia-Orrico,
MIA
After Debora left New York
in 1999, she lived until 2006
in Kosovo, where her life was
not especially conducive to IT
entertainment. Debora went to
Madrid—after a short passage
through Syria—in September
2006. She has since been
completing requirements in a
PhD program on international
security, as well as lecturing
and doing consulting. She is
currently involved in a very
interesting project regarding
UNSC resolutions adopted
under Chapter VII. She has also
joined the voluntary reserve in
the Spanish Army. She fi nished