Government and Society

Susan Fuhrman, President of Columbia University’s Teachers College, Claudia Costin, Former Director for Education at the World Bank, and Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro, Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Education (MEC), were main speakers during the event on March, 13.

Full-day event discussed themes such as open government, open data, open decision-making processes, transparency and public participation.

The Civil Society organization arrives in Rio just a year after it was founded in São Paulo. The institution aims to help start-ups who want to engage more with the public sector.

Discussion brought together scholars and specialists from a broad spectrum of fields from all over the world to participate in a discussion about themes that have impact locally and globally.

The launch tour in Brazil also covered the cities of São Paulo on April 19 and Brasília on April 18. 

Columbia University is one of five major universities to have a professorship endowed by the Edward Larocque Tinker Foundation. 

During September 15 and 16, Economists from all over the world discussed Development Banks’ roles and their future during a Conference that took place place in Rio de Janeiro.

Columbia University Professor and former United Nations’ Deputy Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, José Antonio Ocampo, and Finance Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Stephany Griffith-Jones, discussed social policies and their roles in the pursuit to reduce inequality, on Wednesday (September 14) in an event in Rio de Janeiro.

On July 18th, representatives from Human Resources Departments of several public sector entities in Brazil came together to debate strategies for human resources management in public institutions with Professor Barbara Nunberg (Columbia/ SIPA) and Antoine Lusao (Director of Staff and Management at State Institute of Environment - INEA).

Organized by Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, the goal of the meeting was to present the preliminary results from two collaborative researches between Interdisciplinary Center for Inequality Studies (NIED/UFRJ) and the Center for Studies of Wealth and Inequality (CWI/Columbia University)  to a group specialized in stratification in Brazil.

Organized by Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with Department of Sociology at Columbia University and Interdisciplinary Center for Inequality Studies, from Federal University of Rio, the class brought a variety of themes related to gender inequalities that are being discussed.

On April 18th, Columbia Journalism School and Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro held a panel discussion on the media in Brazil and its current challenges.

Last Thursday (April 7th), economist Gustavo Franco was a guest lecturer at the Global Executive Master in Public Administration (Global EMPA), a program offered by the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University (SIPA), at Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro.

Another Design Challenge was launched in the scope of the Columbia Innovation Hub in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

On March 15th, Studio X Rio celebrated its fifth anniversary

On January 15th, the Global Executive Master of Public Administration (Global EMPA) program welcomed its second class of students. The 18-month degree program was launched last year through the Columbia Global Centers |Rio de Janeiro with an inaugural cohort of 22 students from government, non-profit, and private sectors throughout Brazil.

Columbia professors and Brazilian specialists engaged in the discussion of topics such as environment, urban planning and public health issues in the world’s largest cities. 

Thomas Trebat to deliver keynote speech at Oil and Gas Conference taking place at FGV.

Informational Sessions were held in São Paulo, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, where candidates  had a chance to get to know more about the Global Executive Master in Public Administration. 

The Coordination for Improvement of Graduate Level Staff (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Capes) seeks a scholar in Brazil to take part in teaching and research activities on Social and Sciences and Humanities at Columbia University. 

On August 12th and 13th 2015, Columbia University's Center for Brazilian Studies held a conference on Mobile Learning. 

The Global EMPA students went to New York this July to complete the program Summer term on campus.

Professor Alberro, the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College, offered an open lecture at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage

This summer, Columbia University faculty has visited Rio de Janeiro to conduct research at the Instituto Moreira Salles and other institutions. This visit represents the first step in planning a conference and exhibit on the topic of “Brazil as Global Crossroads” to be mounted in Rio and in New York City.

Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Curator of Architecture at the Museu of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, came to Rio de Janeiro for a week in July. 

José Moya, Director of the Barnard College Forum on Migration and Director of the Institue of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, came to Brazil on a research duty. 

Graciela Montaldo, Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, was part of the Humanities group that came to Rio de Janeiro. 

n the coming month of July, the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro will receive researchers and professors from different departments of Columbia University, who study the broader area of Humanities.

Columbia University and its partnership with the Edson Queiroz Foundation - University of Fortaleza is rendering more fruits.

Dr. Thomas J. Trebat, Director of the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, has signed an agreement with Rio de Janeiro's State Finance Secretary, to allow researchers from Columbia University to use the data on tax revenue.

Last week, the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro was glad to co-host - along with CVM, the Brazilian regulators of Capital Markets - the Program in Law and Economics of Capital Markets, which is offered jointly by Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School. 

On April 28 and 29, the Dean of Columbia University's School of Continuing Education, Kristine Billmyer, came to Rio de Janeiro accompanied by Enterprise Risk Management Professor Sim Segal. 

Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro Director and the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, were joined by two Columbia deans and the provost at a ceremony on April 16th to sign the agreement for creating the Rio Columbia Innovation Hub. 

From March 15 to 20, the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro had the pleasure to welcome a group from Barnard College in Rio de Janeiro.

Columbia Global Centers | Latin America Rio de Janeiro hosted panel discussions on education in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo on March 18 and 19, respectively, featuring distinguished panelists to discuss education in Rio and Brazil.

The Rio Center and ENAP – Brazil´s National School of Public Administration are evaluating possibilities of collaborations between ENAP and Columbia University.

Since 2012, the Lemann Foundation has been supporting the Science without Borders (SWB) program at partner universities: Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and UCLA.

The Columbia Global Center| Rio de Janeiro is pleased to inform you of a recent agreement with the State of Rio de Janeiro through the State´s research funding agency, known as FAPERJ. 

The ceremony took place at the Guanabara Palace, home of the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, where President Lee C. Bollinger launched the eighth global center of the network exactly a year ago.

Columbia Global Debates is a new format for public discussions on global issues filmed before a studio audience and streamed live around the world. 

Columbia University has announced the second Request for Proposals for the President’s Global Innovation Fund.  

Columbia Global Centers recently hosted two discussions at its Rio de Janeiro Center to launch the inaugural Columbia Global Debates, a pilot program connecting all eight centers and the main campus with a live audience in Brazil.

Columbia University Chaplain Jewelnel Davis recently spent a week in Rio de Janeiro, following her trip to Chile. 

The Rio de Janeiro Alumni Club inaugurated a brownbag seminarseries at the Center on August 19th.

President Lee C. Bollinger has announced plans to provide grants to faculty members to leverage and engage Columbia’s Global Center network.