Event Series
Events provide a channel for IGP to engage SIPA students, the Columbia community, and the public at large.
In a highly polarized world, IGP provides a forum for open, respectful dialogue across partisan and ideological divides. IGP’s signature speaker series offer a vital platform to exchange ideas, find common ground, and model constructive debate for the next generation of policy leaders.
Spotlight Interviews
This speaker series brings prominent public- and private- sector leaders to IGP for intimate, in-depth conversations about today’s most pressing global challenges. Speakers share insights from their experiences: lessons learned, defining current and future challenges, and advice for the next generation of policy leaders.
Across the Aisle
IGP’s Across the Aisle series, generously sponsored by the Knight Foundation, features discussions between prominent domestic and global leaders with opposing viewpoints, with the goal of modeling for students the possibility for and value of respectful civil discourse, which is presently all too rare in our society.
Rapid Response
Through online events, faculty interviews, and other editorial products, IGP releases rapid-response analysis, in real time, as events unfold throughout the world, thereby making Columbia’s world-class scholarship more visible, accessible, and impactful.
The Dinkins Forum
Named for the 106th and first African American Mayor of New York City, the David N. Dinkins Leadership & Public Policy Forum is a vehicle for analysis, focus, and dialogue around the ever-changing dynamics that impact and inform urban policies, programs, and initiatives. Since 1995, this forum has addressed many of the challenging issues that successful urban ecosystems must contend with including education, the environment, labor, homelessness, immigration, and fiscal crises.
The 2024 US Election
Throughout the fall 2024 semester, IGP hosted a series of major events and webinars along with student-focused roundtables and skills workshops on the 2024 US presidential election. Timothy Naftali, IGP Faculty Advisory Board member, Columbia SIPA Senior Research Scholar, and CNN commentator with expertise in presidential history, curated this event series.
