The Alliance Graduate Summer School is an event organized by the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society of Columbia University. The Alliance Graduate Summer School began as a student-led initiative in 2012 in an effort to promote interdisciplinary exchange between graduate students researching the nexus of science and policy at Alliance institutions. The Summer School brings together world-class professors, industry experts and graduate students for an exchange of ideas, intellectual discourse, and joint-learning opportunities through a mixture of guest speakers and workshops.
The 2022 summer school will take place from June 6th to June 9th, 2022 in Paris, France.
Applications must be submitted by April 15th, 2022.
Application Details
- The application is open to all research-based masters and Ph.D. students
- 80 € participation fee is required (covers all lunches and refreshments)
- Deadline: April 15, 2022
- For more information, contact us at [email protected]
Description &Timeline
The four day-day program is geared toward graduate students in economics, environmental science, public policy, and related fields. It will feature:
- Presentations from world-class professors, researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders
- Workshops for participants to apply analytical tools
- Applications to climate change and policy, energy, health, food, and data for development
The combination of lectures, panel discussions, and research workshops will focus on the multiple paths through which innovation can expand our toolkit in addressing climate change.
Speakers
The 2022 edition will feature the following speakers:
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, OECD
Marion Dumas, LSE
Philippe Drobinski, Ecole Polytechnique
Anouch Missirian, Toulouse School of Economics
John Mutter, Columbia
Slava Jankin, Hertie School
Peter Verburg, Vrije Universiteit
Liam Wren-Lewis, Paris School of Economics
The keynote speaker of the 2022 edition will be Professor Philippe Ciais. Professor Ciais is a senior researcher of Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE) in France and holds a part time professorship in the Cyprus Institute. P. Ciais is among the leading scientists working on the global carbon cycle, climate and geosciences. He is a highly cited researcher and has been ranked among the most productive scientific authors in the field of climate change, with more than one thousand peer reviewed publications, including many in high-profile journals. P. Ciais acted as a co-chair of the Global Carbon Project and coordinated the carbon cycle chapter in the fifth assessment report of the IPCC. He coordinated the preparation of the ICOS European network of greenhouse gas observations in Europe and co-funded a Sino-French research institute with Beijing University. Currently, he leads a national convergence institute that deals with the role of cultivated ecosystems for climate mitigation and adaptation. Philippe Ciais was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2019, and as foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. He received the Copernicus Medal and the silver medal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Sponsor
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