The University of Michigan and the Ford School are planning a series of activities to welcome the class of 1961 back to Ann Arbor. The Reunion Weekend will offer alumni the chance to reconnect with old classmates and visit campus. Though much has changed since its time as the Institute for Public Administration, the Ford School of Public Policy is still committed to public policy research and education-come visit us and see how! Alumni Board member Rich Hughes (MPA '61) is a member of the Reunion Advisory Committee.
2:00pm – 3:00pm – Alumni Panel 3:00pm – 4:00pm – Anniversary Reception Great Hall (Weill Hall) Free and open to the public. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Public Policy & International Affairs program – a program designed to build diversity in public service. The University of Michigan's Gerald R.
The theme of the Congress is 'Rethinking the Role of the State: Responses to Recent Challenges.' The plenary lectures will focus on how the tools and methods of Public Economics and related disciplines can serve to understand the issues.
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During his 33-year Foreign Service career Christopher Hill served as an ambassador to Macedonia, Poland, South Korea and, most recently, Iraq. Ambassador Hill was part of the team that negotiated the Bosnian Peace Settlement in 1995, headed the U.S.
The conference discussed theoretical, empirical and policy papers. The suggested topics included, but were not limited to, the following:
Formality and Informality (Competition or Market Power) Gender and Other Discrimination Labor Market Flexibility Globalization, Foreign Investment, and Labor Standards Structuring Safety Nets Demographic Issues
Global Policy Perspectives Syimposium: Effects of the US Election on the European Union
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On February 25, sixty alumni from the University of Michigan and other American universities gathered in Paris to network and to learn about European and United States leadership in this time of economic crisis from Jan Svejnar, Director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Svejnar, the Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Michigan, laid out the causes of the current crisis, its implications for the financial and political systems of both the U.S.
