How can individual researchers, NGOs and governments accurately assess how to improve migration policies, given the fraught international and sometimes nationalist political environment? While migration from a poorer to a richer country can have the...
Effective leadership always requires the ability to adjust to changing circumstances. The massive disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic affected both how people were able to do their jobs as well as how they could accomplish their professional...
As the toll of the COVID-19 economic shutdown reverberates around the world, money sent home by foreign workers is drying up. Hundreds of billions of dollars are sent every year from countries where immigrants work to countries they call home or...
Frank R. Spence (MPA '60) was recently elected president of the Astoria, OR Port Commission. Frank received the 2004 Neil Staebler Award for Distinguished Public Service and has served on the U-M and Ford School Alumni Boards.
Alan Miller (MPP...
Service History
Assistant secretary for financial institutions, U.S. Treasury Department (2009-10)
Special advisor, President of the United States (1999-01)
Deputy assistant secretary for community development, U.S. Treasury Department...
Kate Reinertson
Talha Mirza (BA '18) & Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Farah Mandich (MPP '17) at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, UK....
As a dual degree student with SNRE [the School of Natural Resources and Environment] and Ford, I am interested in pursuing a career in international development within the context of climate change as a complex environmental, social, and political...
Edie Goldenberg
Alan Deardorff has agreed to continue in his role of Associate Dean of the Ford School, but a number of other key leadership roles opened this fall as faculty concluded their terms in...
Updated January 5, 2010A memorial fund has been established in Kathy's honor. Learn more about the fund and how to make a contribution here.Kathy's Business School colleagues have set up a permanant web page to which people can post their memories,...
Not long after ringing in the New Year, the Masters students at the Ford School of Public Policy traded in their party hats for business casual suits as they prepared to tackle the hefty problem of health care. January 3rd, 2008 marked the first day...
In early January of each year the Ford School runs a distinctive policy simulation called the Integrated Policy Exercise. All current students are required to participate by researching and representing the role of a particular stakeholder within a...
Former United Nations Under-Secretary General and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), will join us to discuss the intricate relationship between health equity and economic resilience in Africa. Dr. Songwe's insights will highlight Africa's role in global power dynamics and strategies for asserting its agency amid evolving economic landscapes.
Hira Mumtaz (MPP '19 Fulbright Scholar) talks about her use of economic analysis to help stakeholders at World Bank and how global policymakers can fight energy challenges.
