Keren Yarhi-Milo Appointed Dean of the Faculty of Worldwide and Public Affairs | Workplace of the President – The Workplace of the President, Columbia College
Pricey fellow members of the Columbia group:
I’m delighted to announce my appointment of Keren Yarhi-Milo as the subsequent Dean of Columbia’s Faculty of Worldwide and Public Affairs. Professor Yarhi-Milo is the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Conflict and Peace Research and Director of the Saltzman Institute of Conflict and Peace Research. She is an knowledgeable in worldwide safety and battle decision with a report of intensive management service at SIPA and throughout the College.
Professor Yarhi-Milo joined the Columbia college in 2019 after a decade at Princeton College, the place she had been an Affiliate Professor of Politics and Worldwide Affairs. She graduated from Columbia’s Faculty of Basic Research in 2003 and earned her PhD from the College of Pennsylvania.
Keren’s award-winning scholarship and educating bridge the tutorial and coverage worlds, focusing predominantly on how leaders make international coverage selections concerning the usage of power. Her most up-to-date books are Figuring out the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Evaluation of Intentions in Worldwide Relations andWho Fights for Popularity: The Psychology of Leaders in Worldwide Battle. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from psychology, organizational principle, and behavioral economics, her work explores the difficult contexts that encompass decision-making, signaling, and notion in worldwide relations. Keren’s analysis additionally delves into the complexities of intelligence, the function of secrecy and deception in international coverage, and the usage of face-to-face diplomacy. All of her scholarship is grounded in an ongoing dialogue with policymakers, by which concepts and approaches are challenged and refined.
As Director of SIPA’s Saltzman Institute of Conflict and Peace Research, Keren has launched quite a few bold initiatives to raise SIPA’s educational choices and engagement with the world’s most urgent challenges. Chief amongst them are her efforts with the Columbia International Facilities and the Committee on Pressured Migration to assist college students and students displaced by the disaster in Afghanistan. This work was expanded in March to incorporate these looking for refuge from the conflict in Ukraine. In 2021, she launched the Rising Voices in Nationwide Safety and Intelligence program to draw and assist college students from underrepresented backgrounds fascinated about pursuing careers in these fields. She has additionally spearheaded the Saltzman Scholar Scholar program and has served on the Committee of Appointments and Promotions and the Committee on Range and Inclusion. Her College-wide management roles embrace serving on the Joint CC-GS Committee on Instruction, as a member of the College Senate, and as chair of the Arts and Sciences subcommittee exploring a possible School growth.
I want to thank the members of the search committee for his or her cautious and expert work in deciding on the subsequent Dean of SIPA, and to acknowledge Thomas Christensen for serving ably and expertly as Interim Dean.
An extended-standing and devoted member of the Columbia group, Keren might be a beautiful addition to College management. Please be part of me in congratulating her on this appointment.
Sincerely,
Lee C. Bollinger