Founding Director - Center on Global Economic Governance

Founding Director - Center on Global Economic Governance Professor or Professor of Professional Practice Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) invites applications for the position of professor or professor of professional practice to serve as the founding Director of its new Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG). The successful applicant must be qualified for appointment to the SIPA faculty as a professor or professor of professional practice. The position is expected to be filled beginning July 1, 2011, or as soon thereafter as possible. The director of the CGEG must have a distinguished record of intellectual and organizational leadership, and a demonstrated ability to establish the Center as a world-recognized institutional and intellectual resource for the analysis of global economic issues, as well as a forum for high-level discussion and debate. Reporting to the Dean of the School, the director will play a major role in shaping the Center's research agenda and publications policy, and will recruit and give direction to its administrative staff. The CGEG will bring together social and policy scientists who study the formation and design of economic policies, the formal institutions and policy regimes that implement them, and the markets and economic agents who shape or respond to them. The Center will provide a point of contact and collaboration for economists and other social scientists at Columbia whose work analyzes trends in productivity, trade, welfare (inequality, poverty), and the environment as well as flows of capital, technology, and migration across national and regional borders. Please visit our online application site at: academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=54372 for further information about this position and to submit your application. Screening of the candidates will begin March 15, 2011. The search will be open for at least 30 days and will remain open until filled. Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) brings together an interdisciplinary faculty to conduct research in policy-related fields and train students at the master's and doctoral level for careers in global public policy. Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Contact: For further information, please contact Joe Chartier, Academic Department Administrator, School of International and Public Affairs, at jc3317@columbia.edu