Featured Alumnus: Pascal Rapillard, GICHD
Featured Alumnus: Pascal Rapillard, GICHD Developing and reinforcing Geneva’s role as a global hub for demining....
Public Diplomacy Dual Degree - A Potent Combination of International Relations & Public Relations
Alumni of our public diplomacy program are working around the globe, finding diplomatic solutions and strategically positioning their organizations....
Relief and Development Work - A True Calling for Chance Briggs. Maxwell 1997 alum
Chance Briggs often returns to Maxwell to meet with students and share his experiences in crafting a career in international development and relief work....
From Ukraine to Maxwell to the World Bank. Iryna's story, MA IR '09
Iryna attributes the professional internships she was able to complete in the Maxwell MA IR as a strong foundation for her current career as an Operation's Analyst in the World Bank....
Maxwell MA IR '01 Career bridges EU and US Policy
Christopher Skaluba was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow upon graduation of the MA International Relations program in 2001. He has taken this fellowship forward, crafting a career bridging...
Keeping the doors open for a "durable, coordinated, and humane" refugee response
In 2016, the UN Refugee Agency reported 65.3 million forcibly displaced people around the world, including 21.3 million refugees....
Boosting the power of activism: New research shows we are stronger together
Robin Phinney (PhD '10) and LaGina Gause (PhD '16), recent Ford School doctoral alumnae, have focused their research on ways to improve the effectiveness of activism and protest....
Working toward a purpose together at GAO
As part of an ongoing series to spotlight GPS’s top employers, we profile why GAO hires our graduates, plus why current alumni enjoy working there...
Elliott School Alumna Reveals the Narrative of American Muslims
An unexpected turn led Hena Khan (M.A.’97) from her career as international development consultant to successful children’s author....
Rose Gottemoeller, MA ’81, is passionate about science and government
Rose is the Deputy Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a position she took up in October 2016. She is the first woman and second American to hold this title....
Alumnus Ted Schmitt Uses Big Data to Help Endangered Species
A technology wizard living in Seattle and working for Vulcan Inc., Ted Schmitt wields big data as a weapon in the fight to protect the Earth's threatened species....
Alumnus Receives Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship
Josh Pickar, who received his B.A. from GW's Elliott School in 2014, will study global governance and diplomacy as well as comparative social policy at the University of Oxford....