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Assistant Professor
Emanuel Admassu
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Senior Lecturer
Hisham Aidi
Senior Lecturer, School International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Professor
Modupe N Akinola
Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business, Graduate School of Business
Professor
Séverine Autesserre
Professor, Political Science, Barnard College; School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Director
Youssef Cherif
Director, Columbia Global Center Tunis
Lecturer
Lisa Allyn Dale
Lecturer in the Discipline of Climate, Climate School
Adjunct Professor
Fatou K. Dieye
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Architecture Planning Preserv
Associate Professor
Kristina G. Douglass
Associate Professor of Climate, Climate School
Professor
Howard W. French
Professor of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism
Professor
Mario Gooden
Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director of the Master of Architecture Program in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Architecture Planning Preserv
Professor
Brett House
Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business, Graduate School of Business
Adjunct Professor
Jacqueline M Klopp
Research Scholar in the Center for Sustainable Urban Development in the Climate School; Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development in the Climate School; Adjunct Professor of Climate, Earth Institute
Adjunct Professor
Judith E. Matloff
Adjunct Professor of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism
Adjunct Professor
C. Sara Lawrence Minard
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School Intl & Public Affairs
Director
Murugi Ndirangu
Director, Columbia Global Center Nairobi
Adjunct Professor
Akbar Noman
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School International & Public Affairs (SIPA)
Adjunct Professor
Jinny Prais
Associate Director, Institute of African Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs, Institute of African Studies
Associate Professor
S. Garnett Russell
Associate Professor of International and Comparative Education, Teachers College, Teachers College
Associate Professor
Samantha C. Winter
Associate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work