Employment Data

This week, the Graduate Student Career Development (GSCD) Office released its latest set of employment data.  Every year, GSCD surveys the most recent alumni six months after their graduation to collect information on where they are employed, how much they are earning, and. what types of experience they had before attending the Elliott School.

You can find the full survey results on our website, but below are some of the highlights  (93% of graduating students responded to the survey).

90% of respondents were employed at the time of submission.  An additional 4% were continuing their education in a variety of programs.

34% of graduates are now working in the non-profit sector; 31% in the private sector; and 35% in the public sector.

52% of those students in the private sector are working in consulting or government contracting  positions.

You can also find data from the last five years of the survey on our website.  We are incredibly proud of our alumni and the important work that they are doing all over the world!

Connecting with the Elliott School

If you have been admitted to a graduate program at the Elliott School for Fall 2013, we congratulation you!

There are many ways you can connect with the Elliott School as you research your graduate school options.  The primary resource available to our admitted students is the Admitted Graduate Student website.  (you can find a link to this page in your admit letter.)  This site is filled with useful information about Elliott School academics, living in D.C, visiting campus, and how to accept your admission.

Visit Campus:  One of our largest events of the year is the Admitted Student Open House.  This year, the open house will be on Friday, April 12.  You will have an opportunity to hear from your program director, faculty, students, and alumni throughout the event.  It is also a great way to meet your future classmates!

Connect with Alumni in your area:  Throughout March and the beginning of April, we hope to connect admitted students with alumni to discuss life at and after the Elliott School.  We are hosting Admitted Student Coffees with alumni throughout the country and also have volunteers available to call or email with admitted students.  If you are interested in attending one of the coffees or connecting with an alum, please complete the form found through the Admitted Student Website. The dates and cities for the Admitted Student Coffees are below.

Houston, TX – Monday, March 18, 6:00 p.m.

New York City, NY – Wednesday, March 20, 6:00 p.m.

Evanston, IL – Thursday, March 21, 5:30 p.m.

Minneapolis, MN – Tuesday, March 26, 5:30 p.m.

San Diego, CA – Tuesday, March 26, 6:00 p.m.

Seattle, WA – Tuesday, March 26, 6:00 p.m.

New York City, NY – Wednesday, March 27, 6:00 p.m.

San Francisco, CA – Wednesday, April 3, 6:30 p.m.

Virtually Visit Campus:  For those of you who cannot attend the Open House, we will be offering online information sessions.  Some of these sessions will be program-specific while others will be more general.  We hope to include current students and alumni in the information sessions to help answer your questions about what it means to be an Elliott School student.  We will email you with more details about these sessions as soon as possible.

As always, our office is available to answer any questions you may have.  Please feel free to contact us at 202-994-7050 or esiagrad@gwu.edu.  We look forward to talking with you!

China and Africa: A Century of Engagement

Adjunct Professor and former Ambassador David H. Shinn released his newest book entitled, China and Africa: A Centurty of Engagement.  He recently gave a presentation on the book at the Chatham House.

Ambassador Shinn is a three-time GW alum and also publishes his own blog on African relations/politics.

Kim

Studying abroad as a grad student

Elliott School alumna, Kate Pazoles, is one of the students profiled in the Washington Post’s Express article “A Foreign Concept” on graduate students who go abroad.  Kate was enrolled in our Middle East Studies program and studied abroad at the graduate level in Beirut and Damascus.

Nuclear Policy Talks

Rose Gottemoeller, Department of State Acting Under Secretary (and Elliott School alum), cordially invites you to a special event-  Three Pillars for Peace and Security: Implementing the NPT

U.S. Department of State, East Auditorium, George Marshall Conference Center (Enter at 21st St. NW, between C St. & Virginia Ave., Washington, D.C.)

This event will highlight the work of the P5 in fulfilling their commitments under all three pillars of the NPT, and also provide a venue for discussing how all states can, through their efforts across the three pillars, help to create the conditions for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Please RSVP to P5Conference@state.gov no later than 5:00p.m. EDT, Monday, June 25, 2012.

Please include the following information in your reply:

-”P5 Conference” in the subject line of your response email

-Full name, organization, title, date of birth

-For U.S. citizens: U.S. drivers license number and state of issuance

-For non-U.S. citizens: foreign passport number with country of issuance

Questions, Answers, and Observations from Faculty

Some professors participating in the 2012 GW Global Forum have answered a variety of questions in short videos.  See what some Elliott School faculty had to say:

Professor Mike Mochizuki, answering questions about the Elliott School, U.S. relations with Asia, globalization and foreign policy challenges.

Professor Elizabeth Chacko answers questions about globalization, geography, development, and gender.

Professor Laura Engel answers questions about globalization and the internationalization of education.

Professor Jennifer Spencer answering questions about international business, development, and innovation.

Using Science and Technology to Improve Health Globally

For Elliott School alumnus Guillermo Troya, serving as the country representative for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in Suriname often presents him with situations that are tough to face. However, he says the work he does and change it produces keeps him going.

“It is an honor and a privilege to have the opportunity to serve others and to contribute to building more inclusive societies with a human rights, gender, and equity approach,” said Dr. Troya via email from Suriname. “Being able to serve others fulfills my life.”

As a country representative for PAHO, which is part of the World Health Organization, Dr. Troya is in charge of overseeing the organization’s presence in Suriname. This entails managing resources, delivering technology in support of heath initiatives, representing the PAHO/WHO to the government of Suriname, and monitoring and supporting national efforts dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the Surinamese people.

Prior to taking his current post, Dr. Troya spent the past 14 years with PAHO/WHO in the Caribbean. In March 1998, he started in Jamaica as a health systems and services advisor, and was later transferred to the PAHO/WHO country offices in Panama, Belize, and Trinidad & Tobago. During this time, his efforts were spent strengthening each nation’s health system.

Dr. Troya earned his Master of Arts degree in science and technology and public policy from the Elliott School after receiving his medical degree from the University of Ecuador. He says he chose medicine, and later public health, as his fields of work because he wanted to serve others. Choosing to study science and technology at GW offered him invaluable and important skills and to help improve health globally.

“It helped me better understand the importance of science and technology in the improvement of the quality of life and development, of scientific research and technology transfer in support of development efforts, and of evidence-based for decision making and policy making,” said Dr. Troya.

“In spite of new and growing challenges for public health like non-communicable diseases and violence, I am proud of the progress in life expectancy, elimination of diseases, and reduction of child mortality in the region of the Americas, the greatest within the developing world during the past two decades.”

Alumnus Reflects on Intelligence Career

Alumnus Daniel Boyce Reflects on Intelligence Career and Working with Robert Hanssen

For individuals who work in the intelligence field, national allegiance is a professional requirement. Imagine the shock of Elliott School alumnus Daniel Boyce upon learning that his colleague Robert Hanssen was charged with espionage. Mr. Boyce served in several different positions at the FBI since the 1980s; over the years, Mr. Boyce worked on-and-off with Robert Hanssen.

“It was almost just a total sense of disbelief,” Mr. Boyce said of his initial reaction to learning that Robert Hanssen had been charged with espionage. “I don’t know quite how to describe it…You don’t want to actually think that somebody you’ve worked with for many years would have done something like that.”

Following the initial shock and disbelief of hearing the news, Mr. Boyce’s feelings turned to anger.

“Anger, betrayal…I mean, really, a guttural sense of…This is somebody that betrayed the United States, obviously. But [he also] betrayed colleagues, betrayed everything. I mean, the damage that he did is incredible. It was just a sense of absolute betrayal.”

Mr. Boyce will give a presentation in February 2012 at the International Spy Museum about working with Robert Hanssen as part of the GW Culture Buffs series; the presentation is entitled “Ramon and Me: Working with Robert Hanssen.”

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“The ability to write is an incredibly valuable commodity….”

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Mr. Boyce, who serves as an Alumni Ambassador for graduate programs at the Elliott School, credits the school with preparing him for professional interaction and recalls classroom debates that taught him to make succinct points and clear arguments.”

“The ability to write is an incredibly valuable commodity within [the] government, to write precisely and to write with accuracy. The Elliott School provided the environment that allowed me to really develop those skills.”

Currently, Mr. Boyce is a senior security policy specialist for Advance Resource Technology, Inc (ARTI). He retired from the U.S. Government in January 2006 after a 27-year career, which included positions at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

-from the Elliott School’s November 2011 Briefing Newsletter

Influential International Professionals

The Elliott School congratulates alumni Josh Rogin, Shawn Brimley, Katherine S. Tobin, and Professorial Lecturer Zachary D. Kaufman on being named to the “Top 99 Most Influential International Professionals Under 33″ by the Diplomatic Courier.

I read another article in this issue by the Executive Director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). Leigh Morris Sloane discusses “International Education and the Millenials” on page 50.