SAIS MA alumnus and current SAIS Ph.D. student Anit Mukherjee S’05 will be a speaker at the Jaipur Literary Festivalwith Thant Myint U S’91 and former SAIS professor Sunil Khilnani.
SAIS alumnus ChristopherSands S'94summarizesrecent and continued debates betweenPresident Obama and Congress on the issue ofwhether or not to expand theKeystone XLpipeline into Canadian territory.
Su Chi S’75 is quoted in the Washington Post saying “Both China and the U.S. are breathing a big sigh of relief,” in response to Taiwan's President Ma Yong-jeou’s re-election in mid-January.
On January 23rd, President Obama announced his nomination for Tracey Ann Jacobson JHU ’97, ’98 to be the new U.S. ambassador to Kosovo. This was only a few weeks after the President ofKosovo Atifete Jahjaga cameto speak at SAIS on "Kosovo's President: What Does She Represent?"
Starting February 13, 2012, Olivier Knox B'95, S'96will beYahoo New's first White House Correspondent. Though this is a first-time connection for Yahoo News, Knox has been working at Agent France-Press for 10 years, of which the last eight has had him covering news on the White House.
Reutersreportson China's Vice President Xi Jinping and his upcoming trip to the U.S. and includes a quote from SAIS alumnus and Chinese ViceForeign Minister Tiankai Cui S'87.