Deborah Lizak works at Columbia University as special assistant to Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Prize of Economics in 2001. Her duties include background research on anyone that professor Stiglitz meets. Traveling with him to conferences she attended the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Gore-Sachs event on climate change.
Danny PadillaPhilippines M.A., School of International Relations Class of 2000
The knowledge I acquired at AGS as well as my inter-personal and diplomatic skills, developed during my AGS days, come in handy today when dealing with different government officials, staff from various UN agencies, and even my colleagues in UNESCO who come from different cultural backgrounds.