Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo
Scholar, author, and world-renowned global politics expert Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo is the dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Since taking on this role in 2022, she is the youngest dean in SIPA’s history. Yarhi-Milo officially joined Columbia University’s tenured faculty in 2019 as the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations after her time at Princeton University for more than a decade.
In 2023, Yarhi-Milo founded and launched the Institute of Global Politics (IGP), a world-class institute at Columbia SIPA with a faculty advisory board chaired by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs
As dean of SIPA, Yarhi-Milo leads the world-renowned policy school. She has an extensive record of leadership and service at SIPA and Columbia, where she holds a professorship of political science and public and international affairs.
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The Columbia Institute of Global Politics
Yarhi-Milo launched IGP to drive real-world impact by convening leading scholars and practitioners, developing policy solutions, and training the next generation of leaders.
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Teaching
As a scholar and professor, Yarhi-Milo bridges the academic and policy worlds, focusing predominantly on how leaders make foreign policy decisions regarding the use of force.