Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo is the dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations. She is a world-renowned expert in international security and crisis decision-making and the youngest dean in SIPA’s history. Yarhi-Milo joined the tenured faculty at Columbia University in 2019 after a decade at Princeton.
In 2023, Yarhi-Milo founded and launched the Institute of Global Politics (IGP), a new, 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 School of International and Public Affairs
As Dean, Yarhi-Milo leads a 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 the Institute of Global Politics (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 and Policy Work
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.