CWP Director Wafaa El-Sadr Shares Her Vision for New Columbia Global
In July 2022, President Lee C. Bollinger named Wafaa El-Sadr the executive vice president for Columbia Global, a new entity that presently brings together Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

Committee on Global Thought joins Columbia Global
In July 2022 Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced the formation of Columbia Global. Since then, Columbia Global has brought together three initiatives – Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, and the Institute for Ideas & Imagination, and now the Committee on Global Thought.
The work of the Committee on Global Thought encompasses research, pedagogy, and public programs, covering a range of global issues such as climate change, migration patterns, and the influence of social media and artificial intelligence.
The work of the Committee on Global Thought encompasses research, pedagogy, and public programs, covering a range of global issues such as climate change, migration patterns, and the influence of social media and artificial intelligence.
Seven Columbia Faculty Selected for Inaugural Grants
The Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects has awarded seven faculty members grants for the coming year. Grants made in 2023 support work in Work and Labor or Firms and Antitrust.


Six Faculty Selected for Inaugural Cohort: Early Career Faculty Impact Fellowship
Six inaugural Early Career Faculty Impact Fellows were selected to participate in a new fellowship at Columbia World Projects to support faculty who aspire to translate their research and scholarship into action by working in partnership with organizations and practitioners within and beyond Columbia University.
Rebuilding Beirut: A Roadmap for an Equitable Post-Disaster Response
Disaster response and recovery in Beirut and beyond affords an extraordinary opportunity to imagine and implement processes that distribute opportunity more equitably, prioritize inclusion of community groups in governance, and strengthen the capacities of the state. After Beirut’s port blast in August 2020, the Beirut Urban Lab, Columbia World Projects, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation convened some 120 experts to draw on knowledge and focus on the immediate challenge of Rebuilding Beirut.


Knight Foundation Funds Research on Digital Platform Regulation
Columbia World Projects (CWP), with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will bring together trans-Atlantic scholars, regulators, policymakers and civil society actors to research the implications of the European Union’s (EU) Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA).