Meet the Columbia World Projects team.
Leadership
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Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA
Executive Vice PresidentRead Full Bio arrow_right_altDr. Wafaa El-Sadr is the director of Columbia World Projects and Executive Vice President for Columbia Global. She is also the founder and director of ICAP at Columbia...
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Ira Katznelson
Deputy DirectorRuggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia UniversityRead Full Bio arrow_right_altIra Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His 2013 book, "Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time," received the...
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Peter Twyman
Deputy DirectorRead Full Bio arrow_right_altPeter Twyman is a social impact leader with over 30 years of experience working on complex social challenges in the U.S. and globally. He is currently Deputy Director...
CWP Projects
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Ann Bourns
Director, Project ManagementRead Full Bio arrow_right_altAnn joined Columbia World Projects in April 2019 as Director, Project Management. She has spent most of her career working with non-profit and for-profit organizations and...
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Sarah Silliman
Associate Director, Project ManagementRead Full Bio arrow_right_altSarah joined Columbia World Projects in July 2019. As part of the project management team, she works across projects to support their success and enable project teams to...
Experiential Learning and Innovation
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Lisa Dolberry Hancock
Director, Experiential Learning and InnovationRead Full Bio arrow_right_altLisa Dolberry Hancock is the Director of Experiential Learning and Innovation at Columbia World Projects where she directs initiatives designed to develop and empower emerging...
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Sia Mensah
Project OfficerRead Full Bio arrow_right_altSia Mensah joins the Experiential Learning and Innovation team at Columbia World Projects after assuming various administrative roles at the university between 2015-2022, including...
Research and Engagement
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Thomas Asher
Director, Research & EngagementRead Full Bio arrow_right_altThomas Asher joined Columbia University in 2018 where he shapes and sustains networks drawing together civic leaders, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers and leads work to...
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Anna Marchese
Senior Project OfficerRead Full Bio arrow_right_altAnna supports CWP’s Research and Engagement division, which convenes scholarly and practitioner communities to address long-standing challenges to democratic futures. Anna came...
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Priya Kurup
Project Officer
Social Impact Leadership
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Daniella Sarnoff
Director, Social Impact LeadershipRead Full Bio arrow_right_altDaniella joined Columbia World Project in July 2022 after over a decade at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), directing the International Dissertation Research Fellowship...
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Stachel Roberts
Project Officer, Social Impact LeadershipRead Full Bio arrow_right_altStachel joined Columbia World Projects as a Project Officer in September 2024. Prior to joining CWP, she was a Senior Program Coordinator at 92NY's Belfer Center for Innovation...
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Yebin Park
Project Officer, Social Impact LeadershipRead Full Bio arrow_right_altYebin joined Columbia World Projects in 2024. Previously, she taught in the English department at Ginling Women’s College in Nanjing, China as a Wellesley-Yenching fellow. She...
Center for Political Economy
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Kathryn Burke
Columbia Center for Political EconomyProject OfficerRead Full Bio arrow_right_altKathryn joined the Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects in April 2023 as a Project Officer. Prior to joining CWP, Kathryn worked for Survivor Corps, a grassroots...
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David Caughlin
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Melissa Vargas
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky
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William O’Connell
Postdoctoral Research ScholarRead Full Bio arrow_right_altWilliam O’Connell is a postdoctoral researcher for the Money and Finance Idea Lab in the Center for Political Economy. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto in 2024....
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Dario Laudati
Postdoctoral Research ScholarRead Full Bio arrow_right_altDario Laudati received his PhD in Economics from the University of Southern California. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Bocconi University (Italy), and a Joint...
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Nils Kupzok
Postdoctoral Research Scholar