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On May 22nd, 2018, students of the Tsinghua University-Johns Hopkins SAIS master’s degree program met with Jonas Nahm, Assistant Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment at Johns Hopkins SAIS. 过程的力量： 国家能力与气候政策 2018年5月22日，清华 – 约翰霍普金斯大学SAIS双硕士项目的学生与Jonas Nahm教授进行了交流。作为SAIS的助理教授，Jonas Nahm的主要研究方向为能源、资源与环境。 Professor Nahm presented his research on the process of climate policy design and implementation, Read more…

On May 11, 2018, we welcomed Professor Benjamin Creutzfeldt PhD to Tsinghua University to help us understand China’s involvement in Latin America. Dr. Creutzfeldt has extensive experience in Asia and Latin America, having spent years teaching in Colombia and Mexico, and as a China specialist for Christie’s. Now he is Read more…

Dr. Maha Yahya, the director of Carnegie’s Beirut Center, spoke to the third Tsinghua-SAIS cohort on April 11, 2018 as part of our Policy Research in a Simulated Think Tank course. Dr. Yahya is an alumnus of MIT and has an Associate of Arts degree in Architecture. 中东的智库 2018年4月11日，卡耐基贝鲁特中心主任马哈耶亚博士与第三届清华-SAIS学生举行了会谈，此次会谈为该项目模拟智库政策研究课程的一部分。耶亚博士毕业于麻省理工学院，获得建筑学文学学士学位，如今活跃于国际关系政策研究领域。 When asked Read more…

On March 21st, 2018, students of the Tsinghua-SAIS Dual Degree Program met with Alexander Gabuev, chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, for the inaugural spring session of Policy Research in a Simulated Think Tank. The Carnegie Endowment’s youngest senior fellow, Mr. Gabuev has Read more…

Graduate students in the Tsinghua-SAIS Dual Degree Program met with Jake Sullivan, former U.S. National Security Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, on December 6th. 智库的作用 2017年12月6日，清华-霍普金斯项目学者与杰克·沙利文先生在清华-卡内基中心进行了深入的交流。 Mr. Sullivan spent time working on various democratic presidential campaigns: in Read more…

On November 15, 2017, the students of the Tsinghua-SAIS Dual Degree Program met with Douglas H. Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as part of the course Policy Research in a Simulated Think Tank. In a wide-ranging conversation, Mr. Paal discussed his career inside Read more…

In the third installment of the TSDM Case Studies in Chinese Political Economy, Dr. Tyler Harlan of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), spoke with students on the topic of Chinese small hydropower as a transnational model for green development. Dr. Harlan’s talk sought to challenge the erroneous belief Read more…

For the second edition of the TSDM Case Studies in Chinese Political Economy course, students attended a talk by Professor Dan Banik of the University of Oslo Centre for Development and Environment. The presentation and ensuing conversation centered around changing trends in developmental aid, with particular attention given to the Read more…

Graduate students in the Tsinghua-SAIS Dual Degree Program met with Justin Finnegan, the founding managing director of the Mountain Hazelnuts Group, on September 19th. Mr. Finnegan previously served as a White House Fellow, as well as a Fulbright and Trustman Scholar, and has worked with the U.S. Agency for International Read more…

On Thursday, Dec 18th, our cohort met with Hannah Eagleton, economic officer in the U.S Embassy in Beijing, for a lively exchange about her experiences as a diplomat. We discussed her personal story, perspectives on life as a foreign service officer, and current topics in US-China relations. We are very Read more…