INTERNATIONAL MASTER’S PROGRAM

MASTER OF GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY

The MGPP is a two-year master’s degree that meets international standards and has been carefully benchmarked to the top graduate-level public policy programs around the world. It has three elements: a core curriculum, two concentrations, and a final project.

 

The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) is launching a new Master of Global Public Policy (MGPP) degree program that is designed to prepare its graduates, as future leaders and professionals, to address global challenges with sound public policy.

 

This program, the first of its kind in Russia and taught entirely in English, welcomed its inaugural class of 24 students in September 2014.. Building on this success, it will continue attract top students and scholars from around the world to Moscow and create exciting opportunities for Russia’s engagement in the ongoing policy dialogue on our common global future.

 

The MGPP is a two-year master’s degree that meets international standards and has been carefully benchmarked to the top graduate-level public policy programs around the world. It has three elements: a core curriculum, two concentrations, and a final project.

 

 

FACULTY AND TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

The MGPP will be delivered by world-class faculty, drawn from Russia, Europe, North America, Asia, and the BRICS partner institutions.  Among our distinguished faculty are Vladimir Mau, Sergey Zuev, Andrei Zorin and Yermolai Solzhenitsyn.  The program will be guided by a teaching philosophy of engagement, experimentation, and exposure to cutting-edge theory and proven practices.  Students will be encouraged to question, critique, explore, and examine key and emerging global policy issues, guided by faculty and senior policy practitioners from government, NGOs, think-tanks, international organizations, and the private sector.

LEADERSHIP

The first Director of the MGPP is Professor Robin J. Lewis (Ph.D.), who was Associate Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University from 1985-2007. He also served as the first Executive Director of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN), an innovative consortium of graduate public policy programs founded by SIPA, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was instrumental in establishing a now fully-operational system of dual master's degrees between the four institutions.

 

CURRICULUM

SEMESTER 1
All MGPP students take the following five courses as a cohort in the first semester.

1. Policy-Making
2. Governance: Origins and Concepts
3. Research Methods
4. Economics for Public Policy I
5. Russia and the World

SEMESTER 2
All MGPP students take the following five courses and a non-credit Professional and Career Skills Development Workshop as a cohort in the second semester.

1. Economics for Public Policy II
2. Statistics for Public Policy
3. States and Markets
4. Public Management
5. ANY ONE of the following courses:

Global Governance
International Trade and Development
Sustainable Development

6. Professional and Career Skills Development Workshop (required non-credit course)

All students will also attend a required monthly public policy seminar, the McKinsey Global Public Policy Forum, in this semester.

SEMESTER 3
All MGPP students take the remaining two core courses and the “Thesis/Capstone Design and Proposal Workshop” as a cohort. They also take the required workshop and seminar from their chosen concentration.  Concentration 1 is “Russia and the World” and Concentration 2 is “Global Development and Emerging Economies.”

CORE COURSES
1. Leadership in Public Service
2. Public Finance
3. Thesis/Capstone Design and Proposal

CONCENTRATION 1 COURSES
4. Contemporary Russia Workshop (includes a field research trip to Russian regions)
5. Contemporary Russia Seminar

CONCENTRATION 2 COURSES
5. Global Development Workshop (includes a field research trip to one BRICS country)
6. BRICS: Growth and Governance Models Seminar

SEMESTER 4
All MGPP students complete their thesis or capstone projects and also choose two courses from the following concentration electives.

CONCENTRATION 1: “RUSSIA AND THE WORLD” ELECTIVES
1. International Security Concepts
2. Oil and Gas in Russia and Central Asia
3. Cross-Cultural Communication
4. World Economic History
5. International Relations
6. Global Governance (if not previously taken)
7. International Trade and Finance (if not previously taken)
8. Human Capital (if not previously taken)
9. Sustainable Development (if not previously taken)

CONCENTRATION 2: “GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMERGING ECONOMIES” ELECTIVES
1. Monitoring and Evaluation
2. Strategic and Performance Management
3. Cross-Cultural Communication
4. World Economic History
5. International Relations
6. Global Governance (if not previously taken)
7. International Trade and Finance (if not previously taken)
8. Human Capital (if not previously taken)
9. Sustainable Development (if not previously taken)

 

GLOBAL PARTNERS

The MGPP is being created with the advice and active support of a number of leading public policy experts from the US, Canada, China, Brazil, South Africa, France, Singapore and other countries.  The World Bank is a strategic partner and RANEPA is developing collaborative partnerships with global public policy institutions, including the newly-established International Development and Public Policy Alliance (IDPPA), whose President is Professor Robin Lewis and whose members are:

•    Fundacao Getulio Vargas [FGV], Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL;
•    Beijing Normal University School of Social Development and Public Policy [SSDPP], Beijing, CHINA;
•    American University in Cairo [AUC] School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Cairo, EGYPT;
•    Jindal School of Government and Public Policy [JSGP], Delhi, INDIA;
•    School of Government and Public Policy [SGPP], Jakarta, INDONESIA;
•    Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration [RANEPA], Moscow, RUSSIA;
•    School of Public Leadership [SPL], Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA;
•    Sabanci University School of Public Policy/Istanbul Policy Center, Istanbul, TURKEY.