Through the generosity of the Roy Family, the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) offers summer internship funding to Harvard's Kennedy School students who have completed at least one year of study and will be returning to campus in the fall. The Roy Family Summer Internship Program (Roy program) advances WAPPP’s mission to create a world more balanced in opportunity by supporting students who work with female role models or gender related projects/programs during the summer.
Since 2001, the Roy program has supported Kennedy School students’ gender-related work in over 14 countries including Kenya, India, Costa Rica, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Liberia, El Salvador, Mozambique and the United States. Students have worked in a variety of capacities from researchers to policy analysts with responsibilities that range from drafting national legislation to designing gender focused program evaluation processes. Roy Interns have secured projects with such role models as Aloisea Inyumba, Secretary General of the Commission for Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda (2001) and Chetna Sinha, a pioneer in women’s advocacy and the founder of Mann Deshi Mahila Bank in India (2005).
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Roy Intern - Summer 2009
Tanja Beja
UNIFEM, United Nations Development Fund for Women
Yael Guez
Washington, D.C. | U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of International Affairs, MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Team
http://yael-in-dc.blogspot.com/
Yael Guez will participate in an internship program with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of International Affairs (IA), focusing on Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The program will for last ten weeks in the summer of 2009 and will be based in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Department of Treasury’s IA division works to support U.S. economic prosperity by encouraging financial stability and sound economic policies abroad. They perform surveillance and analysis of global economic and financial developments, while engaging with financial markets, foreign governments and IFIs to develop and promote good policies. The MENA regional office within IA works to manage U.S. economic relations with Iran and Iraq, top U.S. foreign policy priorities, among other countries in an increasingly important region. They assess financial vulnerabilities and possible outcomes, brief senior policymakers, recommend appropriate policy responses, and manage overseas attaché offices in Baghdad, Cairo, Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem.
In her time at the Office of International Affairs Yael will assist senior Treasury Department officials in developing and implementing U.S. international economic policies. She will work directly with Samantha Vinograd, International Economist for Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait, to provide analysis and guidance on a wide range of international economic, financial, development, trade and energy/environment issues affecting the structure and operation of the international economy. Yael will also contribute to U.S. participation in the international financial institutions (World Bank, IMF, WTO, etc), U.S. policies in the G-7 and involving developing nations, emerging markets, and economies in transition.
Priya Parker
White House- Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, Domestic Policy Council
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