Master in International
Affairs (MIA)

Lecturer, Department of Political Science

Dr. Jean E. Cullander Krasno is lecturer and a tenured member of the faculty in the Department of Political Science at the City College of New York (CCNY) where she held the position of Director of the MA Program in International Relations for eight years. She is also a lecturer at Columbia University in the Political Science Department and was a Senior Fellow and lecturer at Yale University from 1995 to 2016. She was Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System from 1998 to 2003 when the organization was housed at Yale. At Yale, she conducted the Yale-UN Oral History Project with James Sutterlin, which is housed at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. Recently in 2023, she started up the UN Oral History project again with a focus on mediation and negotiation.

Dr. Krasno has taught courses on the United Nations, UN peacekeeping, International Law, International Organization, Climate Change, Biodiversity and the Political Process, Research Methods, Peace Making and Negotiation and Nuclear Security and Non-Proliferation. Dr. Krasno was authorized by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to organize his papers for publication which was published as a five volume set by Lynne Rienner Publishers in March 2012. She was then asked by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to publish his papers online through JSTOR and this curated set is now available. In working with Kofi Annan on his papers and later with Ban Ki-moon, Dr. Krasno has discovered many previously classified papers that dealt with many global issues, including climate change and the formation of the MDGs and the SDGs. Eradicating poverty, improving the lives of the most vulnerable, and addressing climate change are some of the themes that have emerged from her research in reading and curating these collected papers for publication. In 2017 and 2018, she was asked by the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to assist in writing, editing, and organizing the Annual Report of the UN Secretary-General.

Adjunct Lecturer

Emily Coppel brings to CUNY nearly fifteen years of experience in non-profit communications and program management in the global development sector. She is currently the Director of Strategic Communications at IDinsight, a data analytics and research organization that supports the most effective non-profits, philanthropies, international agencies, and government partners in Africa and Asia with applied data and evidence advisory services. She oversees a team of eight to amplify the organization’s impact by promoting evidence-based approaches to development.

Prior to IDinsight, Emily was the Director of Communications for the US affiliate of BRAC, the world’s largest NGO based in Bangladesh reaching 120 million people. At BRAC USA, she oversaw communications, outreach, and public fundraising. She created new funding streams to grow its communications team and increased its donor base by 9x.

Earlier in her career, Emily was a freelance reporter and covered the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. She was also the first full-time program staff member of a start-up youth skills development non-profit operating in South Africa’s townships, Umuzi, that has reached hundreds of young people.

Emily has cross-sector experience in global health, education, financial inclusion, technology for development, youth empowerment, extreme poverty, and humanitarian response. She has worked on projects in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. She has a degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Adjunct Lecturer

Kimberly Gamble-Payne is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Global Health at George Washington University and in the International Affairs Program of the City College of New York. She also teaches in Columbia University’s United Nations Studies certificate program.

For more than 25 years she worked in the United Nations system, mostly with UNICEF. Kimberly led the Child Rights and Public Policy team at UNICEF headquarters in New York before spending nearly a decade in Africa. She was the first Regional Advisor for Child Rights and Child Protection where she coordinated and supervised the Child Protection Network across 23 countries of UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region. She was appointed as the UNICEF Country Representative in Lesotho and, together with the US ambassador to Lesotho, she co-led the Joint Donor-UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS. During that time, she also served as one a coordinator and senior advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (the Graca Machel Report). That report led to the establishment of both a UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict and the office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG CAAC)

Following her assignments in Africa, Kimberly assumed the position of Director of Programmes in the Deputy Secretary-General’s UN Office of Partnerships. She also served as a senior adviser to the UN Joint Programme on Adolescent Girls and consultancies with UN offices dealing with critical global issues of urbanization; environment and climate change; disarmament and humanitarian action; and human rights.

Prior to her assignments with UNICEF headquarters, she was the founding Director of the Washington Office for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF and a Congressional Liaison Officer in the Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs in USAID. She is currently a member of the board of Doctors of the World, USA, a humanitarian action, and human rights organization.

Kimberly holds a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Adjunct Associate Professor

Eduardo Albrecht is a political anthropologist with a history of work across government, non-profit, academic, and multilateral organizations. His research focuses on uses of artificial intelligence in state and international organization decision-making processes.

Currently he is a senior fellow at the United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research, where he conducts research on uses of AI technologies in the United Nations conflict prevention and response architecture. In the past he served as visiting fellow at the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) and the International Peace Institute (IPI), and has worked for various national governments (Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom) and the World Bank leading research teams and gaining direct experience designing innovative AI-based governance tools.

His research has been presented at venues including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and numerous other organizations as well as dozens of academic conferences organized by leading political and social science associations.

Since receiving his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 2010 he has published a wide variety of academic papers, policy publications, and full-length monographs. His most recent publication, “Predictive Technologies in Conflict Prevention: Practical and Policy Considerations for the Multilateral System,” synthesizes key trends and discusses how multilateral organizations may seek to strengthen their predictive capacity in ethical and inclusive ways.

His new book, Political Automation: An Introduction to AI in Governance and its Impact on Citizens (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024) investigates uses of AI to produce public policy decisions in a range of geographic contexts and seeks to better theorize the changing role of citizens in the act of policy production. The book is the first to utilize an ethnographic framework to compare the impact of AI technology on changing state-citizen relations in the West, East, and Southern Hemisphere.
His new book, Political Automation: An Introduction to AI in Governance and its Impact on Citizens (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024) investigates uses of AI to produce public policy decisions in a range of geographic contexts and seeks to better theorize the changing role of citizens in the act of policy production. The book is the first to utilize an ethnographic framework to compare the impact of AI technology on changing state-citizen relations in the West, East, and Southern Hemisphere.
His new book, Political Automation: An Introduction to AI in Governance and its Impact on Citizens (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2024) investigates uses of AI to produce public policy decisions in a range of geographic contexts and seeks to better theorize the changing role of citizens in the act of policy production. The book is the first to utilize an ethnographic framework to compare the impact of AI technology on changing state-citizen relations in the West, East, and Southern Hemisphere.

Albrecht has also taught, and continues to teach, extensively, including as associate professor at Pukyong National University in South Korea, visiting faculty at John Cabot University in Rome, International Relations program director at Mercy University, and as adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

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