Alumni News — November 2022
Recent alumni started exciting new roles and shared their expertise on a podcast and in the news.
Inspiring evidence-based policymaking
Recent alumni started exciting new roles and shared their expertise on a podcast and in the news.
Héctor Pifarré i Arolas joined the La Follette School’s faculty as an assistant professor this fall.
“Being back in Madison and reconnecting with so many friends from my time at La Follette was a wonderful reminder of how special the La Follette School is,” said Katherine Sydor (MPA ’12).
At its annual membership conference in October, the League of Wisconsin Municipalities unveiled generous financial gifts to honor long-time League staff and support future La Follette School students.
President and chief executive officer of WPS Health Solutions Mike Hamerlik joined the La Follette School Board of Visitors in 2015.
Menzie Chinn and colleagues examine the effect of uncertainty on foreign direct investment inflows for advanced, emerging market and developing countries over a 25 year long (pre-Covid) sample. Using a push-pull framework, and controlling for both global and local factors, they find policy uncertainty has discernable and significant effects on inflows, varying in strength and direction between different groups of countries. Moreover, it is not host country uncertainty that seems to matter the most, but rather global uncertainty. Additionally, they find that high levels of uncertainty matter disproportionately. Finally, financial openness accentuates the impact of uncertainty for emerging market and developing countries.
The certificates allow students to gain critical knowledge and experience before entering the job market or graduate school.
Theola V. Carter (MA ’91) is an active alum of the La Follette School and manager of policy and program improvement in Dane County’s Tamara D. Grigsby Office for Equity and Inclusion.
The project, known as the Main Street Agenda, aims to bring La Follette’s policy expertise to a wider audience and lend context to the sound bites that characterize political campaign season.
Over the past few months, the La Follette School has welcomed several new staff members: Majiedah Pasha, Shanna Hargrove, Angela James, and Mindy Walker.