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TNGO Student Group presents: Farhana Sultana

341 Eggers Hall

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 “So you want to save the world and make a difference?” Reflections and advice from my work experience at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)   Dr. Farhana Sultana, Assistant Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School will discuss her work in Bangladesh where she served as a UNDP Program Officer from 1998-2001. During this time, Dr. Sultana was responsible for a large environmental management program and worked with a wide variety of international organizations, government agencies, and NGOs, and obtained a keener understanding of environment-development issues in theory and practice. Highlights of the talk will include: - Working with multiple civil society and TNGOs through a large donor organization - Surviving bureaucracy while managing a $26M environmental development program - Navigating identity politics - Why being a good academic is important to doing well in a large policy making organization - Thriving and making a difference in the end. Hope to see you there!   

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To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”

Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.