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Throughout the school year, the Georgetown School of Foreign Service Graduate Career Development Center (GCDC) hosts events to help graduate students in the school’s eight Master’s programs—including MSFS—find internships and jobs, but one month out of the year is special. January, or JumpStart January, features a series of panels, presentations, workshops, and discussions designed to help students refocus their career search after Winter Break. Read More
2007 alumnus Andrea Zanon recently paid a visit to MSFS to discuss his role in risk management at the World Bank. Mr. Zanon's portfolio at the Bank includes countries in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Latin America. Read More
On Friday, Nov. 30, almost fifty MSFS students gathered in the program’s lounge for a competition of wits. MSFS Trivia Night featured twelve teams of four students each, all tasked with answering a set of 35 questions ranging from history to sports to the weird and wild. The event was organized by MSFS Student Representatives and required that teams be composed of a mixture of first and second-year students. Read More
On Thursday, November 21, Kah Walla, a Cameroon entrepreneur, activist, and elected official, came to Georgetown to deliver the 2nd Annual Philippe Sachs Lecture in Leadership. Read More
By Adam Fivenson, MSFS’14 Georgetown Professor Victor Cha discusses teaching MSFS classes, foreign policy in the second Obama administration, and Georgetown basketball. Read More
To many first-year MSFS students, a job in either an international organization or a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) is an ideal way to employ their knowledge and talents in making a difference in the world. However, because of fierce competition, navigating the complex internal structure within the organizations to find the right position for themselves is a daunting task. Read More
Looking for a summer internship in China? Sure, it sounds exciting, adventurous and full of possibilities. However, isn’t China, a country that is located thousands of miles away from the U.S., a little bit out of reach? The answer given by the Georgetown Asia-Pacific Forum, a student organization founded by MSFS students, is a resounding “no.” Read More
Although they share a name, the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program has no formal connection to the State Department’s Foreign Service. In fact, according to the school’s website, the School of Foreign Service conferred its first graduate degree in 1922, predating the State Department’s adoption of the term “Foreign Service” for its diplomatic corps. Read More
On September 28, 2012, MSFS students Haysel Hernandez (’13) and Colby Kirk (Dual ’14) met with MSFS alumnus Kevin Morgan (’05) for lunch at The Tombs to discuss Kevin’s current career and gain advice about his experience after he graduated from MSFS. Their lunch with Kevin was part of the Link Up Program, an effort to connect students with local alumni. Read More
Chuka Asike (MSFS ’06) sat sipping his iced tea at the World Bank coffee shop. He looked comfortably at home among the flurry of economists but the path that has led him to the multilateral institution has been anything but straight. Born in Nigeria, his family emigrated to the United States when Asike was a young boy. Eventually settling in Maryland, Asike now considers himself somewhat of a D.C. native. Read More
