Tanguy Montandon wins the 2024 award for best undergraduate paper in International Development Studies

The 2024 prize for the Best Undergraduate Paper in International Development Studies is awarded to Tanguy Montandon.  Tanguy graduated in 2024 with a First-Class Honours in International Development Studies, and minors in Economics and Management. At McGill, he was an Integrated Management Student Fellow and pursued research on the Economic and Environmental Impacts of BIXI under the supervision of Sanjith Gopalakrishnan.

Professor Jacob Blanc wins the AUS Most Outstanding Professor Award!

Congratulations to Professor Jacob Blanc, jointly appointed in History and the Institute for the Study of International Development, for winning the 2024 award for Most Outstanding Professor from the Arts Undergraduate Society!

New Policy Brief on Climate Adaptation Finance

ISID is pleased to release a new policy brief entitled "Climate Adaptation Finance:  the Gap Between Needs and Resources Continues to Grow", by ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir along with his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez. 

Read about it HERE

ISID congratulates Professor Jacob Blanc on his new book, "The Prestes Column"

Professor Jacob Blanc of the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of History has had a new book published with Duke University Press.  In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927.

Historian Jacob Blanc arrives at ISID

The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to welcome Professor Jacob Blanc as a new appointed Faculty member.  Professor Blanc is jointly appointed with the Institute and the Department of History.

Welcoming Rohinton Medhora to ISID

The Institute for the Study of International Development welcomes Rohinton P. Medhora as its most recent Professor of Practice. Rohinton Medhora is a distinguished fellow and former president of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (2012–2022). He also served on CIGI’s International Board of Governors from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he was vice president of programs at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

Enkhuun Byambadorj, winner of the 2023 Albert Hirschman prize

ISID congratulated Enkhuun Byambadorj, winner of the 2023 Albert Hirschman prize for best undergraduate essay in international development studies.  The selection committee for the prize writes:

Marie-Perle Nkosi, outgoing president of IDSSA and Black Grad valedictorian

ISID congratulates Marie-Perle Nkosi, president for the 2022/2023 year of the International Development Studies Students Association and one of three Black Grad Valedictorians at McGill this year!  Read the full details and an interview with Marie-Perle in the McGill Reporter:  https://reporter.mcgill.ca/in-conversation-with-marie-perle-nkosi-black-...

New Policy Brief! Climate Adapation in Africa: Locally Led and Nature Based Solutions

Climate change continues to cause damage in Africa. It triggers food insecurity, poverty and displacement. The impacts of climate change are being exacerbated by rapid urbanization, geopolitical tensions, headwinds caused by the invasion of Ukraine and its impacts on agricultural exports and fertilizers.

ISID Professor of Practice Jamal Saghir and his colleague Ede Jorge Ijjasz-Vasquez discuss these issues in ISID's first policy brief of 2023.