For many of our alumni spread out in 100 countries across the globe, there was no Pardee School when you attended Boston University, only the Department of International Relations. We are now a full-fledged school: YOUR school.
There are many ways to engage with your alma mater, and we hope you do!
Our Pardee School alumni spotlights share the stories of our illustrious alumni and how their experience at BU shaped their professional journey after graduation.
In a featured Q&A titled What Will a New Right-Wing Gov’t Mean for Chile? in part of the Latin America Advisor, Jorge Heine, former Chilean cabinet minister and professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, characterizes José Antonio Kast’s decisive presidential victory as a historic turning point in Chilean politics. Kast won more...
Pardee Alumna Sutton MacQueen goes down memory lane, sharing how her time at the school prepared her for a career in global development.
In his analysis titled 'Running Venezuela'? Hegemony is one thing, dominance is another published by Responsible Statecraft on Jan. 6, 2026, Ambassador Jorge Heine argues that the United States' bombing of Caracas, the port of La Guaira, and surrounding regions—along with the forcible removal of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife—marks a historic escalation in U.S.–Latin...
In an article for the Nepali Times titled People, naturally, Dr. Adil Najam, Pardee School Dean Emeritus and President of World Wildlife Fund International was interviewed by Ghana Gurung of WWF Nepal during his visit to Chitwan in December. Set against the Chitwan National Park, Nepal’s Himalayan river systems reveal how climate change is increasingly...
Dr. Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Boston University Pardee School, was invited to deliver the closing keynote address at the International Conference on Development and Environmental Economics, held at Kathmandu, Nepal, in December 2025, to mark the 25th anniversary of the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE). Dr. Najam...
Jorge Heine was interviewed by CGTN Europe to unpack the recent United States military action on Venezuela, the removal of President Maduro, and respond to President Trump's proclamation that the US will run Venezuela. Heine shared his skepticism for a straight-forward exchange of power. While the US was successful in removing President Maduro as the...
Ishaan Tharoor's column for the Washington Post titled The year of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’, published December 31, 2026, quoted Ambassador Jorge Heine reflecting on the Monroe Doctrine's resurgence in contemporary United States' relations to Latin America. The article argues that President Trump’s second-term Latin America policy, the so-called “Donroe Doctrine”, revives the language of the...
In a panel discussion for DIALOGUE–CGTN shared on December 23, 2025, Ambassador Jorge Heine investigated the Trump administration's reasons behind heightening tensions with Venezuela and its path towards a serious military confrontation. Heine was joined by Professor Jiang Shixue, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Shanghai University; Ben Norton, Editor-in-Chief of the...