{"id":23605,"date":"2016-07-18T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T18:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=23605"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:42:02","slug":"student-spotlight-ziyi-zhang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/07\/18\/student-spotlight-ziyi-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Ziyi Zhang Studies Global Development Policy in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/07\/ZhangUN-June-6-2016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/07\/ZhangUN-June-6-2016-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"ZhangUN-June 6, 2016\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/07\/ZhangUN-June-6-2016-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/07\/ZhangUN-June-6-2016-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/07\/ZhangUN-June-6-2016-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several students from\u00a0the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, had the opportunity to visit international organizations this summer while studying abroad in Geneva, Switzerland &#8212; supplementing his Pardee School classes with real-world experience.<\/p>\n<p><span>Ziyi Zhang, MA Candidate in Global Development Policy,<\/span>\u00a0participated in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/programs\/geneva-global-governance-economic-development-and-human-rights-summer\/\">Global Governance, Economic Development and Human Rights<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0study abroad program that included visits to\u00a0the United Nations Geneva Office, The United Nations Office of the Higher Commissioner for Human Rights, the U.S Mission Geneva, World Trade Organization, International Environment House, The Global Fund and International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a great opportunity\u00a0to make in-depth connections with officials and experts\u00a0who could\u00a0explain their roles and relieve my curiosity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the opportunity\u00a0\u00a0to visit a variety of organizations with different missions provided him with\u00a0a broader understanding of global development policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Different types of organizations constitute a wide\u00a0spectrum of missions, and each provided insightful knowledge and deepened my understanding of global development policy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe the combined knowledge of what I have learned from both the Pardee School and in Geneva is one of the best ways to learn international relations and global development policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>The Global Governance, Economic Development and Human Rights program critically examines contemporary global governance structures and efforts with a particular focus on achieving economic development that is environmentally sound and socially inclusive. Students gain an in-depth understanding of the many different roles that states, inter-governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations play in global governance in the early parts of the 21st Century. You can learn more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/abroad\/programs\/geneva-global-governance-economic-development-and-human-rights-summer\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MA candidate Ziyi Zhang had the opportunity to visit several international organizations this summer while studying abroad in Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8416],"tags":[9287,8848,8868,9620,8626,8450,9619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23669,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23605\/revisions\/23669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}