Dear Munk School Community,
I’d like to extend a warm welcome to all our new and returning students. As we start the 2023/24 academic year, I am eager to see you at the School.
The Munk School is central to some of the most important conversations of our time. You will interact with our world-class faculty and have exposure to global leaders when they visit our School. Your instructors are committed to a learning experience that is innovative, multifaceted and deeply enriching. I encourage you to take advantage of everything available to you as a member of the Munk School community.
This is a place of energy, innovation, academic rigour and entrepreneurialism- a learning environment that is unmatched in Canada. And we are constantly innovating on new offerings. We are, for example, very pleased about the new undergraduate First Year Foundation courses we are launching this fall such as Somebody’s Watching Me: The Politics of Global Surveillance and The Economics of Birth, Death and Everything in Between.
As students, you are joining an interdisciplinary learning environment with notable strength in our four Areas of Focus. Our faculty is focused on research that enhances social, economic and political problem solving. Some of our faculty’s recent work can be found here and its impact can be seen here. You will have a chance to learn from them in the classroom but you’ll also connect with them when you meet at events, office hours or in some cases while working as research assistants in their labs or on special projects.
A key strength of our school is direct access to global affairs and public policy practitioners. Our Munk School Fellows are deep experts in their fields and an integral part of our programs, acting as mentors, speakers and experts on a wide range of subject matter. You can start to get to know them here.
My priority in leading the Munk School is to ensure our students, whether MPP, MGA, MA or undergraduate, have opportunities to directly engage with the many speakers and discussions we host during the year and to find their place in the most important global debates. I’m proud that our students graduate with the confidence and skills they need to put their own ideas and values into action.
I look forward to connecting with you throughout the school year and to seeing all that you will accomplish here and later.
Peter Loewen
Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy