He Columbia Climate School undergraduate office He recently organized his third annual panel of students’ racing conversations, with three students of the Sustainable Development Program (SDEV). The event offered an opportunity for current students from Columbia to learn about the various sectors and future professional career open to students interested in looking for climatic careers and related to sustainability. Kayran Abasali (CC’13), Annie Evangelakos (Block) (CC’19) and Anthony Pérez (CC’21) shared their various experiences during and after the program, including the work covered by the public and private sectors.
The panel was moderated by Jason SmerdonClimate professor, co -director of the EM of the Climate School in Climate and anterior co -director of the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development in Columbia.
In Columbia, Abasali was part of the sixth class to graduate from the special concentration in sustainable development, which aligned with its objective of obtaining a title with social impact. Abasali began his career in technological sales in IBM, and since then he has worked at Esg Consulting within the technology industry. He is currently completing his MBA and recently launched his own social impact company focused on helping women in the Caribbean get access to Stem races.
Evangelakos is a manager of sustainable buildings projects in Jones Lang Lasalle, where he works to mitigate emissions through the design of energy efficiency buildings. Through its leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification and undergraduate thesis on green infrastructure in Brooklyn, he was interested in sustainable infrastructure, which now contributes to projects with architects and buildings of buildings.
As the most recent graduate of the Sustainable Development Program, Anthony Pérez currently works as a senior analyst in the resilience task force in the Office of Budget Administration of the Ciela in New York City. For its upper captain, Pérez worked in the establishment of financial roads for communities along the Hudson River to the north of New York City, a project that shapes its career after graduation. Through this experience, Pérez not only became familiar with public subsidy programs and budget allocation, but also learned how to apply these programs to understand sustainability and climate resistance.
While the three panelists have taken different paths after graduation, they had similar reasons to want to follow a career in sustainable development. “I didn’t want to be in a laboratory all my life. [I wanted to] Work directly with people while still focuses on science, ”said Evangelakos.
For speakers, the SDEV program provided the opportunity to interact with science and at the same time learn to apply it to careers in policies, business and esg. The audience students explored this intersection, asking panelists how the SDEV program has shaped their current professional roles.
Pérez explained that the understanding of the social and political aspects of the climate he won as a student has been crucial in his work with the New York City Government. “In my work, everyone has climatic history, but the social aspect is what helps me prosper,” he said.
Through a balance of physical sciences, political and social impact, the SDEV program establishes graduates to work in various fields, in which these ideas apply both in the public and private sectors.
Abasali’s professional career has covered multiple sectors and scopes within technology, consulting and social impact. However, everything has worked in “circles back to sustainability,” he said.
The Sustainable Development Program provides enriching training for alumnus to address the challenges in climate and sustainability in front, open a wide variety of professional career and offer opportunities to participate in significant work within the weather and sustainability in several fields.
As the offers of undergraduate programs of the climate school expand to include a minor of sustainable development and a specialization in climate and sustainability, students are encouraged to explore the climate and sustainability from all perspectives. As exemplified by the former student panel, the impact of these programs is felt on this work, from ESG to financing to government planning.
For the three panelists, the multidisciplinary aspect of the program has guided them throughout their careers and remains a key element of their success today. “Education plays an important role. After 10 years, I remember things that I have learned in the program that I am now reviewing in my MBA,” said Abasali.
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