Jacob Patterson-Stein

Jacob Patterson-Stein is a second year Master of International Development Policy student. Prior to attending McCourt, Jacob worked for Thomson Reuters in Washington D.C., the More than Me Foundation in Liberia, and in a rural public school in South Korea. He spent summer 2013 working for the Support for Economic Analysis Development in Indonesia (SEADI) project in Jakarta.

Cold as Ice: Why It Matters That the Canadian Government is Backing Out of UN Climate Change Efforts

by Jacob Patterson-Stein At the end of March, while answering questions in the House of Commons, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calmly explained why he was stopping payments to an organization that, in his words, “spends less than 20 percent of the funds that we send […] on programming.” At a time when governments everywhere […]

From the Archives: An Interview with Defense Nominee Chuck Hagel

by Jacob Patterson-Stein Last week, Charles “Chuck” Hagel became the first Secretary of Defense nominee to face a filibuster. Congressional Republicans say they need more time to research Senator Hagel’s background, which has given supporters and detractors plenty of time to do their own due diligence. Before he had to face a Senate confirmation hearing, […]

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