The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, often called Heinz College, at Carnegie Mellon University in

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is a private graduate college that consists of one of the nation's top-ranked

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s—the

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-accredited School of Public Policy & Management—and

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—the School of Information Systems & Management. It is named for the late

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(1938-1991) from Pennsylvania. The Heinz College is also a member of the

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, one of 24 members of the iCaucus leadership of iSchools, and a founding member of the MetroLab Network, a national

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initiative and New America's Public Interest Technology University Network. The Heinz College educational process integrates policy analysis, management, and information technology. Coursework emphasizes the applied and interdisciplinary fields of empirical methods and statistics,

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and

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, and organizational behavior. In addition to full-time, on campus programs in

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, the Heinz College offers graduate-level programs to non-traditional students through part-time on-campus and distance programs, customized programs, and

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programs for senior managers.

History

Richard King Mellon Richard King Mellon (June 19, 1899 – June 3, 1970), commonly known as R.K., was an American financier, general, and philanthropist from Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and part of the Mellon family. Biography The son of Richard B. Mellon, nephew of ...

and his wife Constance had long been interested in urban and social issues. In 1965, they sponsored a conference on urban problems, in which they began discussions with the

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and Carnegie Mellon University to create a school focused on public affairs. In 1967, Carnegie Mellon President H. Guyford Stever,

Richard M. Cyert Richard Michael Cyert (July 22, 1921 – October 7, 1998) was an American economist, statistician and organizational theorist, who served as the sixth President of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He is know ...

, Dean of the

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, and

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and Otto Davis met and formed a university-wide committee to discuss creating a school that would train leaders to address complex problems in

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urban communities. Davis was asked to draft a proposal to create such a school and focused on applying the Tepper School of Business' pioneering quantitative and skill-based approach to management education as well as technology to public sector problems. In 1968, William Cooper and Otto Davis presented the final proposal for the School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) to the Richard King Mellon Foundation. The proposal found favor with R. K. Mellon and he became strongly committed to creating such a school. The R. K. Mellon Foundation sent a proposal to President Stever to finance it with an initial grant of $10 million, and on 1 November 1968, President Stever created the School of Urban and Public Affairs with William Cooper as the first dean. The school initially drew much of its faculty from the Tepper School of Business and was based in the Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall. Eventually, the school became independent of other colleges within the university and moved to its current location in historic Hamburg Hall when the facility was acquired by the university from the

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. Subsequent Deans include Otto Davis,

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, Joel A. Tarr,

Alfred Blumstein Alfred Blumstein (born 1930) is an American scientist and the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz College and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is ...

, former Carnegie Mellon Provost Mark Kamlet, Linda C. Babcock,

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, Mark Wessel, and current dean

Ramayya Krishnan Ramayya Krishnan is an Indian American Management and Information technology scholar from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the dean of Heinz College, and is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management science and Information syst ...

. In 1992,

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donated a large sum of money to the school, which was then renamed as the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management in honor of Mrs. Heinz's late husband, Senator H. John Heinz III. Senator Heinz, heir to the

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fortune, had been killed when his small private plane crashed one year before. In 2007, the Heinz School received a grant from the

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that transformed the school into a college and formalized the School of Information Systems & Management alongside the School of Public Policy & Management under the college's administration. The official launch of the H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy was held on October 24, 2008 during Carnegie Mellon's

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weekend and was led by Dean Krishnan, Teresa Heinz, and former

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Paul O'Neill.

Facilities

Heinz College is headquartered in Hamburg Hall, a building listed on the

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and designed by noted Beaux-Arts architect

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. Hamburg Hall is named for Lester A. Hamburg, an industrialist and philanthropist active in the Pittsburgh Jewish Community. The Heinz College also has a

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, which offers master's degrees in Public Policy and Management and Information Technology. Heinz College also maintains a

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center in

as part of the jointly administered master's degree program in Entertainment Industry Management, and a center in

on Capitol Hill for students in the Public Policy and Management masters program. Carnegie Mellon is in the process of renovating and expanding the Heinz College's Pittsburgh facilities through a four-phased process across

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from the 2013-announced Tepper Quadrangle. The ultimate plan for Hamburg Hall is to capture new space – approximately 20,000 square feet – by enclosing the courtyard between the rotunda, the East and West Wings, and the adjacent Elliott Dunlap Smith Hall with a soaring glass roof structure. This new space will include a large, multi‐purpose Classroom of the Future, lounges, meeting/study space, and a café. Phase I of renovations and expansion of Hamburg Hall was entirely financed by Heinz College and was completed in September 2013. Heinz College students immediately benefited from convenient access to the new student services and computing services suites. The construction of new career services interview rooms provides up‐to‐date facilities for on‐campus recruiters. A December 2013 gift from The Heinz Endowments combined with gift commitments from other donors enabled the Heinz College to expedite the final architectural design of Phase II elements, finalize necessary construction planning, commence renovations and expansion, and complete a structure that will add additional value to the college. A new 150-seat auditorium in the courtyard between Hamburg Hall and Smith Hall was constructed, and both levels of the rotunda were transformed into student study and lounge spaces as well as a grand entrance and lobby area, and renamed as the Teresa Heinz Rotunda. The new auditorium allows the college to host high-profile speakers. Further, the west wing of Hamburg Hall now consists of forward-looking classrooms in the space that was vacated by the Engineering Research Accelerator when it moved to the newly constructed Scott Hall. An additional entrance from Forbes Avenue was also constructed. During Phase III the addition to Hamburg Hall, including a glass roof, end walls, café, and study space, will be constructed. Fire protection and elevator improvements will also be addressed as well as the addition of new classrooms (including designated executive education rooms). The addition of 20,000 square feet to Hamburg Hall will allow the Heinz College to continue to grow student enrollment. This phase is planned for completion by 2017. The final phase, Phase IV, will renovate third-floor faculty and PhD offices and meeting spaces. The new additions and renovations will be designed to achieve

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certification.

Rankings

In the 2019 '' U.S. News & World Report'' Graduate School rankings, the Heinz College was ranked 14th among schools of public affairs. Of the 285 schools of public affairs across the nation that were surveyed for 2019, Heinz College ranked: *1st in Information and Technology Management; *5th in Environmental Policy and Management; *6th in Public Policy Analysis; *14th in Urban Policy; *16th in Health Policy and Management; *19th in Social Policy; *27th in Public Finance and Budgeting; and *32nd in Public Management and Leadership. Heinz College also ranked 2nd in the

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listing for the top performing programs in

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and 9th in the listing for the top performing programs in public policy. The PhD program in Public Policy and Management at the Heinz College was ranked in the top 5 overall and in the top 3 in faculty research activity by the

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in 2010. The Medical Management program was ranked 4th by Modern Healthcare Magazine in the 2009 rankings of the top management graduate schools for physician executives.

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named the Heinz College's Master in Information Systems Management with Business Intelligence & Data Analytics concentration as one of the top 20 in big data analytics. The Heinz College was awarded the 2016 UPS George D. Smith Prize by the

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(INFORMS). The Smith Prize recognizes the best academic departments and schools in analytics, management science, and operations research.

Education

The Heinz College has the following schools: *School of Public Policy & Management
Master of Science in Public Policy & Management
(MSPPM; full-time). Tracks include: *
Accelerated 3-Semester Track
(full-time); geared at incoming students with 3 or more years of relevant experience *
Data Analytics
(MSPPM-DA; full-time); focuses on quantitative data analytics *
Global
(full-time); first year in Adelaide, Australia, second year in Pittsburgh, PA. (See

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) *
Washington, D.C.
(MSPPM-DC; full-time); first year in Pittsburgh, PA, second year in Washington, D.C. completing classes and an apprenticeship **

Master of Science A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast t ...

in Health Care Policy & Management (MSHCPM; full-time) **

in Health Care Analytics & Information Technology (Full-time) ** Master of Public Management (Part-time) **Master of Medical Management (Part-time) *School of Information Systems & Management **

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

Information Systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...

(jointly with the

Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences The Marianna Brown Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences (Dietrich College) is the liberal and professional studies college and the second-largest academic unit by enrollment (after the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering) at Ca ...

) **

Master of Information System Management The Master in Information System Management, also known as Masters in Management Information Systems or Master of Science in Information System Management is a professional Master's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Sc ...

(MISM; full-time) **

Information Security Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorize ...

Policy & Management (Full-time) **

Master of Science in Information Technology A Master of Science in Information Technology (abbreviated M.Sc.IT, MScIT or MSIT) is a master's degree in the field of information technology awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. The MSIT degree is de ...

(Part-time) *Joint degree programs with the

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** Master of Arts Management (MAM; full-time) ** Master of Entertainment Industry Management (MEIM; full-time) * PhD programs: **Public Policy & Management **Information Systems & Management **Economics & Public Policy (jointly with the Tepper School of Business) **Statistics and Public Policy (jointly with Department of Statistics and Data Science) **Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Technological Change (jointly with three other departments) **Technological Change & Entrepreneurship (Carnegie Mellon Portugal program) **Machine Learning & Public Policy (jointly with the Machine Learning Department)

Notable associated people

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* Linda C. Babcock - former Dean, behavioral economist, and expert on the gender pay gap *

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- one of the world's top criminologists and operations researchers, winner of the 2007 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, member of the

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Fellow and past president, director of th
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- founder of

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- computational sociologist and expert in dynamic network analysis * Jonathan Caulkins - Operations researcher and drug policy expert, INFORMS fellow, founder of the Pittsburgh branch of the RAND Corporation * Jack Chow -

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on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Special Representative of the

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on Global HIV/AIDS and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science *

- founding Dean of Heinz College and pioneer in

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and accounting,

Fellow and past president,

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winner, and member of the

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- former President of the Georgia Institute of Technology, former Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, former Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences *

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- current mayor of

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* David Dausey - public health expert and consultant for the RAND Corporation *

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- Money & Politics editor at

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- co-creator of

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and former Chief Technologist for the

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(FCC) * Stephen Fienberg - renowned statistician and member of the National Academy of Sciences *

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- social economist, urban scientist, and creator of the

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concept *

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- former United States Secretary of Transportation *

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- Chief Scientist Obama for America campaign * John Graham - Dean of the

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, former Dean of the

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, and former Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs *

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- US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the

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* Melvin J. Hinich - expert in

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and statistics *

- expert in information security policy, advisor in the

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, founding director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure on the National Security Council * Farnam Jahanian - President and former Provost of Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the

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Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering * Sydney Kamlager - District Director for California State Senator

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and Trustee-Elect for the

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- expert in organizational behavior and

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- Dean and expert in management science and information technology, strategy, and policy,

Fellow and President-elect * Yeh Kuang-shih - Minister of Transportation and Communication of

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for Nevada's 3rd District * Charles F. Manski, Economist and econometrician in the realm of rational choice theory, an innovator known for his work on

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. * Dan J. Martin - Dean of the

* J. Kevin McMahon - President and CEO of the

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust (PCT) is a nonprofit arts organization formed in 1984 to promote economic and cultural development in Downtown Pittsburgh. The "Trust" has focused its work on a 14-square block section called the Cultural District, w ...

* David H. McCormick - former

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within the

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and President of

Bridgewater Associates Bridgewater Associates is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. The firm serves institutional clients including pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign governments, and central banks. It utilizes a glob ...

* Sarah E. Mendelson - former

United States Ambassador Ambassadors of the United States are persons nominated by the president to serve as the country's diplomatic representatives to foreign nations, international organizations, and as ambassadors-at-large. Under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S ...

to the

United Nations Economic and Social Council The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC; french: links=no, Conseil économique et social des Nations unies, ) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields ...

* Daniel S. Nagin - criminologist, winner of the 2014 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, and fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science *

Jairam Ramesh Jairam Ramesh (born 9 April 1954) is an Indian politician belonging to Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011, Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers o ...

- elected member of the

Indian Parliament The Parliament of India ( IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the ...

and the Cabinet Minister for

Rural Development Rural development is the process of improving the quality life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of ...

Mark Roosevelt Mark Roosevelt (born December 10, 1955) is an American academic administrator and politician serving as the seventh president of the Santa Fe campus of St. John's College. He was the President of Antioch College from January 2011 to December 2 ...

- President of

Antioch College Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its ...

, Democratic candidate for

Governor of Massachusetts The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts. The governor is the head of the state cabinet and the commander-in-chief of the commonwealth's military forces. Massachuset ...

, superintendent of the

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, and member of the Roosevelt family * Denise M. Rousseau - expert in organizational behavior and the

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Joe Sestak Joseph Ambrose Sestak Jr. (born December 12, 1951) is an American politician and retired U.S. Navy officer. He represented in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in ...

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from Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2011, former

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

Vice Admiral * Peter M. Shane - Professor of Law and Public Policy specializing in

administrative law Administrative law is the division of law that governs the activities of executive branch agencies of government. Administrative law concerns executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are generally referred to as "regulations"), ad ...

and

e-democracy E-democracy (a combination of the words electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, is the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in political and governance processes. The term is believe ...

, former Dean of the

University of Pittsburgh School of Law The University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Pitt Law) was founded in 1895. It became a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1900. Its primary home facility is the Barco Law Building. The school offers four degrees: Master ...

Kiron Skinner Kiron Kanina Skinner (born 1961) is a former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State in the Trump administration. Skinner is presently the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at the Pepperdine Univer ...

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, expert and author in

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, Cold War policy, and fellow at the

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* Luke Skurman - founder of

Niche Niche may refer to: Science *Developmental niche, a concept for understanding the cultural context of child development *Ecological niche, a term describing the relational position of an organism's species *Niche differentiation, in ecology, the ...

* Michael D. Smith - economist in information technology and pioneer in

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phenomenon * Robert P. Strauss - economist and expert in public finance and tax policy * Subra Suresh - Former president of Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the

* John Tarnoff - studio executive, film and interactive producer, and technology entrepreneur and former Head of Show Development at DreamWorks Animation *

Irene Tinagli Irene Tinagli (born 16 April 1974) is an Italian economist and politician, who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She serves as chairwoman of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Career Tinag ...

- member of the

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and former member of the

Italian Parliament The Italian Parliament ( it, Parlamento italiano) is the national parliament of the Italian Republic. It is the representative body of Italian citizens and is the successor to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1943), the transitio ...

Paula Wagner Paula Kauffman Wagner (born Paula Sue Kauffman) is an American film producer and film executive. Her most recent credits include the film ''Marshall'' starring Chadwick Boseman, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown, and Josh Gad as well as the Broadw ...

- film executive and talent agent, former CEO at

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and

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Robert Wilburn Robert C. Wilburn is the director of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College's Washington, DC campus as well as a Distinguished Service Professor at the college. Prior to this position he was the first president and Chief Executive Officer of the ...

- former president of the

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, and director of Heinz College in Washington, DC

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