USC and Arnold Schwarzenegger Announce New Institute on State and Global Policy

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias and Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California, today announced the establishment of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, which will be housed in the USC Price School of Public Policy.</p>

<p>The new institute’s bipartisan Board of Advisors includes: Henry Cisneros, who as San Antonio’s mayor became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city and was appointed by President Bill Clinton as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development</p>

<p>Vicente Fox, who served as president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006</p>

<p>Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; </p>

<p>George Shultz, economist and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989; </p>

<p>Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann</p>

<p>Kandeh K. Yumkella, director-general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.</p>

<p>Schwarzenegger will chair the Board of Advisors and serve as inaugural holder of the Governor Downey Professor of State and Global Policy at USC, named after a former California governor and co-founder of USC.</p>

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<p>Honestly, I don’t know whether I should be proud of this, or embarrassed by it.</p>

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<p>That’s an impressive, and bipartisan (natch), Board of Advisors.</p>