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Excellent research on global governance led to invitations for Marta Vanduzer-Snow ’03 to serve as a visiting scholar at the Observer Research Foundation and India Development Foundation in New Delhi, India. She also is a visiting fellow at the India Central Asia Foundation.
She worked on a proposal to restructure the International Monetary Fund (IMF), arguing that the IMF does not meet the present needs of the global political economy. Vanduzer-Snow co-authored a paper for the IMF publication Finance and Development, which she presented at the G24’s annual technical meeting in Manila. Now a chapter in the G24’s Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank, the paper has been translated into French, Spanish, and Chinese and is used in graduate seminars in the U.S. and abroad.
“We were honored to be part of the debate,” Vanduzer-Snow says of her involvement with the IMF. “I was excited that daily newspapers in China and India picked up the Finance and Development piece, which meant reaching a third of the world.”
Vanduzer-Snow has traveled extensively throughout the developing world to gain a greater understanding of global governance, particularly the role of the U.S. in world affairs. In August, she presented her paper “Beginning in History: the Clash of Polities” at the First Global International Studies Conference in Istanbul. She hopes to publish the paper as a book in time for the 2008 presidential election.
Vanduzer-Snow plans to become a professor and continue work on establishing Project Change: an International Education Initiative, an organization that focuses on empowering women and youth.
An international affairs and Spanish graduate, Vanduzer-Snow recalls John McCartney, professor and head of government and law, as an encouraging voice in her academic pursuits.
“[His class] was my only ‘A’ in my field of study while at Lafayette,” she says. “He was an inspiration and motivation for me to keep with my studies.”