Analyzing development strategies towards a more sustainable, equitable world
Mid-career professionals, scholars and aspiring development professionals from across multiple different countries unite as the Global Development MPS class of 2026. Each bringing unique specialties — from food security and inclusive economic growth to renewable energy and environmental sustainability, and more — the class will take a transdisciplinary approach to enhance their technical and practical skills in development in order to tackle the world's greatest challenges around the globe.
Global Development MPS Class of 2027
Grand challenge: Improving project design and management through greater communication with, inclusion of, and consideration for local communities.
Grand challenge: To ensure women in the Global South shape the policies that govern them.
Grand challenge: Bridging the gap between technological innovation and consumer trust to build transparent, resilient, and intelligent global supply networks.
Grand challenge: Working alongside community members to identify environmental threats and design sustainable and holistic mitigation and adaptation practices for greater climate resilience.
Grand challenge: A new environment, a non-native language.
Grand challenge: Connecting the dots between development cooperation and sustainable development by turning conversations into collaboration, collaboration into innovation, and innovation into impact.
Grand challenge: I aim to address the challenge of building sustainable, equitable aquaculture systems that strengthen food security and rural livelihoods while reducing environmental strain on wild fish populations and aquatic ecosystems.
Grand challenge: Advancing inclusive economic development by empowering marginalized rural communities through social enterprise, sustainable production, circular economies, and access to international markets, with a focus on Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia.
Grand challenge: Advancing sustainable agricultural policies that strengthen global food security, support rural livelihoods, and promote economic growth.
Grand challenge: Improve environmental resilience and human well-being through agriculture; focus on central Africa
Grand challenge: Identifying and strengthening the role of local business models in fostering social change, particularly through regenerative agricultural practices that promote community resilience and sustainable development.
Grand challenge: The early detection and education about Lepidopteran agricultural pests in the developing world.
Grand challenge: Accelerating the Recovery of Degraded Laxndscapes through Indigenous Agricultural Biodiversity and Nature-Based Solutions
Grand challenge: Promoting equitable and sustainable development through the integration of law, governance, and technological innovation.