2024 Award Recipients
Academic Achievement Award

Highest grade point average in the graduating class

Minh Nam Pham,MIA­­­, BA-MIA

Anjali Bhatt,
MAS-IA

Richard Covington Award

Mir Muhtadi Faiaz,
MPP, BA-MPP

Jonathan Elkobi &Dinah Shi, MCEPA

Dean’s Teaching Award

Recognizes a technically excellent
program design and evaluation paper

Best curriculum teaching assistant or tutor
as voted by the Class of 2025

School of Global Policy and Strategy

Ruth Adams Award

Commencement Speaker Award

University of California San Diego

Jonathan Elkobi

Recognizes the best analytical paper (qualitative)

Fernanda Andrea Padilla

Econometrics Prize

Recognizes the best empirical paper (quantitative)

Akshay Yeddanapudi

Policy Memo AwardFirst year GPS student who wrote thebest policy memo paper for a course

Daniel Hershfield

Language Achievement Award
Outstanding achievement
in language study at GPS

Danielle Hannah Eve Groper

Joseph Grunwald Memorial Award
Significant contributions in the promotion ofInter-American understanding

Paula Jaramillo

Faculty Recognition Award

Awarded and voted on by the Class of 2024

Jesse Driscoll
Gordon McCord

Anne Charles

Chosen by the Class of 2024 to deliver
the Commencement address

Jordan Ryan Chu

Ayal Margalith Memorial Awardfor Leadership

Graduate student who has shown leadership,
excellence and devotion to the GPS student bodyas voted by the Class of 2024

Taysia Fu-Jan Leung

2024
Commencement Exercises

MAS-IA Peer Award

For professionalism, scholarship,collegiality, integrity and service

Devin McCormick

Doming Liu Award

Significant contribution and leadershipto student life within their first year
at GPS as voted by the Class of 2025

Friday, June 14, 2024
10 a.m.

Okilbek Abdumavlanov

EDI Award

Meaningful impact on student life andwell-being through student-initiated Equity,
Diversity and Inclusion activities

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LionTree Arena

Graduating Class of 2024

Commencement Exercises
Master of Advanced Studies in International Affairs
Sean Alexander
Shynar Baitukina
Daniel Beebe
Anjali Bhatt
Dean Black
Philip DeFord

Gantuya Larkins
Charmas Lee
Hyun Joon Lee
Woojong Lee
Devin McCormick
Omar Sebastian Ortiz

Yuhei OtaFrancisco Javier
PalomoThomas Phillips
Robert Anthony
Quihuis IV

Evan Richards
Damarias Russell
Sonny Safee
Jakob Schwam

Welcome

Caroline Freund, Dean

Master of Chinese Economic and Political Affairs
Jonathan Elkobi
Zhuohan Fang*
Michelle Lai

Zhongqiang LiJ. Martin Mancini*
GianCarlo Samayoa

Junzhe Shi
Dinah Shi*
Yaohong Wang

Mariam Altamimi
Chloe Marie Amiset
Eliza Adair Appleton*
Lucienne Valentina
Arrigoni
Putra Farrel Azhar
MounishaBalasubramanianSkylar Chyann Belden
Ray Andrew BermanSchneider*
Yutong Bo
Alex BogisichAngela Weiyan Cai
Jasper Junjie Cen
Zhiyuan Chi
Viola Chow

Jackson Richard Patrick
Coyle
Samuel F. Crolla
Jeremy Cronig
Christopher Cuevas*Alexander David Curry
Cyrus Dettle
Dephny C. Duan
Lauryn Edwards
Alperen Efeoglu
Anuyjin Anna Enkhtur
Nima Esfandiari
Danielle Hannah Eve
GroperKevin Guo
McKenzie Hartman
Taylor HeAmanda Pinilla Appel
Warsan Artan*
Anne Charles
Wenxin Chen
Yuwei (Kay) Chen
Arturo Chiquito*
Harrison Cho
Jordan Ryan Chu
Yihan Duan
Fedor Dukhnovskii
Mir Muhtadi Faiaz*
Alberto I. Fragoso
Basauri*
Daniel Jefte Garcia
Gomar

Yuxin Guo
Tamara Handfas*
Emily Louise Harris*
Salvador Hernandez Jr.
Junyi Hua
Jocelyn Huitron
Gutierrez
Karlo Imper-Vuletić
Marzhan Ismailova
Yoshitake Ito
Rhea Kalra*
Hiroaki KatoMichael Kennedy
Dongki (DK) Kim
Sangwook Kim

Sirui Yao
Sibo Zheng
Wenjie Zhou

Xitian Zou

Master of International Affairs
Ashley Hernandez
Guanhao (Edison) Hu*
Zhenyang Hu
Paula Jaramillo
Yongsun Jin
Gloria Kalt
Matthew Kazden
Mary Khachatourian*
Tianning (Tini) Lan
Taysia Fu-Jan Leung*Sarah Lewis
Alexander (Alex) Li
Boyue (Harry) Liu
Josephine Lowery
Henry Mok
Anushka Mokta
Angela Rose Molina

Hiroshi Muroi
Hatraman (Elliot)
NguyenStephanie Orosz
Fernanda Andrea
PadillaPatrick Perrin
Minh Nam Pham*
Evan Lande Pizzurro
Pavan RaghavendraRaja Manuri Venkata
Hyeong Cheol Ro
Adam C. Rosario
Junna Saito
Megha Sanjay*
Ilaria Simmen
Dana Suleiman

Annie Sulejmani
Riley Sutton
Kentaro Tahara
Wei-Hsin Tang*
Anastasiya Uspenskaya
Kynedi Paul Verrett
Calynn Yanji Wang
Monica Wang
Yelaine Wang
Yifei Wang
Nicholas Watson
Henry Ziyi Wong
Kimothy Wong
Akshay Yeddanapudi*
Qing YinYe YuanGenghua Zhuang

Master of Public Policy
Kazuhiro Kotabe
Siyuan Li
Xiaoran Li
Yumeng Liu
Chen Long
Pengyu Lu
Kayla Lutes
Randi Macrorie
Fairweather
Zachary McKenzie
Mizuki MurashimaMasaki Nakamura
John Austin
Newcomer*
Bryce Sungjin ParkGeorge Popp
Daniel Pryke
Gabriela Emilia
Quintanilla
Courtney Ransom
Masaaki Sato
Dylan Chase Schneider
Archita Sharma*
Masahiro Soji
Angela Solanilla
Drew Peeyapat
Suthipongchai*
Alejandra Toro Delgado
Julian Tiberius Verdon
Michael Wagner

Xuran Wang
Emily Corinna
Wentworth
Joy Werner
Di Wu
Yiyang Wu
Ruixuan Xiang
Daisuke Yamakawa
Aoi Yamashita
Daichi Yamashita* Dean’s Fellow
This graduation program was printed prior to posting of final grades; inclusion is not an indication of degree completion.

Commencement Address

Liliana Ferrer-Silva
Ambassador of Mexico to Thailand,
concurrent in Cambodia

Class Commencement Address

Jordan Ryan Chu, MPP, Class of 2024

Hooding of Degree Candidates
Jennifer Burney, Professor
Gordon McCord, Associate Dean