This new programme addresses how states and societies respond to global challenges of social, demographic and economic change, and of poverty, migration and globalisation. It is underpinned by the LSE approach to social and public policy that is explicitly international, interdisciplinary and applied. Meeting human needs and increasing well-being are universal policy goals but are addressed differently around the world, with different roles for governments, NGOs, families, and markets. Our ISPP programme incorporates this international and comparative perspective to policy design and evaluation. Looking at low, middle-, and high-income countries, you will gain the skills to identify key social challenges and to analyse the social and public policies used to address them. Students who have graduated from programmes similar to this have gone on to work for: different UN agencies including UNDP, UNICEF and UNHCR a variety of small and large NGOs including Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières, International Red Cross and One World action international or intergovernmental organisations such as the World Economic Forum, European Commission and World Bank consulting companies government ministries.