2011
Date
 Seminar Name & Description

24/11/11

Our Future Energy Needs: What Role Will Renewables and Energy Efficiency Play?

Time: 1.00 pm – 7.30pm
Venue:
Raffles Town Club
The Dunearn Ballroom
Level 1, Dunearn Wing
1 Plymouth Avenue
Singapore 297753
Contact: http://www.esi.nus.edu.sg/e-registration



Why is Harvard #1? Governance and the Dominance of US universities

Speakers:
Dr. Shailendra Mehta, Visiting Professor, Business Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad & Academic Director, Duke Corporate Education
Time: 8.30 am -5.35 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-4, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg



Forests, Biodiversity and Climate Change in Southeast Asia

Time: 8.30 am -5.35 pm
Venue:
Mochtar Riady Auditorium, Level 5
SMU Administration Buidling
81 Victoria Street Singapore, 185065
Contact: may@iseas.edu.sg



Food Security ASEAN

Speaker:
Dr. C Peter Timmer
Cabot Professor of Development Studies, Emeritus
Harvard University
Time: 10.00 am – 11.30 pm
Venue: Seminar Room II, ISEAS
Contact: karthi@iseas.edu.sg



"Winds of Change in the Middle East: Why? And in Which Direction?" by Ambassador Nabil Fahmy

Speaker:
Ambassador Nabil Fahmy,
Founding Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University;Chair, Monterey California Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ Middle East Project
Organiser: LKY School
Time: 5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m
Venue: Level 3, Auditorium, Block B, Faculty of Law
Chair:
Professor Kishore Mahbubani,
Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg.


Refraining from instrumental variables by exchanging orthogonality conditions for simultaneity assumptions

Speaker:
Professor Jan Kiviet
University of Amsterdam
Organiser: National University of Singapore, Dept of Economics
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Venue:
Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS2 03-12)
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Chair: Tilak Abeysinghe


“Ensuring a Square Meal” Gender and Food Security in Southeast Asia

Organiser: ISEAS
Venue: Seminar Room II
Contact: may@iseas.edu.sg


Large demographic shocks and small changes in the marriage market: Evidence from China’s 1958-1960 famine

Speaker:
Aloysius Siow
University of Toronto
Organiser: Dept of Economics, NUS
Time:4.00pm -5.30pm
Venue:
Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS2-03-12)
Chair: Zhang Jie
Contact: ecssk@nus.edu.sg


Commodification of Indonesia Forests from Timber to Palm Oil

Speaker:
Dr. Paul Gellert
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Time:12.15 pm – 1.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-5 Level 3
Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew
School of Public Policy
Contact: lkysppl@nus.edu.sg


Trade, Water and Climate

Speaker:
Professor Patrick A Messerlin
Professor of Economics, Sciences Po
Director, Groupe d’ Economie Mondiale at Sciences Po
(GEM), France
Time:10.30 am – 12.00 noon
Venue:Seminar Room II, ISEAS
Contact: karthi@iseas.edu.sg


Challenges to Multilateralism

Speaker:
Dr Carlos Lopes
Executive Director
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR), Italy
Time:2.30 pm – 4.00 pm
Venue:Seminar Room II, ISEAS
Contact: karthi@iseas.edu.sg


Thailand’s Future Direction After the Election

Speaker:
Dr. Panitan Wattanmayagorn
Deputy Secretary General to the Prime Minister for
Political Affairs & Acting Government Spokesman Thailand
Time: 4.00pm to 5.00 pm
Venue:Seminar Room II, ISEAS
Contact: betty@iseas.edu.sg


Global Imbalance and S-S Economic Links

Speaker:
Speaker: Mr. Changyong Rhee
Chief Economist
Asian Development Bank
Manila
Time: 3.00pm to 4.00 pm
Venue:Seminar Room II, ISEAS
Contact: karthi@iseas.edu.sg


The 31st Singapore Lecture

Speaker:
Speaker: H.E. Dr. Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Time:9.30 am to 10.15 am
Venue: Grand Ballroom (Level 1), Ritz Carlton Millenia Singapore
Contact:May @ 6870-2473


Global Macroeconomic Rebalancing: Implication for Singapore and Asia

Speaker:
Professor Linda Lim
Professor of Strategy at the Stephen M Ron School of Business
University of Michigan
Time: 3.30pm to 5.30 pm
Venue: Civil Service College Auditorium
Contact: cscollege_cpe@cscollege.gov.sg


Luck, Leadership, and Legitimacy in transitions to democracy: Lessons from South Africa and the Middle East

Speakers:
Prof. Ian Shapiro
Sterling Professor of Political Science
Henry R. Luce
Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
Time: 5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m.
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Chaired by:
Dr Suzaina Kadir
Senior Lecturer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Democracy and Distribution: Why the Poor don't Soak the Rich (7 March 2011)
Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism (8 March 2011)
Non-Domination as a Political Ideal (10 March 2011)
Problems, Methods, and Theories : What's Wrong with Political Science and What to Do About It (11 March 2011)

Speakers:
Prof. Ian Shapiro
Sterling Professor of Political Science
Henry R. Luce
Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. (7-11 March 2011)
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


The Singapore Economy: Challenges and Options

Speakers:
Panel of Speakers
Time: 9.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Venue:
Amara Hotel,
165 Tanjong Pagar Road. Singapore 088539 (Near Tangjong Pagar MRT)
Please visit here for more details


Global Debt Crisis (G-7) and Its Impact on Asia

Speaker:
Dr Dan Steinbock, Research Director,
International Business at the India, China and America Institute (USA), and Fellow, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China)
Time: 5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Chaired by:
Prof. Charles Adams, Visiting Professor
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Conversations with Mahathir Mohamad

Speaker:
Tom Plate
Author of Confessions of an American Media Man (2007) and Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew (2010)
Time: 5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


The new International System and the future of Europe

Speaker:
Prof. Thierry de Montbrial,
Member of the "Institut de France", Founder and President of the French Institute for International Relations, Founder and President of the World Policy Conference
Time: 5.15 p.m. - 6.30 p.m
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Chaired by:
Prof. Kanti Bajpai, Visiting Professor
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Negotiating a Peace Agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front: Governance and Territory Questions

Speaker:
Professor Miriam Coronel Ferrer
Dept. of Political Science
University of the Philippines
Time: 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Venue: Seminar room II, ISEAS
Contact: betty@iseas.edu.sg


IBM Centennial Lecture Series - Ideas that shaped a century

Speaker:
Samuel J. Palmisano
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of IBM Corporation
Time: 3.15 p.m. – 4.15 p.m.
Venue:
Level 3, Auditorium
Block B, Faculty of Law, NUS Bukit Timah Campus
469G Bukit Timah Road Singapore 259776
Chaired By:
Prof Kishore Mahbubani
Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Paradigm shifts in addressing health workforce shortages, maldistribution, and skill mix imbalances in low resource

Speaker:
Dr Meenakshi Gautham, Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Institute of Public Health and Policy
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3,
Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: sppgt@nus.edu.sg

The Potential Impact of the Mental Capacity Act on Singapore's Ageing Population

Speaker:
Dr. Sumy Menon
Instructor, Faculty of Law
University of Signapore (University of Singapore)
Time: 12.15 pm to 1.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg

Emerging Markets: What is Next?

Speaker:
M. Ayhan Roase(M. Ahyan Rose)
International Monetary Fund
Time: 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm
Venue:
Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS2 03-12)
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Contact: mengwoan@nus.edu.sg

China and India: Will Economic Development and Political Democracy Converge?

Speaker:
Barun S. Mitra
Founder and Director of the Liberty Institute
Time: 5.15 pm - 6.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Dealing with the Security Threat from Climate Change

Speaker:
Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti
Climate and Energy Security Envoy
British Governor
Time: 12.15 pm to 1.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg

What is medical tourism and what does it mean for health economics? Where patients are buyers and doctors sellers, are these insights for mainstream health economics?

Speaker:
Dr. Percivil M. Carrer
Coordinator of the Master of Science in Health Economics
Program and Lecturer in Health Economics Medical Faculty
Mannheim Ruprecht Karl
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Time: 5.15 pm - 6.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg

Risk Equalisation in Voluntary Health Insurance Markets: A Three Country Comparison

Speaker:
Dr. Francesco Paolucci
Lecturer/Researcher Fellow Australian Centre for Economic
Research on Health
The Australian National University & Institute of Health Policy and Management
Erasmus University of Rotterdam
Time: 5.15 pm - 6.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3.5, Level 3
Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Demand of hospital care and private health insurance in a mixed public-private system: empirical evidence using simultaneous equation modeling approach

Speaker:
Dr. Terence Chai Cheng
Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
University of Melbourne
Time: 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Venue:
HSS Seminar Room 3 (Basement 1)
Nanyang Technological University
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
14 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637332
Contact: achristina@ntu.edu.sg


Phronesis (Practical Wisdom) as Leadership Ability

Speaker:
Prof Ikujiro Nonaka
Professor Emeritus,
Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy,
Hitotsubashi University (ICS)
Time: 5.15 pm - 6.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3.5, Level 3
Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Marking Sustainability Work: Creating Enabling Environments for Innovation and Implementation

Organizers: CSC and CAG
Speaker:
John Elkington
Executive Chairman of Volans
Co-founder of Sustainability and of Environmental Data Services
Time: 10:00 am to 12.00 noon
Venue:
Tamarind Room
Level 5, Civil Service College
31 North Buona Vista Road
Singapore 275983
Contact: cscollege_cpe@cscollege.gov.sg


Japan’s social security systems under the aging of population- some daunting challenges

Speaker:
Professor Yoichi Okita
Academic Fellow, Emeritus Professor
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Time: 5.15 pm – 6.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-3, Level 3
Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg


Indonesia Rising: Implications and Opportunities

Organizer: LKY School of Public Policy
Speaker:
Dr. Nasir Tamara
Chairman of the Indonesian International Scholars Association & Executive at the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Time: 12.15 pm to 1.30 pm
Venue:
Seminar Room 3-5 Level 3
Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: sppliya@nus.edu.sg


Singapore Perspectives 2011 Our Inclusive Society: Going Forward

Speakers:
Dr. Derekda Cunha
Writer/Independent Scholar
Ms. Sylvia Lim
Lecturer and Manager of Professional Development
School of Business
Temasek Polytechnic
Mr. T Sasitharan
Director
Theatre Training and Research Program
Time: 9.00 am – 6.00 pm
Venue: Raffles Ballroom, Raffles City Convention Centre
Chair:
Associate Professor Hui Weng Tat
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact: ips.perspectives@nus.edu.sg


Is the Global Economy Still in Crisis?

Speaker:
Dr. Jacques Attali
Founder and First President
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Time: 10.00 am – 12.00 noon
Venue: The Ballroom, Raffles Hotel Level 3
Register: www.asef.org


Regional Outlook Forum 2011
Repositioning Asia after the Crisis

Organizer: ISEAS
Speaker:
Dr. Jacques Attali
Founder and Fisrt President
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Time: 8.30 am to 12.45 pm
Venue:
Padang & Collyer Ballroom (Level 4)
Raffles City Convention Centre
Contact: may@iseas.edu.sg


Chinese and Indian Migration in Global Context 1840-1940

Speaker: Assoc Prof Adam McKeown
Dept of History
Columbia University
U.S.A
Time: 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm
Venue: ISEAS Seminar Room II
Contact: betty@iseas.edu.sg


The Return of Industrial Policy

Speaker:
Professor Dani Rodrik
Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Time: 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Venue:
Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium @ SMU
Level 2, School of Accountancy
Singapore Management University
81 Victoria Steet
Singapore 188065
Contact: cscollege_cpe@cscollege.gov.sg


The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy Control: the Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity

Speaker:
Professor Dani Rodrik
Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Time: 3.30 pm – 5.30 pm
Venue:
Auditorium @ The Treasury
Level 1, 100 High Street
Singapore 179434
Contact: cscollege_cpe@cscollege.gov.sg

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