2010
Date
 Seminar Name & Description

01/04/10

The World’s Political Geology Earthquake Ahead?

Speaker:
Sir. Jeremy Greenstock
Director- The Ditchley Foundation

Time:
12.15 pm – 1.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road

Contact:
lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg

26/03/10

How Do We Deal with the Risks of Cutting Edge Clean Tech?

Speaker:
Dr. Jens P. Tronskar
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
DNV Clean Technology Centre

Time:
10.30 am – 12.00 noon

Venue:

Seminar Room II, ISEAS

Contact:
karthi@iseas.edu.sg

22/03/10

Trade and Investment between Japan and China under Globalization

Speaker:
Mike Leu
Professor, School of International Management
Ritsumeikon Asia Pacific
University of Japan

Time:
12.15 pm – 1.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road
Contact:
sppgt@nus.edu.sg

19/03/10

Corporate Social Responsibility Seminar-It’s Place in Business & the World

Speaker:
Dr. Mark Wade (keynote speaker)
Chairman & non-executive director consultancy Future Considerations

Time:
8.30 am – 4.30 pm

Venue:

Orchard Hotel, Orchard Ballroom 3

Contact:
betty@isea.edu.sg

17/03/10

Recent Developments in Future Thinking: An Overview for Policymakers

Speaker:
Dr. Riel Miller

Time:
9.30 am – 11.30 am

Venue:

Civil Service College
Tamarind Room Level 5
31 Buona Vista Road
Singapore 275983

Contact:
Ms Linda Lim: cscollege_cgl@cscollege.gov.sg

17/03/10

Asian Integration: The Way Forward

Speaker:
Professor Barry Eichengreen
Monetary Authority o Singapore
Term Professor in Economics & Finance
Professor of Economics & Political Science at the
University of California

Time:
3.30 pm

Venue:

MAS Theatrette
Contact:
kennyho@mas.gov.sg

16/03/10

EU’s Climate Change Policy post Copenhagen

Speaker:
Dorian Prince
EU Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Time:
12.15 pm – 1.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469C Bukit Timah Road

Contact:
sppgr@nus.edu.sg

12/03/10

Addressing Complex Social Challenges

Speaker:
Mr. Adam Kahane
Partner in REOs Partners
Visiting Practitioner, University of Oxford and
University of Waterloo

Time:
3.30pm – 5.30pm

Venue:

Civil Service College
Saffron Room Level 5
31 Buona Vista Road
Singapore 275983

Contact:
Ms Linda Lim: cscollege_cgl@cscollege.gov.sg

12/03/10

The Role of the United Nations in a Changing World

Speakers:
Michael Frieherr von Ungern-Sternberg
Director General for the United Nations
Federal Foreign Office, Berlin

Time:
1.15 pm – 6.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772
Contact:
lkysppp@nus.edu.sg

11/03/10

A Case of State Owned Enterprise Transformation in Indonesia: Reality Assessment of Pertamina

Speaker:
Mr. Ari Aoemarno
Former President and CEO of Pertamina

Time:
10.30 am – 12.00 noon

Venue:

Seminar Room II, ISEAS
Contact:
karthi@iseas.edu.sg

09/03/10

Encountering ageing: implications for public policy and corporate business (Sessions 3)

Speaker:
Kosuke Motani
Partner, Advisory Centre, International Enterprise Singapore
Senior Advisor, Development Bank of Japan Ltd

Time:
12.15pm – 1.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772
Chair:
Mukul Asher
Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact:
lkysppp@nus.edu.sg

04/03/10

Regulating Globalized Finance: Prospects & Pitfalls

Speaker:
Professor Arvind Subramanian
Peterson Institute for International Economics, Centre for Global Development,
and John Hopkins University

Time:
4.00pm-5.30pm

Venue:

Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS2-03-12)
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570

Contact:
Ms. Olivia Tan at ecstmc@nus.edu.sg

04/03/10

The Buddhist Origins of “Singapura”: re-reading Chapters 1-6 of the Sejarah Melayu On the Founding of “Singapura”

Speaker:
Mr. Kwan Chong Guan
Head, External Programmes
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

Time:
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room II, ISEAS

Contact:

betty@isea.edu.sg


02/03/10

Cambodia-China Relations: More than just friends

Speaker:
Ambassador Julio A. Jeldres
Research Fellow
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia

Time:
3.30 pm – 5.00 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 11, ISEAS

Contact:
betty@iseas.edu.sg

02/03/10

Economics & Science of Climate Change

Speaker:
Professor Fred Singer
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia

Time:
5.45 pm – 7.15 pm

Venue:

NEC Lecture Room 2 (Education Wing)
Nanyang Executive Centre
60 Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore

Chair:

Professor Euston Quah
Editor, Singapore Economic Review (SER)
President, Economic Society of Singapore
Head of Economics, Nanyang Technological University

Contact:
serlecture@gmail.com

01/03/10

Financial Development- A Political Institutions View

Speaker:
Marc Quintyn
Division Chief in the IMF Institute

Time:
12.15pm – 1.30pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772

Chair:

Henri Ghesquiere
Visiting Professor
LKYSPP

Contact:
sppgt@nus.edu.sg

26/02/10

The Essence of Hedging Malaysia and Singapore’s Response to a Rising China

Speaker:
Mr. Kwik Cheng-Chwee
Senior Lecturer
Strategic Studies and International Relations Programme
National University of Malaysia (UKM)

Time:
10:00am – 11:30 am

Venue:

Seminar Room II, ISEAS

Contact:
Betty Kwan: betty@iseas.edu.sg

26/02/10

New Light on the Ancient Records of Campa (Vietnam)

Speaker:
Professor Arlo Griffiths

Time:
7.00pm – 8.30pm

Venue:

Ngee Ann Auditorium
Asian Civilizations Museum

Contact:
nhb_acm_rpu@nhb.gov.sg

25/02/10

Film Screening of “In Good Company”

Produces:
Malini Mehra
CEO of the Centre for Social Markets (CSM)

Time:
6.00pm – 7.00pm

Venue:

OTH Building, LKY School
Seminar Room MM 3-5

Contact:
jkaur@nus.edu.sg

23/02/10

Panel Discussion on the Singapore Government Budget 2010

Speakers:
Mr. Sum Yee Loong
Tax Partner, Deloitte & Touche
Mr. Kwok Wei Woon (Joseph)
Recently Managing Director/Chief Investment Officer
Platinum Capital Management (Asia) Pte Ltd
Assoc Prof Chia Ngee Choon
Dept. of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore

Time:
4.30pm - 6.30pm

Venue:

AS& Auditorium (AS&-01-02)
National University of Singapore

Moderator:

Prof Kapur Basant
Dept of Economics,
National University of Singapore


19/02/10

Seminar on “Politics at the Periphery: Exploring the Ruling Party’s continued Dominance in Sarawak”

Speaker:
Dr. Faisal S. Hazis
Head
Dept. of Politics and International Relations
Faculty of Social Science
Universiti of Malaysia Sarawak

Time:
10.30am – 12.00noon

Venue:

Seminar Room II ISEAS

Contact:
Betty Kwan: betty@iseas.edu.sg

18/02/10

Herding and Contrarian Behaviour in Financial Markets

peaker:
Hamid Sabourian
University of Cambridge

Time:
4.00pm – 5.30pm

Venue:

Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS@ 03-12)
National University of Singapore
Chair:
Parimal Bag

12/02/10

The 2009 Collapsed Global Economy: Asia in the Global Financial Crisis

Speaker:
Professor Danny Quah
Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor
Dept. of Economics, NUS
Professor of Economics, LSE

Time:
4.00pm – 5.30pm

Venue:

NUS Business School, BIZ2 Building, LT 18

Chairperson:
Professor Ivan Pyng Lim Kim San
Professor and Head
Dept of Strategy & Policy
NUS, Business School
Contact:

Sean Peh, sawcentre@nus.edu.sg


11/02/10

Financial Reform: A lot remains to be done

Speaker:
Hugo Banziger
Chief Risk Office, Member Management Board
Deutsche Bank

Time:
12.15pm – 1.30pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-5 Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772

Chair:

Bernard Yeung
Dean, Business School
NUS

Contact:
sppv60@nus.edu.sg

10/02/10

Are ASEAN FTAs Used for Enterprise Exporting?

Speaker:
Dr. Ganeshan Wignaraja
Principal Economist
Asian Development Bank
Office of Regional Economic Integration

Time:
2.30pm – 4.00p.m

Venue:

Seminar Room II ISEAS

Contact:
Karhti@iseas.edu.sg

09/02/10

Financial Information as psychological construction: Information processing, News and rumours in financial markets

Speaker:
Thomas Oberlechner
Professor of Psychology
Webster University, Vienna

Time:
12.15 pm to 1.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 2-2 Level 2 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772


09/02/10

Can Europeans (still) Think?-Europe’s know how about regional integration a Asia in the 21st Century

Speaker:
Dr. Wolfgang Schussel
Former Chancellor of Austrralia

Time:
5.15 pm to 6.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Chair:

Kishore Mahbubani
Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Contact:
lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg

08/02/10

Developing Asia’s (uneven) Progresses in Achieving Millennium Development Goals and Future Challenges

Speaker:
Dr. Ursula-Schaefer-Preuss
Vice President
Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development

Time:
12.15pm -1.30pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772
Contact:
lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg

04/02/10

Unobserved Binary Random Factors and Returns to Lying

Speaker:
Arthur Lewbel

Time:
4.00 pm to 5.30 pm

Venue:

Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS203-12)
National University of Singapore
1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570

Chair:
Chen Songnian

03/02/10

What is happening to Capitalism in its American Edition?

Speaker:
Dr. Joergen Moeller
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
ISEAS

Time:
2.30 pm to 4.00 pm

Venue:

HSS Seminar Room 8 (HSS-01-09)
(HSS Building, Level 1 Room N0.9)
NTU, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
14 Nanyang Drive
Singapore 637332
Chairperson:
Assoc Prof Chris Sakellariou
Division of Economics
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

03/02/10

Seminar on "Getting Malaysia Out of the Middle Income Trap"

Speaker:
Professor Wing Thye Woo
Univeristy of California, Davis
Central University of Finance & Economics, Beijing,
The Earth Institute at Columbia University,
New York Brooking Institution,
Washington D.C.

Time:
3.00pm to 5.00 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room II ISEAS
Contact:
Betty Kwan: betty@iseas.edu.sg

26/01/10

The Dharma of Capitalism

Speaker:
Gucharan Das
Author, Management Guru and Public Intellectual

Time:
12.15pm to 1.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772

Chair:
Shreekant Gupta
Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact:

lkysppl@nus.edu.sg


25/01/10

What Works-Flipcharts, (Micro) Finance, Fertilized, or Female Leader?

Organizer:

MTI-CSC in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Applied and Policy Economics, NUS

Speaker:
Professor Abhijit Banerjee
Ford International Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time:
9.30 am – 11.30 am

Venue:

Auditorium (Level 1)
Civil Service College
31 North Buona Vista Road
Singapore 275983


18/01/10

CSC China Lecture on "China's Economic Trajectory: Past, Present, Future"

Organizer:
Civil Service College
Speaker:
Professor Huang Yasheng
Professor of Political Economy and International Management
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Wang Gungwu
Chairman of the East Asian Institute, NUS

Time:
3.30 pm – 5.30 pm

Venue:

Auditorium (Level 1)
Civil Service College
31 North Buona Vista Road
Singapore 275983


15/01/10

LKY School Public Lecture on “Aftershocker”

Speaker:
Professor dr. Ben Knapen
Member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy

Time:
5.15 pm – 6.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 3-1 (Level 3) Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 2597772

Contact:
65766893/4202
lkyspppl@nus.edu.sg

13/01/10

Impact of Population Aging on Economic Growth: Results Applying Panel Fixed Effects with Vector Decomposition (XT FEVD) Procedure

Speaker:
Professor Hyun-Hoon Lee
Kangwon National University Korea

Time:
3.30 pm – 5.30 pm

Venue:

HSS Seminar Room 2 (HSS-B1-07)
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
14 Nanyang Drive Singapore 634332


12/01/10

Advising on Alternatives: Pandering to Persuade

Speaker:
Navin Kartik
Columbia University

Time:
4 pm – 5.30 pm

Venue:

Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS2 03-12)

Chair:

Julian Wright


12/01/10

Elite Ethics:
What is Valued Most by Politicians, Bureaucrats and Business Managers

Speaker:
Zegr Van de Wal
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Governance Studies
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Time:
12.15 pm – 1.30 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room 2-1 Level 2 Manasseh Meyer
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
469 C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 2597772

Chair:
Jak Jabes, Visiting Professor
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Contact:
65164202/5357
sppr@nus.edu.sg

09/01/10

India Rising: Myth or Reality?

Speaker:
Mr. Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

Time:
7.00 pm – 8.30 pm

Venue:

Singapore Indian Association Vijaya Hall
69 Balestier Road

Contact:
Ms. Julian Charles @ sgindiaassn@pacific.net.sg

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