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October 2009
 Global Health Governance: a cart pulled by too many horses?
Speaker: Dr Tikki Pangestu
Date: Monday, October 12, 2009
Time: 12.15 - 1.30pm
Venue: Seminar Rm 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer Building, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis:
From pandemic influenza H1N1to chronic diseases, and from fragile health systems in times of financial crisis to the health impacts of climate change, the world faces a staggering array of diverse and trans-national threats to health and well-being. Health equity remains elusive and the realization of the health-related Millennium Development Goals remains a distant dream. The developing world bears the brunt of the burden, with many of the largest developing countries located in the Asia Pacific region. Global health governance has an important impact on contemporary health policy which, at the level of individual countries, must deal and respond to these health threats. Unfortunately, and despite unprecedented resources, global health governance itself is in disarray due to fragmentation, poor coordination, inappropriate priorities, lack of accountability and transparency, and the absence of a common, shared vision. New measures and innovative thinking are needed to overcome these barriers to effective global health governance. Importantly, Asia has much to contribute in the form of ideas, experience, values and resources towards the development of more effective and sustainable models of global health governance.
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August 2009
People Power as Dramaturgical Performances: Three Uprisings in the Philippines
Speaker: Teresita Cruz-del Rosario, Senior Research Fellow, Center on Asia and Globalisation
Date: Friday, 28 August 2009
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, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis:
Theoretical approaches to collective behavior suffer from an intellectual tradition that tends to equate social protest with crowd (mob) behavior ---- a form of sociopathology endemic in societies suffering from social breakdown. This is rooted in Durkheimian sociological concept of anomie --- a collective angst experienced concurrently with the processes of modernization and its attendant excesses. This study debunks that perspective. In looking at three people power uprisings in the Philippines which occurred over a time period of fifteen years (1986 – 2001), this study employs a Goffmanian framework to portray collective behavior as a testimonial to expressive human agency, and to explain the quasi-religious and festive character of Philippine uprisings. They are “dramaturgical productions,” each one governed by an underlying script. Two uprisings embody the larger moral vision among middle-class protestors who adhere to a distinct social project called “modernity.” The third uprising elaborates on James Scott’s notion of the “hidden transcript” which is formed in the subterreneal regions of discourse among the poor and the marginalized, and is inspired by the Biblical Pasyon, the movies and the telenovelas. Data is drawn from first-person interviewees all of whom participated in the uprisings.
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June 2009
Agents of Change: Bangladesh -- The Perfect Storm of Social Innovation
Speaker: Khalid Quadir, CEO and Partner, Brummer & Partners Asset Management (Bangladesh) Limited
Date: Thursday, 4 June 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: Mr. Quadir built a successful career growing numerous social purpose businesses in Bangladesh. His talk will focus on his work and on Bangladesh, a country which was once known for its cyclones and political unrest, but which is now a beacon of social innovation. Despite various economic and natural challenges, Bangladesh continues to produce innovative people, products and services which are transforming the development and social landscape for the world. Mr. Quadir will discuss the innovation factors that continue to propel the country forward, including its tenacious people, creative organizations, entrepreneurial spirit and the very important female workforce. Mr. Quadir is exemplary of the fact that Bangladesh truly is the world’s frontier for social innovation - a concept whose time as come
April 2009
Agents of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in the Lion City
Speaker: Alfie Othman, Chairman of the Homes Committee, Pertapis
Date: Friday, 17 April 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: Mr. Othman will detail the Pertapis journey – a journey that he has been centrally involved in over the last five years. While there were undoubtedly bumps along the road, the end result was the birth of a new culture within social enterprise development and preventative education. Mr. Othman will also share his take on how the local Singaporean community embraces and understands the concept of social enterprise and, most importantly, what is required to move a social enterprise forward.
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Agents of Change: Independent Media and Delivering Social Change
Speaker: Sasa Vucinic, Founder and Managing Director of Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF)
Date: Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: MDLF is a social investment fund for independent news media in the developing world. It provides low-cost capital, new technology solutions and management know-how to assist journalists in challenging environments build sustainable businesses around professional, responsible and quality journalism. MDLF was founded in 1995 and has since provided about US$90 million in affordable financing to independent media companies in 24 countries. Mr. Vucinic will discuss the tectonic shifts in technology that have changed the way we create, deliver, and consume news and knowledge, and which have rendered traditional media economics and business models untenable. He will also outline the value of independent media in these new circumstances and discuss the emergence of new and promising business models in the sector. The seminar will also discuss the importance for societies of protecting and supporting independent media outlets.
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March 2009
Agents of Change Seminar Series:
Bangladesh: Civil Society and Rebirth of Democracy
Speaker: Dr. Badiul Alam Majumdar, Founder and Secretary, SHUJAN-Citizens for Good Governance
Date: Friday, 20 March 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: In the last few years, groups within the democracy movement of Bangladesh have carried out a relentless advocacy, awareness and mobilisation campaign demanding clean candidates, clean politics and systemic reforms. Notably, The Citizens for Good Governance, or SHUJAN, was central in leading this change. SHUJAN made significant efforts to energise the democracy movement, developing innovation programs to empower the citizens with information.
The movement for change initiated and led by SHUJAN culminated in a range of substantive electoral reforms, incluing the reconsitution and reform of the Election Commission, the preparation of electoral rolls with photographs, reform of the reforms, parliamentary elections were held in December 2008, which by all accounts, were free, fair and peaceful. Crucially, many tainted candidates were either not nominated at all or, when nominated, failed in their campaigns. This suggests that SHUJAN's effort may have played a critical role in ushering in a new beginning for Bangalesh's democracy.
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Agents of Change Seminar Series:
The Value of Micro-credit
Speaker: Sanjay Sinha, Founder & Managing Director of Micro-Credit Ratings International Limited (M-CRIL)
Date: Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: Micro-Credit Ratings International Limited (M-CRIL) was established to facilitate the flow of funds into micro-finance. Over the past 10 years M-CRIL has undertaken nearly 600 ratings of some 330 MFIs in 32 countries across Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. The talk will focus on the thinking behind M-CRIL, its methodology for rating MFIs, the impact of rating on the growth of micro-finance, and emerging trends in the micro-finance sector in Asia and India.
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 Contesting Indonesia Seminar Series:
The 2009 Indonesian Election: Labour’s (Dis)identification from Party Politics
Speaker: Nicolaas Warouw, Department of Anthropology, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Yogyakarta
Date: 12 March 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: Almost ten years after the fall of Soeharto, Indonesian labour shows little potential for developing into a more politicised and organised movement, let alone a class instrument. Despite the current proliferation of trade unions and labour organisations, which enjoy bargaining power on a scale unthinkable under the New Order, the level of politicisation of industrial workers and their engagement in organised politics remains low. This seminar discusses the division of both interests and aspirations between different groups of workers and contrasts them with the experience of a previous generation of industrial workers associated with labour activism in the 1990s. It suggests that the exposure of contemporary workers to modernity and a globalised popular discourse, together with improved living conditions, have affected their capacity to adopt a more politicised role, and amplified their disassociation with party politics and the forging of a stronger labour movement. This has occurred at the same time that political forces have displayed a distinct unwillingness to connect their ideologies and discourses towards the interests of workers.
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International Workshop on Transparency and Access to Information (By invitation only.)
Co-organised by the Centre on Asia and Globalisation and The Asia Foundation
Date: 4-6 March 2009
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
February 2009
Seminar: How Do You Govern Afghanistan?
Speaker: Dr. Hamish Nixon, The World Bank, Afghanistan
Date: Thursday, 26 February 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Manasseh Meyer
Synopsis: Subnational governance is a major focus of statebuilding, counterinsurgency, and development efforts in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's centralised state contrasts with its remote and diverse hinterlands, and its fragile and conflict-degraded administration struggles to overcome capacity-constraints, a complex aid environment, corruption and inefficiency to deliver basic services and development. Worsening insecurity and declining legitimacy make this challenge even more pressing as Afghanistan faces a second round of national elections, and a new US administration considers its strategy. An analysis of the pitfalls and successes in trying to extend governance subnationally over the past seven years provides some lessons for the future; foremost among these is to consider the urgent demands of facing continuing conflict and legitimacy within a more coherent framework and achievable vision for subnational statebuilding in Afghanistan.
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Contesting Indonesia Seminar Series:
Closed and Open Peasant Communities: A Review of State Development and Grassroots Politics in Post-New Order Indonesia
Speaker: Scott Guggenheim, AusAID
Date: Thursday, 12 February 2009
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s announcement that he was planning to make the National Program for Community Empowerment ("PNPM") the cornerstone of his national poverty reduction strategy marked both continuity and change in how the national government politically approaches rural communities. Seen in the context of Indonesia's ongoing democratic reforms and the still volatile program for decentralization, PNPM fits into a pattern of engaging new political actors. Seen from Indonesia's history of poverty reduction through mass mobilization for development, PNPM fits into a long pattern of central elites building political bases through community development. This talk will concentrate on describing PNPM itself, with a special focus on the political dynamics that led to the program's design, and a close look at the "black box" of community institutions and their role in Indonesia's ongoing social reforms.
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January 2009
Seminar: Indonesia's 2009 Election Campaign and What it Reveals: Looming Crisis of National Leadership and Governance
Speaker: Max Lane, Visiting Fellow, Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore
Date: Thursday, 22 January 2009
Time:12.15p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: The early days of election campaigning are revealing a deep alienation between the majority of the public and the political parties that will be standing in the elections. This alienation is sensed by the political party leaderships who express increasing concern about a possible high GOLPUT (boycott) of the election. Why is it that despite the participation of 44 parties in the elections, no party appears to have won significant popularity? Is this connected to failures in the democratisation process and the practice of governance? What are the scenarios for this alienation to be manifested in election results and what are their implications for the Presidential elections to follow and for national politics? If there is a deepening alienation with parliamentary politics, what are the prospects for a resurgence in activity in extra-parliamentary politics? From where might new national leadership come?
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Seminar: The Changing Governance Architecture in China
Speaker: Lai Hairong, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, China Center for Comparative Politics aand Economics
Date: Monday. 19 January 2009
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, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: China has undergone dramatic changes since the late 1970s, not just in terms of its economy, but also in its political and governance institutions. These transformations include: (1) the separation of state and society, and an accompanying expansion of the role of society; (2) decentralization and devolution within the state; (3) emerging checks and balances within the state and over the state by the people on a legal basis; (4) the institutionalization of limited terms of power and the peaceful transfer of power; (5) the reconfiguration of ideology whereby the concept of socialism, the mission of the party, as well as the legitimacy of the entire political system have been redefined; and (6) the growing independence of a citizenry with increasingly diverse values and life styles. The seminar will provide an overview of these trends, asking the important questions of how China and the world will respond to the accompanying opportunities and challenges brought by these various political dynamics.
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December 2008
Conference: Governance of a Globalising World: Whither Asia and the West?
Date: 3-6 December, 2008
Location: Four Sesons Hotel, Singapore
Synopsis: An extraordinary group of leading scholars and public intellectuals from Asia and the West will convene in Singapore to tackle the crucial question of how to run the world. The group will engage rigorously on the topics such as: sovereignty and the new world order; global democracy; global public goods; and Asian perspectives on international relations.
More information about the project
November 2008
Public Policy for Clean Electricity
Speaker: Benjamin K. Sovacool, Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program, Centre on Asia and Globalization, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Date: 26 November 2008
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 2-2, Level 2, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis:Which public policy mechanisms would best promote clean energy? Based on 181 research interviews at 93 different institutions in 9 countries, and supplemented with a review of the academic literature, this presentation assesses the best way to promote more sustainableforms of energy supply and use. It begins by briefly laying out why government intervention is needed and by identifying the technical and social obstacles to cleaner forms of electricity. It then details the four most favored policy mechanisms identified by experts: eliminating subsidies for conventional and mature electricity technologies, pricing electricity accurately, passing a national feed-in tariff, and implementing a nationwide systems benefit fund to raise public awareness, protect lower income households, and administer demand side management programs. Drawing mostly from case studies in the United States, the presentation finally discusses why these policy mechanisms must be implemented comprehensively, not individually, if the barriers to clean power are to be overcome.
Open Public Forum: Should Southeast Asia Go Nuclear
Organised by Centre on Asia and Globalisation in conjuction with the International Energy Week
Date: 7 November 2008
Time: 10.00 am-12.00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: The open public forum takes on Southeast Asia as a geographic focus, centering around the energy requirements of the region, especially Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. These are the countries that are contemplating nuclear energy as a viable option even while there are equally strong positions for maintaining the region as nuclear-free. Issues of timetable, accessibility/availability of technologies, implementation, regulation, and safety are some of the questions that will be addressed by the panelists. Join us for an interactive two-hour forum with some of the leading minds to discuss these questions.
To view the webcast of the lecture, please click here.
The Ninth Global Conference on Environmental Taxation
Organised by the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Law Faculty, NUS
Supported by the Centre on Asia and Globalisation
Date: 6-7 November 2008
Venue: Concorde Hotel Singapore, 100 Orchard Road
Contesting Indonesia Seminar Series: Racket Regimes and Democracy: The Politics of Protection in Jakarta
Organised by Centre on Asia & Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Speaker: Ian Wilson, Research Fellow, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
Date:: 6 November 2008
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: In Indonesia violent entrepreneurs have been ubiquitous and conspicuous social and political actors throughout history, albeit in a variety of regional variations and manifestations. This seminar focuses upon one particular manifestation – the racketeer – and will chart the shifting nature of protection rackets in post-New Order Jakarta. It will be contended that in the ten years since the fall of the New Order regime, protection rackets operating under a variety of guises have reorganised and consolidated themselves in ways that make it increasingly difficult to disentangle the ‘legal’ from the ‘illegal’. Going beyond criminality and blurring the lines between formal and informal authority, these new racketeering formations have both become an important means through which street-level power is exercised and intersect with some of the defining features of the post-New Order political landscape; political decentralisation, identity politics and the opening up of markets.
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October 2008
Contesting Indonesia Seminar Series: Contesting Democracy and Decentralisation in Indonesia
Organised by Centre on Asia & Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Speaker: Vedi R. Hadiz, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
Date: 16 October 2008
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, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: No less than the World Bank has declared that decentralisation is a global phenomenon, and that most developing countries have experimented with it to varying degrees. Moreover, because of the inefficiencies associated with plodding, large, central states, decentralisation is presented by the Bank as facilitating the integration of local societies and economies into the world market. After the fall of Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia embarked on an ambitious decentralisation programme. Here, as in many other societies, decentralisation came to be commonly associated with notions of ‘good governance’, involving both raising public participation – therefore democratisation -- as well as the technocratisation of the processes of decision-making and mechanisms of public accountability. Using the Indonesian case, this seminar discusses the inevitable accompanying tensions and contradictions that ultimately define the terms under which decentralisation and democratisation actually take place. It advocates an analysis of the underlying social conflicts associated with the democratisation and decentralisation processes, which on the surface, may appear to be merely issues of technocratic design. Crucially, it offers an explanation as to why the outcomes of decentralisation and democratisation have diverged sharply from the expectations of both good governance advocates as well as populist supporters of the ‘empowerment’ of local communities.
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Contesting Indonesia Seminar Series: The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility in Indonesia
Organised by Centre on Asia & Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Speaker: Andrew Rosser, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Adelaide
Date: 2 October 2008
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, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: This paper traces the political dynamics that have shaped public debates and legislative developments in relation to CSR in Indonesia and assesses their likely outcome in terms of the model of CSR that will develop in Indonesia in the foreseeable future. We argue that public debate in Indonesia over mandatory vs. voluntary approaches to CSR, the introduction of provisions mandating CSR in the recent investment and limited liability companies laws, and the non-issuance of implementing regulations related to the latter law need to be understood in terms of a contest between competing coalitions of interest over who pays for the costs and reaps the benefits of exploitation of Indonesia’s natural resource sectors. We argue that, notwithstanding the introduction of provisions mandating CSR in the above laws, the coalition opposed to mandatory CSR has prevailed in this contest, with the result that Indonesia will de facto have a voluntary model of CSR for the foreseeable future.
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August 2008
Workshop: Consensus Building in Asia: Developing Energy and Natural Resources, Building a Sustainable Society
Organised by CBAsia, hosted by the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) Project and the Sustainable Energy/Environment and Public Policy (SEPP) Project at the University of Tokyo
Co-funded by the Centre on Asia and Globalisation
Date: 29-30 August, 2008
Venue: University of Tokyo
By Invitation Only
Seminar: China's AIDS Politics Transnationalized
Speakers: Wu Fengshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: 18 August 2008
Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Seminar: Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan Areas: Lessons for Singapore and Beyond
Organised by Centre on Asia & Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Speaker: Marilyn Brown, Professor of Energy Policy, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: 12 August 2008
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, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: The world’s metropolitan carbon footprints have distinct geographies that are not well understood or recognized in debates about climate change, partly because data on greenhouse gas emissions is so inadequate. In this presentation, Dr. Brown will discuss the results of the most comprehensive assessment of carbon footprints for major metropolitan areas available to date, focusing on residential and transportation carbon emissions for 300 of the largest cities in the United States. She will then explain the study’s implications for Singapore and Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on policies that can help metropolitan areas shrink their carbon footprints. These findings will be put into the context of efforts across the globe to characterize carbon impacts and policy linkages.
July 2008
Forum: Is Singapore Ready for Renewable Energy?
Supported by the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore
Date: 16 July, 2008
Venue: Manasseh Meyer Building, Level 3, Seminar Room (MM03-01), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
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June 2008
International Workshop on Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia
Jointly hosted by Asia Research Institute and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Supported by The Asia Foundation and the Centre on Asia and Globalisation
Date: 28-27 June 2008
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
May 2008
Seminar: Winning the Oil Endgame
Speaker: Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute, Inc.
Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2008
Time: 12.15pm - 1.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Synopsis: The United States can eliminate its use of oil by the 2040s, led by business for profit, at an average cost of about US$15 per barrel—half by redoubling the efficiency of using oil ($12/bbl) and half by replacing the rest with saved natural gas and advanced biofuels ($18/bbl). A detailed roadmap published in 2004 ( www.oilendgame.com ) is being implemented with gratifying speed through "institutional acupuncture". Singapore has similar opportunities to make oil no longer a strategic commodity; indeed, its industrial capabilities are peculiarly well suited to making some of the key technologies, both for home use and for export."
To view the webcast of the lecture, please click here.
Seminar: Sustainable Investing with Asian Characteristics - Will Asia’s Short-Term Investors Warm to Long-Term Themes?
Speaker: Melissa Brown (Executive Director, Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia)
Date: Thursday, 15 May 2008
Time: 12.15pm - 1.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Synopsis: Sustainable investment funds have been growing in Asia since the launch of the Nikko Eco Fund in Japan in 1999. Last year we saw a mini-boom in climate change indexes and water funds. Sustainable investment captures a range of environmental, social, and governance fundamentals. Fund strategies range from highly disciplined screens to opportunistic funds focused on clean technology and sustainable agriculture. How do these sweeping issues and implementation challenges fit with the investment needs of Asia ’s diverse market?
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Sustainable Energy/Environment and Public Policy (SEPP) Scenario Workshop:
An Interaction between Japan and Singapore On the Future of Sustainable Energy and Environment
Cosponsored by The University of Tokyo, the Energy Studies Insitute and the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Date: Thursday, 8 May 2008
Venue: Li Ka Shing Building Seminar Room 1-2, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
March 2008
Energy Policies and Technologies for a New Millennium: Perspectives for Singapore
By Dr. Robert K. Dixon
Senior Coordinator, NSC-CEQ Task Force on Energy Security and Climate Change, Executive Office of the President, The White House, USA
Date: 24 March 2008
Time: 11:00am -12:30pm
Venue: University Hall Auditorium, Lee Kong Chian Wing, Level 2. NUS
Forum on Clean Energy, Good Governance and Regulation
Co-sponsored with the World Resources Institute, Prayas Energy Group, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
with Funding from the Asian Development Bank
Date: 17-18 March 2008
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
The Natural State
Public lecture by Prof Douglass C. North, Nobel Economics Laureate 1993
Date: 11 March 2008
Venue: Auditorium, Level 3, Block B, Faculty of Law, NUS Bukit Timah Campus, 469G Bukit Timah Road Singapore 25977
To view the webcast of the lecture, please click here.
A New Nuclear World Order: Asian Perspectives
Co-sponsored with The Brookings Institution
Date: 6-7 March 2008
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
By invitation only.
December 2007
International Advisory Group of the Brookings / NYU / Stanford Project on Managing Global Insecurities
Date: 9-10 December 2007
Venue: Li Ka Shing Seminar Room 1-1, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
By invitation only.
New Modes of Governance in the Asia-Pacific: Transparency and Accountability
Co-sponsored by Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
Date: 3-4 December 2007
Time: 9:00am to 5:30pm
Venue: Li Ka Shing Seminar Room 1-1, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
By invitation only.
November 2007
Global Governance of Health Research - Current Perspectives and Future Challenges
by Dr Tikki Pang (Director, Department of Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland)
Date: 23 November 2007
Time: 12:15pm - 1:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 1-2, Li Ka Shing, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,
469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Negotiating the Road Beyond Kyoto
by Thomas C. Heller Shelton Professor, International Legal Studies, Stanford Law School & Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford, CA
Date: 7 November 2007 Time: 12:15pm to 1:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
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Roundtable on Global Energy Governance
In Association with the Helsinki Process
Date: 4-6 November 2007
Time: 9:00am to 5:30pm
Venue: Li Ka Shing Seminar Room 1-1, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
By invitation only.
October 2007
1st Annual Forum of Developing Country Investment Negotiators
Co-sponsored with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Date: 1-2 October 2007
Time: 9:00am - 5:30pm
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
September 2007
Energy Policies and Technologies for a New Millennium: Perspectives on Asian Global Competitiveness
by Dr Robert K. Dixon, Head - Energy Technology Policy Division, International Energy Agency (IEA), Paris, France
Date: 11 September 2007
Time: 12:15pm to 1:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Please click here to download part one of Dr Dixon’s PowerPoint presentation.
Please click here to download part two of Dr Dixon’s PowerPoint presentation.
August 2007
Addressing the Risk of Climate Change
By Ms Sherri K. Stuewer, Vice President - Safety, Health and Environment Exxon Mobil Corporation
Date: 17 August 2007
Time: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 3 (MM-03-01), Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
For more information about this seminar, click here.
To download Ms. Stuewer’s PowerPoint presentation, please click here.
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June 2007
What's Stopping Renewable Energy in the U.S. - And What Can Southeast Asia Learn?
by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Postdoctoral Fellow, Office of the Vice President for Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg, VA
Date: Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Time: 12:15pm - 1:30pm
Venue: Seminar Room, Level 3 (MM-03-01), Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
For more information about this seminar, click here.
May 2007
Regional Biosecurity Workshop
Co-sponsored with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Date: May 28-30, 2007
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Conference on Transparency and Governance
Date: May 10 - 11, 2007
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
For more information about this conference, click here.
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The Centre on Asia and Globalisation hosted an international Conference on Transparency and Governance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on May 10th and 11th, 2007. The purpose of the conference is to advance the public debate in Asia on openness and public accountability. The conference brought together leading practitioners and analysts to provide new insights into whether, how, and when greater openness serves public interests, and how to bring about beneficial forms of transparency. The Conference on Transparency and Governance was held in association with the launch of a compelling new book: The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World (Ann Florini, editor, Columbia University Press, 2007). The Right to Know distills the lessons of many nations’ experiences and provides careful analysis of transparency’s impact on governance, business regulation, environmental protection, and national security. The conference was attended by 100 people from Singapore and around the world. It received extensive media coverage.
To view more information about The Right to Know: Transparency for an Open World click on this link http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/978023114/9780231141581.HTM
Click here to read the introduction “ The Battle Over Transparency ” by Ann Florini.
Click here to read the conclusion “ Whither Transparency? ” by Ann Florini.
April 2007
Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia Workshop
Co-sponsored with Business for Social Responsibility
Date: 17 - 18 April 2007
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
View workshop summary (PDF)
February 2007
Date: 16 February 2007
Seminar: Questions and Dilemmas Concerning the Institutions of Economic Development
Speaker: Lee Benham, Professor of Institutional Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.A
Date: 13 February 2007
Public Lecture: Human Population: Past, Future and Implications
Speaker: Joel E. Cohen, Head, Laboratory of Populations, Columbia and Rockefeller Universities
2006
Date: Friday, 17 November 2006
Seminar: Responsible Competitiveness
Speaker: Simon Zadek, Chief Executive, AccountAbility
Date: Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Seminar: Transnational Activism, States and International Institutions: Insiders, Outsiders, and Contentious Interaction
Speaker: Sidney G. Tarrow, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government & Professor of Sociology, Cornell University | 
