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Events
New Insights Lecture
This lecture series introduces 'new insights'
on contemporary issues as well as presents the latest thinking
and developments in the world of politics, economics, social
policy and management. Speakers at the New Insights Lecture
include international experts from CGL's Distinguished
Visitors Programme.
 21 October 2011
Dr Parag Khanna
Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation; Director, Hybrid Reality Institute
Author of international bestseller "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order" & "How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance"
Lecture on "Total Globalisation"
The only thing constant is change. In an increasingly complex and fast changing world, several trends will impact countries, governments and societies in the near future. Many experts believe that the development of the US-China relations will likely be the most important factor shaping global geopolitics in the next 20 years. At present, the US remains the pre-eminent global military and economic superpower. However, the arrival of China as a military and economic heavyweight in Asia is set to challenge the status quo. Coupled with the rise of India viz-a-viz China, the implication on competition for resources will be tremendous. Almost all the "mature" economies of the world are rapidly ageing and have dismal birth rates. This phenomena along with the increase in global migration flows could have a profound impact on citizenship and "stakeholdership" of countries. Given the complexities inherent in the global environment, how will traditional diplomacy need to adapt? What is "mega diplomacy" and why is it essential in today’s context? How does the rise of NGOs and companies such as Twitter, Google, Cisco and the Gates Foundation impact mega diplomacy?
The last wave of public sector reform in developed countries in the 1980s and 1990s focused on functional and organisational change – principally decentralising the bureaucracy, integrating information technology and privatising some government-run industries. While such issues will remain important, an even more pressing challenge is likely to be retaining capacity throughout the imminent demographic shift, as career civil servants retire and a younger generation more interested in career flexibility and variety comes to the fore. What impact will the global trends have on global governance and what will the future of global governance look like? What impact could this have on the way Singapore is governed?
At this lecture targeted at policymakers and the wider public service, Dr. Parag Khanna will share his views on global trends, and the essential role of the government in bridging the gap between the reality of today and the vision for the future.
About
Dr Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna is a leading geo-strategist, world traveller, and author. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, Senior Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, and Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory think tank focused on the intersection of technology trends and geopolitics. The Institute uses scenario planning, innovation labs and other tools to advise clients on market conditions, risk assessment, geostrategy and innovative product design. He is also a Distinguished Visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Parag is author of the international bestseller The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008) and How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011). In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century," and one of fifteen individuals featured in WIRED magazine’s "Smart List." Parag had also served in the foreign policy advisory group to the Barack Obama for President campaign.
Parag is widely published and quoted in media around the world such as the New York Times, TIME, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, and appears regularly on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS, and NPR. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India, Parag grew up in the United Arab Emirates, New York, and Germany. He has travelled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2002, he was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize.
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 26 August 2011
Professor Aneel Karnani
Associate Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Lecture on "Fighting Poverty Together"
Despite the tremendous economic growth around the world in the last thirty years, the number of people living in poverty has increased, while the income gap between the rich and poor has grown. While economic growth is necessary for poverty reduction, it is insufficient on its own to reduce the growing income gap. In spite of economic growth, prosperity has not "trickled down" to the poor as societies experience uneven distribution of income. Policies and actions directed at reducing poverty have thus far not been effective.
In this lecture, Professor Aneel Karnani will share his insights on what is wrong with current approaches to reducing poverty. He proposes an eclectic resolution to poverty reduction in which business, government and civil society all have an important role, arguing for a paradigm shift to focus on the poor as producers. The primary emphasis, he argues, must be on creating employment opportunities for the poor, and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring the provision of basic public services.
Developing an effective solution requires analysis of current strategies and the generation of new ideas. Using studies from business, government and civil society, Profes-sor Karnani will illustrate how his argument can be put into practice and bring about real results.
About Professor Aneel Karnani
Professor Aneel Karnani is faculty member of the Strategy group at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He received the Teaching Excellence Award in 1991, 2001, 2006, 2007 and 2009. He has held visiting appointments to teach in the MBA and executive development programs at many universities including the Northwestern University, London Business School, INSEAD (France), HEC (France), CEIBS (China), Indian Business School, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), and IN-CAE (Costa Rica). In addition, he has lectured in several other countries in Latin America, Middle East, Europe and Asia.
Professor Karnani’s interests are focused on three topics: strategies for growth, global competition, and the role of business in society. He studies how firms can leverage existing competitive advantages and create new ones to achieve rapid growth. He is interested in global competition, particularly in the context of emerging economies. He studies both how local companies can compete against large multinational firms, and how multinational firms can succeed in these unfamiliar markets. Karnani researches poverty reduction and the appropriate roles for the private sector, the state and civil society. He is interested in how society can strike the appropriate balance between pri-vate profits and public welfare in tackling major societal problems.
He has published in and is a member of the editorial boards of several professional journals, such as Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, and California Management Review. He is the author of the book Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty, pub-lished by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011.
 17 June 2011
Amb. Bertrand de La Chapelle
Former France's Thematic Ambassador and Special Envoy for the Information Society; Director on the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Lecture on "Governance in the Digital Age: How the Internet challenges traditional policy-making"
Recent events in North Africa and the Middle East, Wikileaks, Google filtering, privacy on Facebook, cyber-attacks… In recent years, the Internet has moved beyond being a technological and economic revolution to emerge as a major topic in governance. As a global social and political space, it raises difficult cross-border policy issues in terms of access, privacy, freedom of expression and association, cybercrime, intellectual property and generally the identification of applicable laws.
Moreover, its borderless infrastructure challenges the traditional architecture for international policy-making, based on national jurisdictions and inter-governmental organisations. As more than 180 countries declared during the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the Internet requires new modes of regulation, involving governments but also the business sector and civil society actors in what is now called "multi-stakeholder governance".
Only a few weeks after a G-8 meeting with Internet high on its agenda, this lecture is a unique opportunity to understand these new international policy and governance issues, the various processes and institutions addressing them and the responsibilities of the various actors.
About Amb. Bertrand de La Chapelle
Bertrand de La Chapelle is a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, the global regulator for the Internet Domain Name System, and a Program Director at the International Diplomatic Academy. He has actively promoted and participated in multi-stakeholder governance processes since 2001, building on wide-ranging experience as a diplomat, an entrepreneur and a civil society actor.
From 2006 to 2010, he was France's Thematic Ambassador and Special Envoy for the Information Society, participating in all WSIS follow-up activities and Internet governance processes, including as vicechair of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and in 2008 as a member of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
He actively participated in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process between 2002 and 2005 to promote dialogue among civil society, private sector and governments, including as Director of the collaborative platform WSIS-online.
A French career diplomat since 1986, he also has nine years of private sector experience: between 1990 and 1998, he founded the consulting department of a leading French technology monitoring firm and was a co-founder and president of Virtools, now a subsidiary of Dassault Systemes.
Bertrand de La Chapelle is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (1978), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1983) and Ecole Nationale d'Administration (1986).
 Mr Joel Kotkin
21 March 2011
Lecture on "The Future Of Cities"
More than half of the world's population now lives in cities which means that the future will be dominated by what urban theorist Saskia Sassen calls "new geographies of centrality." According to this view, dense, urban centres with populations in excess of 20 million — such as metropolitan Tokyo, New Delhi, São Paulo and New York — are best suited to control the commanding heights of global economics and culture in the coming epoch. However, these "new geographies of centrality" may not necessarily mean that they are the best models for efficient cities. Efficient cities of the future thrive because they are bet-ter places to live and do business as they are able to provide the amenities of megacities — airports, mass communication, reservoirs of talent — without their grinding congestion, severe social conflicts and other diseconomies of scale.
Tel Aviv employs many of the efficient city advantages: a sharp focus on business, a well-developed sense of place and a first-class communications infra-structure. On the other hand, American cities — notably New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — show a rapid decline in middle-class jobs; neighbourhoods with a growing bifurcation between the affluent and poor; and high property prices. This could lead to most middle-and working-class Americans, and their counterparts around the world, trying to find "efficient cities" to achieve their aspirations.
Given the complexities inherent in global cities, it might be time to refocus on how to meet the aspirations of the middle-and working-class residents in cities. Since most of the population growth in cities is due to immigration, what are the long-term implications of this trend? Why should policymakers be concerned about a "mobile middle-class" in cities? What will the future of cities be? At this lecture, Mr Joel Kotkin will share his views on the importance of the city as an engine of upward mobility, and the essential role of the government in bridging the gap between the reality of today and the vision for the future.
About Mr Joel Kotkin
An internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends, Joel Kotkin is the author of THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION: Amer-ica in 2050, just published in paperback by The Penguin Press. The book explores how the nation will evolve in the next four decades. It has received rave reviews from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, and National Public Radio.
Mr Kotkin is Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California; an Adjunct Fellow with the Legatum Institute based in London, UK; and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Civil Service College in Singapore. A highly respected speaker and futurist, he consults for many leading economic development organizations, private companies, regions and cities. He also serves as executive editor of the website www.newgeography.com.
Described by the New York Times as America’s "uber-geographer," for over three decades Mr. Kotkin has been one of the nation's most prolific and widely-published journalists. He currently writes the weekly "New Geographer" column for Forbes.com.
He previously wrote the monthly "Grass Roots Business" column in The New York Times' Sunday Business section and served as West Coast Editor for Inc Magazine for five years and continues to contribute to the publication. His work also appears in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, The American, and The Daily Beast.
Mr Kotkin is also the author of THE NEW GEOGRAPHY, How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape (Random House, 2000); and TRIBES: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success In the New Global Economy, (Random House, 1993) which traces the connection between ethnicity and business success — how in-group loyalties are becoming the driving force in the new global economy.
Over the past decade, Mr. Kotkin has completed studies focusing on several major cities, including a worldwide Legatum study focusing on London, Mumbai and Mexico City; as well as other studies of New York, Los Angeles, Houston and St. Louis, among others. In association with the Planning Center and the La Jolla Institute, in 2006 he completed a year-long study on the future of suburban development. He is currently working on a "new map of the world" for the Legatum Institute in London, UK.
Mr Kotkin lectures widely in the United States and worldwide, and is sought after as a speaker by major business and financial organizations. In 2010 he won the Gene Burd Award for best urban reporting.
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 Mr Mark Leonard
18 November 2010
Lecture on "Securing Singapore’s National Interests Abroad the Public Diplomacy Way"
Democratisation, the rise of civil society, the new media revolution and resulting information explosion are increasingly challenging the free hand that governments once had in policy making. Public opinion must be factored in policy formulation today.
Simultaneously, with the free movement of goods, services, people and information across borders, how foreign publics perceive a country's intentions is also becoming increasingly important for the success of its policies. This reality is causing governments to look beyond traditional diplomacy, where governments dealt with their foreign counterparts behind closed-doors. Governments such as those of China, and India, and nearer home, Malaysia and Indonesia, are beginning to recognise the importance of "public diplomacy" – they are engaging in various outreach attempts to influence multiple foreign players, ranging from non-governmental organisations and special interest groups to the media, in support of their economic and foreign policy goals. They realise that public diplomacy is an important tool for developing what the scholar Joseph Nye calls "soft power" or the power to attract.
But, even among long-time practitioners of public diplomacy, such as the US and UK, there is little consensus on what the term means, how best to practise it today and where its place lies in relation to traditional diplomacy. In addition, there is often insufficient appreciation of the growing linkage between domestic and foreign policy among agencies not traditionally associated with the conduct of diplomacy and foreign policy and hence little appreciation for the critical roles such agencies may already be playing or can potentially play in public diplomacy.
This lecture will discuss the compulsions behind public diplomacy, the various dimensions of public diplomacy, the intersection between "nation-branding" or "national marketing" and public diplomacy, and the factors that often lead to public diplomacy failures.
Synopsis
In an age defined by globalisation, democracy and the internet, talking to other governments is no longer enough to secure a country's political and economic interests. In a wide-ranging talk, Mark Leonard will draw on a study of public diplomacy to explain what it is and what it is not and to look at case studies of the British and Norwegian governments. This practical guide will focus above all on the opportunities and challenges for small states in this fast-growing area of activity.
About Mr Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard is Co-Founder and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, the first pan-European think-tank. Previously, he worked as Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform, and Director of the Foreign Policy Centre, a think-tank he founded under the patronage of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Mark has spent time in Washington as a Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and in Beijing as a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences. He is a prolific writer and commentator, with work appearing in many top publications. His first book, "Why Europe will run the 21st Century", has been translated into 19 languages. Mark's second book, "What does China think?" was published in February 2008 and has been translated into 14 languages. Mark's recent publications for the European Council on Foreign Relations include "New World Order: The Balance of Soft Power and the Rise of Herbivorous Powers", "A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations", "Can the EU win the Peace in Georgia?" and "Re-wiring the EU-US Link", all available from the website at www.ecfr.eu.
Mr Joel Kotkin
7 October 2010
Lecture on "The Broken Ladder: The Threat to Upward Mobility in the Global City"
Since the beginnings of civilization, cities have been the crucibles of progress both for societies and individuals. A great city, wrote Rene Descartes in the 17th Century, represented "an inventory of the possible", a place where people could create their own futures and lift up their families. In the 21st Century – the first in which the majority of people will live in cities – this unique link between urbanism and upward mobility will become ever more critical. Cities have become much larger. In 1900 London was the world’s largest urban center with seven million people. Today there are three dozen cities with larger populations.
As countries modernize, they also urbanize, often quite rapidly. As a result, cities in the developing world – which also receive a great deal of international investment and aid – tend to be growing far more quickly than peripheral regions. What are the impacts of dense urbanization? Is the kind of centralization we see in these cities, and in other mega-cities around the world, truly inevitable? And is their growth universally desirable? Mr. Kotkin will share some of the common challenges that will face all mega-cities as they evolve . He will also based his remarks especially about the future and for his thoughts on Singapore .
About Mr Joel Kotkin
Mr Kotkin is Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and an Adjunct Fellow with the Legato Institute based in London, UK. A highly respected speaker and futurist, he consults for many leading economic development organizations, private companies, regions and cities. Joel is also a Senior Fellow with the Center for an Urban Future in New York City; and a Senior Consultant with the Praxis Strategy Group in Fargo, North Dakota.
Described by the New York Times as America’s "umber-geographer," for over three decades Mr Kotkin has been one of the nation's most prolific and widely-published journalists. He currently writes the weekly "New Geographer" column for Forbes.com. He previously wrote the monthly "Grass Roots Business" column in The New York Times' Sunday Business section and served as West Coast Editor for Inc. Magazine for five years and continues to contribute to the publication. His work also appears in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The American, The Daily Beast and the American.
Over the past decade, Mr Kotkin has completed studies focusing on several major cities, including New York; St. Louis; Phoenix; Laval, Quebec’s second largest city; Los Angeles and Houston. In association with the Planning Center and the La Jolla Institute, in 2006 he completed a year-long study on the future of suburban development. His most recent published studies have focused on the economic revitalization for Salinas, California; the future of New York ’s middle class; an economic vision for the City of Ontario, California and a major study for the La Jolla Institute on the Four Corners region of Southern California.
 Mr Sajjad Ashraf
27 July 2010
Lecture on "Networking and Initiative in Public Service: Lessons from Experiences"
The quality of public services plays a significant role in steering a country’s development. In Singapore and many other developed countries, the high quality of public services has been a catalyst for the country’s progression. Even so, in today’s world of increasing complexity and rising expectations of citizens, the modern public service is under strain. Is there something lacking in our public servants today that impedes the design and implementation of better quality public services? Are public services today doing enough to equip their officers with the skills and knowledge to do their job well? Is Singapore’s Public Service system, one that advocates efficiency and transparency, unwittingly preventing public servants from creating value through networking and taking initiative?
In this lecture, Mr Sajjad Ashraf, former Pakistan High Commissioner to Singapore, will demonstrate how active initiative and networking are essential ingredients to serving the people well. Through personal examples, Mr Ashraf will provide insights on how a public servant can take initiative and be proven successful without being caught in the bureaucratic red tape. He will also share how networking skills allow public servants to build a broad coalition of support amongst different stakeholders – a key success factor in policy implementation. Drawing on 37 years of public service experience and interactions with the governments of countries in which he served in, Mr Ashraf will illustrate how most service norms dissuade public servants from taking initiative and networking, and what are some of the skills taught in the private sector that the Singapore Public Service could learn from.
About Mr Sajjad Ashraf
Mr Sajjad Ashraf served as High Commissioner of Pakistan to Singapore from late July 2004 to December 2008. On completion of his Foreign Service career in 2008, he was appointed as Advisor to Fullerton Financial Holdings - the wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, and was based in Dubai till April this year. In addition, he holds several other academic and consultancy positions including Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Mr Ashraf is currently working on a book project with a local think tank on "Singapore’s Unique Experience in Nation Building".
Mr Ashraf's overseas postings in addition to Singapore include Senegal with concurrent accreditation to six other countries, Netherlands, Dubai, South Korea, Nepal, Australia, Mozambique and Kenya. His postings have allowed him to work in a broad range of countries, both in bi-lateral and multi-lateral settings such as the United Nations Environment Program. Mr Ashraf has also represented Pakistan at several international conferences, including representing Pakistan as a Permanent Delegate to Organization for Prohibition for Chemical Weapons in The Hague.
Mr Ashraf holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Forman Christian College, Lahore, where he was ranked at the top of his class, and a Master’s Degree in Defense and Strategic Studies, with high honors, from the National Defense College, Islamabad.
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7 July 2010
Seminar on "Social Impact of the Social Service Sector: Insights from Australia and Singapore"
The not-for-profit (NFP) sector has played an increasingly important role in the delivery of publicly-funded social services in Australia. From being subsidised by grants to undertake their community mission, both faith-based and secular organisations have increasingly tendered successfully for contracts to deliver government services. The recent Australian Productivity Commission report revealed that governments now provide more than $A25 billion directly to NFP ventures each year. The Australian government has also committed to a new National Compact, recently released in March 2010, to frame the relationship between government and community organisations.
In Singapore, the social and demographic trends indicate new and emerging social issues and needs that have important implications on social service planning and development. Recent initiatives by the Community Chest to increase its fund-raising in excess of $55m underscore the rising demand for programmes to support the families in need, the disabled and the elderly. How can we build up our resourcing capability and upgrade the skill-sets to manage and achieve evidence-based outcomes for the essential areas of focus? How do we address service gaps, and enhance service delivery towards better service provision for social service users? Key issues such as corporate governance, funding and accountability, sustainable service quality, programme design and evaluation, strategic planning and expanding the volunteer network are inherent to the long-term success and productivity of voluntary welfare organisations (VWOs).
How can the NFP sector function as a productive "co-partner of the government"? What are the opportunities available to nurture and support the growth of local VWOs? Targeted at policymakers, academics and social sector practitioners, this Seminar seeks to discuss and exchange perspectives on Australia’s and Singapore’s efforts in the public policy design and implementation of social services, and to highlight emerging developments in our social service sector and policies to deepen people-public-private partnerships.
About the speakers
 "Emerging Developments In Australia’s Not-for-Profit Sector: Challenges And Opportunities"
Professor Peter Shergold was formerly the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the most senior public administrator (Head, Civil Service-equivalent) in the Australian Public Service, and is currently the CEO and Macquarie Group Foundation Professor, Centre for Social Impact, University of New South Wales, Australia. Prof Shergold was a CEO in the Australian Public Service for two decades. In 1987 he established the Office of Multicultural Affairs. From 1991 he headed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. He was Public Service Commissioner from September 1995 to February 1998. For five years from February 2003, Prof Shergold was Australia’s most senior public administrator, serving as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He directly served three Prime Ministers and eight Ministers in both Coalition and Labor governments.
 "The Social Service Landscape As Our Social Capital — Developments And Opportunities"
Ms Ang Bee Lian is the Chief Executive Officer of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) since joining it in June 2007. She is a trained social worker and has a MSc in Social Policy & Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has many years of valuable experience in the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, developing policies and implementing programmes in the social service sector. She has held senior management appointments including carrying out the duties of the Director of Social Welfare in various social legislation. She was instrumental in bringing statutory social work services to a higher level of professionalism and with wider community involvement and participation. She was a visiting expert at the UN Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in Tokyo.
Ms Ang was awarded the Outstanding Social Worker Award in 2000. In 2003, she was among 12 winners of the Leader Mentor’s awards given out as part of the Global Leadership and Mentoring Congress in Singapore.
 "Strengthening The People-Public-Private Partnership Model: Perspectives From Voluntary Welfare Organisations"
Ms Anita Fam is a lawyer by training who retired 10 years ago to devote herself to her family. Since then, she has immersed herself in community work and is a full-time volunteer, both at charity and national level, in the areas of disability, hospice, family, marriage and integrated health.
She chairs Marriage Central and is the Vice President of the Asian Women's Welfare Association. Anita is also a board member of the National Council of Social Service, National Family Council, National Healthcare Group, Singapore Hospice Council, Singapore International Foundation, Assisi Hospice, St Andrew's Autism Centre, St Andrew’s Autism School and Sembawang Family Service Centre among others. Anita was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 2008 for her work in the community.
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 Professor G. John Ikenberry
4 June 2010
Lecture on "Obama and Asia: American Power and the Rise of China"
Prof Ikenberry's talk will examine the Obama Administration’s policies toward Asia, focusing on the future of the United States' alliances and the rise of China. Both the US and China are aware of their growing economic interdependence. While China’s priority in the short-term is to maintain a stable external environment to focus on its internal growth and development, both sides recognise the need to maintain stability in their overall bilateral relationship. How will America relate to a rapidly growing China?
This talk will also consider the "old order" in Asia and the way that the United States projected power and exercised leadership. It will look at the great forces of change – economic, political, and military – and the transitions of power in the region. Prof Ikenberry will also share his views on the fundamental US agenda for Asia at the moment, and the strategic imperatives for Washington to counter Beijing’s influence in the region. Going forward, what different pathways emerge for the reorganization of politics and order in the decades ahead?
About Professor G. John Ikenberry
Professor G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Professor Ikenberry is the co-author of State Power and the World Economy, which was published in 2002 by Norton Press. He has also edited a book entitled American Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power. (Cornell, 2002) and co-edited The Nation State in Question (Princeton, 2003) which examines the changing capacities and roles of the modern state.
Professor Ikenberry has served as a member of an advisory group at the State Department in 2003-04. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Henry Kissinger-Lawrence Summers commission on the Future of Transatlantic Relations. He chaired a study group on "Democracy and Discontent" at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1993-94, served as a senior staff member on the 1992 Carnegie Commission on the Reorganization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (the "Holbrooke Commission"), and co-authored Atlantic Frontiers: A New Agenda for U.S.-EC Relations, (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1993).
Professor Ikenberry currently serves on the editorial committee of World Politics and he is co-editor of the leading Japanese journal of international relations, International Relations of the Asia Pacific.
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 Mr Geoff Mulgan
16 April 2010
Lecture on "The Art of Public Strategy" (morning)
Good strategies adopted by governments have wide-ranging effects on the economic, social, and environmental aspects of a country. On the other hand, strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, as seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.
How can we mobilise resources (e.g. people, money, technology) needed to facilitate strategic choice and action in government? How can we avoid the common mistakes and plug the gaps in strategic planning? What are some of the tools governments can use to meet their goals in achieving social progress, from targets and behaviour interventions, to innovation and risk management?
Mr Mulgan has worked with many governments around the world, including Canada, Denmark, China and Australia. He will explore some of the complexities of strategy including: its relationship to innovation; to the achievement of fiscal consolidation and efficiencies; and how to respond to uncertainties in the external environment. He will share his views on how a good government which takes the long-term seriously is not only more likely to leave its citizens richer, healthier, and safer; they are also more resilient and can better manage the uncertain consequences arising from short-term pressures and shocks.
Targeted at policymakers, Division 1 public sector officers and academics, this lecture will set the foundation for a multi-level framework in understanding strategy methods and the application of strategic thinking to specific issues that impact the everyday lives of citizens, in areas such as healthcare, carbon reduction, urban governance, and the shifting patterns of the post-crisis economic and industrial policies.
About Mr Geoff Mulgan
Mr Geoff Mulgan has been Director of the Young Foundation since late 2004. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including Director of the Government's Strategy Unit and Head of Policy in the Prime Minister's office. Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos. He has also been Chief Adviser to Gordon Brown MP; a lecturer in telecommunications; an investment executive; and a reporter on BBC TV and radio. He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University, a board member of the Work Foundation, the Health Innovation Council and the Design Council, and chair of Involve. He is chairing a Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland. He is also a part-time adviser to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Australia.
His most recent book is ‘The Art of Public Strategy: mobilising power and knowledge for the common good' (OUP, 2009). Other books include Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (Penguin, 2006) and Connexity (Vintage and Harvard Business Press, 1998).
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 Lecture on "Getting To The Bare Necessities, The Simple Bare Necessities: Conversing The Global Public Service Lingo"
His Excellency Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan
12 February 2010
The Civil Service College, Singapore was privileged to welcome H.E. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia, as its first Distinguished Visitor in 2010. H.E. Tan Sri Sidek drew upon his own leadership experience in the public sector and provided insights into the direction of the Malaysian Public Service. He also addressed strategic issues on trade, human resource relations, talent management, and people-based public service as well as the role and development of a globally sensitive public service in propelling the country forward. One of Malaysia's most inspiring public service leaders, H.E. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, shared his insights and perspectives on the Malaysian Civil Service Story.
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 US Leadership in the Asia Pacific: Trade in the Post Economic Crisis World
Mr Peter Allgeier
27 October 2009
On 27 October 2009, in collaboration with Eisenhower Fellowships and Ministry of Trade and Industry, CGL organised a dialogue session with Mr Peter Allgeier on the key challenges facing US trade in the Asia Pacific region. Moderated by Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the session also discussed what the likely US responses will be, and how the US should tee itself up during Singapore and Japan’s APEC chairmanship and position itself for chairing APEC in 2011.
Former Deputy USTR and US Ambassador to the WTO Mr Peter Allgeier joined C&M International, Ltd. (CMI) as President on September 8, 2009, after nearly three decades at the Office of the USTR, where he was a negotiator on nearly every major US trade initiative since the Carter Administration.
From 2001-2009, Ambassador Allgeier served as Deputy USTR, nominated for this position by President George W. Bush. He served as US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland from October 2005 until August 2009. During his career at USTR, Mr Allgeier has conducted major negotiations with countries throughout Asia, Europe (including the former Soviet Union), the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as multilateral negotiations in the United Nations, the WTO, and its predecessor organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Prior to joining USTR in June 1980, Mr Allgeier was an international economist with the US Agency for International Development (AID). He also was a Visiting Instructor of Economics at Duke University. Mr Allgeier graduated cum laude from Brown University, with an A.B. in international relations. He earned a Masters Degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has a Ph.D. in international economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.
Mr Allgeier has received various awards and accolades, including the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award, which is the highest performance honor bestowed on career federal officials. He also is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) and the Woodrow Wilson Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Emerging Strategic Issues and Wildcards
Peter Schwartz
27 July 2009
Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network, a Monitor Group company, and a partner of the Monitor Group, a family of professional services firms devoted to enhancing client competitiveness. An internationally renowned futurist and business strategist, Mr Schwartz specialises in scenario planning, working with corporations, governments, and institutions to create alternative perspectives of the future and develop robust strategies for a changing and uncertain world.
From 1982 to 1986, Mr Schwartz headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies. Before joining Royal Dutch/Shell, Schwartz directed the Strategic Environment Center at SRI International. The Center researched the business milieu, lifestyles, and consumer values, and conducted scenario planning for corporate and government clients.
Mr Schwartz is the author of Inevitable Surprises (Gotham, 2003), a provocative look at the dynamic forces at play in the world today and their implications for business and society. His first book, The Art of the Long View (Doubleday Currency, 1991; audio tape, 1995; paperback, 1996), is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning and has been translated into multiple languages. He is also the co-author of The Long Boom (Perseus, 1999), a vision for the world characterised by global openness, prosperity, and discovery; When Good Companies Do Bad Things (Wiley, 1999), an examination of, and argument for, corporate social responsibility; and China's Futures (Jossey-Bass, 2001), which describes very different scenarios for China and their international implications. He publishes and lectures widely and served as a script consultant on the films "The Minority Report", "Deep Impact", "Sneakers" and "War Games". Mr Schwartz received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and astronautics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Growth and Innovation in the Post-Crisis World
Professor Clayton M. Christensen
29 May 2009
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests centre on the management issues related to the development and commercialisation of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organisational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.
Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Prof Christensen served as chairman and president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he co-founded with several MIT professors in 1984. CPS is a leading developer of products and manufacturing processes using high-technology metals and ceramics such as silicon nitride and silicon carbide. From 1979 to 1984, he worked as a consultant and project manager with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy consulting practice. In 1982, Prof Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served through 1983 (on a leave of absence from BCG) as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.
Prof Christensen is the bestselling author of five books, including his seminal work The Innovator's Dilemma (Harvard Business Press, 1997) which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book of the year, The Innovator’s Solution (2003), and Seeing What’s Next (2004). Recently, Prof Christensen has focused the lens of disruptive innovation on social issues such as education and health care. Disrupting Class (McGraw-Hill, 2008) looks at the root causes of why schools struggle and offers solutions, while The Innovator's Prescription (McGraw-Hill, 2009) examines how to fix our healthcare system.
Prof Christensen's writings have been featured in a variety of publications, and have won a number of awards, such as the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences for his doctoral thesis on technology development in the disk drive industry; the Production and Operations Management Society's 1991 William Abernathy Award, presented to the author of the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history in 1993; and the 1995, 2001, and 2008 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.
Social Innovation and Social Enterprise: Implications for Public Policy
Professor Peter Shergold
23 February 2009
Professor Peter Shergold explored through his lecture three interwoven developments that together have the potential to transform the delivery of public services to the people. First, the creation of competitive social markets for public goods that establish the entitlements and obligations of citizens; second, the increased role of traditional not-for-profit organisations (NPO) and emerging social enterprises (SE) in the implementation of these publicly-funded programmes; and third, the capacity of governments to tailor service delivery to the needs of place, communities, or individuals.
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Social Marketing—Influencing and Sustaining Social Change
Dr Ned Roberto
15 October 2008
Behavioural changes amongst the public are often difficult to engineer. They are even more difficult when the benefit to society-at-large outweighs the net benefits to the individual, for example, when it involves issues of public health, environmental protection or public safety. Governments and other social change agents have to grapple with competing behaviours, attitudes, values and social norms as they strive to achieve their goal of influencing behaviour, for the overall benefit of the community. How can policymakers apply Social Marketing principles and techniques in public policy, to nudge citizens towards desired behavioural goals and bring about life-improving changes? See Lecture Notes and Lecture Slides
Why the Welfare
State Looks like a Free Lunch
Professor Peter H. Lindert
6 May 2008
It is well known among economists and policy makers that high
taxes and large social transfers reduce economic growth and
productivity—well known, but not always supported by
evidence and history. In this lecture, Professor Peter H.
Lindert, author of the ground-breaking 2004 book on social
spending, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic
Growth since the Eighteenth Century, argued that
contrary to popular belief, high tax-based spending on social
transfers do not always impose a clear cost on economic performance
in terms of GDP. See Lecture Notes
The
Economics of Climate Change, a Global Deal and the Role of
Asia
(in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment and
Water Resources)
Lord
Nicholas Stern
10 April 2008
The last few years have seen a deepening understanding of
climate change, particularly the risks the world faces from
business-as-usual and of the scale of the response required
in terms of reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. We can
also understand the economic and technological instruments
that can support and drive these reductions. Businesses too
are becoming clear about what is necessary. This understanding
is increasingly reflected in public demand for responsible
action and in country after country this is being demonstrated
in the political and electoral processes. It is public demand
which will promote and sustain action at the individual, community,
national and international levels.
The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure
of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse
gases generally do not pay. Climate change is a result of
the greatest market failure the world has seen. Rich countries
must lead the way in taking action to overcome this market
failure. That means adopting ambitious emissions reduction
targets; encouraging effective market mechanisms; supporting
programmes to combat deforestation; promoting rapid technological
progress to mitigate the effects of climate change; and honouring
their aid commitments to the developing world. See Lecture Notes
Climate Change:
What does it mean for Public Policy?
Mr Peter Schwartz
11 January 2008
Mr Peter Schwartz spoke about the wider implications of
climate change for policymakers, how the science of climate
change could reflect on geopolitical, economic, technological
and social impacts and how the growing competition for energy
resources played out against a backdrop of rising calls for
restrictions on green-house gas emissions. Mr Schwartz also
shared his insights on new policy trade-offs and dilemmas,
possible technological solutions, and how governments should
prepare societies for the hard choices they may be confronted
with.
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Welfare
Reform in America: Successes and Limitations
Professor Lawrence M.
Mead
22 June 2007, 9.30 am
Professor Lawrence M. Mead is Professor of Politics at
New York University, and specifically, a scholar of the politics
and implementation of welfare reform in United States. Professor
Mead visited Singapore from 21 to 22 Jun as CGL's Distinguished
Visitor and delivered a New Insights Lecture on the experience
of workfare in America. See
Lecture Notes
China's
Rise and its Consequences for East Asia and the United States
Professor David M. Lampton
24 May 2007, 3.30 pm
Professor David M. Lampton is George and Sadie Hyman Professor
of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies, and Director of Chinese Studies at The Nixon Center.
He was in Singapore from 24 to 30 May as CGL's Distinguished
Visitor, during which he delivered this New Insights Lecture.
Professor Lampton also held other closed-door events, including
a full day practitioner's workshop for senior officials, and
roundtable discussions with various government agencies. See
Lecture Notes
Global
Shifts and Megatrends in the Next 25 Years
Mr Peter Schwartz
17 May 2007, 3.30 pm
Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business
Network, a Monitor Group company, and a partner of the Monitor
Group, a family of professional services firms devoted to
enhancing client competitiveness. An internationally renowned
futurist and business strategist, Schwartz specializes in
scenario planning, working with corporations, governments,
and institutions to create alternative perspectives of the
future and develop robust strategies for a changing and uncertain
world. See
Lecture Notes
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