IIM-B to host three-day conference on public policy and management

Bengaluru: The Centre for Public Policy at Indian Institute of Bengaluru (IIM-B) will host a three-day international conference on Public Policy and Management from August 22–24, 2019 at the institute campus.

The conference has been organised to encourage discussion, debate, and conversations on current policy issues like evaluating education in India, contemporary issues in infrastructure development, health sector: issues and solutions, public expenditure review of health and education in the select states, barriers to trade, political economy and governance, trends in migration, economics of inequality, and many more, according to a press release.

The event shall see Dr Gagandeep Kang, executive director, translational health science and technology institute, Faridabad, delivering the keynote address on ‘Trials and Tribulations: Clinical Research in India.’ Renana Jhabvala, chairperson and board of director member of Sitara, a Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) initiative, will deliver the valedictory talk on ‘Women, Work, and the Economy.’

The conference will have plenaries on ‘Changing faces of media in the new era’, and ‘Federation and decentralization’. The objective of the conference is to provide a forum for exposure to new ideas and methodologies, hopefully leading to cross-learning and collaboration.

For details on the speakers and topics, please visit https://www.iimb.ac.in/xiv-aicppm-home