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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 10/Feb/2025
9:00am - 10:30amIIAS Scientific Committee meeting
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Hideaki Shiroyama, The University of Tokyo, Japan
10:30am - 11:00amTea Break
11:00am - 12:30pmIIAS Council of Administration meeting on Regular items (1/2)
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President, Bahrain
12:30pm - 1:30pmLunch
1:30pm - 3:00pmIIAS Council of Administration meeting on Regular items (2/2)
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President, Bahrain
3:00pm - 3:30pmTea Break
3:30pm - 5:00pmIIAS General Assembly meeting
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President, Bahrain
Date: Tuesday, 11/Feb/2025
9:30am - 11:00amBook Discussion: "Viksit Bharat @2047: Governance Transformed"
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Voruganti Srinivas, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, India
Session Co-Chair: C.K. Mathew, DARPG, India

Opening remarks by Dr. Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President

Brief remarks by authors and editors

This book is the result of a fruitful collaboration of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India and the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels. Being published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Republic and celebrating the achievements of the nation in fulfilling the aspirations of the people expressed through the Constitution of India, the book is a collection of essays written by academics and experienced former bureaucrats. Each essay tells the story of the development of the identified sectors over the last three-quarters of a century since Independence from colonial rule. It relates the early struggles of implementation leading to our solid achievements contributing to the unprecedented growth of the economy. These essays cover a wide range of subjects, including the Constitution of India, the nature of our democracy, the civil service and our administrative systems, as well as crucial sectors of our political economy such as industry, information technology, health, education, energy, water, rural and urban issues, while also not ignoring sensitive areas such as gender inclusion and social justice. It is our hope that this volume of essays will prove useful for students, researchers, academics, India watchers, as well as the general reader, who wish to know more about India.
9:30am - 11:00amMinimum Government, Maximum Governance
Location: MR 18 (1)
Session Chair: Suresh Misra, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India
9:30am - 11:00amAdvancing Skills and Competencies for Innovation in Public Administration: Shaping the Future of Governance
Location: MR 18 (2)
Session Chair: Angela Bourbouli, National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government (EKDDA), Greece
Session Co-Chair: Foteini (Fani) Komseli, National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government (EKDDA), Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece
9:30am - 11:00amEnsuring Excellence in Public Administration: Challenges and Innovations in Accreditation
Location: MR 16 (1)
Session Chair: Gyorgy Hajnal, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
9:30am - 11:00amIntergovernmental Coordination
Location: MR 17
Session Chair: Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Session Co-Chair: Juraj Nemec, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
9:30am - 11:00amPublic Administration in India: Public Governance and Public Policy, in Practice and Theory
Location: MR 11
Session Chair: Raymond Saner, Basle University and Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, Switzerland
9:30am - 11:00amIRAS Panel on Next Generation Administrative Reforms: From Crisis to Resilience?
Location: MR 12
Session Chair: Sabine Kuhlmann, University of Potsdam, Germany
Session Co-Chair: Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain
Session Co-Chair: Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil
Moderator: Marco De la Cruz, IIAS, Belgium
9:30am - 11:00amGoverning Smart Territories: Navigating Innovation, Sustainability, and Emerging Challenges
Location: MR 13
Session Chair: Younes Abouyoub, United Nations, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)
9:30am - 11:00amDigital Transformation and Governance
Location: MR 20
Session Chair: Liza Ceciel Van Jaarsveldt, University of South Africa, South Africa
9:30am - 11:00amYouth, Participation and Development: Pioneering Administrative Reforms for Inclusive Growth
Location: MR 14
Session Chair: Randhir Auluck, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
11:00am - 11:30amTea Break
11:30am - 1:00pmEmerging Technologies and Digital Public Infrastructures
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: T.M. Vijay Bhaksar, Gvt of Karnataka, India
  • Mr. Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Former Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
  • Dr. B Rajender, Additional Chief Secretary, Bihar
  • Mr. Inder Pal Singh Sethi, Director General, National Informatics Centre
  • Dr. Nirmalya Bagchi, Director Centre for Management Studies at Administrative Staff College of India
1:00pm - 2:00pmOpening Ceremony
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Voruganti Srinivas, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, India
Session Co-Chair: Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President, Bahrain

Honorable Minister of State Dr. Jitendra Singh
2:00pm - 3:00pmLunch
2:00pm - 3:30pmSocial Innovation, Commons and Administration
Session Chair: Manuela Barreca, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Session Co-Chair: Anna Simonati, UNIVERSITA' DI TRENTO, Italy
Session Co-Chair: Nathalie Colasanti, Università degli studi di Roma Unitelma Sapienza, Italy
Moderator: Rocco Frondizi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
3:00pm - 4:30pmNext Generation Administrative Reforms
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Wolfgang Drechsler, TalTech, Estonia
Session Co-Chair: Suresh Misra, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India
  • Meghna Sabharwal, University of Texas at Dallas;
  • Reuben Ng., Assistant Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School, National University of Singapore;
  • Voruganti Srinivas, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances;
  • T.C. Gupta, Haryana Right to Service Commission
4:00pm - 5:30pmSocial Innovation, Commons and Administration
Session Chair: Manuela Barreca, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Session Co-Chair: Anna Simonati, UNIVERSITA' DI TRENTO, Italy
Session Co-Chair: Nathalie Colasanti, Università degli studi di Roma Unitelma Sapienza, Italy
Moderator: Rocco Frondizi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
4:30pm - 5:00pmTea Break
5:00pm - 6:30pmEnsuring Generative Skills for a Continuously Evolving World
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President, Bahrain
Date: Wednesday, 12/Feb/2025
9:30am - 11:00amExploring the Complex Landscape of BRICS-Global South Relations
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Tamer Qarmout, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar
Session Co-Chair: Sofiane Sahraoui, IIAS-IISA, Belgium
9:30am - 11:00amAchieving Social Impact
Location: MR 18 (2)
Session Chair: Amitava Basu, Centre for Environmental Management & Participatory Development, India
9:30am - 11:00amThe Diffusion of Rules Governing Digital Platforms, Data and Artificial Intelligence
Location: MR 16 (1)
Session Chair: Matti Ylönen, University of Helsinki, Finland
9:30am - 11:00amDecolonial Public Administration
Location: MR 5
Session Chair: Scott Brenton, UCLouvain (University of Louvain), Belgium
Session Co-Chair: Kiflie W Angaw, KU Leuven, Belgium
9:30am - 11:00amGoverning Smart Territories: Navigating Innovation, Sustainability, and Emerging Challenges
Location: MR 11
Session Chair: Pooja Paswan, JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY, India
9:30am - 11:00amEducation and Skill Development in Governance
Location: MR 12
Session Chair: Eglė Butkeviciene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
9:30am - 11:00amLast-mile Service Delivery in Non-Western Contexts
Location: MR 20
Session Chair: Salah Chafik, University College London, United Kingdom
9:30am - 11:00amPublic Administration Reforms towards the Future: Leadership, Skills, and Management Instruments
Location: MR15
Session Chair: Patrícia Sanches, National Institute of Public Administration - INA, Portugal
11:00am - 11:30amTea Break
11:30am - 1:00pmClimate Change and Environmental Governance
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Younes Abouyoub, United Nations, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)
11:30am - 1:00pmMinimum Government, Maximum Governance
Location: MR 18 (1)
Session Chair: Suresh Misra, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India
11:30am - 1:00pmAdvancing Skills and Competencies for Innovation in Public Administration: Shaping the Future of Governance
Location: MR 18 (2)
Session Chair: Angela Bourbouli, National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government (EKDDA), Greece
Session Co-Chair: Foteini (Fani) Komseli, National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government (EKDDA), Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece
11:30am - 1:00pmThe Diffusion of Rules Governing Digital Platforms, Data and Artificial Intelligence
Location: MR 16 (1)
Session Chair: Matti Ylönen, University of Helsinki, Finland
11:30am - 1:00pmIntergovernmental Coordination
Location: MR 17
Session Chair: Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Session Co-Chair: Juraj Nemec, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
11:30am - 1:00pmNavigating the Urban-Wildlife Interface: Rethinking Governance in the Age of Digitization and Citizen Empowerment
Location: MR 5
Session Chair: Itai Beeri, University of Haifa, Israel
11:30am - 1:00pmPublic Administration in India: Public Governance and Public Policy, in Practice and Theory
Location: MR 11
Session Chair: Inderjeet Singh Sodhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
11:30am - 1:00pmChallenges and Opportunities for Enhancing Public Service Education
Location: MR 12
Session Chair: Mohamad Alkadry, University of Connecticut, United States of America
11:30am - 1:00pmStronger Together Voluntary Metropolitan Coordination Across Local Boundaries on Sdgs and Governance - Cases from Europe and Asia
Location: MR 13
Session Chair: Raymond Saner, Basle University and Centre for Socio-Eco-Nomic Development, Switzerland
11:30am - 1:00pmDigital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence: Legal Issues in Public Administration
Location: MR 20
Session Chair: Aristide Police, LUISS, Italy
Session Co-Chair: Gabriella Margherita Racca, University of Torino, Italy
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch
2:00pm - 3:30pmBraibant Lecture by Andrew Massey: "Next Generation of Administrative Reforms: Empowering Citizens"
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Hideaki Shiroyama, The University of Tokyo, Japan

The Braibant lecture is an award granted by the Institute to an individual, for his/her contribution to the advancement of the public governance discipline in general and to the Institute in particular. It is named after Guy Braibant, Président de la section du rapport et des études du Conseil d’Etat (1985-1992) and IIAS Director General (1979-1981) and President (1992-1995). 

In 2025, the IIAS Scientific Committee has decided to grant the Braibant lecture award to Andrew Massey.

Andrew is Emeritus Professor of Government at King's College London, and was previously the founding Director of the International School for Government at King's from 2019-2025. Prior to that, he was Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Exeter, UK and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Social Science at Exeter. He has worked in a range of areas including British, European, and US policy and politics. His main areas of research include comparative public policy, public administration and issues around the reform and modernization of government and governance. He also has extensive experience working in and with the UK's civil service.
He was Editor in Chief of the journal International Review of Administrative Sciences, and Editor of Public Money and Management for ten years up until 2024, and was a member of the Council of Administration of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences. His community work included over 17 years as a Justice of the Peace.
3:30pm - 4:00pmTea Break
4:00pm - 5:30pmSocial Innovation, Commons and Administration
Session Chair: Manuela Barreca, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Session Co-Chair: Anna Simonati, UNIVERSITA' DI TRENTO, Italy
Session Co-Chair: Nathalie Colasanti, Università degli studi di Roma Unitelma Sapienza, Italy
Moderator: Rocco Frondizi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
4:00pm - 5:30pmPromoting the Integration of Aging Society, Infrastructure and AI through Effective Administrative Reforms
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Shuangshuang Wang, School of Public Administration, China, People's Republic of
Session Co-Chair: Lichia Saner-Yiu, Switzerland
Zoom
4:00pm - 5:30pmCivic Tech in Digitization Society for Next Generation Administrative Reform
Location: MR 18 (1)
Session Chair: Dr. Hiroaki Inatsugu, Waseda University, Japan
4:00pm - 5:30pmArtificial Intelligence and Future of Governance
Location: MR 16 (1)
Session Chair: Karen Johnston, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
4:00pm - 5:30pmPublic-Private Partnerships and Collaborative Governance
Location: MR 17
Session Chair: James Mutinda, Kenya School of Government, Kenya
4:00pm - 5:30pmTowards a Competence-Based Public Administration. A review of the ongoing experiences of the European National Schools of Government and Universities
Location: MR 5
Session Chair: Sabrina Bandera, SNA - Scuola Nazionale dell'Amministrazione, Italy
Session Co-Chair: Eglė Butkeviciene, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
4:00pm - 5:30pmIRAS Panel on Next Generation Administrative Reforms: From Crisis to Resilience?
Location: MR 12
Session Chair: Sabine Kuhlmann, University of Potsdam, Germany
Session Co-Chair: Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain
Session Co-Chair: Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil
Moderator: Marco De la Cruz, IIAS, Belgium
4:00pm - 5:30pmCoalition Governance : Public Participation, Service Delivery/ Good Governance and Administrative Reforms : Where To?
Location: MR 13
Session Chair: Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
4:00pm - 5:30pmAdministrative Reforms and Policy Innovation
Location: MR 20
Session Chair: Nura Mohamed, Director General, Kenya
4:00pm - 5:30pmPublic Policies and Good Governance of the Industry 4.0 and Artificial Intelligence
Location: MR15
Session Chair: Steve Troupin, IIAS, Belgium
5:30pm - 7:30pmWelcome Reception
Date: Thursday, 13/Feb/2025
9:30am - 11:00amEmpowering Youth as Agents of Change in the Fight Against Corruption
Location: MR 18 (1)
Session Chair: Pregalla Pillay, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
9:30am - 11:00amAdvancing Skills and Competencies for Innovation in Public Administration: Shaping the Future of Governance
Location: MR 18 (2)
Session Chair: Angela Bourbouli, National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government (EKDDA), Greece
Session Co-Chair: Foteini (Fani) Komseli, National Centre for Public Administration & Local Government (EKDDA), Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece
9:30am - 11:00amGovernance of Conflict Affected/Post Conflict Countries : Service Delivery, Public Participation, Digitilisation and Capacity Development: Quo Vadis?
Location: MR 16 (1)
Session Chair: Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
9:30am - 11:00amEthical Governance and Transparency
Location: MR 5
Session Chair: Rumki Basu, Jammia Millia University, India
9:30am - 11:00amPublic Administration in India: Public Governance and Public Policy, in Practice and Theory
Location: MR 11
Session Chair: Peter Vandenbruaene, BOSA, Belgium
9:30am - 11:00amIRAS Panel on Next Generation Administrative Reforms: From Crisis to Resilience?
Location: MR 12
Session Chair: Sabine Kuhlmann, University of Potsdam, Germany
Session Co-Chair: Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar, University of Granada, Spain
Session Co-Chair: Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, FGV São Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil
Moderator: Marco De la Cruz, IIAS, Belgium
9:30am - 11:00amMinimum Government, Maximum Governance
Location: MR 13
Session Chair: Suresh Misra, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India
9:30am - 11:00amDigital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence: Legal Issues in Public Administration
Location: MR 20
Session Chair: Aristide Police, LUISS, Italy
Session Co-Chair: Gabriella Margherita Racca, University of Torino, Italy
9:30am - 11:00amInclusion in Time, Space, Organizations and Income
Location: MR 14
Session Chair: Sofiane Sahraoui, IIAS-IISA, Belgium
9:30am - 11:00amLocal Governance and Decentralization
Location: MR15
Session Chair: Inderjeet Singh Sodhi, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
11:00am - 11:30amTea Break
11:30am - 1:00pmCivic Tech in Digitization Society for Next Generation Administrative Reform
Location: MR 18 (1)
Session Chair: Dr. Hiroaki Inatsugu, Waseda University, Japan
11:30am - 1:00pmNISPAcee panel: Forging ahead and/or sliding back? Administration and Democracy in the CEE Region
Location: MR 16 (1)
Session Chair: Daniel Klimovský, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Session Co-Chair: Ludmila Gajdosova, NISPAcee, Slovak Republic
11:30am - 1:00pmIntergovernmental Coordination
Location: MR 17
Session Chair: Purshottama Sivanarain Reddy, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Session Co-Chair: Juraj Nemec, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
11:30am - 1:00pmCitizen Engagement and Public Service Delivery
Location: MR 5
Session Chair: A.P. Singh, National Centre for GoodGovernance, India
11:30am - 1:00pmPublic Administration in India: Public Governance and Public Policy, in Practice and Theory
Location: MR 11
Session Chair: Suresh Misra, Indian Institute of Public Administration, India
11:30am - 1:00pmDecolonial Public Administration
Location: MR 12
Session Chair: Scott Brenton, UCLouvain (University of Louvain), Belgium
Session Co-Chair: Kiflie W Angaw, KU Leuven, Belgium
11:30am - 1:00pmTax Reforms and Economic Governance
Location: MR 13
Session Chair: Rumki Basu, Jammia Millia University, India
11:30am - 1:00pmDigital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence: Legal Issues in Public Administration
Location: MR 20
Session Chair: Aristide Police, LUISS, Italy
Session Co-Chair: Gabriella Margherita Racca, University of Torino, Italy
11:30am - 1:00pmCapacity Building in the Africa and Middle-Eastern region
Location: MR15
Session Chair: Mélanie Recour, BOSA, Belgium
1:00pm - 2:00pmLunch
2:00pm - 4:00pmHearings for the Position of IIAS President (2025-2028)
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President, Bahrain
Zoom
4:00pm - 5:00pmClosing Ceremony
Location: Auditorium
Session Chair: Sofiane Sahraoui, IIAS-IISA, Belgium
5:00pm - 6:00pmIIAS Council of Administration meeting on the Elections item
Location: MR 19
Session Chair: Ra'ed Mohammed BenShams, IIAS President, Bahrain
6:00pm - 11:30pmGala Dinner & Cultural Show
Date: Friday, 14/Feb/2025
9:00am - 5:00pmExcursion

 
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