Wolfgang Drechsler on Bhutan鈥檚 Gelephu Mindfulness City
31 January 2024, 12:00 pm鈥1:30 pm
Join us at 香港六合彩 IIPP for a talk by Wolfgang Drechsler
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | 香港六合彩 students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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IIPP Comms
This event is open to IIPP's students and faculty only
Hosted at 香港六合彩 IIPP on Wednesday听31st January 2024听from 12:00 - 13:30 (GMT) for a talk by Alexandre Gomes.
Wolfgang Drechsler will talk about 鈥濨hutan鈥檚 Gelephu Mindfulness City: Great Sustainable Leap Forward or the End of Happiness?鈥澨
This brown bag lecture is part of Creative Bureaucracy brown bags on Wednesdays throughout Term 2.
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The talk is being organised as an enrichment event as part of an听IIPP听MPA听module led by Prof Rainer Kattel. Students who would like to be notified of other events in the future can sign up by emailing IIPPComms@ucl.ac.uk.
- Wolfgang Drechsler,听Research Fellow in the School of Economics, Finance and Law at ARU.
Read more about Creative Bureaucracy brown bag lectures here
About the Speaker
Wolfgang Drechsler
Professor of Governance at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
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Wolfgang鈥檚 unique blend of world-class teaching skills and thought-provoking research will be crucial additions to our听Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value听and听PhD programme in Innovation and Public Value.
Wolfgang鈥檚 most recent publications have dealt with, among other things, whether听听is possible and desirable today (no and yes);听听and whether they are transferable; and what Max Weber really thought about his vs. Chinese bureaucrats and what this means for economic policy (). He also helped launch a听; advised Bhutan on its听, recommending the mapping of the local innovation ecosystem first; and argued at the European Parliament for听听rather than evidence-based policies.
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