Events

Join us to interact with the ISPP team in our “Ask Us Anything” session this Saturday. The ISPP team will be answer your questions regarding admissions, the curriculum, placements and more.
We would be delighted to have you at the event!
Date: 17th April, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST
Link to register: https://bit.ly/3s4VqBG
Registration time: 30 seconds

Prospective scholars are invited to our virtual open house with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, founding Dean at ISPP.
The session will address the admissions process, questions about academics at ISPP, and the opportunities that make the curriculum unique. The session is an opportunity to get queries addressed directly by the Dean, and get an exclusive glimpse into the programme.
We look forward to having you at the event!
Date: Sunday, 11th April, 2021
Time: 4-5 PM IST
Link to register: https://bit.ly/39F9Yle
Venue: This session will be held on Zoom. Registrants will be sent the zoom link prior to the session

Behavioural insights have overhauled traditional economic thinking, leading to the birth of behavioural economics, which has vastly improved our understanding of decision-making – both rational and irrational.

Our upcoming session of the ISPP Policy Relay, Behavioral Economics for Public Policy Impact, we will be examining the scope of behavioral economics in the field of public policy. Our speaker for this session is Karan Arora, CEO of Behavioral Economics and Science Team (BEAST) and faculty at ISPP. This session, will give you a practical introduction to the scientific behavioural tools being used by ‘Nudge Units’ globally to help people make better decisions, and improve the impact of policy actions.
We look forward to having you at the event!

Date: Saturday, 3rd April, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST
Link to Register: https://bit.ly/3sCGfR9
Venue: This session will be held on Zoom.

The spread of infection like Covid-19 depends on interactions among people: individual A’s decision (e.g. to obtain vaccination or not) affects not only A, but also B, and vice versa. Game Theory is a way to model multi-person settings in which a player’s payoff depends on their own actions and those of others.
In our concluding session of the special seminar series “ISPP Policy Relay: One Year of Covid” we will have Dr. Krishna K. Ladha, esteemed faculty at ISPP and distinguished fellow, India Development Foundation examine the issue of vaccination using game theory while recognizing that our conclusions extend beyond vaccination.
To get a sneak peek into an ISPP classroom, join the webinar this Sunday, conducted by an ISPP faculty member.
To register: https://bit.ly/3rbznIT

There is a vaccine expectancy across the world. Millions are getting vaccinated every day. What is India's vaccination strategy? The price caps that have been imposed, will they be enough to incentivise the private sector? What more should we do, to improve the percentage of those vaccinated?

The Indian School of Public Policy invites you to its upcoming session of ISPP Policy Relay 2021 to mark one year of Covid-19 in India. The panel will be discussing India's Vaccination Strategy in this session.

The speakers are:

1. Dr Shirshendu Mukherjee – Mission Director, Program Management Unit, (DBT-BIRAC-BMGF-Wellcome Trust)
2. Sandhya Venkateswaran – Fellow, Lancet Citizen's Commission on Reimagining India's Health Systems and Ex-India Country Lead, Policy and Strategic Partnerships, BMGF
3. Ali Mehdi – Senior Fellow and Lead, Health Policy Initiative, ICRIER Founding President, Inclusive Development Foundation
4. Rajeev Ahuja – Development Economist

This session will be moderated by Amirullah Khan, Health Economist and Domain Expert at ISPP

We look forward to seeing you at the event. Register now!

Date: Sunday, 21st March, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST
Link to Register: https://bit.ly/3cvqnJq
Registration time: 30 seconds
Venue: This session will be held on Zoom Webinar

Indian School of Public Policy invites you to its fourth session of the ISPP Policy Relay 2021, marking one year of Covid-19 in India.
To mark a year since the pandemic enveloped the entire world, Indian School of Public Policy is organising a series of webinars on the different aspects of health and economics of health that impacted India. The inaugural session of the seminar series will host a panel of experts to discuss health finance in India and unpack various aspects like amount allocated for health in the 2021 budget, its implications, what worked and what didn’t while also analysing the roadmap going forward.
The speakers for this session are:-

1. Amirullah Khan – Health Economist, Domain Expert at ISPP
2. Usha Titus, IAS – Former Principal Secretary, Government of Kerala
3. Aseem Prakash – Professor, School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

This session will be moderated by Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Economist and Dean, ISPP.
We would be delighted to have you at the event!

Date: 14th March, 2021, Saturday
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST
Link to register: https://bit.ly/3v5fKWb
Registration time: 30 seconds

Join us to get live answers to your most pressing questions on all things ISPP in our “Ask Us Anything” session this Saturday. The ISPP team will provide answers to the most commonly asked questions related to admissions, the school, the programme and more. Round one admissions deadline is the 10th of March.

We would be delighted to have you at the event!

Date: 6th March, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST
Link to register: https://bit.ly/2O98I1R
Registration time: 30 seconds

The Indian School of Public Policy invites you to its third session of the ISPP Policy Relay 2021. In this session, Kartik Desai, Executive Director of Asha Impact is going to talk about “The Policy Landscape of Impact Investing”.

We would be delighted to have you at the event!

Date: 27th February, 2021
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM IST
Location: This event will be hosted on Zoom webinar.
Link to register: https://bit.ly/3aF6pMK

Registration time: 30 seconds

The Indian School of Public Policy invites you to its next session of the ISPP Policy Relay 2021. In this session, Political Commentator, Policy Analyst and a faculty at ISPP, Sanjaya Baru is going to talk about his latest book “Beyond COVID’s Shadow: Mapping India’s Economic Resurgence”.

Edited by Dr Baru, the book brings together essays by several eminent and highly regarded contributors like C. Rangarajan, Subramanian Swamy, Bibek Debroy, Meghnad Desai, Amitabh Kant, Indira Rajaraman, Rama Bijapurkar, Omkar Goswami and many more, looking at various dimensions of the pandemic’s economic and social impact and of the macroeconomic policy response required for an Atmanirbhar Bharat.

To confirm your presence please register using the link below.

Date: 20th February, 2021
Time: 6 PM – 7 PM
Register: http://bit.ly/3pvTpgJ

This event is exclusively online and will be facilitated via Zoom.

The Indian School of Public Policy conducted its inaugural session of the ISPP Policy Relay 2021. The topic, “Dissecting the Budget 2021” brought together eminent economists to dissect the much anticipated budget of 2021 against the backdrop of the unprecedented pandemic, undesirable fiscal deficit and staggering recovery rate.

The session was moderated by Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Dean at Indian School of Public Policy. The speakers for the session were:

Omkar Goswami – Economist and Chairman, Corporate and Economic Research Group Advisory Private Limited (CERG).

Yamini Aiyar – President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Date: 6th February, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST

Session Recording– https://www.facebook.com/1988824997804828/videos/242923620793252

Information session with ISPP Leadership Prospective students are invited to our virtual info session with Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Founding Dean ISPP & Kadhambari Chintamani, Chief Administrative Officer, ISPP.

The session will explore the school’s admissions and placements process while also getting a glimpse of the one-year full-time programme in Public Policy, Design & Management. It will also discuss the interdisciplinary nature of the programme, its unique curriculum, outstanding faculty along with the school’s mission and vision.

Date: 13th February, 2021
Time: 6 PM – 7 PM
Register: http://bit.ly/3oYApqL

This event is exclusively online and will be facilitated via Zoom.

The Indian School of Public Policy is excited to announce the next edition of the three-part dialogue series with the Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies
The third session of the Policy Commons at ISPP, “Will #Digital #India Make Bharat Atmanirbhar” will bring together eminent speakers from the civil society, state, and market to discuss the challenges and the road ahead in making India self reliant.
PM #Modi called for an #Aatmanirbhar #Bharat. Nonetheless, the complexities of global technology networks and supply chains, Indian firms continue to remain reliant on international companies for technological support. How can Indian firms proceed towards untangling themselves from this web? What are the associated challenges? What can the Indian government do to make the transition smoother? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in the webinar.
The speakers for the session are :

1. Dr. Dakshinamurthy V Kolluru – Founder and President, International School of Engineering
2. Dr. Pronab Sen – Country Director, International Growth Centre, India Programme
3. Dr. Sekhar Bonu – Director General, DMEO, NITI Aayog

The session will be moderated by
Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Economist and Dean, Indian School of Public Policy
Date: 29th January, 2021
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM IST
Location : This is an online event and will be hosted on Zoom.
Please use the link below to register for the event. The Zoom link will be shared on Thursday, 28th January 2021 :
http://bit.ly/3a0b1v9

What does the Joe Biden Presidency Mean for India

The Indian School of Public Policy is excited to announce the second edition of the three-part dialogue series with the Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies that addresses the scope and limits of the civil society, state, and markets in India’s development solutions respectively:

• Each dialogue will consist of a panel of experts representing the market, state, and civil society.
• The dialogue will be hosted as an open, public event, encouraging wider participation and contributing to the larger policy discourse in India.

The second session of the Policy Commons at ISPP, “What does the Biden presidency mean for India” will bring together eminent speakers from the civil society, state, and market to discuss the implications of the Biden presidency on India. The session will be moderated by Dr. Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Economist and Dean, Indian School of Public Policy. The speakers for the session are :

1. Dr. Surjit Bhalla – Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund.
2. Sitaram Yechury – General Secretary,Central Committee,Politburo Communist Party of India (Marxist)
3. Dr. Sanjaya Baru – Political Commentator and Policy Analyst

To see more details or to register for the event, please click here.

The Indian School of Public Policy is organising a webinar with Luis Miranda, Co-founder and Chairman, Indian School of Public Policy and Neera Nundy, Co-founder and partner at Dasra on the 5th of June from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM on “Careers in the Social Sector”

Speaker Bios:

Neera Nundy: Neera leads Dasra’s ecosystem-building initiatives in the areas of Adolescents, Urban Sanitation, and Democracy & Governance and facilitates collaborative platforms by engaging donors, non-profits, government and other stakeholders. In 2016, she initiated the Dasra Adolescents Collaborative, an impact-driven platform that has united institutional funders, technical experts, government stakeholders from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and several social organizations to focus on four key outcomes for adolescent empowerment.

She initiated and led the launch of the Dasra Social Impact Leadership Program with Harvard Business Publishing, a first-of-its-kind executive education program for social sector leaders in India. Internally, she has supported the analysis of over 70 Dasra sector reports on education, health and livelihoods, enabling over USD 44 million in funding for hundreds of social enterprises.

Neera holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and is an Indian Leadership Fellow with Anantha-Aspen Institute. She is a recipient of the Canadian Governor General's Medallion for her dedication to addressing India’s critical development challenges, and the Forbes Philanthropy Award in the Crossover Leaders.

Luis Miranda: Luis is the Co-founder and Chairman of the Indian School of Public POlicy. He started IDFC Private Equity and was earlier a part of the start-up team of HDFC Bank. Luis has invested in and has been on the boards of companies like GMR Infrastructure, L&T Infrastructure, Delhi International Airport, Gujarat Pipavav Port, Gujarat State Petronet, and Manipal Global Education. He is Chairman of CORO and Centre for Civil Society and Managing Trustee for Collective Good Foundation. Other organisations include Take Charge, 17000 Ft Foundation, SNEHA, Sunbird Trust, Operation ASHA and Educate Girls. Luis graduated with an MBA from Chicago Booth and is a Chartered Accountant.

Please use the link below to register for the event. The zoom link details will be shared shortly.

The Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) in collaboration with the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago is organizing a webinar with Arpit Chaturvedi, Academic Coordinator at the Indian School of Public Policy, Cornell University and Madhavika Bajoria, Nutrition Integration Manager at Sight and Life,Columbia University, Class of 2016

Session Brief: The session will touch upon the following topics:

1. Doubts and anxieties before an MPP
2. MPP VS MBA decision dilemmas – how to navigate through them
3. How to make the best do your MPP program – how to use your time effectively there
4. How to build effective networks while in an MPP program
5. What opportunities does an MPP program open for you

Date – 2nd June , 2020
Time – 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Speaker Bio:

Arpit Chaturvedi: Arpit Chaturvedi is the Co-founder and CEO of Global Policy Insights and is currently the Academic Coordinator at the Indian School of Public Policy. He was also a lecturer at the San Francisco State University where he taught Comparative Perspectives in Public Service to graduate students.

A graduate of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Arpit holds an MPA degree (phi alpha alpha) with a focus on Governance, Politics, and Policy Studies. He was also the first non-US citizen to hold the position of the Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Policy Review. He is the author of the book “Our Egalitarian Universe?” and has been the editor of “Not Without her: Communal Harmony” – a monograph printed by the National Foundation for Communal Harmony, Government of India, with essays from the top civil servants of the country. He has published articles in various prestigious journals on the themes of democracy, governance, systems thinking, game theory, history and politics.

Madhavika Bajoria: Madhavika (Maddy) Bajoria is the Nutrition Integration Manager at Sight and Life, bringing significant experience in multi-sectoral partnerships, program management and advocacy to advance knowledge and implementation in nutrition. She has been driving the organization’s market-shaping work for prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements in South Africa, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Madagascar and has also supported the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to gain multi-stakeholder buy-in for the implementation of large-scale staple food fortification across the country. In her current role, she has led the creation of India’s first ever platform to engage private sector, IMPAct4Nutrition, in the government’s National Nutrition Mission, along with UNICEF, Tata Trusts and other key partners.

Driven by Sight and Life’s commitment to science-based innovation in product development and delivery, she has documented the organization’s work in family food models for Sizanani Mzanzi, a social business in South Africa and the cost-effective continuous blending model for large-scale rice fortification in India. She holds a Master in Public Administration from Columbia University and has previously worked with J-PAL, CARE and the ILO on policy and programmatic assessments in a variety of sectors.

Please use the registration link below to sign up for the event. The zoom link will be shared with you shortly.

The Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) is organizing a policy webinar by Sanjaya Baru, Director for Geo-Economics and Strategy, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London; and Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi on “The Politics of a Pandemic: Dissecting the Government's Response to a Crisis”. Registration is FREE of cost. However, we have limited seats. Therefore, pre-registration is mandatory.

About the Speaker: Sanjaya Baru is Director for Geo-Economics and Strategy, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London; and Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He was Media Advisor and Principal Speechwriter to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2004-08. Dr. Baru has also been Chief Editor, Business Standard and Financial Express; Editorial Page Editor, The Times of India; and Associate Editor, The Economic Times. Earlier, he has taught at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Institute of South Asian Studies in Singapore, as well as at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations.

He is presently on the Governing Board of Centre for Policy Research, Bharat Yuva Shakti Trust and India Habitat Centre. He is a prolific author with books like Strategic Consequences of India’s Economic Performance (Routledge, 2006), The Political Economy of Indian Sugar (Oxford University Press, 1990) and most recently, The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh (Penguin/Viking, 2014) to his name.

Date: 16 May, 2020
Time: 4 PM – 5 PM
Register: https://bit.ly/2WiR0KP

The Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) is organizing a policy webinar by Anil Swarup, Retired Indian Administrative Service officer of Uttar Pradesh,1981 batch, Founder, Chairman, Nexus of Good, Former Secretary, School Education (2016-2018) & Coal (2014-2016), Govt of India on “Making things happen in the Government”. Registration is FREE of cost. However, we have limited seats. Therefore, pre-registration is mandatory.


About the Speaker: Anil Swarup is the author of “Not Just A Civil Servant” and is an experienced public servant with a demonstrated history of working in the Coal and School Education sectors. He reformed the Coal Sector that led to a transparent auction of natural resources and an unprecedented increase in Coal production. Fostered public-private partnerships to improve the quality of school education by involving NGOs. He is also responsible for having formulated and administered one of the largest social sector health insurance scheme for more than 30 million poor in the country.

Date: 9 May, 2020
Time: 4 PM – 5 PM
Register: https://bit.ly/2zUOYb1

This event is exclusively online. The link for attending the webinar will be shared with you 1 day before the event.

The Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) is organizing a policy webinar by Gautam Chikermane, Vice President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) on “Why Huawei must not be allowed into India's 5G Infrastructure: 6 Policy Contexts”. Registration is FREE of cost. However, we have limited seats. Therefore, pre-registration is mandatory.

Session Brief: China’s Huawei, a global leader in providing equipment for fifth-generation (5G) mobile technology, is attempting to enter the Indian market. However, in light of China’s proclivity for state interference in corporate operations and the critical infrastructure Huawei deals in, the firm poses a security threat for countries with its presence. This threat gets amplified for India when seen in the context of China’s anti-India stance on a range of issues, a Chinese law that binds corporations to collect and share intelligence, and the 3,488-km-long volatile India–China border. Leaning on a recent paper by the author, this webinar analyses the legal, geopolitical, strategic and technological risks of allowing Chinese firms such as Huawei into India’s critical infrastructure. Weighing the transformative force of 5G against India’s national security requirements, it provides six policy contexts within which to examine this complex issue.


About the Speaker: Gautam Chikermane is Vice President at ORF. His area of research is international and Indian economic policy.

 A Jefferson Fellow (Fall 2001) at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Gautam has written four books:70 Policies that Built India: 1947 to 2017, Independence to $2.5 Trillion (ORF, 2018), Tunnel of Varanavat (Rupa, 2016), The Disrupter: Arvind Kejriwal and the Audacious Rise of the Aam Aadmi (Rupa, 2014), Five Decades of Decay (Rupa, 1997)

Date: 25 April, 2020
Time: 4 PM – 5.30 PM
Register: https://bit.ly/34NVn3f

This event is exclusively online. The link for attending the webinar will be shared with you 1 day before the event.