GPPi contributes to Singapore conference on global governance

GPPi Director Wolfgang Reinicke and GPPi Associate Director Thorsten Benner participated in the inaugural conference of the S.T. Lee Project on Global Governance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. The conference titled ​“Governance of a Globalising World: Whither Asia and the West?” took place in Singapore from December 3 – 6. The project is led by Ann Florini and Kishore Mahbubani at the Lee Kuan Yew School.

Speakers at the conference included: Amar Bhattacharya, Director, G24 Secretariat; Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and CEO, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi; Bruce Jones, Deputy Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York University; Inge Kaul, Director, Global Policy Institute; John Ikenberry, Princeton University; Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of Woodrow Wilson School of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution; George Yeo, Minster for Foreign Affairs, Singapore as well as Xue Lan, Dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. The second day of the conference saw Wolfgang Reinicke chair the session on ​“Actors and Mechanisms of Global Governance.”