NU GSPP Conference is an annual event that aimed to provide attendees of academic and professional political communities with quality educational and networking opportunities focused on various areas of public policy and public administration. It is a communication platform designed for academics, young scholars, practitioners and researchers.

Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy (NU GSPP) will host the eighth annual international conference on the theme Collaborative Governance in Transitional States at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan on 4 October, 2024.

The last one – “Shifting Boundaries in Global and Local Governance ” – was held on May 29, 2023. The panels were devoted to several topics from government performance to international cooperation, from local governance to identity issues, from pressing policy issues such as migration, integration and polarization to the challenges to good governance.

Know more about past NU GSPP Conferences:

2017 – Good Governance and economic diversification in resource rich economies
2018 – Contemporary issues in public administration in post-soviet Eurasia
2019 – Risk, rationality and resilience
2020 – Sustainable development goals in Central Asia and the challenges of COVID-19
2021 – Policy Change and Sectoral Reforms in Eurasia
2022 – Public Policy and Good Governance in a Changing World
2023 – Shifting Boundaries in Global and Local Governance
Contact the Conference Secretariat by gsppconference@nu.edu.kz