GSPP professors and Ph.D students took part in the conference “Public Councils: Problems and Perspectives of Development” that took place in Karaganda on 25 September 2017. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Civil Society of the RK, Committee on Civil Society Affairs and Private Foundation “Institute for Cultural Development” aimed at increasing effectiveness of the Public Councils in Kazakhstan.
Mr Yerzhan Ashikbayev, Deputy Foreign Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan gave a talk on Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy during the inaugural dialogue session on 6 October 2017. Since December, 2013 Yerzhan Ashikbayev has served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Mr. Ashikbayev speaks English, Turkish and French, and holds the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Second Class.
Nazarbayev University’s Graduate School of Public Policy held an orientation session for Master’s and Ph.D. program students. 64 students will start their classes on 4 September 2017.
Nazarbayev University’s Graduate School of Public Policy (NU GSPP) holds its 1st International Conference on Good Governance and Economic Diversification in Resource Rich Economies on 17 – 19 August 2017.
Conference organisers, Professors Weng Tat Hui and Colin Knox, said that it is attracting both international and Central Asian scholars and provides an opportunity to showcase the research being conducted in Nazarbayev University.
GSPP took part in the 3d International Conference on Public Policy in Singapore with more than 1300 participants from over 80 countries making the conference the largest international event on Public Policy in the world.