Graduate School of Public Policy

We invite you all to the GSPP webinar by Professor James Crabtree: Everyone Must Wear A Mask: Social Media, Fake News and Public Communications Lessons from CCOVID-19 on November 16, 2020 at 19:00 (Nur-Sultan time). 

Date and time: November 16 (Monday) at 19:00 (Nur-Sultan time).

Speaker: James Crabtree is a Singapore-based author and journalist, and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His best-selling 2018 book, “The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age” was short-listed for the FT / McKinsey book of the year. Prior to academia, James worked for the Financial Times, most recently as Mumbai bureau chief. He is now a columnist for Nikkei Asian Review, and a fellow at the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House.

James has written for a range of global publications, including the New York Times, the Economist, Wired, and Foreign Policy. Prior to journalism he was an advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He has worked for various think tanks in London and Washington DC, and spent a number of years living in America, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. 

Moderator: Professor Riccardo Pelizzo, GSPP Vice Dean for Research 

Topic: GSPP webinar by Professor James Crabtree: Everyone Must Wear A Mask: Social Media, Fake News and Public Communications Lessons from COVID-19.

Format: ZOOM webinar. 

To attend the event we kindly ask you to register here: