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Our Ref Globale ven tAsia 20 I I Date 30h September 20 I I

Dear Yg Bhg Tan SriiDaloDatinlProf IAssoc ProfiSirlMadam

Adapting Lessons of Policy Making III a Changing Global Environment 3rd November 20 I Seri Paci fic Hotel Kuala Lumpur

INVJTATJON TO PARTICIPATE

We respectfully refer to the above matter

We are pleased to inform that GlobaleventAsia wilJ be organizing the above workshop on selected issues of global best practice in public policy process with a focus on medium-term issues of design and implementation of strategy in the context of globalization inclusiveness collective action at mUltiple domestic and global jurisdictional levels an d evidence-based policy making

This program is regarded as specifically customized to issues ad perspectives of current interest to the policy making process in Mala ys ia It is therefore not envisaged as a boiler plate generic workshop of broader global interest but will be directly related to the goals and policies envisioned through the Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) and the Malaysia 2020 Vision of attaining the status of an advanced economy

Our guest speaker Govindan (Govind) Nair former Lead Economist The World Bank Group in Washington DC where his twenty five year career spanned research project management and capacity building in multiple thematic areas including capital markets and financial sector refonn public finance privatization and private enterprise development telecommunications policy and utility regulation infonnation and knowledge economy and public-private partnerships As project manager in over twenty worldwide assigrunents he has led multi shydisciplinary and multi-national teams and has frequently been commended for exceptional client satisfaction and product quality Fluent in French Spanish and Bahasa Malaysia Indonesia he has worked in about 75 countries on all continents He was twice selected as core team member of The World Development Report the flagShip research publication of the World Bank He has frequently worked at senior policy maker (President Prime Minister Ministerial etc) levels as well as senior executive levels in private sector and civil society

The Official Opening Remark is expected to be delivered by YBhg Dato Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin Chief Executive Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia We also expect partjcipation from Government organizations universities corporate institutions industries and related stake holders

The official invitation brochure and tentative programs are enclosed We look forward for your participation for the upcoming con ference

Your kind support and cooperation is highly appreciated

Thank you

Yours truly

-Pror Dr Mohamed Amin Alias

Chairman

Developing Ideas for Corporate Excellence

ADAPTING LESSONS OF POLICY MAKING IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT The workshop will introduce the scope of policy making in a 21st century context and develop the framework within three clusters of selected policy areas

THE OBJECTIVE AND TARGET AUDIENCE Three clusters of policy issue are chosen to illustrate common features and challenges of policy making where there is a high-degree of intersectionality of ministerial and jurisdictional interests as well as important roles for multiple stakeholders such as private sector civil society media and others The target audience will comprise

from Chief Executive Directors Decision makers Policy makers mid-level to senior officials from a wide range of Ministries and public sector agencies Government link Companies Public Listed Companies Private Sector and

Industry in Malaysia with a multiplicity of professional and disciplinary backgrounds including for example economics technical and scientific disciplines including engineering law public administration finance planning

business management and others

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HRDF CLAIMABLE The Fee is Claimable from HRDF under SBl Scheme

(Subject to HRDC Policies and Procedure)

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The thrust of the seminar will be on medium-term and strategic issues related to Malaysias ambition of becoming a developed

economy by the year 2020 The following is a preliminary list of selected substantive issues to be covered subject to further

discussion and finalization Recent global trends in the policy making and implementation process including

middotPolicy as the production of multiple contested normative frameworks

The broadening base of the policy process including the roles of sub-national governments legislatures academic and research

institutes private sector organizations civil society and the media

Implications of e-government

Key strategic drivers of a renewed policy process

middotDemographic shifts

middotTechnology-enabled discontinuities The changing nature and imperative of stakeholder engagement in the policy process

Globalization and specifically cross-border flows of goods and services and exchanges of knowledge and ideas Geopolitical changes including projected postmiddotGFC (global financial crisis) realignments around economic monetary and other

issues middotUrbanization and the 21 st century of challenge of spatial economics and the built environment

Responses to the challenges of climate change at global national and local levels

The global knowledge economy and harnessing of national competitive and collaborative advantage

Formulating and implementing policy key process issues

Framing the policy problem

middotHow to conceptualize articulate and lead strategic change

Distinguishing evidentiary and normative issues

middotEvidence-based policy making as a standard

Framing Malaysia s opportunity set toward 2020 middotHighlights from previous analyses in the public domain

middotWhere when and how to innovate lessons from experience Selected cross-sectoral challenges climate change fostering knowledge-based small and medium enterprises the greening of urban

spaces e-Iearning and lifelong learning etc

The global multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral topical coverage of the seminar will nonetheless allow and challenge seminar participants to fully grapple with a wide range of key and complex global issues which directly impinge of the success of future policy making in Malaysia It will also stimulate discussion on how such complex challenges can be best tackled through combinations of team-based inter-ministerial cross-sectoral andor multi-stakeholder policy processes

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WORKSHOP PRESENTER Govindan (Govind) Nair former Lead Economist The World Bank Group in Washington DC where his twenty five year

career spanned research project management and capacity building in multiple thematic areas including capital markets and financial sector reform public finance privatization and private enterprise development telecommunications policy and utility regulation information and knowledge economy and public-private partnerships As project manager in over twenty worldwide assignments he has led multi-disciplinary and multi-national teams and has frequently been commended for exceptional client satisfaction and product quality Fluent in French Spanish and Bahasa Malaysialndonesia he has worked in about 75 countries on all continents He was twice selected as core team member of The World Development Report the flagship research publication of the World Bank He has frequently worked at senior policy maker (President Prime Minister Ministerial etc) levels as well as senior executive levels in private sector and civil society and has also frequently been speaker at numerous global conferences He has led numerous policy workshops around the world including Cabinet retreats and multi-stakeholder symposia He has also taught at universities in the USA and Australia at undergraduate and graduate levels in subjects including applied microeconomics international management and change leadership He completed his secondary education (A levels) at St John s Institution (Kuala Lumpur Malaysia) and holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in economics and public policy from Princeton University and Reed College (USA) and Institut dEtudes Politiques (Paris Frances) Since midmiddot2010 he has been a Washington DC-based international consultant and is also adjunct faculty at The George Washington University (USA) and the Institute ofSustainable Development and Architecture at Bond University (Australia)

Thenwrnlng session will introduce the scope of policy making in a 21st century context and develop the framework within which we will begin in the afternoon to view three clusters of selected policy areas

730am Registration

845am -Opening Remark amp Official Opening by YBhg Dato Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin Chief Executive Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia

930AM- 1030AM OVERVIEW POLICY MAKING IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT This brief introductory session will briefly review and illustrate changing global practices in the formulation and implementation of public policy including a review of how such changes are being reflected in public policy training and education curricula worldwide This will motivate the central question of our workshop how can those concerned with policy best turn theory and trends into better policy practice

HOW GLOBAL MEGATRENDS ARE SHAPING POLICY MAKING (PART ONE) We will review how major change drivers such as demographic trends coupled with historical patterns of economic development the socio-political impact of technology particularly information and communication technologies and social media globalization defined primarily in term s of cross-border exchange of goods servicesfinance ideas and knowledge and associated global and regional geopolitical changes The roles of government at multiple levels private sector civil society media and institutions such as think tanks among others wi ll be conSidered as features of the policy process

1030-1045 Coffee break

1045-100 HOW GLOBAL MEGATRENDS ARE SHAPING POLICY MAKING (PART TWO)

1-200 Luncheon

AFTERNOON SESSION SELECTED KEY EMERGING POLICY THEMES Three clusters of policy issue are chosen to Illustrate common features and challenges of policy making where there is a highshydegree of intersectional of ministerial and jurisdictional interests as well as important roles for multiple stakeholders such as private sector civil society media and others

200-330pm CLIMATE CHANGE URBANIZATION AND ENERGY POLICY We will review the nexus of these three issues and consider their implications for policy making at multiple governance levels shynational and sub-national (including municipal) Global data and trends will be presented but the audience will be motivated to consider how these issues play out in the context of policy making in Malaysia

330-415 TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT Focusing on a few selected areas of technological development the emphasis here will be to motivate how relatively small economies such as Malaysia can fit into a new emerging global knowledge-based ecology of enterprise development

415pm - Refreshment

430-600pm DEVELOPING SOCIAL CAPITAL Rather than focus narrowly on education and health policies this session will explore some emerging medium-term themes in social development including the implications of the demographic transition and ageing on policy making and choices

WORKSHOP OUTPUTS I BENIFIT

Seminar outputs At the end of the seminar participants are expected to achieve the following

middotIntensive exposure to many if not most of the most important strategic global issues which can be expected to impinge of future

policies in Malaysia witrin the 2020 horizon The selection and documentation of these issues will be referenced to authoritative global sources

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middotAppreciate the intercornected nature of these policy issues both in process and substance and the related need for policy to be able to successfully engage with relevant stakeholders at appropriate times

middotGreater awareness of how medium term policy issues in Malaysia which fall within the ambit of participants day-to-day

responsibilities can be better informed through knowledge of best practices worldwide

middotGreater confidence in articulating perspectives on and solutions to problem problems which are novel and also ability to formulate qu~stions effectively in order to generate effective knowledge exchange

Post-workshopseminar report within two weeks of workshop completion which will analytically summarize the results of the workshop including findings from participant feedback and sketch possible options for follow-up

- ~ ~

The thrust of the seminar will be on medium-term and strategic issues related to Malaysias ambition of becoming a developed

economy by the year 2020 The following is a preliminary list of selected substantive issues to be covered subject to further

discussion and finalization Recent global trends in the policy making and implementation process including

middotPolicy as the production of multiple contested normative frameworks

The broadening base of the policy process including the roles of sub-national governments legislatures academic and research

institutes private sector organizations civil society and the media

Implications of e-government

Key strategic drivers of a renewed policy process

middotDemographic shifts

middotTechnology-enabled discontinuities The changing nature and imperative of stakeholder engagement in the policy process

Globalization and specifically cross-border flows of goods and services and exchanges of knowledge and ideas Geopolitical changes including projected postmiddotGFC (global financial crisis) realignments around economic monetary and other

issues middotUrbanization and the 21 st century of challenge of spatial economics and the built environment

Responses to the challenges of climate change at global national and local levels

The global knowledge economy and harnessing of national competitive and collaborative advantage

Formulating and implementing policy key process issues

Framing the policy problem

middotHow to conceptualize articulate and lead strategic change

Distinguishing evidentiary and normative issues

middotEvidence-based policy making as a standard

Framing Malaysia s opportunity set toward 2020 middotHighlights from previous analyses in the public domain

middotWhere when and how to innovate lessons from experience Selected cross-sectoral challenges climate change fostering knowledge-based small and medium enterprises the greening of urban

spaces e-Iearning and lifelong learning etc

The global multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral topical coverage of the seminar will nonetheless allow and challenge seminar participants to fully grapple with a wide range of key and complex global issues which directly impinge of the success of future policy making in Malaysia It will also stimulate discussion on how such complex challenges can be best tackled through combinations of team-based inter-ministerial cross-sectoral andor multi-stakeholder policy processes

~ t

WORKSHOP PRESENTER Govindan (Govind) Nair former Lead Economist The World Bank Group in Washington DC where his twenty five year

career spanned research project management and capacity building in multiple thematic areas including capital markets and financial sector reform public finance privatization and private enterprise development telecommunications policy and utility regulation information and knowledge economy and public-private partnerships As project manager in over twenty worldwide assignments he has led multi-disciplinary and multi-national teams and has frequently been commended for exceptional client satisfaction and product quality Fluent in French Spanish and Bahasa Malaysialndonesia he has worked in about 75 countries on all continents He was twice selected as core team member of The World Development Report the flagship research publication of the World Bank He has frequently worked at senior policy maker (President Prime Minister Ministerial etc) levels as well as senior executive levels in private sector and civil society and has also frequently been speaker at numerous global conferences He has led numerous policy workshops around the world including Cabinet retreats and multi-stakeholder symposia He has also taught at universities in the USA and Australia at undergraduate and graduate levels in subjects including applied microeconomics international management and change leadership He completed his secondary education (A levels) at St John s Institution (Kuala Lumpur Malaysia) and holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in economics and public policy from Princeton University and Reed College (USA) and Institut dEtudes Politiques (Paris Frances) Since midmiddot2010 he has been a Washington DC-based international consultant and is also adjunct faculty at The George Washington University (USA) and the Institute ofSustainable Development and Architecture at Bond University (Australia)

Thenwrnlng session will introduce the scope of policy making in a 21st century context and develop the framework within which we will begin in the afternoon to view three clusters of selected policy areas

730am Registration

845am -Opening Remark amp Official Opening by YBhg Dato Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin Chief Executive Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia

930AM- 1030AM OVERVIEW POLICY MAKING IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT This brief introductory session will briefly review and illustrate changing global practices in the formulation and implementation of public policy including a review of how such changes are being reflected in public policy training and education curricula worldwide This will motivate the central question of our workshop how can those concerned with policy best turn theory and trends into better policy practice

HOW GLOBAL MEGATRENDS ARE SHAPING POLICY MAKING (PART ONE) We will review how major change drivers such as demographic trends coupled with historical patterns of economic development the socio-political impact of technology particularly information and communication technologies and social media globalization defined primarily in term s of cross-border exchange of goods servicesfinance ideas and knowledge and associated global and regional geopolitical changes The roles of government at multiple levels private sector civil society media and institutions such as think tanks among others wi ll be conSidered as features of the policy process

1030-1045 Coffee break

1045-100 HOW GLOBAL MEGATRENDS ARE SHAPING POLICY MAKING (PART TWO)

1-200 Luncheon

AFTERNOON SESSION SELECTED KEY EMERGING POLICY THEMES Three clusters of policy issue are chosen to Illustrate common features and challenges of policy making where there is a highshydegree of intersectional of ministerial and jurisdictional interests as well as important roles for multiple stakeholders such as private sector civil society media and others

200-330pm CLIMATE CHANGE URBANIZATION AND ENERGY POLICY We will review the nexus of these three issues and consider their implications for policy making at multiple governance levels shynational and sub-national (including municipal) Global data and trends will be presented but the audience will be motivated to consider how these issues play out in the context of policy making in Malaysia

330-415 TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT Focusing on a few selected areas of technological development the emphasis here will be to motivate how relatively small economies such as Malaysia can fit into a new emerging global knowledge-based ecology of enterprise development

415pm - Refreshment

430-600pm DEVELOPING SOCIAL CAPITAL Rather than focus narrowly on education and health policies this session will explore some emerging medium-term themes in social development including the implications of the demographic transition and ageing on policy making and choices

WORKSHOP OUTPUTS I BENIFIT

Seminar outputs At the end of the seminar participants are expected to achieve the following

middotIntensive exposure to many if not most of the most important strategic global issues which can be expected to impinge of future

policies in Malaysia witrin the 2020 horizon The selection and documentation of these issues will be referenced to authoritative global sources

I

middotAppreciate the intercornected nature of these policy issues both in process and substance and the related need for policy to be able to successfully engage with relevant stakeholders at appropriate times

middotGreater awareness of how medium term policy issues in Malaysia which fall within the ambit of participants day-to-day

responsibilities can be better informed through knowledge of best practices worldwide

middotGreater confidence in articulating perspectives on and solutions to problem problems which are novel and also ability to formulate qu~stions effectively in order to generate effective knowledge exchange

Post-workshopseminar report within two weeks of workshop completion which will analytically summarize the results of the workshop including findings from participant feedback and sketch possible options for follow-up

Thenwrnlng session will introduce the scope of policy making in a 21st century context and develop the framework within which we will begin in the afternoon to view three clusters of selected policy areas

730am Registration

845am -Opening Remark amp Official Opening by YBhg Dato Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin Chief Executive Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia

930AM- 1030AM OVERVIEW POLICY MAKING IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT This brief introductory session will briefly review and illustrate changing global practices in the formulation and implementation of public policy including a review of how such changes are being reflected in public policy training and education curricula worldwide This will motivate the central question of our workshop how can those concerned with policy best turn theory and trends into better policy practice

HOW GLOBAL MEGATRENDS ARE SHAPING POLICY MAKING (PART ONE) We will review how major change drivers such as demographic trends coupled with historical patterns of economic development the socio-political impact of technology particularly information and communication technologies and social media globalization defined primarily in term s of cross-border exchange of goods servicesfinance ideas and knowledge and associated global and regional geopolitical changes The roles of government at multiple levels private sector civil society media and institutions such as think tanks among others wi ll be conSidered as features of the policy process

1030-1045 Coffee break

1045-100 HOW GLOBAL MEGATRENDS ARE SHAPING POLICY MAKING (PART TWO)

1-200 Luncheon

AFTERNOON SESSION SELECTED KEY EMERGING POLICY THEMES Three clusters of policy issue are chosen to Illustrate common features and challenges of policy making where there is a highshydegree of intersectional of ministerial and jurisdictional interests as well as important roles for multiple stakeholders such as private sector civil society media and others

200-330pm CLIMATE CHANGE URBANIZATION AND ENERGY POLICY We will review the nexus of these three issues and consider their implications for policy making at multiple governance levels shynational and sub-national (including municipal) Global data and trends will be presented but the audience will be motivated to consider how these issues play out in the context of policy making in Malaysia

330-415 TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT Focusing on a few selected areas of technological development the emphasis here will be to motivate how relatively small economies such as Malaysia can fit into a new emerging global knowledge-based ecology of enterprise development

415pm - Refreshment

430-600pm DEVELOPING SOCIAL CAPITAL Rather than focus narrowly on education and health policies this session will explore some emerging medium-term themes in social development including the implications of the demographic transition and ageing on policy making and choices

WORKSHOP OUTPUTS I BENIFIT

Seminar outputs At the end of the seminar participants are expected to achieve the following

middotIntensive exposure to many if not most of the most important strategic global issues which can be expected to impinge of future

policies in Malaysia witrin the 2020 horizon The selection and documentation of these issues will be referenced to authoritative global sources

I

middotAppreciate the intercornected nature of these policy issues both in process and substance and the related need for policy to be able to successfully engage with relevant stakeholders at appropriate times

middotGreater awareness of how medium term policy issues in Malaysia which fall within the ambit of participants day-to-day

responsibilities can be better informed through knowledge of best practices worldwide

middotGreater confidence in articulating perspectives on and solutions to problem problems which are novel and also ability to formulate qu~stions effectively in order to generate effective knowledge exchange

Post-workshopseminar report within two weeks of workshop completion which will analytically summarize the results of the workshop including findings from participant feedback and sketch possible options for follow-up

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