Event details, 9th January 2019, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford:
2:30-4:00pm His Excellency Dasho Tshering Tobgay will speak on The First Ten Years of Democracy: Reflections from Bhutan.
5:00-6:30pm Dasho Karma Ura will give a lecture on Development with Integrity: Bhutan’s development and its Gross National Happiness Index, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Professor Louise Richardson. Discussants include Martine Durand (Chief Statistician, OECD) and James Foster (Professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University).
This event is part of the International Society of Bhutan Studies (ISBS) launch conference, taking place at Magdalen College, Oxford during 8-10th January 2019. The conference seeks to develop the study of Bhutanese culture, life and nature in all aspects and encourage, inspire and motivate interest in lesser known aspects and promote and strengthen the areas of existing concentration.
ISBS exists primarily to encourage academic exchange, among both Bhutanese and foreign scholars, and secondarily to contribute to the happiness of future generations.
For information about the wider conference, please visit the conference website here. For further information please email: isbsbhutan@gmail.com
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Participants in this year’s Meeting include government representatives from Angola, Botswana, Chad, Chile, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Panama, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam. Representatives from the following agencies are also in attendance: Southern African Development Community (SADC), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Panama, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), African Development Bank, UNDP – Djibouti, German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
The 6th Annual Meeting of the MPPN takes place 30 October-1 November this year. OPHI is live tweeting from the event from our account @ophi_oxford, using the hashtag #MPPN2018.
Find the agenda for the 6th Annual Meeting of the MPPN here.
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