Ranchi: Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ranchi will organise a winter school on leadership, policy and governance from January 19-23 online, officials said on Saturday. The programme would be held under the auspices of the institute’s centre for excellence, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Centre of Leadership, Policy and Governance.
The programme will help researchers, policy-makers, students (undergraduate and postgraduate), bureaucrats, public servants and journalists as they discuss topics like team building during the initial stages of entrepreneurship, decision-making in governance, how to go from policy-making to execution, the use of big data and artificial intelligence in public policy and 10 tools for design and thinking. There will be lectures, presentations and discourses on leadership, policy and governance. The prominent speakers are state health and family welfare secretary Dr Nitin Madan Kulkarni, Dr Heera Lal , who is the additional mission director at National Health Mission, Uttar Pradesh and Shekhar Saran, who is the chairman-cum-managing director of Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Ltd, besides the senior faculty members of IIM-R.
“All the participants will get e-certificates upon completion of the course. The participants can register themselves through a link after paying the required fees,” an official statement from the institute said. IIM-R had organised a summer school on leadership, policy and governance from May 25 to May 29, 2019 and it was a huge success, the statement added.