Wolfgang Drechsler on Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City
Join us at UCL IIPP for a talk by Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler on Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City
31 Jan 2024, 12:00 – 13:30
This event is open to IIPP's students and faculty only
Hosted at UCL IIPP on Wednesday 31st January 2024 from 12:00 - 13:30 (GMT) for a talk by Alexandre Gomes.
Wolfgang Drechsler will talk about „Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City: Great Sustainable Leap Forward or the End of Happiness?”
This brown bag lecture is part of Creative Bureaucracy brown bags on Wednesdays throughout Term 2.
The talk is being organised as an enrichment event as part of an IIPP MPA module led by Prof Rainer Kattel. Students who would like to be notified of other events in the future can sign up by emailing IIPPComms@ucl.ac.uk.
- Wolfgang Drechsler, Research Fellow in the School of Economics, Finance and Law at ARU.
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Professor of Governance
Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
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Wolfgang’s unique blend of world-class teaching skills and thought-provoking research will be crucial additions to our Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value and PhD programme in Innovation and Public Value.
Wolfgang’s most recent publications have dealt with, among other things, whether governance without indicators is possible and desirable today (no and yes); what Buddhist Economics look like and whether they are transferable; and what Max Weber really thought about his vs. Chinese bureaucrats and what this means for economic policy (soon). He also helped launch a Centre for Excellence in Soil Research for Asia; advised Bhutan on its Innovation Policy, recommending the mapping of the local innovation ecosystem first; and argued at the European Parliament for evidence-informed rather than evidence-based policies.