Prof. Gi Heon Kwon Offers a Lecture Titled “Public Managers and the Policy Process” in Collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington

Gi Heon Kwon, a dean of graduate school and a professor of public administration at Sungkyunkwan University, offers an online lecture for graduate program titled, “Public Managers and the Policy Process”, in collaboration with the Victoria University of Wellington for the fall semester of 2021.

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The online class will be held every Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and are jointly conducted by Professor Kwon and Professor Verna Smith. The lecture will cover the policy cases in Korea, New Zealand, and Indonesia along with policy studies such as policy making and policy process.

The lecture is supported by the KF lectures (Professor Hyung-jun Park) of Graduate School of Governance at SKKU. In Korea, graduate students from the Global MPA program (20 foreign graduate students through KOICA program), and SKKU’s graduate students will join the lecture. In foreign countries, graduate students and government officials from Victoria University of Wellington and graduate students from the University of Gaja Mada (Based in Yogyakara) in Indonesia will participate in real-time.

At the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, this online lecture will be provided to graduate students and government officials. Victoria University of Wellington was founded in 1897 as the national university that is located in Wellington, the capital city. It is a prestigious national university named after Queen Victoria of England, and has traditionally produced many talents in the fields of law, administration, arts and music.

Professor Verna Smith, a policy expert at Victoria University in New Zealand, is known as the foremost authority in the field of political science and wrote a book called 『Bargaining Power: Health Policymaking from England and New Zealand』, which compares British and New Zealand health care policies.

In collaboration with the office of International Relations, SKKU’s graduate school plans to expand international cooperation with Victoria University of Wellington. On August 25 (Wed), the personnel from the two universities held an online meeting to discuss measures to expand collaboration such as student/professor exchanges, MOU, dual degree, etc, and decided to implement it in the future.

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