of Kazakhstan government leaders
Twenty-four senior government leaders from the Republic of Kazakhstan are attending an executive development program at the Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) that began March 6 and will conclude March 18.
The list of distinguished participants includes members from the President's Office, the Prime Minister's Chancellery, Ministries of Economy and Budget Planning, Energy and Mineral Resources, Regulation of Natural Monopolies, Transport and Communication and the Civil Service Agency, as well as the governors of 9 of the nation's 14 oblasts (provinces).
The program was designed to enhance the managerial skills of the government officials who are responsible for leading Kazakhstan's economic growth and social policy. Yale SOM's senior faculty taught sessions on topics such as "Innovation and Competitiveness," "Financial Institutions and Markets," "International Currency Risk," "Corporate Governance," "Leadership," "Change Management," "Human Resource Management" and "Trends in Public Management." The delegation also received briefings at the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
This is the second delegation of leaders from Kazakhstan to receive executive training at Yale SOM. A similar two-week program was organized in 2005 for 25 vice-ministers from the Kazakhstan government.
"Continuance of programs directed towards influential policy makers of Kazakhstan means that Yale will have visibility and perhaps even some impact in Central Asia, a vitally important area that is largely unfamiliar to the West," says Manjula Shyam, director of International Executive Programs at Yale SOM.
Kazakhstan is a geo-strategically important country the size of all of Western Europe combined. The Republic of Kazakhstan has one of the fastest growing economies and vast oil and gas resources. It is slated to become one of the major exporters of oil by 2015. It is the first country that has voluntarily carried out nuclear disarmament.
Other recent International Executive Programs hosted by Yale SOM include the China-Yale Advanced Leadership Program in Management and the Japan Forum on information technology (IT).
The three-week China-Yale Advanced Leadership Program in Management brought the industrial leadership of China to the school. Sponsored by the Organization Department of the Central Committee and the Ministry of Commerce of China, the program was attended by 28 presidents and vice presidents of the state-owned enterprises in all of the critical sectors of China such as banking, steel, aluminum, coal, electric power generation, construction and engineering, shipping, aerospace, state development and investment, and grain reserves. In addition to talks by University leaders and senior faculty, the delegation participated in briefings at the New York Stock Exchange, JP Morgan, United Nations Development Program, the Chinese embassy, and international law firms in Washington, D.C.
The Japan Forum, offered twice before in 2002 and 2003, was attended by 25 chief information officers, directors and general managers from the largest Japanese multinational firms including Hitachi, Fujitsu, Sony, Honda and All Nippon Airways, to name a few. The theme of the forum was "Process Innovation and IT Environments in 2010." It included topics such as "IT Economy and Its Implications," "IT Governance" and "Leadership and Innovation Management." In addition to faculty from Yale SOM, several industry experts and the editor-in-chief of InformationWeek magazine also addressed the group and discussed scenarios in the fast-changing world of IT.
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