Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 19, 2007|Volume 36, Number 7

President Richard C. Levin is pictured here with the participants in the inaugural India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program. During their Yale visit, the Indian officials talked with Yale faculty and U.S. officials about various issues facing their country.

Leadership program for Indian
government officials is launched

Indian government officials came to campus on Oct. 9 to take part in the inaugural India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program, sponsored by the University, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the India-U.S. Forum of Parliamentarians.

The program is founded on the philosophy that exposure to new fields and ideas can offer insight, perspective and new ways of thinking for the officials’ own work. During the program, the parliamentarians met with Yale faculty and spent three days meeting with U.S. government and business officials in Washington, D.C.

“The India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program underscores Yale’s longstanding commitment to educating our students for service and leadership,” said President Richard C. Levin. “We have now gone a step further to include emerging and mid-career leaders. The program will provide the parliamentarians with opportunities to critically think about the challenges of leadership and to explore freely, away from the legislative arena, the issues facing India.”

The topics covered in the program included economic and social development in India; democracy and the secular state; India–China economic relations; affirmative action; climate change and sustainable development; foreign direct investment in India; strategy, negotiation and game theory for the politician; strategic thinking for the politician; and energy security.

For over 300 years, Yale has educated leaders and public servants for all sectors of U.S. society and, increasingly, around the world. It counts among its alumni four of the last six U.S. presidents, 526 members of United States Congress, 55 U.S. Cabinet secretaries, 19 Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and former heads of state of Germany, Korea, and Mexico.

In recent years, recognizing that the complexity of geo-political and economic affairs during the 21st century will require that governments at all levels have inspired leaders, Yale has sponsored leadership programs for senior leaders from China, Japan, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates.

The India-U.S. Forum of Parliamentarians is a body of leading Indian parliamentarians representing the broad political spectrum of India from both Houses of Parliament — the Lok Sabha (Lower House) and the Rajya Sabha (Upper House). It has worked to encourage dialogue on crucial issues of bilateral and global concerns between parliamentarians of India and their counterparts in the United States.

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