Global political-economic affairs and challenges to leaderships are the focus of the 4th India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Programme, to be held from June 9 to June 19. Yale University, widely recognised for educating leaders in government, business, and civil society worldwide, launched the India- Yale Parliamentary Leadership Programme in 2007, in collaboration with Ficci and the India-US Forum of Parliamentarians.
The 2010 cohort of members of India?s Parliament will reach the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut on June 9 to begin a seven-day leadership programme with Yale faculty. This will be complemented by a three-day programme of meetings, discussions, and interactions with US politicians, policy analysts, and senior US government officials in New York City and Washington DC.
Among the participants are Congress national spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Ajay Maken, minister of state for home affairs and Agatha Sangma, minister of state for rural development. The programme emphasises discussion and dialogue across party lines and the participants for 2010 are drawn from seven different political parties.
Ficci secretary-general Amit Mitra said, ?The India ? Yale Parliamentary Leadership Programme encourages greater understanding of public leadership, accountability, transparency and parliamentary oversight amongst the parliamentarians.? In an official release, Yale president Richard C Levin said, ?The India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Programme underscores Yale?s longstanding commitment to educating our students for service and leadership. We have now gone a step further to include emerging and mid-career leaders. The programme will provide the parliamentarians with opportunities to critically think about the challenges to leadership and to explore freely, away from the legislative arena, the issues facing India.?
According to Abhishek Manu Singhvi, chairman, India-US Forum of Parliamentarians, ?The India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Programme is pioneering the amazing diversity of topics explored in the outstanding, cutting edge quality of the world- renowned lecturers, in the truly bipartisan nature of the multiparty delegation and in the unusual blend of the vibrant young and the experienced vets comprising the delegation?. The programme was developed in consultation with parliamentarians and the India ? US Forum of Parliamentarians and reflects the belief that exposure to new fields and ideas can offer insight, perspective, and new ways of thinking for one?s own work.