St Stephen’s launches special centre to offer various courses on public policies

The SCAL’s PPIR course is designed to help young graduates gain a better understanding of the field, “how it is framed, theorised, formulated and implemented”, it said.

The first batch of participants include entry-to-mid-senior level professionals from the fields of banking, development, consultancy, NGOs, politics and healthcare.

The course will engage with topics in policy formation, development and implementation, policy economics, international relations, international security and diplomacy among others.

The SCAL will draw on the intellectual resources of its alumni, many of whom have vast experience in this field, across government ministries, departments and corporate boardrooms, it said.

These will include several current and former ambassadors, bureaucrats and leaders from a host of fields.

The list of resource persons for the course include, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor,  diplomat and MP Mani Shanker Aiyer, and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant among others. The inaugural programme took place in the college on Saturday during which Tharoor delivered the inaugural lecture.