RIETI - Professional Approaches to Policy Making - Beyond New Public Management -

Information

Date and Time: Friday June 6, 2003 13:00-17:00, Saturday June 7, 10:00-17:45

Language: Japanese / English (with simultaneous interpretation)

Organized by: RIETI, METI

Conference Chair:
	NISHIYAMA Keita (RIETI Consulting Fellow / METI)

13:00-13:15 Opening Remarks

13:15-13:30 Introduction of Participants: Conference Chair and Participants

13:30-17:00 First Session: Civil Service Reform in the 21st Century and Required Skills for Professional Policy Makers

Coordinator:
	SHIROYAMA Hideaki (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo)

Presentations:
	Geoffrey John MULGAN (Director, Prime Minister's Strategic Unit, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom) "Professional policy and strategy -the UK experience" Presentation [PDF:728KB]
	SAITO Takeshi (Director, Administrative Reform Promotion Office, Cabinet Office)
	Elaine Kamarck (Director of Visions of Governance for the Twenty-First Century John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) "Required Skills for Professional Policy Making in Post-Bureaucratic, 21st Century Government" Paper [PDF:56KB]

Comments:
	Steven KELMAN (Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
	IIO Jun (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, GRIPS)
	NISHIYAMA Keita (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / METI)

Discussion
Q&A

17:00-18:30 Reception

10:00-15:00 Second Session: Skills of 'Professional Policy Makers' as can be sampled out from the cases

Coordinator:
	NISHIYAMA Keita (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / METI)

Presentations:
Christopher HOOD (Professor, Oxford University) - left Martin LODGE (Lecturer, London School of Economics) - center SHIROYAMA Hideaki (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo) - right
"Civil Service Policy-Making Competencies: Comparing Ministries of Industry in Three Countries" Presentation [PDF:56KB] Paper [PDF:120KB] "Civil Service Policy Making Process and Competencies in Japan: METI Case" Presentation [PDF:56KB] Paper [PDF:164KB]

Discussion
Q&A

Presentations:
	Suk-Won Lee (Professor, Seoul National University) "Launching and Implementing Electronic Procurement System in Korean Government" Presentation [PDF:1MB]
	Lim Huay Chih (Head, PS21 Office, Public Service Division, Prime Minister's Office, Government of Singapore) "Policy Making Qualities & Competencies - Singapore's Experience" Presentation [PDF:1.4MB]
	HAYASHI Ryozo (Director-General, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI) "Policy and Policy making in Japan" Presentation [PDF:76KB]
	MASUDA Masanobu (Director, Department of Health and Social Services, National Institute of Public Health) "Characteristics of the Policy-Making Process in Establishing the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance System" Presentation [PDF:100KB]

Comments:
	KISHIMOTO Shuhei (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Director, Treasury Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance)
	Alastair MORGAN (Counselor, British Embassy to Japan)
	Gerald CURTIS (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Columbia University / Visiting Professor, GRIPS)

Discussion
Q&A

15:00-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-17:45 Third Session: Educational Program for Enhancing Policy Making Capacity and International Cooperation

Coordinator:
	KATO Junko (Professor, University of Tokyo)

Presentations:
	Steven KELMAN (Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) "TRAINING PUBLIC OFFICIALS FOR THE TWENTY -FIRST CENTURY" Presentation [PDF:32KB] Paper [PDF:60KB]
	KANEMOTO Yoshitsugu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, University of Tokyo) "Establishing a Public Policy School in Japan: An Economist's Perspective" Presentation [PDF:108KB]
	SHIROYAMA Hideaki (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo) "Public Policy School of The University of Tokyo" Presentation [PDF:20KB]
	IMAMURA Tsunao (Professor, Chuo University)

Comments:
	AKIZUKI Kengo (Professor, University of Kyoto)
	FUJINO Tatsuo (Director-General, National Institute of Public Administration, National Personnel Authority)

Discussion
Q&A