AAPA 2022 Annual Conference – results

Overview:

On December 3-4, 2022, Asian Association for Public Administration (AAPA) Annual Conference was successfully held. Hundreds of delegates from more than 20 countries and regions, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, the United States, Italy, Australia, etc., met to discuss the theme of "New Governance Challenges towards Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the World". The conference was co-organized by the Asian Association for Public Administration (EURA Partners), International Institute of Administrative Sciences, the International Public Policy Association, China Institute for Urban Governance of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (EURA Institutional Member), and School of International and Public Affairs of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with the support of Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

On the evening of December 2, the Asian Association for Public Administration held a board meeting, which amended the AAPA Charter and elected 7th Board Directors of AAPA. Professor Jiannan Wu, Dean of School of International and Public Affairs, Executive Vice Director of China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was re-elected as the President. Professor Heungsuk Choi, Korea University and Professor Alexander Kochegura, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration were re-elected as Vice-President. Professor Agus Pramusinto, who is the President of National Institute of Public Administration Indonesia, President of Indonesian Civil Service Commission and Professor at Universitas Gadjah Mada was added as is the Vice-President.
In particular EURA wishes to congratulate Prof. Jiannan Wu for his re-election as president of AAPA and wish him every success.

Highlights of the conference:

The 2022 AAPA Annual Conference officially began on the morning of December 3. At the Opening Ceremony, Cheng Zhou, Vice Party Secretary of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, extended a warm welcome to the participants through an online speech. He introduced the history of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, highly affirmed the work of the China Institute for Urban Governance and School of International and Public Affairs, and placed deep expectations on this conference to deepen communication and provide wisdom. The Keynote Speech Session featured very interesting presentations:

• Professor Eko Prasojo, President of Asian Group of Public Administration, Professor of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, gave a speech on the theme of “Creating Agile Governance to Support the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals”
• Professor Alex Brillantes Jr., Secretary General of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration, Professor and former Dean of the National College of Public Administration and Governance, the University of the Philippines Diliman, gave a speech on the theme of " The Contemporary Trends and Issues in the Praxis of Public Administration in the Post Covid Era"
• Professor Danny Quah, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, focused on the conflicts and contradictions between certain SDGs
• Professor Richard Walker, Chan Hon Pun Professor of Behavioural and Policy Sciences, Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, delivered a speech entitled " Revisiting the Academic-Practitioner Divide with Computational Social Science Evidence
• Professor Kaifeng Yang, Dean of School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Renming University of China, Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, delivered a keynote speech on "Toward Resilient Governance: Lessons from COVID-19"
• Professor Zhirong Zhao, Dean of School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, delivered a speech on the theme of “Toward Urban Fiscal Resilience: Urban Risk Accounting and Fiscal Resilience Mechanisms”
• Professor Xufeng Zhu, Professor and Executive Dean at the School of Public Policy and Management, Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development Goals, Tsinghua University, delivered a speech on "Central-Local Relations, Regional Policy Experimentation, and Sustainable Development in China"
• Professor Kai Tian, Vice Dean of School of Government, Beijing University, shared his research on the implementation of organizational governance rules
• Professor Naomi Aoki, University of Tokyo, gave a lecture on "AI for Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges for the Public Sector"

A total of 24 parallel panels were set up at this Annual Conference, covering community governance, epidemic governance, scientific and technological innovation, public health, climate and environmental protection, regional cooperation, housing security, social equity, government-private interaction, emergency governance, public finance, urban planning, artificial intelligence and digital governance, energy supply, public opinion governance.
The Closing Ceremony was presided over by Xiaoyi Zhang, Party Secretary of School of International and Public Affairs, Party Branch Secretary of China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.