Rethinking Innovation in the Public Sector & GLCs

19 April 2012, PWTC Kuala Lumpur

Our guest speaker Professor Govindan Nair, a dual USA/Australia citizen of Malaysian origin, recently took an early retirement as Lead Economist at the World Bank Group in Washington DC where his twenty-five year career spanned research, project management, and capacity building in multiple thematic areas including capital markets and financial sector reform,  public finance, privatization and private enterprise development, telecommunications policy and utility regulation, information and knowledge economy, and public-private partnerships. As project manager in over twenty worldwide assignments, he has led multi-disciplinary and multi-national teams and has frequently been commended for exceptional client satisfaction and product quality. Fluent in French, Spanish, and Bahasa Malaysia/Indonesia, he has worked in about 75 countries on all continents. He was twice selected as core team member of The World Development Report, the flagship research publication of the World Bank. He has frequently worked at senior policy maker (President, Prime Minister, Ministerial, etc) levels as well as senior executive levels in private sector and civil society and has also frequently been speaker at numerous global conferences. He has led numerous policy workshops around the world including Cabinet retreats and multi-stakeholder symposia. He has also taught at universities in the USA and Australia at undergraduate and graduate levels in subjects including applied microeconomics, international management, and change leadership.

He has led numerous policy workshops around the world including Cabinet retreats and multi-stakeholder symposia. He has also taught at universities in the USA and Australia at undergraduate and graduate levels in subjects including applied microeconomics, international management, and change leadership.  holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in economics and public policy from Princeton University  and Reed College (USA) and Institut Etudes Politiques (Paris, Frances). Since mid-2010, he has been a Washington DC-based international consultant and is also adjunct faculty at  The George Washington University (USA) and the Institute of Sustainable Development and Architecture at Bond University (Australia).