Managing Complexity and COVID-19 (MCC-19): Life, Liberty, or The Pursuit of Happiness
Edited by Aurobindo Ghosh, Amit Haldar and Kalyan Bhaumik
Friday, 2 September 2022, 5:30 PM - 7:15 PM (SGT)
Online via Zoom
A multi-generational pandemic has afflicted economies and convulsed health systems across the world in 2020 putting policymakers on prongs of another unthinkable trilemma of choice: life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness? Unlike these inalienable rights enshrined in the US Declaration of Independence, achieving all three seem like a distant dream. This three-part topical edited volume is a unique attempt to bring in perspectives from academics, medical, legal, business, industry professionals and other members of the civil society on threats and opportunities to life during COVID-19.
* Managing Complexity and Covid-19 (MCC-19): Life, Liberty, or The Pursuit of Happiness is available for purchase at a discount rate of 30% with the code MCC30 from 2 September to 3 October 2022.
Registration closes on 31 August 2022, 3 PM.
Programme
5:30 PM – 5:35 PM
SMU Libraries Welcome
Shameem Nilofar, University Librarian, Singapore Management University
5:35 PM – 5:40 PM
Opening Address
Prof Timothy Clark, Provost, Singapore Management University
5:40 PM – 6:05 PM
Fireside Conversation: “The Silver Linings in the Dark Clouds of the Global Pandemic”
Moderated by Aurobindo Ghosh, (Asst Prof of Finance),Co-editor MCC-19, Director Citi-Foundation SMU FinLit Program, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University.
While the entire world was obsessed with the impact and the fallout of the pandemic, some industries, often that suffered the most, innovated and pivoted for opportunities and a better future. This engaging fireside chat is intended to bring business leaders and board members, educationists, and policymakers on a common platform to discuss how businesses and the academia might have levered on technology like financial technology among other channels to achieve a greater good or purpose of being.
Gautam Banerjee, Senior Managing Director and Chairman, Blackstone Singapore; Timothy Clark, Provost Singapore Management University and Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore.
6:05 PM – 6:10 PM
Q&A
6:10 PM – 6:20 PM
Book Launch
6:20 PM – 7:05 PM
Panel Discussion: “Minding a Pandemic: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
While the entire world was obsessed with the impact and the fallout of the pandemic, some industries, often that suffered the most, innovated and pivoted for opportunities and a better future. This engaging fireside chat is intended to bring business leaders and board members, educationists, and policymakers on a common platform to discuss how businesses and the academia might have levered on technology like financial technology among other channels to achieve a greater good or purpose of being.
This panel, mostly comprised of contributors, intends to synthesize how professionals in different walks of life including medicine, academic, law, industry, finance and digital marketing faced the challenges posed by the pandemic, how they prepared to tackle the immediate challenges and finally, as we reopen to a new normal, what their views of the future are to prevent the untold hardships the pandemic have brought about.
Moderated by Mr Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Contributor, Columnist, formerly Editorial Consultant, The Straits Times; Editor, The Statesman (India); and author of "Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India".
Panellists:
- Prof Howard Thomas, Former Dean LKCSB, SMU, Contributor
- Dr Amit Haldar, Consulting Neurologist, Fortis Hospital, Co-editor
- Hon’ble Justice Debangsu Basak, Justice, High Court of Calcutta, Contributor
- Dr Suborno Bose, Founder and Chief Mentor, IIHM and Indismart Group, Contributor
- Mr Ajay Bhattacharya, MD, Fortec Chemicals and Petroleum, Contributor
- Taimur Baig, Chief Economist, DBS, Contributor
- Adv Kalyan Bhaumik, Advocate, The Supreme Court of India, Co-editor
- Subhobroto Chakraborty, CEO, The Digital Fellow
7:05 PM – 7:15 PM
Q&A
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