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Chronicle of the Institute – IIAS, Its Sections and Members

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Date01 March 2004
DOI10.1177/0020852304041240
Published date01 March 2004
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International
Review of
Administrative
Sciences
Chronicle of the Institute – IIAS, its sections and members
Michael Duggett
The end of the conference season
After the hot summer of conferences – Yaoundé (July) Lisbon (early September) and
Miami (mid September) the Institute was finally able to draw breath. In the most
recent Chronicle I described the first two of these but only alluded to the last.
Professor Allan Rosenbaum and his Board of Management – and his Organizing
Committee – provided an effective and much-appreciated event in Florida discussing
how training of public servants can help reduce poverty and exclusion around the
world, with the brilliant Bernardo Kliksberg as the Rapporteur-General. Juan Cabrera-
Clerget handled his first conference with skill and aplomb. Hurricane Isabel threat-
ened, but failed, to disturb it. Apart from her our thanks go to them all and to all the
delegates from 45 countries that took part.
Global debate and strategy
The other major developments in the autumn period were as follows:
A new IIAS Administering Global Governance Working Group held its first meeting
in November at our HQ in rue Defacqz. Chaired by Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi,
Minister for public service in South Africa and the Institute’s vice-president for Africa.
This unique group of experts is tasked to examine the contribution that
administrative science and study can make to understanding and perhaps
alleviating globalization and/or its discontents. Led by Demetrios Argyriades, our
eloquent Rapporteur-General in Athens (please note in 2003 we also published a
CD-Rom to act as a souvenir of the 2001 Athens Congress jointly with the Hellenic
Institute of Administrative Sciences), this new group contains practitioners and
scholars, representatives from most continents, and will have met, as its name says
it should, not only in Bruxelles but also in Yaoundé (to start it off) New York (to
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