GPPN Student Conference
Turning crisis into opportunity:
What policies do we need for sustainable development today?
Yukiko Oomagari
Graduate School of Public Policy
International Public Policy major (second year)
Participants from GraSPP: Yukiko Omagari, Naohiro Yoshida, Kayo Matsushita, Takushi Sasada, Yumeto Ito, Sawako Inada, Taisuke Yoshida, Mitsuru Yoshida, Ina Kunikawa, Vandy Leng, Yutaka Ueno, Takashi Yoshida, Shohei Kawase
"It would be great if one day my fellow University of Tokyo classmates could actively participate in this conference". That was my impression after being one of a few University of Tokyo (henceforth UT) students that participated in the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) student conference held at Sciences Po, Paris, in 2008. The next GPPN conference held in 2009 at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY), Singapore, went even further beyond my expectations. My fellow Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) classmates and I learned invaluable lessons from our fellow public policy students from around the world. For our part, we were also able to make a significant contribution; helping to further expand the already diverse Global Public Policy Network.
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