ABOUT
Colloquium is The Symposium Society's webinar series.
Gender and Public Policy: Intersections & Challenge
26TH NOVEMBER 2020
Ms.Sonakshi Chaudhry is a trustee at Woman of the Elements Trust.
Mental Health in India: Perspectives & Challenges
20TH NOVEMBER 2020
Ms. Amrita Tripathi is an award-winning journalist and former television news anchor. She is a published author and the founder-editor of TheHealthCollective.in, an online repository for conversations around Mental Health. She has written two novels, Broken News and The Sibius Knot, both of which look at fractured identities and urban realities.
Artificial Intelligence: Intersections with International Relations & Public Policy
12TH NOVEMBER 2020
Nabila Jamshed is a public policy and global governance specialist, currently working with the United Nations. She has served as a political analyst with multilateral agencies and the UN in The Hague, in India, and with the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan.
Journalism with Impact & Media Challenges in India
6TH NOVEMBER 2020
Ms. Soma Basu is an award-winning investigative journalist based out of New Delhi. In November 2007, she travelled alone and undercover from Addis Ababa to the last Ethiopian village without any organisational backup and reported on the human rights abuses in Ethiopia, one of the most dangerous countries for journalists. She is the founder of reporteratlarge.org, a non-profit media platform.
Policy Interventions & Public Health Challenges in India: Covid 19 & Beyond
31ST OCTOBER 2020
Urvashi has been working as a Public Policy Specialist at NITI Aayog and is currently part of the core team supporting the work of the Government’s Empowered Group 1 for managing the Covid-19 Pandemic. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network & an alumnus of WEF’s Global Shapers Community.
Public Policy Analysis & Research Methodology
18TH OCTOBER 2020
The resource person for this session was Ms Shazia AF Rehman, Change-Maker in Education Fellow, Government of Delhi.
Environmental Policy, Circular Economy & Politics of Climate Change
9TH OCTOBER 2020
The Resource Person for the session was Ms. Gurmehr Marwah, A Circular Economy Consultant at UN Environmental Programme.