The first residency of Cohort 2022-23 of Advanced Management Programme in Public Policy was organised from 8^th August to 18^th August 2022 at ISB Mohali Campus. The Hon’ble Governor of Haryana, Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, addressed the cohort and formally inaugurated the programme.

Guest Speaker Sessions by:

• August 8, 2022 : Mr Amarjeet Sinha, IAS (Retd.) ISB Fellow and Former Advisor to PM, delivered the keynote address during the inaugural session and spoke on ‘Public Policy and The Last Mile Delivery’, sharing his own experiences as the helm of affairs for policy implementation in Rural Development and focussed on how understanding public policy from the end of masses create extraordinary results.
• August 11, 2022 : Mr D N V Kumara Guru, Senior Director, External Relations, ISB, in his guest session on ‘Social Media for Learning, and Personal Branding’, discussed the nuances of personal branding, its contemporary techniques and impact, and focussed on the ‘whys and hows’ of using social media in everyday, especially crisis communication. In a highly interactive session, he also explained how the presence on and use of social media can be empowering -- for sharing insights, experiences, and even for personalising the organisation’s brand one works for, across all sectors.
• August 14, 2022 : Mr Avinash Pandey, CEO, ABP Network, in his session focussed on ‘Media and Public Policy’ and talked about how policies impact media content, and challenges faced by media as an industry. His unique ‘Five Ds of Indian Media’, captured the depth and width of media-consumer-policy integrated framework, followed by a dynamic question-answer round.