International Public Administration Award Dr. Pan Suk Kim
The Institute is proud to inform you that Dr. Pan Suk Kim, Executive Committee member, has been granted the International Public Administration Award by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) During the 7th Annual Meeting of ASPA in Miami, Florida on 23 March 2009. The ASPA International Public Administration Award honours a non-American academic or professional having contributed significantly to the discipline of Public Administration, either academically or practically or both.

2009 5th TAD – Washington, D.C., United States, http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu/5TAD/
The 5th TAD will take place at George Washington University, from 11 to 13 June 2009 on the theme: «Future of Governance».

2009 2nd TED – Helsinki, Finland, http://www.ted-2.org
The 2nd TED will be held on 6 and 7 July 2009 on the theme: « Citizen versus Customer ». The call for participation is online.

2009 2nd MED – Portoroz, Slovenia, http://www.med-2009.org
The 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Public Management Dialogue will take place from 7 to 10 October 2009 on the theme: « Local Public Services and Regional Management ». A PhD Workshop will be organised on the same theme. The call-for-papers is available on line.

We are proud to announce that the publication of the IIAS Project Group on the Human Factor in Public Administration has been launched: « Winning the Needed Change: Saving our Planet Earth. A Global Public Service », edited by Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza and Demetrios Argyriades, is available for IIAS members at the special discount rate of 45 €. Please visit the publication section of our website for more information, including the link to the order form.

History of Administration Group
Chairperson: Stefan Fisch
Rapporteurs for « Migration » theme: Peri E. Arnold and Vida Azimi; Rapporteur for the « Finance » theme: Seppo Tiihonen.
Upcoming meetings: Project Group Annual Meeting, Leiden (The Netherlands), 24-25 April 2009; 
Project Group Panel, Helsinki (Finland), 10 July 2009 – 02.00pm-03.00pm. 

The next meeting of the History of Administration Project Group on the theme: « The Comparative Administrative History of Population Migration, 1800 to the Present » will take place in Leiden on 24-25 April 2009 at the University of Leiden, notably at the invitation of Professor Frits Van der Meer. The Group’s first objective will be to further advance the migration theme by finalizing national reports on specificities of national administrative systems set up during the 19th and 20th centuries to manage migratory flows. This project will be published at the end of 2009-early 2010 (IOS series: History of Administration n° 10) with introductory reports by the Rapporteurs. 

The second objective will be to define the contents of the presentation by the Project Group to be given during a Special Panel organised on 10 July 2009 in Helsinki during the IIAS Conference. 

The third and last objective will be to discuss the Group’s next theme: « Central Budget Agencies or their Functional Equivalents and their Impact on Government and the Development of Public Administration ». The Rapporteur will be Seppo Tiihonen.
Guidelines for the development of the new theme were circulated to the members of the Group.

Supranational Administration
The next meeting will take place in Geneva (Switzerland) on 14 and 15 May 2009.

Mr. Ladislas Nze Bekale, from Gabon, is currently involved in a trainee programme at IIAS. He graduated from ENA (France) and is preparing a PhD in Public Administration at Pierre Mendès University of Grenoble (France). He is a civil administrator in Libreville (Gabon) and a former trainee at the International Court of Justice. Ladislas explains that his working at IIAS is due to his interest in understanding the functioning of an international organisation whose purpose is scientific. He is working on the IIAS Knowledge Portal.

• IIAS: 7-11 July 2009, Helsinki, Finland
• IASIA: 3-8 August 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• EGPA: 2-5 September 2009, St-Julian, Malta
• 5th TAD: 11-13 June 2009, Washington, DC, United States
• 2nd TED: 6-7 July 2009, Helsinki, Finland
• 2nd MED: 7-10 October 2009, Portoroz, Slovenia

• CEPA UN: 30 March-4 April 2009, New York, United States
• NISPAcee Conference: 14-16 May 2009, Budva, Montenegro
• Integrity of Governance: 28-30 May 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• World Summit on Public Management Education: 18-19 June 2009, Budapest, Hungary
• Policy Evaluation in the Public Sector: 10-12 September 2009, Potsdam, Germany