Ambassador Rabab Fatima will be speaking at the RIGSS Friday Forum on Friday, 18th August, 2023 from 5.30 to 7.00PM at the RUB Convention Hall, Thimphu.

Ambassador Rabab Fatima will be speaking on “Bhutan’s LDC Graduation: Ensuring a Smooth, Successful and Sustainable Transition.” Her Excellency is the UN Under Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs), and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

RIGSS in collaboration with JICA Bhutan Office is pleased to organise a lecture by Dr. Andrea Pressello on "Japan's Modernisation and its Foreign Policy" on 24th July, 2023 from 5.30 to 7.00PM at the RUB Convention Hall, Thimphu.

Dr. Pressello is a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Hamid Rashid will be speaking at the RIGSS Friday Forum Eminent Speaker Series on Friday, 19th May, 2023 from 5.00 to 6.30PM at the RUB Convention Hall, Thimphu.

Dr. Rashid is the Chief of Global Economic Monitoring at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDEA). He is the lead author of the UN flagship report, the World Economic Situation and Prospects.

The Friday Forum is the institute’s flagship public lecture series. Under this banner the institute brings eminent speakers from around the world that include eminent scholars, great thinkers, change-makers, spiritual masters, political geniuses and the like to deliver talks in Bhutan. Organized usually on Friday evenings, the Friday Forum is a public lecture and interaction forum that lasts for an hour and a half including a discussion session with the audience.