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.

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Dasho Karma Tshiteem in conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

4th April, 2023, 5-7 PM, RUB Convention Hall, Thimphu.

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us. His books have sold 40 Million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today.

Born in Israel in 1976, Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is currently a lecturer at the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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The RIGSS Online Application System for second round of EEA tests is closed on 20th November 2022.