The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated that we need stronger collective mechanisms for preparedness and response when it comes to health emergencies.
Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore co-chaired the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response that developed recommendations to the G20 finance ministers that are now being implemented by the World Bank and the World Health Organization in collaboration with the G20.
Mr Shanmugaratnam is currently a member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism that is tasked with advising the UN in preparations for the Summit of the Future in 2023.
At the Circle U. Café, Mr Shanmugaratnam will reflect on the global governance repercussions of the pandemic and the current geopolitical context, and his contribution will be commented on by Ulf Sverdrup and Sandy Tubeuf.
The Circle U. Café is free and open to all. It will also be streamed here on August 25.
| 14:00 | Coffee |
| 15:00 |
Welcome and introduction
Chair: Amanda Hylland Spjeldn?s, medical student, University of Oslo |
| 15:05 |
Rethinking global governance: Confronting the challenges of the global commons and economy in a more fragmented world Lecture by Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Senior Minister of Singapore |
| 15:35 | Comments by Ulf Sverdrup, Director of NUPI |
| 15:45 |
Comments by Professor Sandy Tubeuf, Chair Global Health, UCLouvain |
| 15:55 |
Closing words by Bj?rn Stensaker |
About the speakers
Tharman Shanmugaratnam is Senior Minister in Singapore. He co-chaired the G20 High Level Independent Panel on financing pandemic security in 2021, and currently co-chairs the Global Commission on the Economics of Water. He is on the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism and had earlier led the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance.
Ulf Sverdrup is the Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). Sverdrup is currently leading a government appointed commission on the long-term perspectives for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global.
Sandy Tubeuf is a Professor at University of Louvain. She is an economist working on health outcomes. She is also chair on Global Health in Circle U..
John-Arne R?ttingen is Ambassador on Global Health at Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Norway. He is coordinating the World Health Organization’s international collaborative study on the effect of treatments for Covid-19.
Amanda Hylland Spjeldn?s is MD-PhD student at University of Oslo. She is medical editor in The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, and has made the podcast series “Folkefeber” about inequality in Norway during the pandemic.
What is Circle U. and Circle U. Café?
Circle U. is our European University Alliance, and your chance to cooperate with colleagues all over Europe. Circle U. Café is our meeting place at UiO and takes place at Scene HumSam in Georg Sverdrups hus. At Circle U. Café we discuss topics relevant for European higher education and research.