NLSIU Delegation Participates in the 7th International Conference on Public Policy

A delegation of faculty and students from NLSIU participated in the 7th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) held from July 1-4, 2025 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

About the Conference

Organised by the International Public Policy Association every alternate year, ICPP is the largest public policy conference in the world. This edition of ICPP saw 1050 registered participants from 70 different countries.

The NLS Delegation

This year’s delegation is the largest from NLSIU to participate in any edition of ICPP till date. It included:

*Prof. (Dr.) Sony Pellissery, Professor & Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Social Inclusion
*Dr. Devyani Pande, Assistant Professor, Public Policy
*Mr. Manish, Assistant Professor of Law
*Mr. Anubhav Bishen, PhD Scholar
*Mr. Devesh Pandey, PhD Scholar

Contributions of the NLS Delegation

The NLS delegation participated in three panels, as chairs, discussants, and presenters. They also co-chaired a roundtable.

 

Panels

‘Constitutional Economics for Public Policy’
*Dr. Sony Pellissery chaired the panel.
*Manish and Anubhav Bishen presented a paper at this panel titled “Committed Judiciary and Transitioning Economic Regimes: Policy Challenges to Economic Democracy in India.”

‘Policy Transfer from the Global South’
*Dr. Pellissery was a discussant on the panel.
*In addition, he presented a paper titled “Divergent epistemologies for policy transfer: Comparative Examination of the disciplines of ‘Development Studies’ and ‘Public Policy’,” and was the discussant for the panel.

‘Regulating AI: Governance Challenges and Policy Implications’
*Dr. Devyani Pande co-chaired a session and was a discussant for one of the two sessions within the panel. In the first session, she also presented a co-authored research article on “Public preferences of measures to build trust in high-risk AI:  Variations across Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo” with Dr. Shaleen Khanal and Dr. Araz Taeihagh (National University of Singapore).
*Devesh Pandey and Anubhav Bishen also presented a paper at this panel, titled “The Right to have a ‘Right to Explanation’: A Global South Perspective.”

Roundtables

Dr. Pande was the co-chair for a roundtable on ‘Governing AI in the Global South: Balancing the Needs, Benefits, and Challenges’ at the conference.