Venue: 21 Chee Hoon Avenue [kindly note the change in venue]
Date: 16 April 2014, Wednesday
Time: 6.30pm-9.00pm
Fee: $25 for cost recovery (Both members and non members)

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Professor Dame Carol Black has had a pivotal role in addressing the issues of health and the workplace in her decades-long illustrious career that includes prominent appointments such as the first UK National Director for Health and Work, President of Royal College of Physicians, and her current role as Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.

As the author of the landmark review of Britain’s working age population that was presented to UK Government to broad cross-party support, Prof. Dame Black will share the challenges she identified through her research to health and well-being in working life and the reforms she recommended to improve overall occupational health that consider human, social, and environmental factors beyond mere clinical diagnoses. Prof. Dame Black will provide insight into the interconnected topics of work and health at public policy and at personal levels that often go unconsidered. As a leader in her field, she will also talk about her experiences as a woman in leadership roles and bring her perspectives to young ambitious career women today.

Further Background

Professor Dame Carol Black was trained as a medic and was first appointed Professor, then Head of Rheumatology at Royal Free Hospital, London, where she was Medical Director from 2000-2002. The Centre she founded there is internationally renowned for its research on connective tissue disease. From 2002-2006, she was President of the Royal College of Physicians (only the second woman president in its 500-year history), and then held the position of Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges until 2009. She was the first National Director for Health and Work, leading independent reviews in 2008 and with David Frost CBE in 2011 that were presented to UK Parliament.

She has served in leadership roles of numerous charities and foundations throughout her career, including the British Lung Foundation and the UK Health Honours Committee, and is currently Expert Adviser to the UK Department of Health; Chair of the Governance Board, Centre for Workforce Intelligence; Chair of the Health at Work network; and Chair of the Nuffield Trust, which is dedicated to improving healthcare policy. Prof. Dame Black is also a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. In 2013, she was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the UK by Women’s Hour on BBC4.

6 April 2014, Sunday, 7-10pm

2 Goodwood Hill

The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Singapore in collaboration with BNY Mellon invites you to an informal mingle to celebrate the annual Boat Race between the Light Blues and the Dark Blues. As the record stands, Cambridge is leading the way with 81 wins and Oxford at 77 — but let’s leave the quibbling aside and focus on the real objective — enjoying some excellent wine, food and cheese and of course, stellar conversation.

This year, we are doing things a little differently – no formal speeches, ample opportunity for mingling with a buffet spread and the inaugural Oxbridge Pub Quiz.

Recommended attire: Smart Casual Attire (No Black Tie!)

This event is open to non-Oxbridge alums so bring your friends!

All queries should be directed to sg.oxbridge.boat.race.2014@gmail.com. However, sign-ups will only be accepted via http://mellonboatracemingle2014.peatix.com.

Note: We will not screen the actual Boat Race as that will take place at 1am Singapore time. If you are interested in catching the race, please drop us an email to let us know and we reconsider only if there is sufficient interest.

We thank BNY Mellon for their generous support of this event.

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What effects – if any – had the watershed election in 2011 had on Singapore politics? How do local political developments affect Singapore’s actions abroad? How best to ensure our bilateral relations with the US are kept on an even keel despite fluid US domestic politics? Is the US-dominated monolithic global order changing, and how should Singapore conduct its foreign policy against the rise of an increasingly confident China, and the (re-) emergence of increasingly fractious territorial disputes in our neighbourhood? 

In an engaging and lively discussion with Oxbridge alumni, Ambassador Chan Heng Chee shared her astute insights into these key questions that Singapore has grappled and continues to grapple with. Alumni gleaned new clarity on the complexities of the interplay between domestic politics and foreign policy, and left with a keener understanding of the critical need to preserve Singapore’s space abroad.



Ambassador Chan is Ambassador-at-Large with the Singapore Foreign Ministry and concurrently, Singapore’s Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights.  She chairs the National Arts Council as well as the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and is a member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights. On the international front, she chairs the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Urban Development, and is a trustee of the Asia Society and a member of the Board of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
 


She served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States from 1996 to 2012, and was Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1989 to 1991.  When she left Washington in 2012 at the end of her appointment, Ambassador Chan received the inaugural Asia Society Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award, the inaugural Foreign Policy Outstanding Diplomatic Achievement Award 2012 and the United States Navy Distinguished Public Service Award. Her other awards include the Distinguished Service Order in 2011 and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2005. She was named Singapore’s first “Woman of the Year” in 1991, and was twice awarded the National Book Awards: in 1986 for “A Sensation of Independence: A Political Biography of David Marshall” and in 1978 for “The Dynamics of One Party Dominance: The PAP at the Grassroots”. 

We will take sign-ups only via this website. http://ambchan.peatix.com