The Chief of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration (IASIA) Professor Michelle Ferris has termed the Bahrain government sector as administratively successful saying that the Kingdom of Bahrain is now qualified to be a Middle East hub for public administration and that the membership of the Bahrain Institute for Public Administration (BIPA) has further cemented IASIA- Bahrain ties.
“The Bahrain government sector does not suffer from any administrative problems,” Professor Ferris, said. “Thought the private sector undergoing administrative problems, BIPA would not have succeeded to organize the 29th conference of Public Administration in Manama.”
Professor Ferris called on all government sectors in the Kingdom of Bahrain to foster BIPA administrative criteria whose efficacy was tangibly reflected in the eye-catching success of the international event, the largest public administration conference of its kind in the world which has recently concluded it activities in Manama.
This came in a statement by Professor Ferris soon after Bahrain had hosted, on June 1-6, 2013 under the kind auspices of His Royal Highness the Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Khalifa, the 29th edition of the International Conference on Public Administration which was jointly organized by the Bahrain Institute of Public Administration (BIPA) in collaboration with the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration (IASIA), the two largest organizations specializing in administrative sciences in the world.
Professor Ferris has lauded in particular Bahrain’s outstanding arrangement for the conference and the warm hospitality it offered to the conferees, saying that all the participating committees have worked in total freedom and received unlimited support from government officials in general and BIPA officials in particular.
“I was absolutely thrilled to have seen all the participants delighted to be in Bahrain and thus I want to extend my warmest thanks to those have worked in the various committees of the Bahrain Institute of Public Administration (BIPA)for their indefatigable efforts and for their fruitful cooperation with their international counterparts to ensure success to the conference.
Besides, Prof. Ferris expressed honor to have met a host of public administration personalities, who – thanks to the conference – have become new friends for the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration (IASIA) which he manages, hailing what he termed as “excellent working papers “, presented by many participants representing a large number of world countries and asserting that the International Schools and Institutes of Public Administration have found guidance in many of the working papers and projects that have been put forward at the conference.
The working papers and proposals, he concluded, have generated new ideas capable of upgrading public administration practices, precisely in the Middle East region and the Kingdom of Bahrain.