Speakers
Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s 14th Prime Minister, presided over a decade of phenomenal growth and development. Under Dr Singh’s stewardship, India witnessed the highest growth …
Dr Amar Patnaik is Rajya Sabha Member from Odisha representing the Biju Janata Dal. He is also the party’s national spokesperson and head of the …
Montek Singh Ahluwalia served as one of India’s senior economic policymakers for three decades and played a crucial role in the country’s turn from a …
Sameer Kochhar, Chairman of Skoch Group, is a passionate advocate of social, financial and digital inclusion. In 1997, after spending 15 years in the corporate world, …
Justice M N Venkatachaliah is adjudged the most erudite and urbane judge, who has adorned the Supreme Court of India. A judge with a deep …
Dr Bibek Debroy is an economist and has made significant contributions to game theory, economic theory, income and social inequalities, poverty, law reforms, railway reforms …
Dr Vijay Kelkar served the Government of India as Petroleum Secretary, Finance Secretary and Chairman of the Thirteenth Finance Commission of India. He also served …
Justice Misra enrolled as an Advocate in February 1977 and Practiced in Constitutional, Civil, Criminal, Revenue, Service, and Sales Tax matters in the Orissa High …
Satvik Varma is a Senior Advocate and his areas of practice include corporate/commercial litigation, shareholder & company disputes, breach of contract & specific performance disputes, telecom/satellite …
Abhishek Singhvi is an eminent jurist, writer and parliamentarian. One of the seniormost national spokespersons of the Congress party, he is also the youngest designated Senior …
Mahua Moitra is a member of the Loksabha from the Krishnanagar constituency in West Bengal. She served as a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly …
Chander Uday Singh is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. In his illustrious career, he has appeared before the Supreme Court in the …
Gul Panag is an actress with an accomplished career and also a social activist, She runs the Colonel Shamsher Singh Foundation,an NGO that works towards a …
Professor Satya Pal Singh Baghel is a member of the Lok Sabha from The Agra constituency. He is the current Minister of State in the Ministry …
Mrs. Rekha Sharma assumed the charge of Chairperson, National Commission for Women on August 7, 2018. She has been a Member of the Commission since August, …
Pinky Anand , a trustee of The Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust is a designated senior advocate at the Supreme Court of India and the incumbent …
Mr Mahesh Jethmalani is a lawyer and a politician. He is currently a nominated Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha and a senior advocate at …
Milee Ashwarya is Publisher, Ebury Publishing and Vintage Publishing at Penguin Random House India. Her focus has been on championing the best voices in fiction and …
Gauri Goburdhun is an Associate at P&A Law offices. She has done her LLM from Georgetown University Law center, She also holds a LLB degree in …
Kapil Sibal A graduate of Harvard Law School, lawyer turned politician Kapil Sibal is not only known for his versatility but also for his ability to …
Rohan Kochhar holds an MPA in Public Administration and Management from University College London (UCL) and a B.A.
Mr Arvind P. Datar was designated as a Senior Advocate, Madras High Court, on July 18, 2000.He set up an independent practice on March 1, 1984 …
Mr KK Venugopal is the 15th and current Attorney General to the Indian government.He is an Indian constitutional lawyer and a senior advocate in the Supreme …
Mr Fali Sam Nariman is an eminent jurist. He has been senior advocate to the Supreme Court of India since 1971 and also the President of …
Mr Venkatramani has 42 years of practice in the Supreme Court. He was designated as Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India in the year …
Mr V. Sudhish Pai , Senior Advocate is a distinguished jurist and an acclaimed author specializing in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, having been at the …
Raghava Krishna has 17 years of corporate experience with expertise in leading cross-functional creative product development Teams, Learning Design and Org Culture.
J. Sai Deepak is the author of the bestseller India That is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Rinkoo Wadhera (PhD & Post Doctorate) is Core Faculty at the Council for Historical and Sociological Research, New Delhi.
Shilpa Pandit is currently teaching psychology at The Ahmedabad University. She has applied her training in diverse ways- working in the social sector, including serving …
Ashwin Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Amrut Mody School of Management, and Director, The Centre for Learning Futures, Ahmedabad University.
Menaka Doshi is a Business Anchor and Managing Editor for Bloomberg Quint, who has a massive experience of more than 20 years of journalism career in …
Mr Manish Tewari is a practicing Lawyer in the Supreme Court of India. He is a Member of the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha).
Mukesh Butani is Founder and Managing Partner of BMR Legal Advocates, a boutique law firm.
With specialization in domestic corporate international tax and transfer pricing, he has …
N Venkataraman was born on 26th August 1965, completed law in the year 1989 at the Madurai Kamaraj University and Commenced practice the same year under …
Mr. Ajay Wadhwa has been in tax practice since 1987. He did his schooling from Delhi Public School, Mathura Road and graduation from Hansraj College in …
Rani Singh Nair joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1979 and has broad spectrum experience in leading initiatives in the areas of financial management and public …
Kinshuk Jha is an Associate Professor and Executive Director, Centre for Comparative and International Taxation (CCIT), Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). He pursued his LLM in …
Viral Acharya was deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India from January 2017 to July 2019 and served as a member of the advisory council …
Ashima Goyal is a renowned economist and widely published in more than hundred articles in national and international journals. She was a visiting fellow at …
Dr Rupa Rege Nitsure is the Group Chief Economist of L&T Financial Services since March 2015. Prior to Joining the L&T, she worked as a …
Tamal Bandyopadhyay is Consulting Editor in Business Editor. An author and an award-winning journalist, is well known for his weekly column, Banker’s Trust, which now …
Sonal Verma is Indian Economist, currently working as chief economist at Nomura.
Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai, India.
Dharmakirti Joshi is the Chief Economist at CRISIL limited. He has spent more than twenty years in economic research and consultancy.
Ananth Narayan leverages a more than 20 year career in banking and global markets in covering India’s macroeconomy and financial markets.
Mohua Mukherjee is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Institute of Energy Studies. She has worked as a senior development economics professional and team leader for over …
Ajay Chhibber is Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Salman Anees Soz is an economic development consultant, author and commentator. He has extensive experience across a range of economic development issues in Eastern Europe and …
Ajit Ranade is Vice Chancellor at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. He earlier served as an Executive President & Chief Economist, Aditya Birla Group and …
Dr Sekhar Bonu (PhD & Post Doctorate) joined as the Director General of Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) in April 2019. DMEO was established by …
Puja Mehra is a senior economic journalist with a career spanning over seventeen years. She covers key contemporary Indian economic developments. She has recently authored the …
Devaki Jain earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Virginia, and his BA from Franklin and Marshall College. Before his PhD, he was a …
Aaliya Waziri is a lawyer at the Delhi High Court, India and currently works as International Consultant for UN Women office for Timor Leste.
Yamini Aiyar is the President and Chief Executive of CPR. Her research interests are in the field of social policy and development. In 2008, Yamini founded …
Shrayana Bhattacharya is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Practice for South Asia.
Tarun Jain is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Previously, he was on the faculty at the Indian School of …
Rosa Abraham is Assistant Professor at the the Centre for Sustainable Employment (CSE) at Azim Premji University.
Manu S Pillai (PhD & Post Doctorate) is the author of several award-winning books. Formerly Chief of Staff to Dr. Shashi Tharoor MP, he has in …
Varsha Adusumilli graduated from BITS, Pilani with a degree in Information Systems. She began her career at an American financial services company but left within a …
Dr Deepali Pant Joshi is a development economist who served the RBI for 36 years. She was closely associated with policy formulation in the area of …
Radhicka Kapoor is a Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to joining ICRIER, she worked at the Planning Commission …
Dr. Shruti Rajagopalan is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a Fellow at the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU …
Ashwini Deshpande is Professor of Economics and the Founding Director of Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA) at Ashoka University.
Mr. Pradeep S Mehta (72) is the founder and Secretary General of the Jaipur-based Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS International), leading economic policy research, advocacy …
Pranjul Bhandari is the Chief India Economist at HSBC Securities & Capital Markets (India) Private Limited. She is responsible for developing the firm’s position on macroeconomics …
Vinay Sitapati is an associate professor of political science and legal studies at Ashoka University. He has degrees from National Law School Bangalore and Harvard University, …
Dr. Sajjid Chinoy is J.P. Morgan’s Chief India Economist. Prior to that, he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC and was a …
Reema Nanavatyleads Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) economic and rural development activities reaching out to seventeen million women and their families across India.
Jairam Ramesh is an Indian economist who served in the V.P Singh’s Government in 1990 and in Manmohan Singh’s finance ministry in the Narasimha Rao …
Alok Misra has around 28 years of professional experience in international development, rural finance, microfinance, inclusive finance and research at both policy and implementation level.
N C Saxena was the topper of his batch (1964) in the IAS. He retired as Secretary, Planning Commission in 2002.
Kishwar Desai started her career as a print journalist, moved on to television soon after, and worked as an anchor, producer, and head of a TV …
Ms Bhuvana Anand is the Co-Founder and Director of Trayas, a knowledge-driven public purpose enterprise. She has 16+ years experience in public policy research, and has …
5F World is a platform for Digital Start-ups, Skills and Social Ventures in the country. He is also Co-Founder of Global Talent Track, Skills Alpha and …
Dr Gursharan Dhanjal , MA, MPhil, PhD from Delhi University and an expert inDr Gursharan Dhanjal , MA, MPhil, PhD from Delhi University and an expert in …
Dr. Niranjan Sahoo is a Senior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, a leading think tank in New Delhi. With years of expertise in governance and public …
Ayjaz Wani is a Research Fellow at ORF Mumbai. He is currently working on the project: “Kashmir Conflict, Managing Perceptions and Prospectus for Peace.” Designed in …
Dr Sudipto Mundle is a Senior Adviser at NCAER. Formerly, he was an Emeritus Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi. …
M Ramachandran IAS, had a distinguished career in government from1972 to 2010, finally holding the challenging positions of Chief Secretary, Uttarakhand and then Secretary to …
Dr Priyanka Pandit is a China Studies Post-Doctoral Research Fellow supported by Ashoka University (India) and Harvard Yenching Institute (USA) at the Department of International Relations …