Shrimati Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs of India, Government of India

Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs & Food & Public Distribution and Textiles and G-20 Sherpa of India

Shri Rajiv Kumar,Vice Chairman NITI Aayog

Other Speakers

Mr. Pramod Bhasin, Chairman, ICRIER

Mr. Peter Rimmele, Resident Representative to India, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Dr. Deepak Mishra, Director & CE, ICRIER

Session Chair: Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP)

Panelists:

Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India

Nada Choueiri, IMF Mission Chief for India

Stephany Griffith Jones, Financial Markets Director, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University

Chair: Amar Bhattacharya, Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Centre for Sustainable Development Program, Brookings Institute

Panelists:

Jean Pisani-Ferry, Senior fellow at Bruegel and Senior Non-resident Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

Richard Damania, Chief Economist, Sustainable Development, The World Bank

Ulka Kelkar, Director – Climate Program, WRI India

Chair: Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research

Panelists:

Alina Sorgner, Assistant Professor of Applied Data Analytics, John Cabot University

Carl B. Frey, Oxford Martin Citi Fellow, University of Oxford

Ruzbeh Irani, President, Group Human Resources & Communications, Member of the Group Executive Board

Women remain under-represented in economics and business, yet many have made an outsized impact in these fields. This session will feature conversation between three highly successful women professionals discussing groundbreaking contribution in their respective fields while honouring the life and achievements of Ms. Isher Judge Ahluwalia. The session will be moderated by Pramod Bhasin, Chairperson, ICRIER.

Panelists:

Sonalde Desai, Professor and Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC)

Rohini Pande, Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University

Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman, Max Financial Services Ltd.; Chairman, HSBC Asset Management (India) Pvt Ltd and HSBC InvestDirect (India) Ltd

Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Senior Visiting Professor, ICRIER and Dean, School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University

Panelists:

Baijayant Panda, National Vice President and Spokesperson, Bhartiya Janata Party

Vincenzo de Luca, Ambassador of Italy to India

Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean & CEO, ADBI