Program (India Time)

11.00 am: Opening remarks
DEEPAK MISHRA, Director & Chief Executive, ICRIER
TAKESHI KURIHARA, President, PRI

11:10 am: Inaugural Address
RAJIV KUMAR, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog

11.30 am: Session 1 – Policy Responses to COVID19 in India and Japan and Future Outlook for the Two Economies

Presentations:
Ajit Ranade, Vice-Chancellor, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
Atsushi KAWAMOTO, Director, Policy Co-ordination Office and Global Economy Review Office, Policy Planning and Research Division, Ministry of Finance, Japan [Download Presentation]

Lead Discussants:
Go YAMADA, Principal Economist, Japan Center for Economic Research [Download Presentation]
Alok Sheel, Former Secretary, PM Economic Advisory Council

12.15 pm Session 2 – Prospects for India-Japan Economic Cooperation

Presentations:
Takahiro SATO, Professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University [Download Presentation]
Nisha Taneja, Professor, ICRIER and Sanjana Joshi, Senior Consultant, ICRIER [Download Presentation]

Lead Discussants:
Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, Former Indian Ambassador to Japan
Masashi KONO, Director of Asia and Oceania, JETRO Overseas Research Department

1.10 pm: Concluding Remarks and Vote of Thanks
Kawauchi Hironori, Executive Vice President, PRI
Sanjana Joshi, Senior Consultant, ICRIER