Asia Pacific E-Commerce Policy Summit

14 Mar, 2024

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1st Asia Pacific E-Commerce Policy Summit

Date: March 14, 2024 (Thursday), Time: 09:30 AM
Venue: New Delhi

Agenda


09:30 – 10:00 AM : Registration
10:00 – 11:30 AM : Inaugural Session

 

Welcome Address & Chair:
Mr. Pramod Bhasin, Chairman, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India

 

Co-Chair:
Dr. Mikiko Tanaka, Director, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP)

 

Guests of Honour:
Mr. Santosh Kumar Sarangi, Additional Secretary & Director General, Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry (MoC&I), Government of India

 

Special Address:
⎆ H.E. Mrs. Chea Ratha, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Royal Government of Cambodia
⎆ H.E. Ms C. A. Chaminda I. COLONNE, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand; and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to ESCAP

 

Presentation:
Dr. Arpita Mukherjee, Professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India [Download Presentation]

Vote of Thanks by Dr. Deepak Mishra, Director & CE, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India

 

11:30 – 11:40 AM : Tea Break

 

11:40 – 01:00 PM : Panel Discussion 1:  Facilitating a Robust Framework for Cross-Border E-Commerce to enable MSMEs.

 

Moderator:
Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal, Visiting Professor – Trade, ICRIER; and Former Chief – Business and Trade Policy, International Trade Centre (ITC), Geneva

 

Presentation:
⎆ Dr. Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Deputy Head and Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UN-ESCAP South and South-West Asia Office, on ‘ESCAP  initiatives on onboarding women MSMEs in value chain’ [Download Presentation]

⎆ Dr. Tanu M. Goyal, Senior Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), India, on ‘Performance of E-Commerce Integrated MSMEs vis-à-vis Non-Integrated Firms: Insights from survey of 2000 MSMEs across India’  [Download Presentation]

 

Panellists:
⎆ Mr. Santosh Kumar Sarangi, Additional Secretary & Director General, Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), Ministry of Commerce & Industry (MoC&I), Government of India
⎆ Dr. Pritam Banerjee, Head, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), India
⎆ Dr. Devi Ariyani, Executive Director, Indonesia Services Dialogue Council (ISD)
⎆ Dr. Harsha Vardhana Singh, Chairman, IKDHVAJ Advisers LLP, India
⎆ Mrs. K. Ratna Prabha, Former Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka; Founder-President, UBUNTU Consortium – A Global Platform for Women Entrepreneurs Associations; Global Ambassador, ABWCI

 

;Q&A/Open Discussion: Last 10-15 minutes

 

01:00 – 01:45 PM : Lunch
01:45 – 02:15 PM : Interaction with Policymakers on E-Commerce an Enabler for Growth and Exports

 

Chair:
Mr. Sumanta Chaudhuri, Former Secretary, Government of India; and International Trade Expert

 

Discussants:
⎆ Ms. Prewprae CHUMRUM, Chair, ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement Negotiations
⎆ Mr. Lokesh Kumar, Chief General Manager, Export-Import Bank of India
⎆ Dr. Donghyun Park, Economic Advisor (Strategic Knowledge Initiatives), Asian Development Bank (ADB)

 

02:15 – 03:15 PM : Panel Discussion 2: Ensuring Consumer Protection in the Age of E-Commerce

 

Moderator:
H.E. Mrs. Chea Ratha, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Royal Government of Cambodia

 

Presentation:
⎆ Dr. Rupa Chanda, Director of Trade, Investment, and Innovation, UN-ESCAP on ‘Regional digital trade integration index-an overview of where countries stand on digital trade related regulations’ [Download Presentation]

⎆Dr. Adam Triggs, Partner, Mandala Partners & Non-resident fellow at Brookings and Australian National University (ANU), Canberra on ‘How Ecommerce can benefit consumers – A Australian study’ [Download Presentation]

 ⎆Sanjay Kathuria, Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Social and Economic Progress; Visiting Expert, US Institute of Peace on ‘Facilitating Cross-Border E-Commerce Collaborations’ [Download Presentation]

 

Panellists:
⎆ Prof. Viswanath Pingali, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
⎆ Mr. Avimukt Dar, Founding Partner, INDUSLAW, India
⎆ Ms. Gowree Gokhale, Senior Partner, Nishith Desai Associates, India
⎆ Dr. Archana Goyal Gulati, Former Advisor Digital Communications NITI Aayog
⎆ Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Founding Partner, Indicc and Convenor – New Indian Consumer Initiative (NICI)

 

Q&A/Open Discussion: Last 10-15 minutes

 

03:15 – 03:25 PM : Tea Break
03:25 – 04:25 PM : Panel Discussion 3: E-Commerce Trade and Cross-Border Data Flows

 

Moderator:
Ms. Payal Malik, Visiting professor, ICRIER

 

Presentation:
Dr. Mansi Kedia, Senior Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) on ‘Enabling cross-border data flows within BBINS (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka) towards regional integration’ [Download Presentation]

 

Panellists:
⎆ Dr. Henry Gao, Professor of Law, Singapore Management University
⎆ Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences; and Professor, Economics, Shiv Nadar University
⎆ Mr. Swarnim Rai Shrivastava, Legal and Tech Policy Consultant
⎆ Mr. Lalit Kalra, Partner – Cybersecurity Consulting, Ernst & Young India

 

Q&A/Open Discussion: Last 10-15 minutes

 

04:25 – 05:00 PM : Interactive Discussions on Emerging Payment Technologies in APAC

 

Chair:
Mr. Rama Subramaniam Gandhi, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

 

Discussants:
⎆ Mr. Sudhakar Kaza, Ex-MD, Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran, RBI; and Director, Finiverse Aggregator Pvt. Ltd.
⎆ Mr. Mahendra Nerurkar, VP & CEO, Amazon Pay India
⎆ Ms. Aurica Bhattacharya, Counsel – Technology Practice and Policy, PLR Chambers

 

05:00 – 05:30 PM : Panel Discussion 4: How Social Media is Transforming E-Commerce

 

Moderator:
Mr. Tushar Bajaj, MD – Organic, MSL

 

Panellists:
⎆ Ms. Payal Kamat, Public Policy Consultant, formerly Public Policy, Twitter India
⎆ Ms. Shreya Suri, Partner, TMT Practice, Indus Law

 

Q&A/Open Discussion: Last 10-15 minutes

 

05:30 – 05.55 PM : Concluding Session

 

Moderator:
Dr. Rupa Chanda, Director of Trade, Investment, and Innovation, UNESCAP

 

 Special Address:
⎆ Ms. Prewprae CHUMRUM, Chair, ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement Negotiations on ‘Towards Greater Regulatory Collaborations in E-Commerce’
⎆ Dr. Hindol Sengupta, Vice President – Strategy, Invest India, Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India on ‘How Invest India facilitates Foreign Investment and Scope for Cross-Border Partnership and Collaborations’

 

05:55 PM : Vote of Thanks by Dr. Arpita Mukherjee, Professor, ICRIER

 

1st Asia Pacific E-Commerce Policy Summit

Date: March 14, 2024 (Thursday), Time: 09:30 AM
Venue: New Delhi

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