Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at Conference Room, ICRIER, India Habitat Centre, Core 6A, 4th Floor, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

PROGRAMME

02:30 – 03:00 pm : Registration and Tea/Coffee

03:00 – 04:00 pm : Inaugural Session

Welcome Address by Dr. Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Special Address by H.E. Mr. Chutintorn Gongsakdi, Ambassador of Thailand to India, New Delhi

Special Address by Mr. Vikram K. Doraiswami, Additional Secretary (BM&IP), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India

04:00 – 04:10 pm : Release of the Book
“Act East to Act Indo-Pacific: India’s Expanding Neighbourhood”

Presentation on the Book
by Dr. Prabir De, Professor, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)

04:10 – 05:25 pm : Book Discussion

Chair:

Dr. Arpita Mukherjee, Professor, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Panelists:

Mr. Keiichi Onozawa, Representative of METI for South Asia, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

Dr. Constantino Xavier, Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings India

Mr. Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, Consulting Editor,Business Standard

Mr. Sanjay Pulipaka, Senior Fellow, The Nehru Memorial Museum Library (NMML) & Advisor, East Asia Research Programme Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Mr. Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, Sr. Assistant Editor (Foreign & Strategic Affairs), The Economic Times

05:25 – 05:30 pm : Closing Remarks