10.00 am

Inaugural Session

·           
Welcome Remarks by Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER

·           
Opening Remarks by Yoichi Nemoto, President, PRI

·           
Keynote Address by Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog (TBC)

11.00 am

Coffee Break

11.30 am

Session 1 – Macro-Economic Trends in India and Japan

Chair – Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor, ICRIER

Speakers 

·           
Sungyun Kim, President and Managing Partner, Nomura Research Institute India Private Limited

·           
Sudipto Mundle, Emeritus Professor, NIPFP

Lead Discussant

·           
Jaimini Bhagwati, RBI Chair Professor, ICRIER

Q & A

1.00 pm

Lunch

1.45 pm

Session 2 – Reform Measures in India to Attract FDI & ODA

Chair – Ajay Shanker, Former Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India

Speakers 

·           
Vandana Kumar,  Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India

·           
Takema Sakamoto, Chief Representative,  JICA India Office

Lead Discussant

·           
Anil Padmanabhan, Executive Editor, Mint

Q & A

3.00 pm 

Coffee Break

3.15 pm

Session 3 – India-Japan Cooperation in the Context of Rising Global Protectionism

Chair – A. Didar Singh, Secretary General, FICCI

Speakers

·           
Shujiro Urata, Professor, Waseda University

·           
Harsha Vardhana Singh, Executive Director, Brookings India

Lead Discussant

·           
Chandni Raina, Professor, Centre for WTO Studies, IIFT

Q & A

4.30 pm

Concluding Remarks and Vote of Thanks

Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER