15th Annual ICRIER-NBER-NCAER Conference 

 Neemrana

 December 13-15, 2013

 Draft Program
 

Chair: N. K. Singh, Member of Parliament 

Speakers:

• Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, India
• Anne O. Krueger, Professor, John Hopkins University
• Gita Gopinath, Professor, Harvard University

Chair: Pramod Bhasin, Vice Chairman and former President and CEO, Genpact

Speakers:

• Nandan Nilekani, Chairman, UIDAI
• Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

Chair: Subir Gokarn, Director of Research, Brookings India 

Speakers:

• Oliver D. Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Jaimini Bhagwati, RBI Chair Professor, ICRIER
• Atif Mian, Professor of Economics and Public Policy,Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Chair: Shekhar Shah, Director General, NCAER

Speakers:

• Arpita Mukherjee, Professor, ICRIER
• Anwarul Hoda, Professor, ICRIER
• Arnaud Costinot, Pentti J.K. Kourri Associate Professor, Department of Economics, MIT
• Shang-Jin Wei, Professor of Finance and Economics, Professor of International Affairs, and N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University

Chair: Rana Hasan, Principal Economist, India Resident Mission of ADB

Speakers:

• Romain Wacziarg, Professor of Economics, UCLA
• Nathan Nunn, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Radhicka Kapoor, Consultant, ICRIER
• Chetan Ghate, Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute

Chair: Rajiv Lall, Executive Chairman, IDFC Ltd.

Speakers:

• Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER
• Jagan Shah, Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs

Chair: Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Delhi School of Economics 

Speakers:

• Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
• Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy University of Chicago
• Bruce Weinberg, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Ohio State University
• Tarun Jain, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Indian School of Business

Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER

Speakers:

• Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
• Jaivir Singh, Associate Professor, JNU

Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER 

Speakers:

• Anne Krueger, Professor, John Hopkins University
• B. J. Panda, Member of Parliament
• T. N. Ninan, Chairman, Business Standard Ltd
• Surjit Bhalla, Chairman, Oxys Investments
• Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego