Annual Conference
on
Normalizing India-Pakistan Trade 

Date: March 14-15, 2013 
Venue: Jacaranda Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
 

Chair: Isher Judge Ahluwalia  (Chairperson, ICRIER, New Delhi) 

Keynote Address: Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal (Minister for Railways, Government of India)
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Vote of Thanks: Rajat Kathuria (Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER, New Delhi)
 

Chair: Hafiz Pasha  (Dean, Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore; former Commerce Minister, Finance Minister and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan) 

Presentations by:

• Nisha Taneja (Professor, ICRIER, New Delhi)
• Sanjib Pohit (Senior Principal Scientist, NISTAD, New Delhi)
• Manzoor Ahmad (Senior Fellow, International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development, Geneva)

Comments by:

• Aradhna Aggarwal (Senior Fellow, NCAER, New Delhi)
• Deb Kusum Das (Associate Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi)
• Saikat Sinha Roy (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

Special Address by S R Rao (Commerce Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India)

Chair: Surjit Bhalla  (Chairman, Oxus Investments) 

Presentations by:

• Aisha Ghaus Pasha (Director, Institute of Public Policy, BNU, Lahore)
• Nadia Rehman (Trade Economist, USAID Trade Project, Islamabad)
• Abhijit Das (Head & Professor, Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi)

Comments by:

• Naeem Anwar (Minister-Trade, Pakistan High Commission, New Delhi)
• Ram Upendra Das (Senior Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries(RIS), New Delhi)
• Pardeep Sehgal (Partner, Sinochem Impex, Amritsar)

Chair: Sanjay Kathuria  (Lead Economist, Regional Integration, World Bank, Washington DC) 

Presentations by:

• Nisha Taneja, Mishita Mehra, Prithvijit Mukherjee (ICRIER, New Delhi)
• Sanjib Pohit (Senior Principal Scientist, NISTAD, New Delhi)

Comments by:

• Atindra Sen (Senior Advisor, Transnational Strategy Group, India)
• Usman Khan (Faculty Member, LUMS, Lahore)

Chair: N K Singh  (Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha) 
 

Chair: I. N. Mukherji  (Senior Consultant, RIS, New Delhi) 

Presentations by:

• Mahendra Lama (Professor, Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, JNU, New Delhi)
• Saon Ray (Senior Fellow, ICRIER, New Delhi)
• Kiran Javaid and Farah Shahid (Teaching Fellows, LUMS, Lahore)

Comments by:

• Syed Yawar Ali (Chairman, Nestlé Pakistan Ltd)
• Biswajit Nag (Associate Professor, IIFT, New Delhi)
• Prabir De (Fellow, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi)

Chair: Anupam Khanna  (Chief Economist and Director-General, NASSCOM, Delhi) 

Presentations by:

• Rupa Chanda (Professor, Department of Economics & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore)
• Hadia Majid and Nadia Mukhtar (Assistant Professor, LUMS, Lahore)
• Vaqar Ahmed (Deputy Executive Director, SDPI, Islamabad)

Comments by:

• B N Goldar (Visiting Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
• Jehan Ara (President, Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES, Karachi)
• Arpita Mukherjee (Professor, ICRIER, New Delhi)

Moderator: Sanjaya Baru  (Director for Geo-economics and Strategy, International Institute for Strategic Studies, New Delhi) 

Speakers:

• Rajeev Kher (Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India)
• Hafiz Pasha (Dean, BNU, Lahore and former Commerce Minister, Finance Minister and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan)
• Syed Yawar Ali (Chairman, Nestlé Pakistan Ltd)
• Nagesh Kumar (Director, UN-ESCAP South and South-West Asia Office and Chief Economist, UN-ESCAP)
• Manoj Pant (Professor, Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU, New Delhi)
• Nisha Taneja (Professor, ICRIER, New Delhi)

Vote of thanks: Rajat Kathuria (Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER, New Delhi)