18th July 2022
PROGRAM
10.00 AM – 10.45 AM: Inaugural Session
Welcome Remarks by Deepak Mishra, Director & CE, ICRIER
Opening Remarks by Adrian Haack, Director, India Office, KAS
Guest Remarks by Rudrendra Tandon, Additional Secretary (BIMSTEC & SAARC), Ministry of External Affairs, GoI
Remarks by Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Head, Trade, Commerce and Strategic Economic Dialogue, NITI Aayog
Keynote Address by H.E. Tenzin Lekphell, Secretary General, BIMSTEC
10.45 AM to 11.45 AM – Technical Session – Trade and Investment
Moderator – Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Head, Trade, Commerce and Strategic Economic Dialogue, NITI Aayog
Speakers:
Posh Raj Pandey, Chairman, SAWTEE, Nepal
Fahmida Khatun, Executive Director, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh
Anushka Wijesinha, Economist and Co-founder, Centre for a Smart Future, Sri Lanka
Piti Srisangnam, Director of Academic Affairs, ASEAN Studies Center, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Deputy Head and Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UNESCAP South and South-West Asia Office
11.45 AM – Q & A 11.55 AM – Summing Up by Nisha Taneja, Professor, ICRIER