7th Annual G20 Conference (Dinner G20 Address:P.J. Nayak) -Part 23
7th
Annual G20 Conference on
Challenges to
Strong, Sustainable and
Balanced Growth: Views from G20
Countries
September 14- 15,
2015
New Delhi
September 14, 2015 (Monday),
Silver Oak Hall,
India Habitat Centre
09:00-09:30
Registration and
High Tea
09:30-10:
00 Inaugural Session:
Welcome Address:
Rajat Kathuria,
Director and
Chief Executive, ICRIER
Inaugural
Speech:
Suresh Prabhu,
Honourable Railway Minister of India and G20
Sherpa,
Government of India
10:00-11:00 Keynote Address:
Shaktikanta Das,
Secretary,
Department of Economic Affairs,
Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Special Address:
Naoyuki Yoshino,
Dean,
Asian Development Bank Institute (
ADBI)
11:00-11:15 Tea/
Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 Special
Session: Towards a Sustainable
Growth Plan:
Voices from the
Troika
Chair:
Sujata Mehta, Secretary (ER&
DPA),
Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Panel:
•
Patrick Suckling,
Australian High Commissioner to
India
•
Burak Akçapar,
Ambassador of
Republic of Turkey to India
• Le Yucheng, Ambassador of
Republic of China to India
12:15-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session 1: Accelerating Infrastructure Investments in G20 Countries
Chair:
Shankar Acharya,
Honorary Professor, ICRIER
Panel:
• Sindhushree
Khullar,
CEO,
NITI Aayog, Government of India
• Rajiv B. Lall,
Executive Chairman,
IDFC
• Alok Sheel,
Member Secretary,
State Planning Board,
Kerala
•
Thomas Richardson,
Senior Resident Representative in India,
IMF
15:30-15:45 Tea/Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 2: Synchronizing
Global Monetary Policy: How can G20
Help?
Chair: Abheek Barua,
Chief Economist,
HDFC Bank
Panel:
• Poonam Gupta,
Senior Economist,
World Bank
• Nobuyuki
UDA,
Director General of
Research and Co-ordination
Department,
PRI, MoF,
Japan
• Heribert Dieter,
Senior Research Associate,
The German Institute for
International and
Security Affairs,
Berlin
17:00-18:00 Session 3: Competitive Devaluations:
The New Global
Norm?
Chair: Thomas Richardson, Senior Resident Representative in India, IMF
Panel:
• Ashima Goyal,
Professor of Economics,
IGIDR
•
Subir Gokarn, Director of Research, Brookings India
Annual G20 Address and Dinner
Reception at
Juniper, India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi (By Invitation only)
19:30 Annual G20 Address
Chair:
Chetan Ghate,
Associate Professor,
Indian Statistical Institute,
Delhi
Speaker:
P.J. Nayak, Former Chief Executive and
Country Head,
Morgan Stanley, India
20
.30 Dinner Reception
September 15, 2015 (Tuesday), Silver Oak Hall, India Habitat Centre
09:00-09:30 Registration and High Tea
09:30-11:00 Session 4:
Addressing the Financing
Challenge of
SMEs and Enhancing
Their
Participation in Global Value
Chains (GVCs)
Chair: Anwarul
Hoda, Chair Professor, ICRIER
Panel:
•
Prema Chandra Athukorala, Professor of Economics,
Crawford School of Public Policy,
Australia National University
• Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute
•
Anil Bharadwaj,
Secretary General,
Federation of
Indian Micro and Small &
Medium Enterprises (
FISME)*
11:00-11:15 Tea/Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session 5: Post-
Crisis International Financial
Regulation: Where Have We Reached?
Chair:
Jaimini Bhagwati,
RBI Chair Professor, ICRIER
Panel:
•
Ila Patnaik,
Principal Economic Adviser, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
•
Kalpana Kochhar,
Deputy Director,
Asia and
Pacific Department, IMF
•
K. P. Krishnan,
Additional Secretary,
Land Resources,
Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:15 Session 6: Scaling up
Private Investments in
Clean Energy Infrastructure
Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER
Panel:
•
Ajay Mathur, Director General, TERI
•
Amar Bhattacharya,
Senior Fellow, Global
Economy and
Development Programme.
Brookings Institution
•
Pierre Jacquet,
President,
Global Development Network
15:15-15:30 Tea/Coffee Break
15:30-16:45 Session
7: Implementation Challenges in
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (
BEPS)
Action Plan
Chair: Rajiva
Ranjan Singh,
Senior Consultant, ICRIER
Panel:
• Raffaele Russo, Head of BEPS
Project,
Centre for Tax and
Policy Administration,
OECD
• Akhilesh Ranjan,
Joint Secretary (
Foreign Tax and Tax
Research), Department of
Revenue, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
• Jayesh Sanghvi,
Partner &
National Leader – International Tax Services, EY India
16:45-17:45 Session 8: ADBI Special Session: Urbanization, Income Inequality and
Health Inequity
Chair:
Ali Mehdi, Senior Consultant, ICRIER
Panel:
•
Guanghua Wan, Director of Research, ADBI
•
Matthias Helble,
Research Fellow, ADBI
17:45-18:00 Concluding Remarks & Way forward
Rajat Kathuria, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER
Photo Session
19.30 Dinner at
Maple, India Habitat Centre