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17th Annual
Neemrana Conference
December 18-20, 2015
Draft Program
(To be confirmed)
Day 1: 18th December (Friday)
11:00 am : Assemble in
the lobby of the Leela Palace Hotel with luggage for
transportation to:
12:00 noon : Meeting at
the residence of Mr. Arun Jaitely, Finance Minister of India
12.30 pm : Lunch at the residence of N.K Singh, Former Member of Parliament
(Rajya Sabha) and Member, ICRIER Board of Governors
2.30 pm : Departure for Neemrana
6.00 pm : Welcome Remarks
6.15 pm : Session 1: India and the World Economy
Chair: N.K Singh, Former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and Member, ICRIER Board of Governors
Speakers:
· Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
· Arvind Panagariya, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog
·
Anne
Krueger, Professor, Johns Hopkins
University
7.45 pm : Indian Dance Performance followed by
Dinner
Day 2: 19th December (Saturday)
9.30 am : Session
2:
Global Economic Governance
Chair: Rakesh Mohan, Former Deputy Governor,
Reserve Bank of India
Speakers:
·
John Lipsky, Member,
Board of Directors, NBER
·
Steve Zeldes, Professor,
Columbia University
·
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission,
India
·
Richard Portes, Professor,
London Business School
10.45 am : Tea/Coffee Break
11.00 am : Session 3: International Finance
Chair: U. K. Sinha, Chairman, SEBI
Speakers:
· Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Professor, University of Maryland
· Helene Rey, Professor, London Business School
· Ravi Bansal, Professor, Duke University
· Ashima Goyal, Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
12.15 pm : Special Address by Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India
1.15 pm : Lunch
2. 00 pm : Session 4: Monetary Policy &
Exchange Rate Management Issues
Chair: Subir Gokarn, Director
Research, Brookings India
Speakers:
·
Gita Gopinath, Professor
Harvard University
·
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Professor, Princeton University
·
V. V.
Chari, Professor, University of
Minnesota
·
Prachi Mishra, Specialist
Adviser, Department of Economic and Policy Research, RBI
3.15 pm : Session 5: Environmental Regulation/ Climate Change
Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER
Speakers:
·
Esther Duflo, Professor, MIT
·
Sunita Narain, Director
General Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
·
Ajay Mathur, Director
General, TERI
·
Ryan
Kellogg, Associate Professor. University
of Michigan
4.30 pm : Tea/Coffee Break
5.00 pm : Session 6: Urban
Economics and Sustainability
Chair: Rajiv Lall,
Executive Chairman, IDFC
Speakers:
·
Edward Glaeser, Professor,
Harvard University
· Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER
· Mathew Kahn, Professor, UCLA
· Justin McCrary, Professor, UC Berkeley
6.30 pm :
Special Address by Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of
India
7.30 pm : Indian
Dance Performance followed by Dinner
Day 3: 20th
December (Sunday)
9.30 am : Session
7: International Trade
Chair: Shekhar Shah, Director General NCAER
Speakers:
· Shang-Jin Wei, Professor, Columbia University
· Ashok Gulati, Professor, ICRIER
· Robert Staiger, Professor, Stanford University
· Jayanta Roy, Senior Economic Adviser, Deloitte Consulting
10. 45 am : Tea/Coffee Break
11.00 am : Session 8: Manufacturing, Investment Climate and Jobs
Chair: B. J. Panda, Member of Parliament, India
Speakers
· Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India
· Amitabh Kant, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
· Radhicka Kapoor, Fellow, ICRIER
· Pankaj Vashisht, Fellow, ICRIER
12.30 pm : Lunch
1.30 pm : Session 9: Education and Skill Development
Chair: Pramod Bhasin, Member, ICRIER Board of Governors
Speakers:
· Abhijit Banerjee, Professor, MIT
· Rukmini Banerji, Director, ASER Centre
· Sonalde Desai, Senior Fellow, NCAER
·
Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor, University of
California, San Diego
3.00 pm : Special
Address by Shri Arun Jaitley, Union
Finance Minister followed by interaction with Hon’ble Minister
4.00 pm : Tea/Coffee
Break
4.30 pm : Concluding Remarks
5.00 pm : Departure for Delhi