DRAFT PROGRAMME

13^th Annual

Neemrana Conference

December 16-18, 2011

(Organized by ICRIER)

Day 1: Friday, December 16, 2011

12.30 pm Lunch at 32 Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi

(Hosted by Dr. Isher Judge Ahluwalia)

2.30 pm Departure from New Delhi to Neemrana

6.00 –7.30 pm

Session I: The World Economy

Chair: N. K. Singh (Member Board of Governors, ICRIER)

Speakers:

Martin Feldstein (George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University)

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, (Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission)

Discussion

7.30 pm Cultural Event followed by Cocktails and Dinner

Day 2: Saturday December 17, 2011

Morning walk in the surroundings of Neemrana followed by Breakfast

9.30 – 11.00 am

Session II: Macro Economic Environment

Chair: R. Gopalan (Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance)

Speakers:

Michael Woodford (John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Columbia University)

Anil Kashyap (Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)

T. N. Ninan (Chairman and Editorial Director, Business Standard)

Shashanka Bhide (Senior Fellow, NCAER)

Discussion

11.00–11.30 am Tea/Coffee

11.30 am – 1.00 pm

Session III: Financial Sector Challenges

Chair: Parthasarathi Shome, (Director and CE, ICRIER)

Speakers:

Raghuram Rajan (Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)

Chetan Ghate (Associate Professor, Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute-Delhi)

Anne O. Krueger (Professor, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University)

Ashima Goyal (Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research)

Discussion

1.00–2.00 pm Lunch

2.00–3.30 pm

Session IV: Challenges for India Moving Forward

Chair: Isher Judge Ahluwalia, (Chairperson ICRIER)

Speakers:

Salman Khurshid, (Minister of Minority Affairs, Law and Justice)

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, (Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission)

B. J. Panda, (Member of Parliament)

3.30 –4.00 pm Tea/Coffee

4.00–5.30 pm

Session V: Challenge of Governance

Chair: Kaushik Basu (Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance)

Speakers:

Marianne Bertrand (Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics and Richard N. Rosett Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)

Shankar Acharya (Honorary Professor and Member Board of Governors, ICRIER)

Ashwini Deshpande (Professor, Delhi School of Economics)

Discussion

6.00 – 7.00 pm

Chair: Abhijit Banerjee (Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT)

Guest Speaker:

Kapil Sibal (Minister of Human Resource Development, Communication and Information Technology)

Theme – Realizing India’s Demographic Dividend

7.30 pm Cultural Event followed by Cocktails and Dinner

Day 3: Sunday December 18, 2011

10.00–11.30 am

Session VI: Trade and Manufacturing

Chair: Subir Gokarn (Deputy Governor

Reserve Bank of India)

Speakers:

Marc Melitz (Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University)

Shang-Jin Wei (Professor, Columbia Business School)

Rana Hasan (Senior Economist, Asian Development Bank)

Discussion

11.30–12.00 am Tea/Coffee

12.00 am–1.00 pm

Session VII: Telecommunication Services

Chair: Shekhar Shah (Director General, NCAER)

Speakers:

Rob Porter (Professor, Department of Economics,

Northwestern University)

S. Ramadorai (Advisor to PM in National Council on Skill Development and Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services)

Rajat Kathuria (Professor, International Management Institute)

Discussion

1.00 PM–2.00 PM Lunch

2.00 – 3.00 pm

Session VIII: Environment and Climate Change

Chair: Anwarul Hoda (Professor and Member Board of Governors, ICRIER)

Speakers:

E. Somanathan (Professor, Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute-Delhi)

Rohini Pande (Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School)

Aparna Sawhney (Associate Professor, JNU)

Discussion

3.00 –3.30 pm Tea/Coffee

3.30–5.00 pm

Session IX: Social Sector (Health and Education)

Chair: S. Mahendra Dev (Director (Vice Chancellor), IGIDR)

Speakers:

Abhijit Banerjee (Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT)

Pawan Agarwal (Adviser (Education), Planning Commission)

Karthik Muralidharan (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California at San Diego)

Discussion

7.00 pm: Cocktails and Dinner

Day 4: Monday, December 19, 2011

Check out and Departure for New Delhi after Breakfast