ANNUAL SESSION 2020

“Getting Growth Back”

Tuesday, 2 June 2020 : Over Virtual Platform

Timings

Inaugural Session : 1200 to 1300 Hrs

Plenary Sessions : 1400 to 2000 Hrs

Sessions
 Session with Members of Parliament - Need for a Common National Agenda
during COVID? Views from the Political Spectrum
 Science, Technology and Innovation Policy of Nations – The Future Trends
 CEO’s session on Getting Growth Back
 Reconfiguring agriculture and food supply chains to deliver resilience and
nutrition
 Shaping sustainable businesses amidst the pandemic
 Session with Economists on Getting Growth Back
 Making Indian SMEs Globally Competitive
 Special session – “Are we Headed for a more Fractious World? What does
this imply for the global economy?”
 Special session – “A more integrated and sustainable global economy:
Possible to realise post COVID?”
 Role of the Fourth Estate: Perspectives

Speakers
 Mr Vikram Kirloskar, President, CII and Chairman and MD, Kirloskar
Systems Ltd and Vice Chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor
 Mr Uday Kotak, President-Designate, CII and Managing Director & CEO,
Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited
 Mr T V Narendran, Vice President, CII and CEO & Managing Director, Tata
Steel Limited
 Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII
 Dr Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics, Columbia University &
Former Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog
 Mr Suresh Prabhu, India's Sherpa to the G20 and Member of Parliament,
Rajya Sabha
 Mr Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, Member of Parliament, CPIM
 Mr Manish Tewari, Member of Parliament, Indian National Congress
 Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Member of Parliament and National Vice
President, BJP
 Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group; and
Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard
Kennedy School of Government
 Mr Jamshyd N Godrej, Past President CII and Chairman & Managing
Director, Godrej & Boyce Manufacturing Co Ltd
 Mr Ajay Piramal, Chairman, Piramal Enterprises Ltd
 Mr Ashley J Tellis, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
 Dr Ashok Kumar, Lahiri, Member, Fifteenth Finance Commission
 Dr Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for
Sustainable Development, Columbia University
 Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman & Managing Director, Biocon Limited
 Prof Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore
 Dr Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World
Resources Institute
 Mr Martin Wolf, Chief Economic Commentator, Financial Times
 Mr Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group
 Dr Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
 Mr Sanjiv Bajaj, Managing Director & CEO, Bajaj Finserv Ltd
 Mr Sanjiv Puri, Chairman and Managing Director, ITC Ltd
 Dr Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor, ICRIER
 Dr Soumitra Dutta, Professor, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell
University
 Mr Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director, The New Indian Express
 Mr Tai Lee Siang, Executive Director, BCA, Singapore & Past Chair, World
Green Building Council