Day 1: Monday, 17th December
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Thematic Session: Climate Change
The International Climate Change Regime: Looking Back to Look Forward
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, former Ambassador and Indian climate negotiator
Panelists:
Lavanya Rajamani, Professor, CPR
Joanna Depledge, Editor of Climate Policy journal, and Senior Fellow at Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance at the University of Cambridge
Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General, Centre for Science and Environment
Tea/Coffee Break between Sessions
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Thematic Session: Air Pollution
Research for Policy Action on Air Pollution, in collaboration with CECFEE
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Navroz K. Dubash, Professor, CPR
Panelists:
Shibani Ghosh, Fellow, CPR
E. Somanathan, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, and Program Director for Centre for Research on Economics of Climate, Food, Energy, and Environment (CECFEE)
Ritesh Kumar Singh, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India
Nitin Sethi, Senior Associate Editor, Business Standard
Vinuta Gopal, Co-Founder and Director, Asar Social Impact Advisors
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Parallel Round Table Session: Politics
Mapping continuities and changes in Indian Democracy
Venue: Senate Room, The Claridges Hotel
Invite only round table discussion chaired by Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR
Presentations by Neelanjan Sircar, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University & Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR and Rahul Verma, incoming Fellow, CPR
India’s Jobs Challenge: Wages, Productivity and Notions of Informality, in collaboration with JustJobs Network
Venue: Senate Room, The Claridges Hotel
Invite only round table discussion by Sabina Dewan, President and Executive Director, JustJobs Network & Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR and Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow, CPR
12:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Parallel Round Table Session: Jobs (with lunch served)
Lunch will be served by the poolside
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
Launch of CPR’s Technology & Society (TechSoc) Initiative
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Inaugural Speaker: Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Inaugural Speaker: Venktesh Shukla, General Partner Monta Vista Capital and Ex-Chair TiE Global
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Launch: Technology and Society Initiative
India’s Technology Transition: The Present and the Possible
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Ananth Padmanabhan, Fellow, CPR
Panelists:
Shweta Rajpal Kohli, Director of Public Policy & Government Affairs, Salesforce India & South Asia
Anu Acharya, Chief Executive Officer, Mapmygenome India
Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Founder and Executive Vice-Chairman, Info Edge (India) Ltd
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Thematic Session: Technology
Tea/Coffee Break between Sessions
5:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Tea/Coffee Break
CPR Youth Awards: A Youth-Driven Agenda for Change
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Eric Gonsalves, Chairperson, Governing Board, CPR
Opening Remarks: Pradeep Nair, Regional Director, Ford Foundation
Presentation on the awards journey: Mukta Naik, CPR Fellow and Swati Janu, Awards Mentor
Award Distribution
Closing Remarks: Eric Gonsalves, Chairperson, Governing Board, CPR
5:45 - 6:30 p.m.
Youth Awards
India’s 21st Century Transitions
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR
Panelists:
Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman and MD, Godrej and Boyce
T N Ninan, Chairman, Business Standard Ltd.
Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Vice Chancellor, Ashoka University
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Opening Panel
Day 2: Tuesday, 18th December
Understanding India’s Energy Transition in Global Context
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Ajay Mathur, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Panelists:
Michael Grubb, Professor of Energy & Climate Change, Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London
Navroz K. Dubash, Professor, CPR
Radhika Khosla, Research Director, Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Oxford & Visiting Fellow, CPR
Ashok Sreenivas, Senior Fellow, Prayas (Energy Group)
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
In Focus: Energy
Lunch will be served by the poolside
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Is the Urban Future Metropolitan? Big Cities in Urban Systems
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow, CPR
Panelists:
Fedor Kudryavtsev, Moscow Institute of Architecture
Kazuo Nakano, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria
Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal, Research Fellow, Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CNRS-EHESS), Paris
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
In Focus: Urbanisation
Tea/Coffee Break between Sessions
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Tea/Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Special Address
Special Address by General V K Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Presided by: Eric Gonsalves, Chairperson, Governing Board, CPR (TBC)
Geopolitics and Geo-Economics in a Changing South Asia
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Srinath Raghavan, former Senior Fellow, CPR, current Senior Fellow, Carnegie India & Professor, Ashoka University
Panelists:
Nimmi Kurian, Professor, CPR
Zorawar Daulet Singh, Fellow, CPR
Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, former National Security Advisor and Indian Foreign Secretary
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
In Focus: Geopolitics
The Emerging World Order and India’s Role
Venue: Viceroy Hall, The Claridges Hotel
Chair: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Member CPR Board and former Indian Foreign Secretary
Panelists:
Ibrahim Gambari, Former Foreign Minister of Nigeria
Nabil Fahmy, Former Foreign Minister of Egypt
Vijay Gokhale, Indian Foreign Secretary(TBC)
