Agenda
The agenda is subject to change.
Venues: Silver Oak Hall and Gulmohar
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Shyam Saran, Senior Fellow, CPR and Former Indian Foreign Secretary
Silver Oak HallWelcome address
Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR
Shyam Saran, Senior Fellow, CPR and Former Indian Foreign Secretary
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Silver Oak HallClearing the Air?: Addressing India’s Air Quality Crisis
C. K. Mishra, Former Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ajay Vir Jakhar, President, Bharatiya Krishak Samaj, Shibani Ghosh, Fellow, Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment, CPR. Moderated by: Jayashree Nandi, Environment Journalist, Hindustan Times
Moderated by: Avani Kapur, Senior Fellow and Lead, Accountability Initiative, CPR
Saurabh Garg, Chief Executive Officer, Unique Identification Authority of India, Government of India; Shrayana Bhattacharya, Senior Social Protection Economist, World Bank in India.
Moderated by: Avani Kapur, Senior Fellow and Lead, Accountability Initiative, CPR
11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Silver Oak HallA New Policy Imagination for the Rural Economy
Harish Damodaran, National Rural Affairs & Agriculture Editor, The Indian Express and Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR; Sudhir Sitapati, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Godrej Consumer Products Ltd; Amit Basole, Head, Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University. Moderated by: Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Senior Fellow, State Capacity Initiative, CPR
Ayesha Zainudeen, Senior Research Manager, LIRNEasia; Sabina Dewan, President and Executive Director, JustJobs Network and Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR; Himanshu Wardhan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Thevasa and Founding Managing Director, Etsy India; Devesh Taneja, Co-Founder, Vyre. Moderated by: Mukta Naik, Fellow, Initiative on Cities, Economy and Society, CPR
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow, CPR
Silver Oak HallCasting a Shadow: India and the Neighbourhood
Shivshankar Menon, Former National Security Advisor and Foreign Secretary, India
Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow, CPR
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Gulmohar (2:00 PM to 3:15 PM)One Thousand Land Laws: Land, Democracy and the Rule of Law
Ravi Rebbapragada, Executive Director, Samata, and Chairperson Mines, Minerals and People; Shipra Deo, Director, Women's Land Rights, Landesa; Chakshu Roy, Head of Outreach, PRS Legislative Research; Kumar Sambhav, Founder, Land Conflict Watch and Co-Founder, The Reporters' Collective. Moderated by: Namita Wahi, Senior Fellow and Founding Director, Land Rights Initiative, CPR
Silver Oak Hall (2:45 PM to 4:00 PM)The Future of Discoms in a Green Electricity World
Raj Pratap Singh, Chairman, Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission; Anish De, Global Sector Head, Energy & Natural Resources, KPMG; Ann Josey, Fellow, Prayas (Energy Group). Moderated by: Ashwini Swain, Fellow, Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment, CPR
Moderated by: Rahul Verma, Fellow, The Politics Initiative, CPR
Gulmohar (3:30 PM - 4:45 PM)How Indians View India and the World: A Discussion Based on the CPR-C-Voter Survey
Shrayana Bhattacharya, Senior Economist, World Bank in India; Yashwant Deshmukh, Founder, C-Voter; Pallavi Raghavan, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Ashoka University; Gerry Shih, India Bureau Chief, Washington Post.
Moderated by: Rahul Verma, Fellow, The Politics Initiative, CPR
Mahogany (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)Closed-Door Roundtable Discussion on Mapping Governance
Silver Oak Hall (4:15 PM - 5:30 PM)Know Your Health Regulators
Rajesh Bhushan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; Balram Bhargava, Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Former Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research and Secretary, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; VG Somani, Drugs Controller General of India, Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, Government of India; Aruna Vanikar, President, Under-Graduate Medical Education Board, National Medical Commission. Moderated by: KP Krishnan, Honorary Research Professor, CPR and Former Civil Servant
Gulmohar (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)Cities of Delhi: an Overview of CPR's Multidisciplinary Enquiry into Delhi
Partha Mukhopadhyay, Senior Fellow, Initiative on Cities, Economy and Society, CPR; Neelanjan Sircar, Senior Fellow, CPR; Manju Menon, Senior Fellow, India Infrastructures and Ecologies Program, CPR; Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR; Mukta Naik, Fellow, Initiative on Cities, Economy and Society, CPR. Moderated by: Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Senior Fellow, State Capacity Initiative, CPR
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Moderated by: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR
Keynote by: Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and Director, European Institute, Columbia University. Followed by a conversation with: Suman Bery, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, Government of India.
Moderated by: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR
Venues: Silver Oak Hall and Gulmohar
9:45 AM - 10:50 AM
Silver Oak HallUnpacking State Capability for Social Policy, Planning and the Economy: Lessons from India and the World.
Sampath Kumar, Principal Secretary and Development Commissioner, Meghalaya; Michal Rutkowski, Global Director, Social Protection and Jobs, World Bank; Parameswaran Iyer, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, Government of India. Moderated by: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR and Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Senior Fellow, State Capacity Initiative, CPR
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Hon'ble Buggana Rajendranath Reddy, Minister of Finance & Planning, Commercial Taxes, Legislative Affairs, Skill Development & Training, Andhra Pradesh; Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Shyam Saran, Senior Fellow, CPR and Former Indian Foreign Secretary; Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow, CPR;
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Silver Oak HallA Conversation with Adam Tooze and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and Director, European Institute, Columbia University; Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Honorary Senior Fellow, CPR and Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Amitabh Kant, India’s G-20 Sherpa and Former Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, Government of India; Kelly Sims Gallagher, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, Fletcher School, Tufts University. Moderated by: Navroz K Dubash, Professor, Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment, CPR
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
I A Kundan, Principal Secretary Women and Child Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, Amrita Datta, Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad, Rajiv Khandelwal, Executive Director, Ajeevika Bureau. Moderated by: Mukta Naik, Fellow, Initiative on Cities, Economy and Society, CPR
Hon'ble Manoj Jha, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), India
I A Kundan, Principal Secretary Women and Child Development Department, Government of Maharashtra, Amrita Datta, Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad, Rajiv Khandelwal, Executive Director, Ajeevika Bureau. Moderated by: Mukta Naik, Fellow, Initiative on Cities, Economy and Society, CPR
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Silver Oak HallBuilding a Fit for Purpose Fiscal Architecture for India
Presentation by: Rahul Verma, Fellow, The Politics Initiative, CPR; Hon'ble Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Minister for Finance and Human Resources Management, Government of Tamil Nadu; Rathin Roy, Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR and Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute. Moderated by: Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, CPR