Participants at the Public Policy Forum Indices for Viksit Bharat
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Agenda
0900 - 1700
Indices for Viksit Bharat
0900 - 0930
Arrival, Meet and Greet
0930 - 1000
National Anthem
Welcome & Introduction
Harmonisation of CDR, SDGs, ESG, CSR, Human Rights and AI
Dr Gursharan Dhanjal, Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group
1110 - 1120
Indian Indices for Global Use
Prof Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
1140 - 1200
Digital Mental Health
Dr Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, Professor-Psychiatry, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), AIIMS
1200 - 1210
Responsibility Framework for Data & AI
Mr Sanjay Agrawal, CTO and Head - TechSales, Hitachi Vantara, India and SAARC-Region
1300 - 1400
Lunch
1400 - 1700
Valedictory Session
Mr Sameer Kochhar
Chairman, SKOCH Group
Reforms historian and author of best-seller ModiNomics, Sameer Kochhar is Chairman, SKOCH Group. He is a passionate advocate of social, digital and financial inclusion and is a foremost expert on governance and inclusive growth. His work has been acclaimed globally and endorsed by Mr Narendra Modi, Mr M Venkaiah Naidu, Dr Manmohan Singh, Mr Arun Jaitley, Mr P Chidambaram, Mr Yashwant Sinha, Dr C Rangarajan and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia and so on. In his thinking and writings and activities, his profound admiration for India's economic reforms and in extension, those outstanding personalities who strive to make these reforms more meaningful and broad-based comes out clear and unambiguous.
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Dr Shamika Ravi
Member, EAC-PM
Dr. Shamika Ravi is currently a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, and Secretary to Government of India. Previously, Dr Ravi was Director of Research at Brookings India, Vice President of Economic Policy at Observer Research Foundation and Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Governance Studies Program at Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on the economics of development including areas of Finance, Healthcare, Urbanization, Gender Equality, and Welfare and Poverty.
View MoreProf Sachin Chaturvedi
Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS)
Professor Sachin Chaturvedi is currently Director General at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based Think-Tank. He works on issues related to development economics, involving development finance, SDGs and South-South Cooperation, apart from trade, investment and innovation linkages with a special focus on WTO. Currently, Prof. Chaturvedi is also an Independent Director on the Board of the Reserve Bank of India.
View MoreDr Yatan Pal Singh Balhara
Professor-Psychiatry, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre (NDDTC), AIIMS
Dr Yatan Pal Singh Balhara is currently serving as a Professor of Psychiatry at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India. At AIIMS, he runs the Dual Diagnosis Clinic and Behavioral Addictions Clinic. He is serving as Secretary of the World Association on Dual Disorders (WADD). Dr Balhara offers consultancy to the World Health Organization and UNODC. He is a Global Master Trainer on Drug Demand Reduction for The Colombo Plan and UNODC. He is a member of various national and international committees including the WHO expert group on addictive behaviors. He has published more than 300 research papers.
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Mr Sreeji Gopinathan
Founder & CEO, SKG Advisory
He is the founder of SKG Advisory and worked as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Lupin Limited. Prior to joining Lupin, he was with Reckitt Benckiser. He has also been associated with companies like Philips, Procter & Gamble, ISRO and Asea Brown Boveri.
View MoreDr Gursharan Dhanjal
Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group
Dr Gursharan Dhanjal, MA, M.Phil, PhD from Delhi University, an expert in development economics. He is Vice Chairman, SKOCH Group. He is also Editor of INCLUSION—a quarterly publication that focuses on inclusive growth related areas. He has led various research projects, impact assessments and field studies in MSMEs, women empowerment, entitlements, rights, sanitation, social inclusion, health, financial inclusion, e-governance and ICT for development that included traversing across the country, collecting citizen voices for over two decades now. A prolific writer, Dr Dhanjal has contributed over 200 columns in leading national dailies including The Hindustan Times, The Times of India, The Financial Express and The Pioneer. He has published research papers in several journals of repute in addition to authoring following widely acclaimed books: Tarapur: The Politics of Nuclear Age; and, Infrastructure and Governance. He was member of the Working Group on ICT in Higher Education constituted by Planning Commission for the 12th Five Year Plan.
View MoreMr Sanjay Agrawal
CTO and Head - TechSales, Hitachi Vantara, India and SAARC-Region
Sanjay Agrawal is the Technology Head for India & SAARC at Hitachi Vantara, India. Sanjay joined Hitachi Vantara in 2017 and brings with him over 30+ years of industry experience.
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Mr Sumanta Dey
Head-Public Policy, Head Digital Works
He is head of Corporate Affairs at HDW, a leading online gaming company in India. The mandate includes handling Public Policy, Advocacy, Strategic external engagements, Corporate Affairs, and Public Relations. At Unacademy, he set up and led Corporate Affairs with a mandate to steer stakeholder strategy, Govt. Relations, Public Policy, and Communications. The charter spans strategic engagement and advocacy with Govt. (Centre & States), Media, and Ecosystem partners, besides managing reputation risks. Prior to EdTech, he was a Corporate Affairs lead at Flipkart, where he helped build relationships with key stakeholder groups while heading market access programs for farmers, MSMEs, and Artisans.
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