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At a time when the spotlight on the world’s largest democracy is brightening, the group is keeping both European and Indian interests in sight.
SUDHIR KUMAR KOHLI: advocate both for India and for Luxembourg
It has been a decade since Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the term “BRIC,” shorthand for the emerging market powerhouses Brazil, Russia, India and China. However it was not until April 2009 that the “I” had its own economic organisation in the Grand Duchy. One evening at home, reading a magazine article about “another chamber, I just realised there was
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no Indian business chamber in Luxembourg,” recounts Sudhir Kumar Kohli, now president of the Indian Business Chamber of Luxembourg. “I spoke to one of my friends, who was at that time the honorary consul of India. He said ‘perfect’ and then there was no going back!” It was not difficult to get people on board, particularly since Kohli and the other founding members had a distinct
practical inFo
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