"Budget - 2021: Where from here the economy" - 3 February 2021

BUDGET-2021:

WHERE FROM HERE THE ECONOMY ANALYSIS

Distinguished Panelists: Mr Mohan Guruswamy Former Advisor to Finance Minister

6:00 PM

Welcome & Introductory Remarks Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director

Mr Arun Kumar Malcolm S Adiseshiah Chair Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi

Madras Management Association

Panelists Mr Mohan Guruswamy

Distinguished Moderator: Air Marshal M Matheswaran (Retd), AVSM VM Ph.D Chairman & President The Peninsula Foundation, Chennai

Former Advisor to Finance Minister

Mr Arun Kumar Malcolm S Adiseshiah Chair Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi

Moderator

WEDNESDAY

Air Marshal M Matheswaran (Retd) AVSM VM Ph.D

FEB 3, 2021 | 6.00 PM

Chairman & President The Peninsula Foundation, Chennai

Q&A Session 7:30 PM

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DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS

MOHAN GURUSWAMY

DISTINGUISHED MODERATOR

AIR MARSHAL M MATHESWARAN (RETD) AVSM VM PH.D

ARUN KUMAR Arun Kumar, joined JNU in 1984 and retired

Air Marshal M Matheswaran, an Air Force

undergraduate education in Mathematics,

as

Veteran,

Physics and Chemistry at Nizam College,

Professor

Hyderabad, India. He has post-graduate

Studies

qualifications

University

Mohan

Guruswamy

in

had

Public

his

Policy,

the

Sukhamoy in

the

and

Chakravarty

Centre

Planning,

in

2015.

for

is

International Affairs and Management. He

Malcolm

is

Institute of Social Sciences.

an

alumnus

of

the

John

F.Kennedy

School of Government, Harvard University and

the

Graduate

School

Stanford

University.

With

of

an

Business,

interesting

career path that included teaching, senior management,

journalism

and

in

government as the Advisor to the Finance Minister with the rank of Secretary to the Government of India, he now heads the Centre for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi.

Dr Mohan Guruswamy is widely travelled in India and abroad, and is the author of

Economic

Jawaharlal

He

Adiseshiah

Chair

Nehru

currently

Chair

is

the

founder

Chairman

and

President of TPF. He is the former Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (DCIDS-

the

Policy, Plans, and Force Development) at HQ

in

IDS – Tri Services Command and was the

Professor

Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO–Deputy C-inC) of the Eastern Air Command earlier. The

He has a Ph.D. in Economics from JNU and a

Masters

in

Physics

from

Princeton

University USA and Delhi University. He is a gold medalist of Delhi Higher Secondary Board

and

specialized Public

Delhi in

University.

Development

Finance

and

Macroeconomics.

He

has

Economics,

Public was

He

Policy

a

part

and

of

the

team to study the black economy for CBDT (1982-85).

Air Marshal has had an active service of 39 years in the Indian Air Force. Commissioned as a fighter pilot in 1975, he has flown more than

40

types

of

aircraft

with

vast

operational and research experience. He is a

graduate

of

the

IAF’s

elite

Fighter

Weapons Establishment, TACDE (Tactics and Air

Combat

Development

Establishment),

and also an Experimental Test Pilot from the prestigious Flight Test Establishment, ASTE

The

the

in

Black

Issues

in

Economy

Essays

in

Demonetization and GST. He authored the

command and staff appointments such as

Foreign Policy and Security Issues; India

Alternative Budgets for 1993-94 and 1994-

operations

China

and

95 which proposed alternative economic

Information

Beyond; and the latest being Chasing the

policies for the country. He was a member

Operations,

Dragon: Will India Catch-up with China?

of

Requirement, and Concepts and Doctrines

He is a frequent commentator on national

Economic Survey for 2 decades.

recent

India’s

being

Looming

Agriculture;

Development;

and

The

India:

India’s

Relations:

World:

The

international

Border

TV

Crisis

Issue

and

Radio

on

matters of current interest and writes a widely read and disseminated newspaper and

magazine

Redefining

column.

Poverty,

Backwardness

of

His

papers

on

Income

Inequality,

Bihar,

Economic

Development in West Bengal, FDI in Retail have

been

journals

like

published the

in

well

Economic

regarded

and

Political

Weekly, Seminar and the Journal of Public Policy, UK.

bookspublished Economy,

the

by

Higher

him

on

producing

The

Indian

and

later

Independence,

The

Air

Education,

since

Group

are

(Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment),

several books on policy issues, some of

the

Alternative

for

commanded

Marshal

Air

War

has

the held

involving

Staff

Strategy.

a

number

Space,

Warfare, Air

Establishment.

EW

Maritime

Inspection,

He

was

Air

of

and Air Staff

intimately

involved

He has written extensively on globalization and

on

issues

of

public

policy

both

in

academic journals and in the popular press and contributed to public discussions on policy since 1980. He was the Vice Chair of the

manifesto

drafting

committee

of

National Front in 1989 and the Convener of the

Economics

&

Ecology

Committee

of

AAP in 2013.

with many Defence projects and has been associated

with

many

Indian

military

projects involving the Indian military, DRDO, and the industry. He is a founder member of the Nuclear Command. The Air Marshal has MSc in Military Science from the University of Madras, M Phil and PhD in Defence & Strategic Studies, also from the University of Madras. He is a Senior Fellow and alumnus

He has visited Pavia University, Italy and

of

Humboldt

Universities,

and International Security program. He is an

Germany. UNAM, Mexico awarded him the

Executive Council member of the IDSA – an

Ricardo

in

autonomous think-tank of the MOD. He is a

the

strategic advisor in Defence & Aerospace

the

Business to Indian industries, and is a Senior

pricing of SU30 MKI. He has participated in

Advisor on Defence & Aerospace to FICCI

various social movements, like, on Housing

(Federation

Rights. He was a member of the First Pay

Commerce and Industry). The Air Marshal is

Commission of the Tibetan Government in

a Visiting Faculty at the Naval War College,

Exile.

Goa . He is also an adjunct professor at the

and

Prize

in

Leipzig

Economics

Development

Economics.

group

of

leader

the

for

He

work

was

Committee

for

the

Harvard

Department

of

of

University.

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in

of

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