Strategic Patience - How India can rise to the China challenge - 7 May 2021

Strategic Patience How India can rise to the China challenge Friday May 7, 2021 | 6.00 PM ZOOM Online Meeting ID: 810 9942 5219 Passcode: 813479

A discussion by the authors of the Policy Paper on this theme at the Pune International Centre

6:00 PM

Welcome Address

Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM Executive Director, Madras Management Association

Discussion on the theme Strategic Patience - How India can rise to the China challenge

Dr Ganesh Natarajan Chairman, 5F World I Global Talent Track Lighthouse Communities

In conversation with Ambassador Gautam Bambawale Former Indian Ambassador to China

Dr Ajit Keshav Ranade President and Chief Economist Aditya Birla Group

Prof (Dr) Ajay Shah Research Professor of Business Jindal Global University

Q&A Session 7:45 PM

Vote of Thanks

Chennai Centre for China Studies Share your questions by SMS/Whatsapp to 98401 23906

Synopsis

India today is working to define itself against China for which India will need to build an international coalition with countries that have like-minded thoughts. It is important for India not to become China-less but become less of China, as it may not be possible to ban China completely. India also needs to identify areas where China has huge dominance, work towards to build and strengthen its our own standards to combat China. India must prepare both a defensive and offensive strategy and look to diversify the global value chain.

The discussion on the theme will focus on important aspects - how through the incidents over the last one year, China has tried to threaten India's territorial and security interest. There is a strong belief that the relations between India and China have changed drastically, which may not be reversible.

Speakers

Dr. Ganesh Natarajan is Executive Chairman and Founder of 5F World, a platform for Digital Start-ups, Skills and Social Ventures in the country. He is also Founder of Global Talent Track and Skills Alpha and co-founder of two Indo-US Joint Ventures – Kalzoom Advisors and the Center for AI and Advanced Analytics.

Ganesh has a Masters’ in Industrial Engineering from NITIE Mumbai, PhD from IIT Bombay and AMP from Harvard Business

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Technologies. Harvard Business School has written and teaches two case studies on Dr. Ganesh Natarajan and his success through Vision Communities.

Dr Ganesh Natarajan

Ganesh has recently been elected by the shareholders of State Bank of India to serve on its Board of Directors. He also serves on the Boards of Principal Asset Management, Hinduja Global Services, LHI Digital, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network, Singapore, Systech Los Angeles and Social Venture Partners (SVP) International, Seattle. He is Chairman and Board Director of Social Venture Partners India and Pune City Connect.

Ganesh has been Chairman of Industry association NASSCOM and NASSCOM Foundation and various National Committees of the Confederation of Indian Industry and the All India Management Association. He has also been President of the HBS Club of India. He chaired NASSCOM’s first US event in New York in 2016. He is keenly interested in the role of digital technologies for re-engineering processes in the corporate and social sector and is an author of eight books and numerous articles. He lives in Pune, India.

Gautam Bambawale worked in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) for 34 years between 1984-2018. He has been India's Ambassador to Bhutan, Pakistan and China. He has headed the Indian Cultural Centre, Berlin. He was stationed in Washington D.C. during the Indo - U.S. nuclear deal. He has worked at the Prime Minister's Office. He has had 17 years of experience dealing with China, in various capacities. He is fluent in Chinese and German. He has an M.Phil in Economics from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.

Ambassador Gautam Bambawale

Dr. Ranade has earlier served as an Executive Officer of Financial Technologies India Ltd. and Chief Economist at ABN AMRO Bank. His professional career has spanned academic and corporate assignments, including teaching in universities in India and U.S. Dr. Ranade serves as a Director on the Board of Hindalco Almex Aerospace Limited, a joint venture company of Hindalco and Almex Inc. of USA. He was Independent Director of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. He has served on various committees of the Reserve Bank of India, most recently in the committee for Fuller Capital Account Convertibility. Dr. Ranade is a member of the Board of India

Dr Ajit Keshav Ranade

Today Economists, Chairman of the CII West Zone Sub Committee on Economic Affairs and the Research Advisory Panel of the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He is a member of the Senate and Advisory Council of Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Prof. (Dr.) Ajay Shah studied at IIT, Bombay and USC, Los Angeles. He has held positions at Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance and National Institute for Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). He does academic and policy-oriented research on India, at the intersection of economics, law and public administration. His areas of focus are macroeconomics, finance, health, and technology policy.

Prof (Dr) Ajay Shah

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