• Rise of a Globalizing India Series

  November 8, 2006 - June 27, 2007

  In 2007, the Corporate Program and Manjeet Kripalani, the Council’s 2007 Edward R. Murrow press fellow and current bureau chief of BusinessWeek in India, hosted this new and important series to explore India’s role in the global economy.  Corporate members examined issues ranging from India’s infrastructure problems to its thriving outsourcing sector. Featured speakers includedNandan M. Nilekani, CEO and managing director of Infosys Technologies Limited, Vilas Rao Deshmukh, chief minister, Maharashtra State, Republic of India, and L. Brooks Entwistle, managing director and CEO of Goldman Sachs (India) LLC.

  
  

   

  Meetings

  Rise of a Globalizing India: Sustaining India's Growth: Infrastructure Demands and Urban Renewal

  Corporate Meeting

  
  June 27, 2007

  Related Project: Rise of a Globalizing India Series

  Speaker:	Vilas Rao Deshmukh, Chief Minister, Maharashtra State, Republic of India
  Presider:	Marcus Brauchli, Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal

  With a growth rate of 9% this year fueled in large part by an ever-booming high-tech services industry, Indiais at the cusp of economic prosperity, or is it? A staggering road block to this economic growth may be the poor state of India’s infrastructure – lacking in everything from stable roads and a working highway system to reliable energy and clean water.India’s infrastructure challenges may impede its growing global competitiveness and stymie poverty alleviation. What strides have been made by the Indian government to address these issues?  Has the domestic political system made progress difficult, and what options exist beyond government-driven initiatives? What opportunities are available for the private sector?  How can private-public partnerships approach these problems? Join Minister Vilas Rao Deshmukh, chief minister of the Maharashtra state in India, as he discusses this critical issue.

   

  Rise of a Globalizing India: India's Youth

  Corporate Meeting

  
  May 10, 2007

  Related Project: Rise of a Globalizing India Series

  Speaker:	Raja Bijapurkar, Independent Marketing Strategist

   

  Rise of a Globalizing India: Is India's Economic Growth Running Out of Steam?

  Corporate Meeting

  
  May 2, 2007

  Related Project: Rise of a Globalizing India Series

  Speaker:	Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Chairman, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, Republic of India
  Presider:	James F. Hoge Jr., Peter G. Peterson Chair & Editor, Foreign Affairs

  Dr. C. Rangarajan is the economic adviser to the prime minister of India. He has served in a number of distinguished positions in government, from governor of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, to governor of the country's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, from 1992 to 1997. Dr. Rangarajan holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught at both University of Pennsylvania and at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Dr. Rangarajan is a dedicated reformer. Having infused the central bank with reforms, he has, as chair of the prime minister's economic advisory committee, been pushing for agriculture reform and the buildout of physical and social infrastructure. This year, Dr. Rangarajan was given the additional responsibility of economic development for the state of Kashmir. Dr. Rangarajan has often been talked of as this year's candidate for the position of president of India.

   

  Rise of a Globalizing India: India's Financial Services: Where Are the Faultlines in this Hot Growth Sector?

  Corporate Meeting

  
  December 4, 2006

  Related Project: Rise of a Globalizing India Series

  Speakers:	L. Brooks Entwistle, Managing Director and CEO, Goldman Sachs (India) LLC
  	Nachiket Mor, Deputy Managing Director, ICICI Bank
  	Manjeet Kripalani, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

  Financial services in India continue to grow at a remarkable rate with foreign investment playing an instrumental role. Outpacing its neighbors, India challenges China -- its regional economic rival -- in yet another sector. What are the factors contributing to India's success in this space; will India maintain its lead and how? This session will examine the reasons for this extraordinary growth, and will look to the future of the financial services sector in India. What further reform is required in this sector? What, in particular, are foreign investors looking for? How level are the playing fields for foreign banks? What role do banks play in transforming India's income disparities? How sustainable is the India's gravity-defying stock market? Our speakers, L. Brooks Entwistle and Nachiket Mor, will discuss answers to these questions at this session.

   

  Rise of a Globalizing India: The Next Wave of Outsourcing: More Disruptive Innovation?

  Corporate Meeting

  
  November 8, 2006

  Related Project: Rise of a Globalizing India Series

  Speakers:	Nandan M. Nilekani, CEO and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Limited
  	Joe Sigelman, CEO, OfficeTiger
  Presider:	Manjeet Kripalani, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

  to top

• New CFR Books

  

  In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.

  

  America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.

  

  In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.

  Complete list of CFR Books.

  New Council Special Reports

  Securing Pakistan's Tribal Belt

  This report outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.

  Avoiding Transfers to Torture

  This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.

  Complete list of Council Special Reports.

  David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

  For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:

  Gary Samore
  Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  +1.212.434.9627
  gsamore@cfr.org

  Sebastian Mallaby
  Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
  smallaby@cfr.org

  Janine Hill
  Deputy Director of Studies Administration
  +1.212.434.9753
  jhill@cfr.org

   

  The Think Tank

  The David Rockefeller Studies Program

  The David Rockefeller Studies Program is CFR’s “think tank.” Its work is integral to achieving CFR’s goal of contributing to the foreign policy debate. Fellows in the Studies Program do this by researching, writing, and commenting on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.

  • Experts
  • Projects

   

•  

Copyright 2008 by the Council on Foreign Relations. All Rights Reserved.