18:00 - 19:00
19:15 - 21:00
Inaugural Dinner Conversations (By invitation only)
Niels Annen, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, Germany
Cdre. Melissa Ross, Deputy Chief, Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand
Julian Ventura Valero, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mexico
19:15 - 21:00
Industrialisation in the 20th century required vast bureaucracies and centralised systems of management capable of aggregating large pools of labour. The information age is different: digital technologies allow for distributed enterprise and flexible employment opportunities. Digital platforms may certainly create new efficiencies, but also create risks for labour standards and welfare. Can nations with vast informal economies embrace the gig economy while cushioning the social and economic fallout? How can India’s experiences with schemes like Aadhaar and direct transfers inform similar social protection efforts around the world? How should states invest in a new skills and education framework for the digital age? This panel will ask how states should realign their economic social protection policies to accurately reflect the evolving relationship between capital and labour.
Shrayana Bhattacharya, Senior Economist, Social Protection and Jobs, World Bank
Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, India
Daisy Amdany, Executive Director, CRAWN Trust, Kenya
Stavros Yiannouka, CEO, World Innovation Summit for Education, Qatar Foundation, United Kingdom
Andreas Schaal, Director of Global Relations, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Junaid Ahmad, Country Director India, World Bank
19:15 - 21:00
A growing wave of discontent has stalled – perhaps even reversed – globalisation, as the ordinary citizen turns her ire towards the ‘elites’ claiming to be honest interpreters of policy. Think tanks are not immune from this scrutiny but have yet to reflect on their role in an era where the truth is flexible and trust in experts is waning. Are think tanks merely victims of a passing political phenomenon, or guilty of defending a status quo that has disadvantaged local communities? This panel will introspect on the responsibilities of the ideas industry in a more polarised, mistrustful and inward-looking world.
Vuk Jeremic, President, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Serbia
Ondrej Ditrych, Director, Institute of International Relations, Czech Republic
Sławomir De˛ bski, Director, The Polish Institute of International Affairs, Poland
Neelam Deo, Director, Gateway House, India
Daniela Schwarzer, Director, German Council on Foreign Relations, Germany
Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Center for Policy Research, India
19:15 - 21:00
In cities around the world, air pollution has reached a crisis point. As a ‘wicked’ public policy challenge, with complex drivers, addressing it requires an all-of-the-government approach. What are the international best practices that may inform government policy? What is the role of local businesses, communities and municipalities? How can financial and consumption markets be made stakeholders in this battle? What regulatory nudges can incentivise environmentally friendly state policies?
Keynote Address: N.K. Singh, Chairman, Finance Commission, India
Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India
Julie Becker, Deputy CEO, LuxSE and Founder, Luxembourg Green Exchange, Luxembourg
Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister, New Zealand & Member of the WLA-Club de Madrid
Tshering Tobgay, Former Prime Minister, Bhutan
Jayant Sinha, Chairperson, Standing Committee on Finance and Member of Parliament, India
21:30 - 22:30
Misinformation and influence operations have adversely implicated the stability of democratic regimes. Now that more actors are capable of manipulating behaviour and sentiment in the digital public sphere, states have struggled to contain the growing crisis of fake news. Will state responses to fake news inevitably lead to new censorship regimes? How, if at all, should media organisations demonstrate their credibility? Which actors are best placed to respond to this challenge? Will states be compelled to exercise more sovereign control over data and information flows?
Rachel Rizzo, Adjunct Fellow, Center for a New American Security, United States
Alexander Klimburg, Director, Cyber Policy and Resilience Program & Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, Austria
Chitra Subramaniam, Editorial Adviser, Republic TV, India
Natasha Jog, Election Integrity Lead (India, South Asia), Facebook, India
Tobias Feakin, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia
Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, United Kingdom
21:30 - 22:30
With China and the US loudly proposing zero-sum models for globalisation, is it time for the EU, India and others to reject these binaries? Can India and the EU partner effectively at multilateral institutions to preserve a rules-based order? Can they script normative propositions for new geographies and domains such as trade and security in the Indo-Pacific or responsible state behaviour in cyberspace? This panel will ask whether both actors can shed old hesitancies to embrace a partnership capable of serving the needs of the 21st century.
Tara Varma, Director of the Paris office, European Council on Foreign Relations, France
Solomon Passy, President, The Atlantic Club of Bulgaria; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria
Alica Kizeková, Senior Researcher, Institute of International Relations, Czech Republic
Chunhao Lou, Deputy Director, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, China
Ummu Salma Bava, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Francoise Nicolas, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Institut Français des Relations Internationales, France
21:30 - 22:30
Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past
Pallavi Raghavan, Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952
Kabir Taneja, The ISIS Peril: The World’s Most Feared Terror Group and its Shadow on South Asia
Harsh V. Pant, Director, Studies & Head, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation, India
09:00 - 10:00
Influence operations are undermining democratic processes in plural societies. Such operations often take place at the intersection of social, economic and security domains, requiring a comprehensive response across these multiple arenas. Can international norms to dissuade information operations evolve? What is the role of individuals and large enterprises? How should states respond to influence operations? Are kinetic responses inevitable?
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Former Prime Minister, Denmark; Founder, Alliance of Democracies
Marietje Schaake, President, Cyberpeace Institute, Netherlands
Jane Holl Lute, President and CEO, SICPA, United States
Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Amos Gilead, Executive Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Stephen Harper, Former Prime Minister, Canada
Ashok Malik, Policy Advisor, Ministry of External Affairs, India
10:00 - 10:30
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia
with Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, India
10:30 - 10:50
S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, India
with Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation, India
11:30 - 12:30
Identity, inequality and the consequent rise of nationalism have drastically altered global politics. Diplomacy—once abstracted from the agitations of the masses—is now often shaped by it. From Washington DC to Hong Kong, the “will of the people” may differ dramatically, but its repercussions are being felt in capitals around the world. How will street power implicate efforts to build consensus? Will relationships between states and within them be held hostage to hashtag mobilisations? Can the universalisation of political norms continue, or must the mood of the street always prevail?
Seyed Kazem Sajjadpour, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran
Jane Holl Lute, President and CEO, SICPA, United States
Werner Fasslabend, President, Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy; Former Minister of Defence, Austria
John Lee, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Australia
Edgars Rinkeˉ vicˇ s, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Latvia
Indrani Bagchi, Diplomatic Editor, The Times of India, India
12:30 - 13:00
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran
with Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, India
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Conversations (By invitation only)
The future of global growth is being written where Eurasia meets the Indo-Pacific. For sustained growth, this area will need stability. Yet this era is also marked by a shift away from containment and stable alliances to one marked by issue-based convergences. How can powers with a common interest in growth and stability find ways to work together? Which will be the spaces of contestation, and which of cooperation? How can these rimlands be further integrated to their mutual benefit?
Vladimir Norov, Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Uzbekistan
Manish Tewari, Member of Parliament, India
Chenchen Chen, Deputy Director of Research, Institute of China’s Economic Reform and Development, Renmin University, China
Vance Serchuk, Executive Director, KKR Global Institute, United States
Sergey Afontsev, Deputy Director of Research and Head of Economic Theory Department, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia
Timofei Bordachev, Academic Supervisor, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Conversations (By invitation only)
Central Asia is the location, once again, of a Great Game between great powers. How will this region be implicated by Beijing’s geo-economic statecraft and its efforts to integrate its far west? Will the US’ continuing attempts to exit Afghanistan provide an additional source of uncertainty? Can Russia, the traditional security provider in the region, balance its historical interests and contemporary developments? What alternatives must the world provide to Central Asian countries seeking markets and investment on their own terms?
Vladimir Norov, Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Uzbekistan
Manish Tewari, Member of Parliament, India
Chenchen Chen, Deputy Director of Research, Institute of China’s Economic Reform and Development, Renmin University, China
Vance Serchuk, Executive Director, KKR Global Institute, United States
Sergey Afontsev, Deputy Director of Research and Head of Economic Theory Department, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia
Timofei Bordachev, Academic Supervisor, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Conversations (By invitation only)
Over the past decade, the world has made significant progress towards
achieving universal health coverage (UHC) through improved political and policy commitments, led by countries like China and India. While many transitioning health systems try to leapfrog binding constraints by leveraging technology, issues like access to quality medicines remain challenges for large populations. Can healthcare in the emerging world shift away from a high-margin, low-volume business model to a low-margin, high-volume model? Can technological, financial and social disruptions accelerate this shift? Are new alliances of unlikely partners emerging? With global political attention and commitments toward health increasing manifold, how is the now mainstreamed narrative of UHC acting as a catalyst of change?
Chinny Ogunro, Director of Health Research, Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa, Nigeria
Sandhya Venkateswaran, Deputy Director, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, India
Sridhar Venkatapuram, Associate Professor, King’s Global Health Institute, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Winnie Munene, Head, Integrated Healthcare Services, Merck KGaA, Kenya
Swee Kheng Khor, Senior Fellow, Health Systems and Policies, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Anjali Nayyar, Executive Vice President, Global Health Strategies, India
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Conversations (By invitation only)
The architecture of peace and security was primarily constructed by the great powers of the 20th century. In a world characterised by multipolarity and unilateralism, many of these arrangements are crumbling, if they have not already fallen apart. Will the norms that underpinned earlier arms control regimes continue to shape state behaviour, or should the world prepare for an era of escalatory military developments? Do existing international institutions possess the political will or capacity to facilitate new negotiations about these arrangements? How will the interests of new powers from Asia and Africa affect future regimes? This panel will interrogate the root causes for the failure of extant arms control agreements and discuss possible scenarios for the future of these regimes
S. Paul Kapur, Policy Planning Staff, State Department and Professor, Naval Postgraduate School, United States
Dingli Shen, Professor, Fudan University, China
Sang Hyun Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Security Strategy Studies, Sejong Institute, Republic of Korea
Manpreet Sethi, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Air Power Studies, India
Rory Medcalf, Head, National Security College of the Australian National University, Australia
Rachel Rizzo, Adjunct Fellow, Center for a New American Security, United States
13:00 - 14:30
While new industries are rapidly emerging from India, in sectors ranging from artificial intelligence, cloud computing and visual effects and digital entertainment, India’s policy and regulatory architecture retains many of the rules first developed in the early 2000s. Who are the new economic actors and what is their impact on the market and society? What is the role of creative industries in fuelling this new economy? What are the priority areas for governance reforms and how can they serve India’s development needs?
Baijayant Panda, National Vice President and Spokesperson, Bharatiya Janata Party, India
Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India
Vincent Tarzia, Speaker, South Australian House of Assembly, Australia
Marina Kaljurand, Member of European Parliament, Estonia
Tejasvi Surya, Member of Parliament, India
Roopa Ganguly, Member of Parliament, India
14:30 - 14:50
Hamdullah Mohib, National Security Adviser, Afghanistan
14:50 - 15:50
The battle against climate change is at an inflection point. The failure of the latest CoP and related efforts indicate that the world is struggling to respond to climate change. The onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution presents a tremendous opportunity for states to discover a new relationship between their economic and environmental policies. How will these pathways to growth be financed?
Is global finance making the right choices at a crucial time for the fight against climate change – and for global growth? How can the emerging world transform its development model, and what can the global community do to assist the green transformation?
Han Seung-soo, Former Prime Minister, Republic of Korea; Member of the WLA-Club de Madrid
Moutushi Sengupta, Director, India Office, MacArthur Foundation, India
Robert Scharfe, CEO, Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg
Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California, United States
Claire Perry O’Neill, President, COP26, United Kingdom
Jayant Sinha, Chairperson, Standing Committee on Finance and Member of Parliament, India
15:50 - 16:10
Grace Naledi Pandor, Minister of Foreign Affairs, South Africa
16:10 - 14:30
16:30 - 16:50
Abdulla Shahid, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maldives
16:50 - 17:10
Abdulaziz Khafizovich Kamilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Uzbekistan
17:10 - 18:10
Often ignored in discussions about strongman politics is how women are steadily cementing their place in the halls of power. How are women leaders affecting political outcomes around the world? How have countries and cities benefited from women leadership? How can corporate practices strengthen efforts at promoting women leadership? This panel will discuss how women leaders are scripting stories of change around the world.
Smriti Irani, Minister of Women & Child Development, Minister of Textiles, India
Esther Brimmer, Executive Director & CEO, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, United States
Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California, United States
Helen Clark, Former Prime Minister, New Zealand; Member, WLA-Club de Madrid Patricia Scotland, Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat
Joanna Roper, Special Envoy for Gender Equality, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
18:10 - 18:30
18:30 - 19:15
For centuries, religious institutions have mediated our individual and social relations with God. Will digital technologies breathe new life into this relationship, or will they fragment identities beyond the ability of religious ideologies to mobilise them? Will techno religions and silicon prophets exacerbate religious divides and old civilisational conflicts? How are traditional beliefs and customs adapting to the politics and society of the digital age? This panel will explore how new technologies are altering our oldest beliefs about life, the universe, and everything.
Swapan Dasgupta, Member of Parliament, India
Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman, Hedayah; Chairman, World Council for Muslim Communities, United Arab Emirates
Venerable Banagala Upatissa Thero, Chairman of Mahabodhi Society, Sri Lanka
Marya Shakil, Political Editor and Senior Anchor, CNN-News18, India
19:15 - 20:15
Is the “Indo-Pacific” an organic expression of connectivity, a community of nations, or a strategic construct? The answers to these questions will define national security postures in the region over the next decade. As things stand now, the Indo-Pacific is caught between two conflicting realities: as a region for geopolitical competition and one where Asia’s development futures will be decided. This panel will respond to the big questions about the Indo-Pacific: Who defines it? Who will bear the costs of this strategic orientation? What purpose does it serve? And how will it be managed?
Adm. Karambir Singh, Chief of Naval Staff, India
Gen. Koji Yamazaki, Chief of Staff, Joint Staff of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, Japan
Vice Adm. David Johnston, Vice Chief of the Defence Force, Australia
Gen. Luc de Rancourt, Deputy Director General for International Relations and Strategy, Ministry of Armed Forces, France
Adm. Tony Radakin, Chief of Naval Staff, United Kingdom
Yalda Hakim, Journalist, BBC World News, Australia
20:15 - 21:45
20:15 - 21:45
Long divided by artificial regional constructs, the communities and markets of South and South East Asia are organically tying the region together. Dynamic economies in the region centring on Bengal are driving this trend. Can this region provide solutions for emerging disruptions such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution and climate change? How can the region be a hub for the process of Asian integration? Can communities in the Bay of Bengal script the new norms and frameworks for the Indo-Pacific? What are the implications and interests for the Programme rest of the world in a rising Bay of Bengal?
Stephen Smith, Professor of Law, University of Western Australia; Former Defence & Foreign Affairs Minister, Australia
Anuradha Herath, Director (Media and International Relations), Prime Minister’s Office, Sri Lanka
Sachin Chaturvedi, Director General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India
Erin Watson-Lynn, Senior Fellow, Perth USAsia Centre, Australia
Dino Patti Djalal, Former Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States, Indonesia
Richard Verma, Vice Chairman and Partner, The Asia Group, United States
20:15 - 21:45
Despite the well-established causal connection between climate change and migration, global and regional responses to climate refugees have been slow to evolve. Part of the reason is political: the global mood has turned hostile to immigration. Technical challenges persist as well. Can the world develop an international legal framework to address climate change as a driver of migration? Is there an evolving consensus on how to define environmental refugees? This panel will explore how best to accelerate policy solutions that respond to this new global challenge.
Kanchan Gupta, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, India
Iztock Mirošicˇ , Ambassador, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovenia
Renata Lok-Dessallien, UN Resident Coordinator in India
Christine Cipolla, Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Operations, International Committee of the Red Cross, Switzerland
Madina Mwagale Guloba, Senior Research Fellow, Economic Policy Research Centre, Uganda
Asle Toje, Member, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Norway
20:15 - 20:45
Approaches to development that privilege the role of security agencies will invariably marginalise local communities and civil society, who remain the most interested actors in the outcomes of development policies. Does the securitisation of the climate change and development agenda incentivise conflict between nations, given that national security policies are unilateral, and not cooperative, by design? This panel will ask how communities can mobilise to arrest this trend and reclaim agency over this debate.
Rachel Glennerster, Chief Economist, Department for International Development, United Kingdom
Anil Sooklal, Deputy Director-General (Asia and Middle East), Department of International Relations and Cooperation, South Africa
Renato Flores, Director, International Intelligence Unit, Foudaçao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
Oluwatosin Durotoye, COO, FilmoRealty, Nigeria
Orzala Nemat, Director, Afghanistan Research & Evaluation Unit, Afghanistan
Mohan Kumar, Chairperson, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, India
20:15 - 21:45
22:15 - 23:15
Digital technologies were once celebrated for their potential to emancipate women from perverse gender norms. Not only does this promise remain unfulfilled, tools like social media and AI are increasingly amplifying bias against women. And with STEM industries largely dominated by men, it is unclear how far corporate ethics have attempted to arrest this trend. Do solutions lie in fairer data sets, equal representation, corporate practices, and rules and legislations? Or will more radical political responses emerge from the new social and political churn that the 4IR will accelerate? This panel will ask whether the 4IR will create opportunity for a more
just society, or whether it will entrench old inequities.
Silvana Lopez, CEO, The Blockchain Challenge, Colombia
Aditi Kumar, Executive Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, United States
Anna Roy, Senior Advisor, NITI Aayog, India
Ana Maria Paraschiv, CEO, Ubuntu World, Romania
Paula Kift, Civil Liberties Engineer, Palantir Technologies, Germany
Mariam Maz Hakim, Presenter, Virgin Radio, Dubai
22:15 - 23:15
Viral and incendiary content is increasingly tearing at the social fabric of communities, especially those with pre-existing social faultlines. The battle for mind space and ideas is increasingly intensifying in the virtual world, with adverse spillovers into our political systems. Recent efforts, such as the Christchurch call, demonstrate that countering violent extremism is now a global agenda. How can states, business and communities respond to this challenge? Are there emerging national consensuses on the privacy-security debate? And how will states’ different views on online security impact communities and companies going forward?
Saad Mohseni, CEO, Moby Group, Australia
Benedetta Berti, Head of Policy Planning, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Italy
Elizabeth Laruni, Global Gender Adviser, International Alert, United Kingdom
Gulshan Rai, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation; Former National Cyber Security Coordinator, India
Marietje Schaake, President, Cyberpeace Institute, Netherlands
Lea Kaspar, Executive Director, Global Partners Digital, Croatia
22:15 - 11:15
Anit Mukherjee, The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India.
Tanvi Madan, Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations During the Cold War.
Arun Mohan Sukumar, Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology of India.
Ritika Passi, Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, India
09:30 - 10:30
The struggle against terrorism has dual frontlines: both weak or militarised states, and platforms and online communities that have been weaponised by recruiters and purveyors of radicalisation. What tools does the global community have to punish behaviour from states that have traditionally viewed “non-state actors” as a tool rather than a threat – or in which significant and entrenched interests have sympathy for officially disavowed terror organisations’ goals? And can a global response to terror ignore the online spaces that serve as incubators of terror? This panel will seek out-of-the box solutions for the fight against terror, both online and off.
Gen. Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff, India
Stephen Harper, Former Prime Minister, Canada
Saad Mohseni, CEO, Moby Group, Australia
Gareth Bayley, Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan, United Kingdom
Erin Saltman, Head of Counter Terrorism Policy (Europe, Middle East & Africa), Facebook, United States
Yalda Hakim, Journalist, BBC World News, Australia
10:30 - 10:50
Urmas Reinsalu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
10:50 - 11:10
11:10 - 11:30
Jeppe Kofod, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Denmark
11:30 - 12:30
A crisis of identity has gripped the EU’s foreign policy. The continent is caught between its Atlantic moorings and its growing equity in Asia. As the EU invests more resources and energy in Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, will it find that its interests in these regions do not fully converge with those of its principal partner, the US? Will the EU engage with China and Russia to secure its political future?
Will such new priorities strain its partnership with the US and can a stronger relationship with India provide the EU more room to manoeuvre? This panel will ask whether there exists a European consensus on these issues and will explore how to continent is responding to shifts in the global balance of power.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hungary
Theresa Fallon, Founder and Director, Center for Russia Europe Asia Studies, Ireland
Marina Kaljurand, Member of European Parliament, Estonia
Gen. Claudio Graziano, Chairman, European Union Military Committee
Hans-Thomas Paulsen, Member of the Executive Board, Körber-Stiftung, Germany
Ali Aslan, Anchor, Germany
12:30 - 13:00
Hamid Karzai, Former President, Afghanistan with Robin Niblett, Director, Chatham House, United Kingdom
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch Conversations (By invitation only)
Home to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, the eastern Indian Ocean has so far been relegated in popular imagination to just this: a transit route. This panel will explore pathways for deeper integration between the states that inhabit these waters. Do states share a common vision for managing sea lanes? What common infrastructure investment and technology interests do states in the region share? Is there a consensus around the region’s security architecture? This panel will ask whether states that operate in the Arabian Sea, the East Indian Ocean and East Africa possess the appetite for integration and explore the region’s potential as a new hub for development and growth.
Navdeep Suri, Director, Centre for New Economic Diplomacy, Observer Research Foundation, India
Ahmad Al Sayed, Minister of State and Chairman of Qatar Free Zone Authority, Qatar
Lt. Gen. Dominique Rakotozafy, Former Minister of Defense, Madagascar
Ebtesam Al Ketbi, President, Emirates Policy Center, United Arab Emirates
Kwame Owino, CEO, Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya
Dhruva Jaishankar, Director, US Initiative, Observer Research Foundation, India
13:00 - 05:30
Lunch Conversations (By invitation only)
This panel will ask the custodians of policy planning to investigate the key trends that will shape the world order in the coming decade. What cleavages and anxieties continue to define foreign policy planning? Which coalitions and partnerships are best suited to respond to 21st century challenges? What emerging domains and sectors will emerge as strategic priorities for states?
Nagma M. Mallick, Additional Secretary, Policy Planning and Research Division, Ministry of External Affairs, India
Peter Berkowitz, Director, State Department Policy Planning Staff, United States
Manuel Lafont-Rapnouil, Director, Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
David Král, Director of Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
Hans Christian Hagman, Chief Analyst and Senior Adviser to the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden
Daniel Twining, President, International Republican Institute, United States
13:00 - 14:30
Grace Naledi Pandor, Minister of Foreign Affairs, South Africa
Urmas Reinsalu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia
In conversation with Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India
13:00 - 14:30
Emerging technologies are fast becoming the principal source of friction in the international system, with a digital cold war seemingly inevitable. 5G communications technologies are perhaps the first victim of this rising tide of techno-nationalism. With ‘decoupling’ best describing global technology systems, will states be forced to choose between incompatible propositions? How will this implicate development pathways for emerging economies? This panel will investigate the geopolitical implications of emerging technologies and offer potential future scenarios for the global digital economy.
Shiv Sahai, Additional Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat, India
Elina Noor, Associate Professor, Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Malaysia
Lesley Margaret Seebeck, CEO, Cyber Institute, Australian National University, Australia
Chris Painter, President, GFCE Foundation Board, United States
Gilles Babinet, Vice President, CNNum & Digital Advisor for France, France
François Godement, Senior Adviser for Asia, Institut Montaigne, France
13:00 - 14:30
Karthik Nachiappan, Does India Negotiate?
Rachel Salzman, Russia, BRICS, and the Disruption of Global Order
Carl Bildt, The Age of the New Disorder
David Malone, Rector - United Nations University, Canada
14:30 - 15:30
With the processes of globalisation under scrutiny around the world, the appetite for multilateral trade has waned considerably. And with its principal architect—the US—determined to repudiate long-held economic consensuses, the future is uncertain. Will exclusive economics continue to define national policy in this decade? Will flows of technology be the first casualty of today’s economic
nationalism? Do other states possess the appetite or economic means to fill this gap? Can emerging economies incubate new arrangements?
Wang Wen, Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute of Financial Studies, Renmin University, China
Jeffrey Philip Bialos, Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP, United States
Veda Poon, Director, International Finance, HM Treasury, United Kingdom
Amrita Narlikar, President, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Germany
Amy Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
15:30 - 15:55
Palamagamba Kabudi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and East African Co-operation, Tanzania
15:30 - 15:50
16:10 - 17:10
Digital technologies operate at great velocities with little concern for borders—and national and international systems have struggled to address rule-setting, market forces, and conflict resolution. The schism between real and virtual has undermined trust in digital technologies and fuelled domestic polarisation and zero-sum international behaviour. Can the norms of the analog age be adapted to digital societies? What institutional changes can ease this transformation? This panel will ask what norms and architectures public, civic, and private leaders can coalesce around to maintain the stability, safety and security of our increasingly
interconnected world.
Sandeep Malhotra, Executive Vice-President (Products and Innovation), MasterCard, Singapore
Marina Kaljurand, Member of European Parliament, Estonia
Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister, Sweden; Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations
Chris Painter, President, GFCE Foundation Board, United States Henri Verdier, Ambassador for Digital Affairs, France
Latha Reddy, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation; Co-Chair, Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, India
17:10 - 17:30
Tomáš Petrˇ ícˇ ek, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
17:30 - 18:30
The common interests that bound the transatlantic community underpinned the international liberal order. With the global balance of power fast shifting to Asia, the Indo-Pacific will define the architecture of the 21st century. Do leaders in the region share an overarching and common vision for the region and its role in the world? Or will old divides and fault lines limit the Indo-Pacific’s’ potential? Are pluralism and democratic arrangements an essential feature of this region? How can states and communities in the region collaborate to script and defend democratic norms for the region in this century?
Baijayant Panda, National Vice President and Spokesperson, Bharatiya Janata Party, India
Faris Maumoon, Executive Council Member, Maldives Reform Movement, Maldives
Cdre. Melissa Ross, Deputy Chief, Royal New Zealand Navy, New Zealand
Peter Berkowitz, Director, State Department Policy Planning Staff, United States
Mona Dave, Senior Program Officer, Asia, National Endowment for Democracy, United States
Melissa Conley Tyler, Director of Diplomacy, Asialink, University of Melbourne, Australia
18:30 - 18:50
18:50 - 19:10
Josep Borrell, Vice-President, European Commission, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
19:10 - 19:55
As the century turns 20, what values are under threat in a world increasingly defined by diverging interests? Can states coalesce around shared values – and what values are worth defending? Can states with dissimilar political regimes come to a consensus around value frameworks? Which coalitions and partnerships can support this process? This panel will ask if states can transcend today’s polarised political moment to defend the values that matter.
Vijay Gokhale, Foreign Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, India
Jukka Juusti, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Finland
Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia
Matthew Pottinger, Deputy National Security Adviser, U.S. National Security Council, United States
Samir Saran, President, Observer Research Foundation, India
19:55 - 22:00
20:00 - 21:30
The implications of autonomous weapons on strategic postures and humanitarian law is uncertain. With international institutions unable to arrive at a consensus on these issues, it is almost certain that LAWS will be deployed before regimes are incubated to manage them. Which regions will first see the deployment of LAWS? How are states are integrating these systems into their weapons arsenals? How can the creation of international rules be accelerated?
Giacomo Persi Paoli, Head, Security and Technology Programme, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Lindsey Sheppard, Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
Vivek Lall, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Lockheed Martin, United States
William J. Parker III, President and CEO, EastWest Institute, United States
Lt. Gen. Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator, India
Kaja Ciglic, Senior Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft, Slovenia
20:00 - 21:30
The e-mobility revolution is being accelerated by three interrelated trends: the onset of the 4IR and falling costs of production; political action against climate change; and shifting attitudes to urbanisation and car ownership. Burdensome investment rules, inefficient infrastructure for power distribution, and high consumer costs continue to hinder EV adoption. How can states, businesses and city leaders overcome these barriers? How can these stakeholders facilitate flows of innovation, finance and governance solutions between each other?
Keynote Address: Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog, India
Siddarthan Balasubramania, Senior Advisor, Strategy, ClimateWorks Foundation, India
Catherine Bremner, Director, International Climate & Energy, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, HM Government, United Kingdom
Palash Roy Chowdhury, Chairman, ESmart, India
Mahesh Babu, CEO, Mahindra Electric, India
Arnab Kumar, Programme Director, Frontier Technologies, NITI Aayog, India
Shamika Ravi, Director of Research, Brookings India
20:00 - 21:30
20:00 - 21:30
Countries in the emerging world require trillions of dollars in infrastructure investment to meet the needs of their rapidly maturing economies. A host of ‘mega-infrastructure’ initiatives have been launched in recent years to respond to these initiatives. However, bad standards for governance and finance have often placed recipient economies under crippling debt. How can states with shared
interests in a free and open global economy create infrastructure investment standards that serve the interests of emerging economies? What role must environmental and political concerns play in the norms underpinning the emerging world’s big infrastructure build-out? How must global finance deal with its failure to address the infrastructure gap in the emerging world?
Lynn Kuok, Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Security, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Singapore
Kurihara Toshihiko, Chief Representative in New Delhi, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Japan
Annie Norfolk Beadle, Policy Analyst, South and Southeast Asia Regional Programme, OECD, United Kingdom
Ila Patnaik, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India
Rafiq Dossani, Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy, United States
Claire Alembik, Investment Specialist, Asian Development Bank, Private Sector Operations Department, Thailand Office
22:00 - 23:55
Cocktails, Conversations and Celebrations