The Centre for New Economic Diplomacy is a policy research institution committed to discovering solutions, helping build transnational partnerships and strengthening multi-stakeholder response to the important challenges and opportunities that confront the global community.
The Centre for New Economic Diplomacy is a policy research institution committed to discovering solutions, helping build transnational partnerships and strengthening multi-stakeholder response to the important challenges and opportunities that confront the global community.
Set up by ORF in 2019, CNED seeks to redefine economic diplomacy in line with contemporary trends and priorities. CNED takes note of these emerging trends as it attempts to craft a fresh approach towards economic recovery and resilience and a new pathway towards development. This involves an active engagement with key actors in the global south; adopting a ‘lighthouse’ approach to identifying best practices; and creating platforms that enable a seamless sharing of learnings that will enable developing countries to meet their SDGs.
CNED also tries to re-imagine the content and architecture of India’s development cooperation and to explore strategies that will optimise the development impact of India’s expanding aid programs. This involves identifying new sectors like climate change and human capital, bringing in new actors such as social enterprises, civil society organisations and tech companies as partners in government-funded programs, in leveraging new technologies that can enable countries to leapfrog some of the traditional development challenges and in keeping gender at the forefront of the new development paradigm.
In the initial years, the Centre will focus on South, Southeast Asia, the African continent and the Indo-Pacific; recognising that these geographies are addressing the most important development challenges and are designing a new growth paradigm that is cognizant of a world constrained by climate, people enabled by technology and a future whose prosperity is indeed human capital.